New York Post columnist Miranda Devine joins Fox Across America With guest host Paul Gleiser to talk about the importance of a federal judge’s recent order limiting the Biden administration from communicating with social media companies like Twitter and Facebook.
“It wasn’t just that they would ring up Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and YouTube, etc.. They were bullying them. I mean, the emails that are contained in that memo, I would just urge any American who cares about their freedoms, First Amendment being the first for a reason, to read that memo. It’s very well-written. It’s full of incredible examples of the abuses by this administration and the different agencies, you know, really breaking the law. They’re not allowed to censor American speech, but they were using these companies as their proxies and bullying them in the most egregious ways. I mean, I had always felt badly towards Twitter and Facebook because, you know, they’re peopled by a bunch of Leftists who are naturally inclined to be authoritarian and to cancel speech they don’t like. But when you see what was going on, really wasn’t in their commercial interests to so blatantly be censoring accounts and censoring speech, but they were forced to because the administration, including Joe Biden, who had a coordinated statement to the press in which he said that these companies were killing people because he was suffering a political hit on the vaccine hesitancy. And those companies, those Facebook, Twitter, etc., they were being threatened with their very livelihood with this Section 230 being repealed, which gives them immunity and is very important to their business. And so they sort of had no choice but to bow to this bullying. It was outright blackmail and bullying. So wrong.”
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