Attorneys General In 20 States Tell Social Media Giants To Censor More Free Speech

Keith Ellison Among Signers


-- National Review, --August 21, 2020

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Democrat state attorneys general are using their government offices to pressure the social media giant to censor conservative voices using thinly coded language in a recently released letter. Among the undersigned is a familiar name: former DNC Chair Keith Ellison. The alarming letter was addressed to Facebook chairman Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook chief operating officer Sherly Sandberg and requests that the network work harder to remove “disinformation,” “bias,” and “discrimination.” To make this point clearer, these attorneys general are not asking Facebook to help combat crime, but rather to stop lawful speech from being posted on their network. In other words, due to the protections offered to Americans by the 1st Amendment, their offices are calling on private corporations to restrict speech.-- More...

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