Posted on 12/15/2022 12:18:34 PM PST by thegagline
How “Presidential.”
This is solidifying Desantis’ position as the frontrunner. I hope he is the man we need for 2024, because I don’t see Trump recovering after this many unforced errors. But Desantis needs a titanium spine for what’s coming, so I hope he’s ready to face down the Deep State and all its mechanizations.
Transcript of Trump’s December 15 Announcement about Censorship, and Free Speech
If we don’t have free speech, we don’t have a free country. It’s as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, the rest of our rights and liberties will topple, like dominoes.
That’s why today I’m announcing my plan to shatter the leftwing censorship regime, and to reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans. And reclaim is a very important word in this case, because they’ve taken it away.
In recent weeks, bombshell reports have confirmed a sinister group of deep state bureaucrats, Silicon Valley tyrants, left wing activists, and depraved corporate news media, have been conspiring to manipulate and silence the American people. They have collaborated to suppress vital information on everything from elections to public health. The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed, and it must happen immediately.
Here is my plan.
First, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order, banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business, or person to censor, limit, categorize or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech to be labeled as mis or disinformation. And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship, directly or indirectly, whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are.
Second, I will order the DOJ to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible, and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified. These crimes include possible violations of federal civil rights law, camp finance laws, federal election laws, securities laws, anti-trust laws, the Hatch Act, and a host of other potential criminal, civil, regulatory and Constitutional offenses.
To assist in these efforts, I am urging House Republicans to immediately send preservation letters. We have to do this right now. To the Biden administration, the Biden campaign, and every Silicon Valley tech giant, ordering them not to destroy evidence of censorship.
Third, upon my inauguration as president, I will ask Congress to send a bill to my desk revising Section 230. To get big online platforms out of censorship business. From now on, digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under Section 230 if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness, and non-discrimination. We should require these platforms to increase their efforts to take down unlawful content such as child exploitation, and promoting terrorism while dramatically curtailing their power to arbitrarily restrict lawful speech.
Fourth, we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so called mis and disinformation. The federal government should immediately stop funding all nonprofits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project.
If any US university is discovered to have engaged in censorship activities, or election interference in the past, such as flagging social media content for removal, or blacklisting, those universities should lose federal research dollars, and federal student loan support for a period of five years, and maybe more.
We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end run around the Constitution, and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights. In other words, deprive them of their vote. And once you lose your elections, and once you lose your borders like we have, you no longer have a country.
Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former deep-staters and intelligence officials, there should be a seven year cooling-off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of US user data.
Fifth, the time has finally come for Congress to pass a digital bill of rights. This should include a right to digital due process. In other words, government offs should need a court order to take down online content; not send information requests such as the FBI was sending to twitter.
Furthermore, when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadow-banned, or otherwise restricted, no matter what name they use, they should have the right to be informed that it’s happening; the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and the right to a timely appeal. In addition, all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt out of content moderation and curation entirely, and receive an unmanipulated stream of information, if they so choose.
The fight for free speech is a matter of victory or death for American, and for the survival of western civilization itself. When I am president, this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large. There won’t be anything left.
By restoring free speech, we will begin to reclaim our democracy and save our nation. Thank you, and God bless America.
Joe Biden cards come with a special ‘scratch and sniff’ feature.
Triggered.
Only Trump can yank the lefts chain like that love it Biden has to be kicking his dog by now.
Trump needs to make some Biden loser cards $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
I would’ve appreciated one more item:
“And, effective immediately, the policies described in my Digital Bill of Rights will be active in Truth Social.”
Thanks for posting this COUNTrecount. It’s wonderful! Looking forward to this — and a very solid reason to put Trump in office again!
Glad he’s on top of this issue. Crucial.
Kind of silly but it isn’t a money grab. Nobody is forced to buy anything against their will.
If you repeat a lie enough the weak minded will accept it as truth.
But wait, there’s more...
You can’t deliver a blow if nobody but his most ardent fans see it. Its only a blow if he FOLLOWS through. Words mean zip, they don’t inspire fear, action does.
Where are they?
Waiting for the Melania trading cards.
It's far more honest way of raising money getting the money through Ukraine via FTX. Or prostituting one's self to someone like George Soros or some other big money donor.
You so full of sh$t. No real Trump supporter has a problem with raising money legitimately like this when politicians like the Biden and Clintons sellout out their country in exchange for huge money and phony jobs for their children. Or when politicians use the Ukraine war and FTX as money laundering operation. Or when politicians are bought and paid for by big money donors that couldn't give a hoot about what the base of the party wants.
We are going to savage you and Never Trump/GOP establishment in the 2024 primary. I can't wait. You want the bloodiest primary possible, you're going to get it. And, the blood is going to be your blood being shed.
No. He took the salary and donated it all.
As Ralphie said in “A Christmas Story”: ‘A crummy commercial?’
I changed my mind actually https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4116076/posts?page=640#640
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