Dan Schneider
Vice President, MRC Free Speech America and External Affairs

Dan Schneider is a lawyer, policy professional, and political strategist. Throughout his lengthy career, he has worked in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Zheng Zhou, China (also known as iPhone City). 

Dan is currently the Vice President of Free Speech America, MRC Business, and the External Affairs division. He previously served as the executive director of the American Conservative Union, which organizes CPAC. His work in government has included roles in the White House, executive branch agencies, the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives. 

He was awarded a Juris Doctorate from Columbia University Law School and two undergraduate degrees from the University of Kansas.

In 1988, Dan broke the world record for the “highest elevation golf shot” when he used a five-iron at the second base camp of Annapurna in the Himalayas. Sadly and shockingly, the Guinness Book of World Records refused to certify this incredible achievement, which Dan remains “very bitter” about to this day. 

Under President Joe Biden, the National Security Council (NSC) conducted extensive collaboration with the United Kingdom (U.K.)’s Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU), a foreign government censorship agency.

The Biden administration acted swiftly to destroy the “Fair Access Rule,” one of the key free speech protections instituted by his predecessor (and successor). 

One of several censorship initiatives conducted out of the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency was the process known as “switchboarding.” Both before and after the 2020 election — including well into the Biden administration — CISA would…

Despite its innocuous name, “Track F” of the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Convergence Accelerator was one of the Biden administration’s most ambitious efforts to build artificial intelligence (AI) weapons of mass deletion.

Under Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to create a ministry of truth, to be named the “Disinformation Governance Board.” The Board would have coordinated censorship activities…

The Biden administration’s highly touted “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” was written to favor censorship-obsessed Google and its vendetta against open source artificial…