Watch: Democrats Continue to Deny Evidence of Government Pushing Big Tech to Censor Americans

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. During a hearing titled “Censorship Laundering Part II: Preventing the Department of Homeland Security’s Silencing of Dissent” this week, Democrats once again denied or downplayed the large amounts of evidence showing that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) had pressured Big Tech to censor. Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) opened the hearing by providing an overview of some of the most egregious examples of government agencies pressuring Big Tech companies to censor. https://video.reclaimthenet.org/articles/censorship-laundering-part-2-1.mp4 Several of the witnesses, including journalist Michael Shellenberger, President and General Counsel of the New Civil Liberties Alliance Mark Chenoweth, and Senior Fellow at The Council to Modernize Governance, Gary Lawkowski, spoke out about against the federal government leaning on Big Tech to censor and provided further examples of this. But several Democrat lawmakers downplayed this evidence and testimony and insisted that the platforms were making their own content moderation decisions. Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) asserted that “claims about CISA being a giant censorship entity completely misses the mark” and claimed that platforms were never compelled to take down content. To support his claims, Ivey showed several quotes from CISA members who denied that the censorship occurred and invoked disclaimers that CISA included in their emails. https://video.reclaimthenet.org/articles/censorship-laundering-part-2-2.mp4 “This is not government censorship or censorship by proxy,” Ivey said. “Social media companies are privately owned and make content decisions based on their terms of service.” https://video.reclaimthenet.org/articles/censorship-laundering-part-2-3.mp4 Ivey…Watch: Democrats Continue to Deny Evidence of Government Pushing Big Tech to Censor Americans