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. 

Separately from the weekly Big Tech “industry working groups” it participated in (see Case #31), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) held regular “bilateral meetings” with Big Tech platforms to coordinate censorship efforts. 

Under President Joe Biden, the Justice Department pursued prosecutions based on constitutionally-protected speech. 

In addition to expanding the scope of speech that courts should consider criminal (see Initiative #33), Biden’s Department of Justice also lobbied the U.S. Supreme Court to side with censorship against the First Amendment. The Biden…

When it was not possible to target a political opponent directly for his or her speech, the Biden administration would instead come up with other, pretextual grounds to launch political prosecutions. The effect of this weaponized, unequal justice…

Several of the aforementioned censorship initiatives, such as the NSBA School Board Memo (Initiative #27) and the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program (Initiative #16), were predicated on the existence of a domestic terror…

In flagrant defiance of election law, the Constitution’s equal protection clause and the First Amendment, President Joe Biden’s Federal Election Commission (FEC) created two different sets of censorship laws: one for Big Tech, and one for the…