I want to address two things here: Big Tech deplatforming the Parler social network and also deplatforming conservative users including President Donald Trump. Regarding Parler, we need to make something very clear: Parler has always banned threats of violence and incitement to violence. The excuse for de-platforming Parler is that the social media platform has not effectively moderated objectionable content, but no social media site of any size can screen for everything. There is a ton of objectionable and outright criminal content on Facebook. In fact, Facebook's content moderators have been psychologically traumatized by the horrific content they screen as part of their jobs. (See