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On the recordJanuary 31, 2023
I thank my good friend, Ken Buck, a leading voice on demanding accountability from Big Tech and big media, for bringing us together tonight. I am here to speak against the censorship of conservative outlets by AT&T and DIRECTV. On April 16, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., was confined in a Birmingham, Alabama, jail. His crime? Fighting Jim Crow segregation and showing the injustice to the American people through peaceful, nonviolent protest. He shared his thoughts through a letter titled: ``Letter from Birmingham Jail.'' He gave millions of Americans the opportunity to read the thoughts of reason and one of faith in the Judeo-Christian values upon which our Nation was founded. Dr. King was someone who believed in the innate goodness of American's justice-seeking heart. He stated in that letter: ``Injustice anywhere in this country is injustice everywhere.'' We see injustice in the canceling of conservative voices by board members and executives who cowardly hide in secret behind closed doors, using the power granted to them through the corporate name built by other American-loving business leaders. AT&T and DIRECTV have in the last 2 years deplatformed two very prominent and successful conservative platforms, OAN and Newsmax. The cancel culture is driven by the insecure, the weak, and the intellectually lazy who work in the shadows to control the American heart.…
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Burgess Owens
Republican · Utah

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