Posted on 02/19/2023 7:22:53 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Stunned by a growing body of evidence showing federal pressure to silence Americans' voices online, House Republicans have unleashed their first legislation to slow government requests to Big Tech to censor content.
The ELON Act, introduced this month by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and backed by nine other cosponsors, would impose a one-year moratorium on taxpayer payments from the Justice Department to social media firms as well as require an audit on how much money changed hands since the start of 2015 between DOJ and Big Tech firms.
The legislation comes weeks after the blockbuster revelation that the FBI paid more than $3 million to Twitter to compensate that firm for handling a large number of censorship requests dating to the 2020 election.
"Who would ever have thought that the FBI would be paying Big Tech companies, you know, for their 'advice' or their counsel to the tune of millions upon millions of dollars?" asked Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) in an interview with Just the News.
"What they're doing is what the government cannot do directly," he added. "And that is they are doing government by proxy, or censorship by proxy. And this is 100% a violation of the Constitution."
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
Legislate individual spending bills which authorize how and on what money can be spent. That's how appropriations bills are supposed to work.
No department of government should be sending any money to social media companies. You want info? Get a friggen warrant.
“ The ELON Act, introduced this month by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.)”
Should be called The Tech Cronies Act”
I want the names of the people doing this and have them jailed.
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