Tech Hearing And COVID Show Us Exactly Where Censorship Is Headed
In all the back and forth of Tuesday s Big Tech hearing, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons exchange with Twitter s Jack Dorsey stood out most starkly, offering a window into the next step of the left s long-championed Big Tech censorship of scientific dissent from liberal orthodoxy.
You do, Mr. Dorsey, have policies against deep fakes or manipulated media, against Covid-19 misinformation, against things that violate civic integrity, the Delaware senator began, but you don t have a standalone climate change misinformation policy. Why not?
Our policies are living documents, Dorsey replied. They will evolve, we will add to them, but we thought it important we focus our energies and prioritize the work as much as we could. And then:
It’s all going to come down to the First Amendment.