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<\/picture>\n(Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n IN RESPONSE TO CAPITOL RIOTING, MUSK WEIGHS IN ON BIG TECH CENSORSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n After receiving criticism for the ban of Trump’s account, Dorsey on Wednesday posted a series of tweets.<\/p>\n “He’s trying to justify censorship, but he seems confused,” Varney said. “He says banning the president was ‘the right decision’ and then he tweets that it ‘sets a precedent I feel is dangerous: the power an individual or corporation has over a part of the global public conversation.'"<\/p>\n Varney went on to say the ban is a “danger to an open democracy.”<\/p>\n “Do we really want a couple of billionaires who run near-monopoly businesses, dictating what we may see and hear?” he asked.<\/p>\n BIG TECH NO LONGER MOTIVATED TO STAY OUT OF PARTISAN POLITICS: BEN DOMENECH<\/strong><\/p>\n Varney said the power the world has given to tech leaders, like Dorsey and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, is an extraordinary and new phenomenon.<\/p>\n “The recent events in Washington have brought into full view the dangers of monopoly power when applied to public speech,” Varney said. “It doesn’t matter whether it’s the government or a private company that’s telling us what we can see and hear. Big government or big corporation — censorship of political opinion by a monopoly is wrong.”<\/p>\n