Donald J. Trump believes protecting the First Amendment is a matter of “victory or death” for America and the survival of American civilization itself. Trump has vowed to take down the censorship cartels that have been manipulating our access to information and shunning Americans from exercising their constitutional right to free speech.
Within hours of taking office, Donald Trump will issue an executive order banning Federal agencies from colluding to ban free speech or labeling speech as “misinformation.” EVERY bureaucrat found guilty of engaging in speech suppression directly or indirectly will be fired. Trump will order the Department of Justice to investigate the new online censorship regime that is violating countless US laws.
Trump has long challenged Section 230 as unconstitutional. I would argue that it is unconstitutional as applied and the censorship is in violation of 230(b)
(b)Policy
It is the policy of the United States—
(1)to promote the continued development of the Internet and other interactive computer services and other interactive media;
(2)to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet and other interactive computer services, unfettered by Federal or State regulation;
(3)to encourage the development of technologies which maximize user control over what information is received by individuals, families, and schools who use the Internet and other interactive computer services;
(4)to remove disincentives for the development and utilization of blocking and filtering technologies that empower parents to restrict their children’s access to objectionable or inappropriate online material; and
(5)to ensure vigorous enforcement of Federal criminal laws to deter and punish trafficking in obscenity, stalking, and
harassment by means of computer.
Trump will break up the entire censorship industry by preventing any organization or university found guilty from receiving access to federal funds. If a university or institution is found guilty of engaging in blacklisting Americans, the will lose all federal support for a minimum of five years.
Federal bureaucrats who partnered with private entities will be prosecuted for depriving Americans of their vote for releasing false or misleading information. Any individual connected with a security agency from the DOJ to the NSA will face a seven-year ban from working at any organization that holds a large amount of US user data.
Perhaps most importantly, Congress must pass a digital bill of rights that includes digital due process. Government officials can no longer ask tech companies to remove content for political gain (see: Hunter laptop, COVID, etc.). Instead, they must receive a court order to remove content. Furthermore, anyone over the age of 18 who is banned from a social media platform must be informed why they received the ban AND have the right to an appeal. Online users may also opt-out of content manipulation and corrupted algorithms that distort information.
Donald Trump has warned companies not to scrub evidence of violating the First Amendment. America was becoming no different than any former Communist regime that suppressed free speech to the point where people could not differentiate real from fake news. We saw countless social platforms fall over the years, conservative voices have been silenced, fake bots infiltrate every corner of social media in support of the radical left, and everyone from Trump himself has been deplatformed for speaking against the establishment. The number of people, institutions, and universities that will come under fire will be astounding. I cannot think of a single major government organization that did not engage in censorship. It is an incredible move in the right direction to make America a free nation once again.
The Democrats weaponized the internet and media for political purposes. They were relying on keeping the Great Unwashed uninformed and confused to continue pushing forth their agenda that only benefitted the establishment. Kamala Harris would have issued opposite orders in office to continue weaponizing the worldwide web against the American public. “Oh, how the mighty have fallen!”
