In a column at The Hill, Donald Trump Jr. wrote that the political censoring by the tech companies posed a threat to “free speech” and the country’s democracy.
He further highlighted big tech’s blatant censoring of the right, and discussed what he says is the left’s hostility towards free speech and expression that is “edgy, brutal, irreverent, and sometimes downright offensive.”
“For all the platitudes offered by liberal journalists about the free press standing as a cornerstone of democracy, they do not actually have a very good grasp of the concept. The free press that the founders envisioned looked a lot more like the Reddit users who roasted O’Rourke than New York Times writers who misrepresent basic tenets of free speech and demand censorship to protect their friends from online harassment,” Trump Jr wrote.
He further highlighted Instagram’s censoring of both him and his father during September; with regard to this incident, he wrote, “If social media can do that to the president, then no one is safe.”
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