Large tech platforms from Facebook and YouTube to Spotify and GoFundMe have ramped up bans and censorship of users and organizations.
The companies, once viewed as neutral platforms and marketplaces, are increasingly behaving as Left-wing activist organizations because of a canceled culture, Conservatives say.
“There seems to be a pretty universal cultural collusion among a bunch of these companies that they don’t want dissenting voices to use their products,” said Inez Feltscher Stepman, a senior policy analyst at the conservative Independent Women’s Forum, on her podcast earlier this month.
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At the same time, the federal government’s counterterrorism device under President Joe Biden has taken multiple actions recently aimed at controlling speech considered as extremism and misinformation.
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Conservatives question the government’s definition of misinformation and say new Biden policies will target them. For example, the Justice Department announced the establishment of a new “domestic terrorism unit” that will probe those who ascribe to extremist anti-government and anti-authority doctrines in January.
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House Republicans also say an FBI whistleblower email shows the agency is using “counterterrorism tools” to supervise violent threats against school employees and teachers from parents protesting local school board decisions.
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Conservatives fear a February bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security saying the federal government intends to work with public and private sector partners to ease the “proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions.”
Republicans say that, depending on how the government defines “false or misleading narratives,” those who are against mask and vaccine mandates or raise questions about the origins of the Coronavirus could be classified as terrorists.
“For the government to characterize mainstream political disagreements as something approaching criminality is frightening and sends shivers down my spine,” said Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina. “That’s what happens in totalitarian regimes. Normal Americans engaging in normal activity and speech shouldn’t be conflated with terrorism. That’s very dangerous for the government to be doing.”
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He added that the federal government and its agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, can and should put out their point of view on problems in society. Bishop said they could even condemn certain information online as false, but it’s not the government’s role to criminalize or impede certain speech on private platforms.
At the end of January, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy pressed tech platforms to censor comedian Joe Rogan and “use the power that we have to limit the spread of misinformation.”
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