Senator Schmitt Slams Biden Administration's Censorship Regime and Big Tech Collusion

The Biden Administration's Censorship Enterprise

• 🇺🇸 Senator Eric Schmitt details a "vast censorship enterprise" perpetrated by the Biden administration, uncovered through the landmark lawsuit "Missouri versus Biden."
• 📧 Emails and text messages, along with depositions of senior officials like Anthony Fauci, revealed how the administration secretly worked through third parties to pressure and bully big tech companies.
• 🗣️ The goal was to suppress viewpoints the administration disagreed with, influencing national discourse and elections.

Examples of Government Pressure on Big Tech

• 📢 Jen Psaki boasted about flagging disinformation with Facebook, and the White House back-channeled with YouTube to suppress disfavored speech, including the lab leak theory.
• 💻 White House digital director Rob Flaherty pressured platforms like Facebook and YouTube to censor COVID-related speech, with President Biden stating Facebook was "killing people."
• 🛡️ The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was weaponized as an agent of censorship, pressuring big tech to police speech.

Pre-Biden Administration Censorship

• 🚫 Big tech companies engaged in censorship long before the Biden administration, including censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.
• 😷 Google banned COVID skepticism, Twitter shadowbanned and suspended conservatives, and Facebook throttled posts from conservative pages.
• ⚖️ Witnesses Alex Baronson and Shawn Davis were direct targets, deplatformed and silenced for their viewpoints.

Legislative Solutions and First Amendment Principles

• 📜 Congress should take decisive legislative action, such as Schmitt's "Collude Act" or "Censorship Accountability Act," to hold big tech and government censors accountable.
• 🏛️ The First Amendment is the "beating heart of our constitution," and protecting free speech is vital, restricting government intrusion.
• 🌐 In the digital age, the struggle for free speech is framed as the struggle for civilization itself.

Trump's Executive Order on Free Speech

• ✍️ Upon his return to power on January 20th, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order titled "Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship."