Pro-Free Speech CEO Tells Glenn Beck Why He Lit Up the Sky for Trump

October 10th, 2024 5:35 PM

Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino spoke out against pro-censorship leftists who have tried to silence him both online and in real life. 

Constantino spoke to Blaze Media CEO and podcast host Glenn Beck during the Oct. 9 edition of The Glenn Beck Program, discussing his motivation for installing and lighting a one-hundred-foot “Vote for Trump” sign atop one of his manufacturing buildings in Amsterdam, New York. The sign has become a symbol of free speech. 

Constantino kept the sign covered after being told it was “a public safety hazard” and that he’d “end up in jail” if he uncovered it, Constantino explained in an Instagram video. He unveiled the sign on Oct. 8 after Montgomery Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Slezak lifted a temporary restraining order she had issued, purportedly agreeing that the sign does not create safety concerns. 

The Sticker Mule CEO told Beck that although he is a “registered Democrat,” he has become disillusioned by the Democrat Party’s embracement of censorship. “One of the first things that really turned me against Twitter and the Democrats and this whole anti-free speech movement was when they banned Roger Stone from Twitter,” said Constantino. He added that at the time he reacted by saying, “‘Whether you like Roger Stone or not he was a personal adviser to Trump, a friend of Trump's from what I understand, and in my opinion a historically relevant person and why would we want to ban historically important individuals from getting an opportunity to speak.’”

Constantino himself has also been the target of online censorship. While a court censored Constantino’s political speech in real life, Meta’s Instagram did the same to him online in July. Instagram put a fact check interstitial over an image Constantino posted of former President Donald Trump raising his fist after surviving an assassination attempt. Instagram not only hid the image but also claimed the image was altered. 

The New York entrepreneur called for voters to embrace Trump to punish the Democrats for supporting censorship. “We need a show of strength for Trump because really the best thing for the Democrat Party is a massive loss because if they lose by a hair they're gonna keep playing to these crazy ideas that if they censor people that's the path to victory,” Constantino said. 

The Sticker Mule CEO added that Democrats needed to learn to embrace the golden rule and respect free speech. “Nobody wants to have duct tape put on their mouth, nobody wants the right to speech taken away, nobody wants that and for one side of the country to want to do that to the other side is really wrong.” 

Constantino, who said he was still a “registered Democrat,” lashed out at prominent Democrats and Big Tech honchos for their opposition to free speech. “Sadly the Democrats have gone in the direction of being very opposed to free speech,” Constantino said. 

He went on to directly call out vocal advocates of censorship, referencing recent comments from former Secretary of State John Kerry, 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Minnesota Governor and Tim Waltz “saying horrible things about not wanting free speech anymore.” He added, “We all saw what [Former Twitter CEO] Jack Dorsey did with Twitter what [Meta CEOr] Mark Zuckerberg did with Facebook during the pandemic.”

Constantino is correct by Zuckerberg’s own admission. The Meta CEO recently admitted that Facebook and Instagram wrongly censored the Hunter Biden laptop story and “COVID-19 content” in response to government pressure.  

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