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Democracy took a big blow when Twitter shut down President Donald Trump's accounts and Google and Amazon ousted Parler, a site favored by millions of conservatives. Big Tech, which is run by the left, is robbing Americans of their right to communicate freely and exchange ideas. The nation's founders worried that the government would use its power to censure and crush competing viewpoints. Their remedy was the First Amendment, guaranteeing all of us freedom of speech and association and barring government censorship. They had no way of anticipating that tech companies would grow more powerful than governments and have the...

Why Freedom of Speech Should Apply to Google, Facebook and the Internet Americans paid to create the internet; they deserve Freedom of Speech on it. May 14, 2019 Daniel Greenfield 24 FrontPage comments Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism “But, it’s a private company.” It’s a familiar argument. Bring up the problem of Google, Facebook and Twitter suppressing conservative speech and many conservatives will retort that it’s a free market. The big dot com monopolies created their own companies, didn’t they? And we wouldn’t want government regulation of business....

The House voted Wednesday (April 10) 232 to 190 (with one Republican voting aye) to pass the Democrat-backed Save the Internet Act (HR 1644), which would restore FCC's Title II based rules against blocking, throttling and paid prioritization adopted under the previous, Democratic, administration, plus reinstate a general conduct standard to get at future conduct unbecoming an open internet but not falling under those rules. But the victory looks to be short-lived. Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said the bill will be DOA in the Senate (echoed Wednesday by house Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy [R-Calif.]) and the Office...

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/protect-free-speech-digital-public-square-0 WE THE PEOPLE ASK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CALL ON CONGRESS TO ACT ON AN ISSUE: Protect Free Speech in the Digital Public Square Created by W.C. on August 28, 2018 4,984 SIGNED 100,000 GOAL The internet is the modern public square. It is where political campaigns are fought and won, where journalism is created and distributed, and where grassroots movements are born. Yet, the free and open internet has become a controlled, censored space, monopolized by a few unaccountable corporations. By banning users from their platforms, those corporations can effectively remove politically unwelcome Americans from the public square....

Anyone who dares to publicly challenge the mainstream/leftist narrative is at risk of having their speech silenced by large and powerful private institutions. This silencing can take the form of demonetization, shadow bans or actual bans on the various social media platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. Public figures like Jordan Peterson, Steven Crowder, Sargon of Akkad, Tommy Robinson, Milo Yiannopoulos and many others have had their speech restricted by these large technology companies. As an advocate of free markets, I have often rejected the idea of asking the government to interfere with someone’s private property. Therefore, it would be...

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/internet-bill-rights-2 Please Sign it. Need 84,000 more by April 4.