Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey lauded exclusive new research by the Media Research Center as supporting revelations in his landmark free speech lawsuit.
In a Tuesday interview on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria, Bailey called for “systems that need to be erected and put into place to build a wall of separation between tech and state” in reaction to exclusive new MRC Free Speech America research.
Bartiromo cited the MRC study, which exposed 57 Biden-era censorship initiatives, to slam “actions [that] spanned at least 90 separate government agencies and included hundreds of government officials.” She asked Bailey, “How is it possible that the Biden administration got away with censoring American citizens and did so by convincing these media companies to take the lead and do what they said?”
Bailey minced no words in response: “I think history will look on this as one of the darkest hours for our right to free speech.” He agreed that the Biden administration and “the Deep State colluded with Big Tech” to suppress “American voices in violation of our right to free speech.”
Bailey praised the MRC report as adding “a lot of depth and texture to information that we'd already put in the public domain in our lawsuit, Missouri v. Biden [now Murthy v. Missouri], the most important First Amendment suit in this nation's history, where we began uncovering this vast censorship enterprise.”
While the Biden administration attacked free speech, the new administration is reversing that trend, Bailey noted, “President Trump has come into office and signed an executive order to dismantle the vast censorship regime,” he explained. “I think we have to take a long-term look at the systems that need to be erected and put into place to build a wall of separation between tech and state.”
The attorney general has suggestions. “My office has proposed using consumer protection law to promulgate a rule that would require Big Tech social media corporations to provide algorithmic choice to the users, and I think that's the best way to start building that wall of separation between tech and state and supporting consumers and breaking up this consolidation of power,” he stated.
In the study, MRC identified no fewer than 57 different censorship initiatives of the previous Biden-Harris administration, including the defunct Disinformation Governance Board, the State Department’s AI “partnership” with Big Tech companies, and a National Science Foundation grant to flag online content for censorship.
ICYMI: The Biden Administration Waged War on Free Speech with 57 Censorship Initiatives
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