Democrats are up to their old tricks again, demanding the online censorship of Americans who spread non-mainstream content on social media.
On Monday, Rep. Adam Schiff boasted that he is “demanding answers” from social media platforms about how they plan “to address the spread of misinformation, disinformation, and potential incitement of violence on their platforms in the lead-up to the 2024 elections.”
Thegatewaypundit.com reports: The full letter can be found here.
Schiff and seven co-signees expressed their concern “with each of your [social media CEOs] companies’ ability to react efficiently and effectively to misinformation and disinformation, or to any potential incitement of violence occurring on your platforms.”
While the letter was sent out to CEOs of Facebook, X, TikTok, Google, Microsoft and others, Schiff also took to X on Tuesday to make a post echoing it.
The post seen above and the letter contain all of the usual leftist authoritarian garble about “our democracy” and the aforementioned censoring of “misinformation” — a process that essentially comes down to silencing voices of those who express views they disagree with.
If that word ever meant anything else, it doesn’t anymore, after being co-opted by the left in service of their anti-free speech crusade.
You don’t have to be one of the Founding Fathers to understand how egregious and tyrannical Schiff’s demands are, as several X users pointed out as they took him to task.
“You want conservatives to be censored and it’s very obvious,” one user wrote.
Another user noted the intent, as Schiff would rather have the American people believe the official sanitized narrative surrounding the election that the mainstream media will give, rather than discern the truth for themselves via multiple viewpoints.
We’ve seen Democrat politicians adopt this strategy before.
In August, PBS reported Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor certain information about COVID-19.
Zuckerberg has also been on record as saying the FBI warned him about allowing the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop on Facebook ahead of the 2020 election.
Schiff and Democrats are going back to their old reliable strategy.
While we are beyond the pandemic and President Joe Biden has been more or less ousted, there is much at stake on Nov. 5.
Americans want to get at the truth of illegal immigration, inflation, involvement in foreign wars and generally, the state of the nation.
Schiff and Democrats can’t afford for them to know it.
