Several news anchors and political commentators slammed Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) for his recent letter to Big Tech platforms begging for more censorship.
On Thursday, Schiff and seven other Democrats urged social media companies—Meta, Google, X, YouTube, Snap, TikTok, and Microsoft—to prop up their free speech assault ahead of the November election in a likely redux of the 2020 election. Some cable news anchors swiftly scolded the letter, accusing him of “sovietizing” free speech.
The criticism came from Fox News with Outnumbered co-hosts Harris Faulkner and Emily Compagno and guests John Yoo and Lisa Kennedy mincing no words regarding Schiff’s latest plan. Newsmax host Chris Plante and his guests on The Right Squad were equally vocal in their critique.
“California congressman Adam Schiff and several other Democrats wrote a letter to social media companies urging them to disclose more information about plans to tackle so-called misinformation heading into November,” Faulkner said.
Yoo, a Berkeley Law professor, dragged Schiff for his letter flaming the call for censorship. “So the vision of our bill of rights is it is up to us to decide what is information and disinformation. We put out all the ideas, the marketplace of ideas identifies who wins, what's right or wrong,” he said.
Compagno expressed her concern and disenchantment with Schiff’s waste of “tax dollars” to whine about “misinformation.” She stated, “The censorship, the risk, the threat to democracy is all from the Democrats who now have a demonstrably censored and worked with to prevent the American people from having access to make their choice over their agency and their information.”
Kennedy shared her colleagues' concerns, citing back to the Hunter Biden Laptop and Russia Collusion. She scathed, “He's trying to squash speech that is politically inconvenient to him and speech he doesn't like. It has nothing to do with foreign actors. He knew the truth about the Russian collusion hoax and Hunter's laptop and did nothing about it. That was misinformation.”
On Newsmax, Plante flamed the letter sent by Schiff and other prominent democrats to Big Tech, thirsty for more censorship. “These guys love censorship. They’re Sovietizing everything” Plante said of Democrats. “They're not First Amendment people. They're not Bill of Rights people. At what point do we say the Democrat Party has become an un-American party now?”
The Right Squad guest Mercedes Schlapp sounded off on the letter and called out the apparatus that pushes censorship, referring back to previous instances of censorship. “I mean, it is truly outrageous how the government and national security officials have been involved in the censorship game where they play this propaganda, where they put do this propaganda in other countries, and now they've brought this to the United States to shut people down,” Schlapp affirmed.
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