Rachel Bovard on Big Tech: ‘President Trump Is Being Censored’

The Epoch Times ^ | November 6, 2020 | GQ PAN AND JAN JEKIELEK

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A reelected President Donald Trump could take a more aggressive approach on Big Tech, which has been weaponized by the president’s political opponents to censor speech they disagree with, according to Rachel Bovard, director of policy services for The Heritage Foundation.

“I think this is a huge opportunity for President Trump if he gets a second term,” Bovard said during an interview with The Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders, noting that Trump’s first term was “effectively squandered” by a congress pushing an impeachment agenda based on “fake conspiracy theory.”

“In a second term from President Trump, he will feel he does have a mandate to come in, and really aggress on the issues that got him elected in 2016,” Bovard told host Jan Jekielek. “You’re going to see a second term President Trump take on big tech, in a way that he’s threatened in the first term, but hasn’t really carried out. He’s going to do as much as he can to start reining in those tech giants.”

When asked about Twitter hiding Trump’s post ahead of Election Day, Bovard, who is a senior adviser at conservative policy group Internet Accountability Project, said it was a cat-out-of-the-bag moment showing how the company is “politically motivated in one direction.”

“It’s interesting because Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was sitting before the Senate a week ago, telling senators with a completely straight face that Twitter has no ability to impact the election outcome. Yet they’ve spent the last 24 hours moderating content for election integrity solely in one direction,” said Bovard. “So if Twitter can’t impact election outcomes, I’m not sure why Twitter is censoring the president for misinformation.”