"The erroneous assumption of the bill is, again, that Federal employees are coordinating with tech companies to suppress speech, a claim for which there is no factual basis."
"It never occurred to me that we needed a bill called the Government Censorship Act because that is what the First Amendment does."
"It took the violent insurrection itself before Twitter decided to take down Donald Trump's account for incitement and glorification of violence."
"We saw massive sweeping breaches of the Hatch Act in the last administration."
"We should not be in the business of protecting misinformation that incites violence."
"Democracy on earth is under siege by Putin and Russia, Xi in China, Orban in Hungary, Marcos in the Philippines, you name it, Erdogan in Turkey."
"Congress intends to conduct extensive oversight on the extent to which House Democrats, and officials, and Federal officers colluded with private companies to limit, restrict, and circumvent First Ame..."
"political coercion of business is as distasteful from the right as it is from the left."
"The lethal recklessness of Donald Trump's policies about COVID-19 cost Americans hundreds of thousands of lives."
"This problem goes way beyond it."
"it would still be strange to say that Fox News was censoring itself"