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Senate Panel Clashes Over Censorship, Free Speech

Mary Anne Franks from The George Washington University Law School labeled the claim of a 'censorship industrial complex' as a 'myth' during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on censorship.
The Department of Homeland Security coordinated with various entities to censor speech regarding COVID-19, particularly speech labeled as misinformation.
Jonathan Turley stated that the Biden administration made censorship efforts an official mission, fueled by taxpayer money.
Senator Dick Durbin expressed concerns about the rewriting of history regarding the January 6 Capitol riot during the same hearing, particularly highlighting the treatment of protesters.

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Cowboy State Daily

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Jonathan Lange: The Censorship Machine Is Exposed - Time To Destroy It

Columnist Jonathan Lange writes: "Who has the muscle to force a private internet company to delete information government agencies find inconvenient? We didn’t have a word for it at the time. But we now call this outrageous collusion the 'censorship industrial complex.'”

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Real Clear Politics

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Democrats Can't Help But Admit They Support Censorship

At a Senate Judiciary hearing, Democrats can't help but admit they support government censorship of free speech.

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Catholic Senator Chairs Hearing Against Censorship Industrial Complex - LewRockwell

Ginny Garner wrote: Lew, Catholic Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, exposed the censorship industrial complex constructed under the Biden regime. This complex is comprised of federal bureaucrats, academics, Big Tech, journalists, universities, activists and NGOs. I did not watch the entire hearing but am hoping President Trump’s deportation campaign against those guilty of “antisemitic s…

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Senate Panel Clashes Over Censorship, Free Speech

By George Caldwell, The Daily Signal | March 25, 2025 The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution met Tuesday to discuss censorship with a panel of expert witnesses from the media and the law. Witnesses criticized what they called broad cooperation in years past between the government and nongovernmental organizations to suppress unfavored speech. Mollie Hemingway, the editor-in-chief of The Federalist, contended that NGOs have often w…

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ThePatriotLight - Dems Have No Problem With The Censorship Industrial Complex

ThePatriotLight - Democrats had a tough time at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing yesterday on the censorship industrial complex. They had to argue there was never any censorship during the Biden administration (including during Covid!) and that free speech and freedom of the press were never threatened by the partnership of government agencies with private institutions to combat “disinformation.” After all, the government was just trying …

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