Dan Bishop: “I am grateful that the chairman and lead sponsor will, I anticipate, lend his support to this amendment. It will close a…”

“I am grateful that the chairman and lead sponsor will, I anticipate, lend his support to this amendment. It will close a loophole that would defeat the purpose of the bill. In fact, absent this amendment, the bill would inadvertently validate the very conduct this bill aims to stop. Emerging evidence, most notably the Twitter files, depicts what one expert has termed the largest censorship program in U.S. Government history. On the pretext of protecting election infrastructure or enforcing the Foreign Agents Registration Act, personnel of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA; the Department of Homeland Security, DHS; the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; the CIA; the Global Engagement Center from the State Department, which most Americans had never heard of; and even the CDC practically embedded themselves with operators of social media platforms and corporate media to manage and curate Americans' public discourse, to induce Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, et cetera, to take down lawful and First Amendment protected speech of Americans time and again and again.…”