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ALITO: “... exchanged between the White House and other federal officials and Facebook in particular, but also some of the other platforms. And I see that the White House and federal officials are repeatedly saying that Facebook, and the federal government should be partners. We are on the same team. Officials are demanding answers. I want an answer. I want it right away. When they're unhappy, they -- they curse them out. There are regular meetings. There is constant pestering of -- of Facebook and some of the other platforms and they want to have regular meetings, and they suggest -- once you -- they suggest rules that should be applied, and why don't you tell us everything that you're going to do so we can help you and we can look it over? And I thought, wow, I cannot imagine federal officials taking that approach to the print media, our representatives over there. If you -- if you did that to -- to them, what do you think the reaction would be? And so I thought, you know, the only reason why this is taking place is because the federal government has got Section 230 and antitrust in its pocket. And it's a -- o mix my metaphors, it's got these big clubs available -- available to it. And so it's treating Facebook and these other platforms like their subordinates. Would you do that to the -- to ‘The New York Times, or ‘The Wall Street Journal,’ or the ‘Associated Press,’ or any other big newspaper or wire service?”