President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be the next Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman, Brendan Carr, appeared on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” and vowed to shut down the Big Tech “censorship cartel” that has silenced so many Americans and many (almost exclusively conservative) news outlets.
Trump’s appointee sounded like he didn’t come to play games:
“Combating tech censorship is going to be one of the top priorities for me. We need to restore Americans’ right to free speech,” he told “Sunday Morning Futures” guest host Jackie DeAngelis.
“You [DeSangelis] mentioned Facebook and other companies. They’ve been part of a censorship cartel that have worked with advertisers. They’ve worked with government officials to censor the free speech rights of everyday Americans, and that’s got to end because censorship isn’t just about stopping work. It’s about stopping ideas.”
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Carr continued, saying that when you infringe on our free speech, you are actually standing in the way of America’s prosperity:
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Her group then filed a member comment with the FCC in 2021 asking if Republicans should be shot for their views. My decision to stand up for the free speech rights of everyday Americans and against the censorship cartel is not the threat, enforced silence is.
Google, Twitter (before Elon Musk bought it and changed its name to X), Meta/Facebook, and others were notorious for censoring—often at the behest of the Biden-Harris regime—opinions that strayed from the official line. This was especially true during the COVID pandemic when any mention of the virus’ origin or the effectiveness and/or dangers of the mRNA vaccines was likely to get you de-platformed or canceled. One way the tech overlords try to shut down sites like ours, where we bring you the truth, is to demonetize us (meaning, they refuse to run ads on the site when one of our writers fails to toe the line). […]
— Read More: redstate.com
