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Mark Meckler stepped in as Parler\u2019s interim CEO after Amazon, Google, and Apple essentially canceled the social media platform.\xa0\nMeckler says he didn't intend to become CEO of Parler when he called the company in January to ask if he could help, but recognized the gravity of the situation and wanted to do all he could to defend free speech.\xa0\n\u201cParler was the point of the spear,\u201d says Meckler, a former leader of Tea Party Patriots who is also president of Citizens for Self-Governance. \u201cAnd if we allowed Big Tech and the Big Tech oligarchs to take Parler offline and leave it offline permanently, [these tech companies were drawing] a line in the sand that we might never be able to cross again.\u201d\xa0\nConservatives must be prepared to respond to opposition from Big Tech companies, he says, because \u201cany conservative, whether you're a conservative business person or you're running a nonprofit organization,\u201d is susceptible to what happened to Parler.\nMeckler joins \u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast\u201d to discuss his stint as Parler\u2019s CEO and how the platform ultimately was restored.\xa0\nWe also cover these stories: \n\nVice President Kamala Harris defends the fact that she has not yet visited the southern border amid the ongoing border crisis.\xa0\n\nA bipartisan group of senators announces release of the first congressional report detailing security failures that led to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.\n\nRep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee ask Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate an Antifa attack on journalist Andy Ngo.\n\nEnjoy the show!\n\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.