Trump promises to dismantle the censorship cartel

Posted by freedomforall 1 month, 1 week ago to Politics
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"The censorship reached peak-absurdity when the left-wing-corporate-deep-state cartel shut down the US President’s Twitter account. The First Amendment was vaporized. Government officials had told Twitter and Facebook to censor political opinions they didn’t like. Since the FBI-CIA-State-Department have the money, the spies, the army and the assassins, the tech giants complied. The social media corporations also needed the government legal immunity of Section 230, which protects them from liability. Like a post office delivering poison letters — the Tech Giants couldn’t be blamed for what people posted. But Post Offices are supposed to deliver every letter, and the Tech Giants were allowed to read the mail and toss out what they didn’t like. Imagine if US Post decided just to lose Conservative letters, and not even tell them? That’s what shadowbanning is.

And thus and verily, a horrible trillion-dollar-monster was welded together.
Trump's response:
https://twitter.com/i/status/18553467...
Trump will cut off the money flow to government agents to censor Americans.

FIRST, 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. I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as “mis-” or “dis-information”.

Then he will sack anyone involved in domestic censorship:

And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship, directly or indirectly, whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are.

He will use the full force of the law: “Preserve those emails”

SECOND, I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime…

These include possible violations of federal civil rights law, campaign finance laws, federal election law, securities law, and anti-trust laws, the Hatch Act and a host of other potential criminal, civil, regulatory, and constitutional offenses.

He will cut off legal protection for any platform that curtails legal speech:

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.

Then he’s going after universities that drive the censorship labels — they will lose funding for research and students for five years or more!

FOURTH, we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so-called “mis-” and “dis-information.” The federal government should immediately stop funding all non-profits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project. If any U.S. university is discovered to have engaged in censorship activities or election interferences in the past, such as flagging social media content for removal and blacklisting, those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years, and maybe more.

There will be criminal penalties for any federal bureaucrat found to interfere with elections by depriving Americans of information:

We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end-run around the Constitution and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights. In other words, deprive them of their vote. And once you lose those elections and once you lose your borders like we have, you no longer have a country.

He will stop government employees from profiting by quitting their job and moving to a Big Tech platform:

Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former Deep Staters and intelligence officials, there should be a 7-year cooling-off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of U.S. user data.

He’s calling for a digital bill of rights, where people have a right to be treated equally online:

FIFTH, the time has finally come for Congress to pass a digital Bill of Rights. This should include a right to digital due process, in other words, government officials should need a COURT ORDER to take down online content, not send information requests such as the FBI was sending to Twitter. Furthermore, when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadow-banned, or otherwise restricted no matter what name they use, they should have the right to be informed that it’s happening, the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and the right to a timely appeal. In addition, all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt-out of content moderation and curation entirely, and receive an unmanipulated stream of information if they so choose.

Our quality of life depends upon it:

The fight for Free Speech is a matter of victory or death for America and for the survival of Western Civilization itself. When I am President, this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large. There won’t be anything left. By restoring free speech, we will begin to reclaim our democracy, and save our nation."
SOURCE URL: https://joannenova.com.au/2024/11/trump-will-dismantle-the-censorship-cartel-just-as-australia-tries-to-set-one-up/


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  • Posted by $ Abaco 1 month, 1 week ago
    Trump absolutely needs to target and lock up those who took part in this (hello...Zuckerberg, etc.). Just stopping it isn't enough. Then, go after those who stand in the way of the 2nd amendment (reluctant sheriffs in Cali and Newsome). These people should be arrested. Notice how Tim Walz carefully said "people shouldn't be allowed to yell fire in a crowded theater"? That was a strawman and we all knew it. That speech wasn't protected. But, voicing our basic opinions (even it if created "malinformation" or whatever) is protected. People need to go to jail if they play a part in this game. Let's get back to educating people so that they can sift through the information in a real and open society. I think back on the information I've sat on for years...still on the fence about ever speaking out about it. Check me in a year...
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