Trump to crackdown on censorship
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1. End government collusion with companies and individuals for censorship purposes.
“Within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business, or person to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens,” he said.
He also vowed to “ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as mis- or disinformation” and “begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship directly or indirectly.”
2. Investigate and prosecute the digital censorship cabal.
“I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible, and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified,” he declared.
To prevent the destruction of evidence, Trump declared his intentions to “[urge] House Republicans to immediately send preservation letters ... to the Biden administration, the Biden campaign, and every Silicon Valley tech giant ordering them not to destroy evidence of censorship.”
3. Revise Section 230 of the Communications Act.
“Upon my inauguration as president, I will ask Congress to send a bill to my desk revising section 230 to get big online platforms out of censorship business. From now on, digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under Section 230 if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness, and non-discrimination,” Trump stated.
4. Do away with “mis- and disinformation.”
“We need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so-called mis- and disinformation,” Trump said, before expressing his intentions to halt federal funding for all “nonprofits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project, including penalizing U.S. universities that have engaged in censorship or election interference by withholding “federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years and maybe more.”
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The best way to deal with what you believe is misinformation is more information and not censorship. I believe the attempts to silence people with a different point of view is a clear violation of the 1st Amendment. Big Tech has no business censoring info they disagree with.
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