The Left Is Suddenly Worried About Free Speech

The Left and the Media, but I repeat myself, is all concerned about Free Speech this month and last month. This is laughable because of the stuff they did to censor people who dared to disagree with them during the Biden Administration. Sean Davis CEO of the Federalist testified to Congress on what went on. Here's What I Told The Senate About Biden's Censorship

My company, my colleagues, and I have been the targets of a coordinated and global multi-year censorship campaign. In 2020, a foreign-government connected outfit in the U.K. colluded with Google to demonetize The Federalist. Our crime? We published an article in the summer of 2020 entitled “The Media Are Lying To You About Everything, Including The Riots.”

Later that year, in the midst of a close and heated presidential election campaign, government-funded efforts in the U.S. repeatedly censored Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist’s Editor-in-Chief and a New York Times best-selling author, and me because of our election reporting and commentary. I was censored for posting a screenshot of and a link to a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision requiring mail-in ballots received after Election Day and lacking a postmark to be counted as valid votes.

This is a transcript or copy of his opening remarks at the beginning of his testimony. He was one of a panel that testified 8 October in front of the Senate Commerce Committee.

After years of censorship, to claim that those on the Left are worried about free speech is hypocritical on levels I've never seen before. They don't care about free speech. They care that they are no longer in control of information. They only care about Free Speech now that people actually have Free Speech.

And Sean Davis is right; it doesn't stop with speech.

The drive to silence speech doesn’t end at a podium’s edge or at the four corners of a page. It always advances toward the violent elimination of speakers. That is because the authoritarian impulse to silence speech is driven by a totalitarian desire to seize total power by any means necessary, up to and including the murder of one’s political opponents.

This dynamic was made clear on a Tuesday afternoon in Utah last month when my friend Charlie Kirk was assassinated in broad daylight by a left-wing transgender ideologue.

There is a lot more. Click thru.

There is a video of the entire hearing. I have not watched it because it is 2 hours long. LIVE: Eric Schmitt Leads Hearing On 'How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans'. I may get to it over the weekend.

Hat tip to Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Biden's Watergate