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I don't want any government or industry to censor what I can and cannot say to my community in my attempt to ethically inform them

GREENE: Let me just make sure I understand this because it seems like a very important point - you're saying the New York Post, they are journalists; they made the decision on their own. You might say that it was a bad decision, but it was a news organization, a publisher, so to speak, making a decision about what to publish. Twitter, in the eyes of many of us, you know, is a platform for us to share. And that's a different thing for them to censor you or I or other people in terms of what we want to share or not.

Yeah, I would look at it as if the printing press operators decided that they wanted to censor the New York Post, right? That's if we view Twitter as a platform. Printing press operators wouldn't shape a newspaper

these organizations are really sophisticated with their propaganda, and this is just one video of many different types of strategies that they employ.

that by allowing this video to be available, it is helping ISIS - these militants - spread their propaganda

we were to have a technology company censoring images from the Vietnam War, think of the iconic images that would be censored and blanked.

Viewing a video, I feel like you need to make that decision. You need to make that decision. The government shouldn't make that decision for you. A tech company shouldn't make it for you.

these are the images that changed the tone, the country, the direction of that war

This one here is not the government censoring. This is a tech company that is censoring. Now, again, it's their platform. It's their rules. But it is something to be aware o