Lawmakers Want Tech Reform Help from Biden, Who Supports Increased Censorship

The President Joe Biden should be involved in any new legislation relating to technology that is being developed prior to the election of 2022, both from lawmakers representing each party. This is a dangerous move for free speech, as Biden’s administration has explicitly supported increased censorship online.

Senator John Thune (R.-SD) is one of those who called. BidenNewsmax reports that the administration will be supporting efforts to reform Big Tech. “The White House has proven that it can get involved in legislative priorities when it wants to, so I hope the president and his team step up and provide some much-needed and long-overdue leadership on this front,” Thune reportedly said. Officials from Biden’s administration have already confirmed this. The Wall Street Journal that Biden was interested in addressing “incentives [tech platforms] create to promote sensational and divisive content.” 

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) stated, “There’s a real win here for the president if he seizes this moment along with us.” Blumenthal repeatedly called for former Trump advisor Steve Bannon to be banned from Facebook in 2020, and has more recently called for increased online censorship of “misinformation.” Blumenthal also spoke at a Communist Party award ceremony earlier this month and has invested in a company tied to China, raising questions about whether he supports oppressive Chinese-style censorship online. According to Sen. Thune’s sources, Thune is thinking about retiring because Donald Trump holds too much power in the Republican Party. The New York Times.

Pro-Biden Wall Street firm Cowen Washington Research Group said that Biden’s support would significantly increase the chance some tech legislation has of passing, The Journal wrote. Among the so-called tech reforms are the Health Misinformation Act, introduced by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), which would provide an “exception” to Section 230 immunities. The exception would apply if a platform’s algorithms promoted a post deemed to contain allegedly “false health information” during a declared national emergency, according to Media Post. 

Biden has in the past supported more online censorship. He rescinded former President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at investigating Big Tech censorship in May. Reports in August stated that Biden’s administration had been pressuring Facebook to censor any information that contradicted the administration’s COVID-19 narrative. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted that the Biden administration had “raised. . .concerns” with Facebook about alleged “inaccurate” information online. Biden’s campaign website had promised an internet censorship taskforce allegedly to ensure more safety for women online in November 2020.

Any measures that are supported by Biden and other politicians who support anti-free speech policies or pro-censorship should be avoided.

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