How Trump’s fights with tech transformed Republicans’ beliefs on free speech
Posted on AllSides January 18th, 2021
From The Left
ANALYSIS
Republican wrath at the tech companies that muzzled President Donald Trump and his followers is hastening a big change in GOP ideology — rising support for government intervention in the marketplace of ideas.
A generation after Ronald Reagan’s regulators killed the Fairness Doctrine, freeing broadcasters from the mandate to treat opposing views fairly, the Trump-era Republican Party is fired up over what it sees as anti-conservative bias in companies like Facebook and Twitter. And a growing number of leading GOP figures are calling for the government to respond by creating...
