Welcome, everybody, to our virtual roundtable on censorship, arguably one of the top news stories

of our time. I think we all agree. Panelists tonight are staunch advocates for the First

Amendment who have each experienced the heavy hand of censorship and insidious manipulation

of our information. My name is Cheryl Ackethan. I'm a practicing investigative reporter,

former-leased CBS, CNN, PBS, still suing the government after its forensically proven intrusion

into my computers as a CBS and FDA correspondent. My independent weekly TV show now,

full measure is produced by St. Clair, broadcast group. I'm going to give a brief introduction

of tonight's panelists before each has a chance to make opening remarks. We'll go one by one,

but first with our host, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Democrat and candidate for president who recently,

by the way, testified at a congressional hearing on censorship and the government's role. Kennedy

has said that reinvigorating the First Amendment is at the heart of his presidential campaign.

He has been widely censored, misrepresented, and smeared. A starting point to consider

in the opening remarks all of you, if you choose, those who wish to censor claim to do this to

protect us. They can have all the information they want, but they say that you can't have it,

and that's for your own good. In reality, the heart of censorship is control. So we're going to

start, I think, by asking, what is it today that they are so desperate to control, and who are they?

First, Bobbi Kennedy. Are you asking me to answer that question?

If you choose, you can comment on how you wish, but I think in the overarching picture,

we know something's going on, and it kind of begs the question, who are the people that are

able to exert this kind of control, and what are they so afraid of?

Yeah, I mean, a lot of it, to me, is very opaque. We are right now.

Six lawsuits going on, and they're against different entities. So we have lawsuits against Google,

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