Marc Andreessen

If the SPLC says you're bad, you're bad.

And you're bad means you get kicked off of all the social media platforms.

It means you get debanked.

It means you can't get a job.

It means like just like it's just like total absolute like, you know, social economic death.

And in my view, you know, I've been very vocal on the debanking and censorship topics.

In my view, that includes, you know, very deeply un-American and I think in many cases unconstitutional removal of free speech rights and also literally the ability to bank.

And in fact, you know, our partner Ben's father himself was specifically tagged and attacked by the SPLC for unfairly, very unfairly, for being racist and was himself debanked and, you know, really directly threatened his livelihood in a really, you know, egregious way.

And then, by the way, the significance of this is, of course, it's not literally the U.S.

Department of Racism.

It's actually arguably worse than that.

It's not a government agency.

And so it's not subject to, like, any level of government oversight.

It's not, you know, it's a completely, you know, as I say, it's an NGO, right?

And so it lives in this, like, twilight world.

You know, it doesn't have the, you know, business responsibilities of a company.

It doesn't have any of the legal oversight, you know, that a government agency has.

It lives in this kind of twilight world where it gets to do, you know, fundamentally gets to do whatever it wants.

Um, and then by the way, on top of that, you know, it raises, raises money as a nonprofit.

Um, so, you know, on top of that, everybody gets a tax break.