We examine what the cost of free speech is. Do you want money and power? Or should you just not care? What then becomes the focal point for the spreading of brushfires in the minds of your fellow citizen? Also, tiktok gets its first ban in the US state of Montana. Should it be handed down across the board in all of our nations in the West? If so, what does this mean for other applications that you might use? And, we have outright incompetent political representatives. Are they truly elected, or is it just blackmail? We ask the questions.