Bills Aim To Stop Big Tech, Big Government From Silencing Speech Again

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., was among the first to see evidence of what many Americans suspected: Big Tech colluding with the Biden administration to silence speech. Now he’s reintroducing legislation to hold government bureaucrats and social media giants accountable for their sins of omission. 

The Missouri Republican, who was attorney general of the Show Me State in 2022, joined with then-Louisiana AG Jeff Landry in suing the federal government for pushing social media companies to censor viewpoints — generally conservative viewpoints — that conflicted with the selected experts’ messaging on Covid. Missouri v. Biden, as the First Amendment lawsuit was known when filed at the time, took aim at the alphabet agencies and the social networks believed to be taking pages from Orwell’s 1984 to shut down speech.