If we don't have free speech then we just don't have a free country, its as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple just like dominoes, one by one, they'll go down.
That's why today I am announcing my plan to shatter the left wing censorship regime, and reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans, and RECLAIM is a very important word in this case because they have taken it away. In recent weeks bombshell reports have confirmed a sinister group of deep state bureaucrats, silicone valley tyrants, Left wing activists, and depraved corporate news media, have been conspiring to manipulate and silence the American people, they have collaborated to suppress vital information on everything from elections to public health. The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed and it must happen immediately.
First, with in hours of my inauguration I will sign executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business, or person, to censor, limit, or categorize or impeded the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as mis- or disinformation. I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship, directly or indirectly whether they are the Dept of Homeland Security, the Dept of Health and Human services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are. Second I will order the Dept of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible, and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified. These include possible violations of civil rights law, campaign finance laws, federal election law, securities law, anti-trust laws, the Hatch Act, and a host of other potential criminal civil, regulatory, and Constitutional offenses.
To assist in these efforts I am urging house Republicans to immediately send preservation letters, and we have to do this right now, to the Biden Administration, and every silicone valley big tech Giant, ordering them to not destroy any evidence of censorship. Third upon my inauguration as President I will ask Congress to send a bill to my desk revising section 230, to get big online platforms to get out of censorship business. From now on digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under section 230 if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness, and non-discrimination. We should require these platforms to increase their efforts to take down unlawful content such as child exploitation and promoting terrorism while dramatically curtailing their power to arbitrarily restrict lawful speech.
Fourth we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so called mis- and disinformation. The federal government should immediately stop funding all non profits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project. If any US universities are discovered to have ingaged in censorship activities or election interference in the past, such as flagging social media content for the purposes of blacklisting, those Universities should lose federal research dollars and student loan support for a period of 5 years and maybe more.
We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end run around the Constitution, and deprive Americans of their 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendment rights. In other word deprive them of their vote, and once you lose those elections and once you lose those borders, like we have, you no longer have a Country. Further more to confront the problem of major platforms being infiltrated by the legions of former deep staters, and intelligence officials, there should be a 7 year cooling off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of US user data.
Fifth the time has finally come for Congress to pass a Digital Bill of Rights. This should include a right to digital due process. In other words government officials should need a court order to take down online content not send information requests such as the FBI was sending to Twitter. Further more when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadow-banned or otherwise restricted no matter what name they use, they should have a right to be informed that its happening, the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and the right to a timely appeal. In addition all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt out of content moderation, and curation entirely and receive an unmanipulated stream of information if they so choose.
The fight for free speech is a matter of victory or death for America, and for the survival of western civilization itself. When I am President this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large, there wont be anything left. By restoring free speech we will begin to reclaim our Democracy and save our Nation.
Thank You, and God Bless America
