Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for organizing this. In years past, I would imagine that this particular issue would draw people from both sides of the aisle to come and protest the marriage of Big Business, Big Tech, and Big Government, to silence dissenting voices in this, what once was the freest Nation in the history of the world. Censorship is an authoritarian tool used to keep power by suppressing dissent. It is done, in our case, under the myth of keeping Americans safe. Conservatives, though, are playing against a stacked deck. This administration is doing the stacking. Last year, for instance, the Department of Homeland Security attempted to establish the Orwellian disinformation governance board, ultimately having to walk that back but, in reality, they just gave it another name and they will continue to try to suppress conservative voices. We learned months later that Facebook implemented a special portal where government officials can request the censorship of specific posts. Ahead of the 2020 election, unelected, deep state bureaucrats coordinated with major social media companies to ensure that the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop would be suppressed, right before an election. Users could not even share a link to the New York Post story to read the report for themselves, and Twitter even locked the New York Post's account and others for simply sharing the report.…”