The Left has been howling in indignation that the Trump FCC tried to get ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel. We’ve agreed with them that this pressure violated freedom of speech principles.
How ironic that House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has now exposed the Biden Administration’s continual and arguably illegal campaign to strongarm Google into de-platforming conservative voices.
In the chilling letter to Jordan, Google reveals that “senior Biden Administration officials including at the White House pressed Google to deplatform certain voices” on “issues related to COVID-19 and elections.” Those “voices” were conservatives. Google rightly concludes that these pressure tactics forced “the removal of lawful content” and that this censorship was “unacceptable and wrong.”
No president in modern times abused the power of government to silence their opponents in reckless disregard to First Amendment free speech rights more than Joe Biden. Bravo to Google and Jim Jordan for shining sunlight on this travesty.