Podcasts Government Administrative Static Podcast NCLA President Mark Chenoweth Testifies About Government Social Media Censorship

NCLA President Mark Chenoweth Testifies About Government Social Media Censorship

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, 9:10 p.m.

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NCLA President Mark Chenoweth\\xa0testified\\xa0Wednesday at the House Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability\'s\\xa0hearing\\xa0entitled,\\xa0\\u201cCensorship Laundering Part II: Preventing the Department of Homeland Security\\u2019s Silencing of Dissent\\u201d. He emphasized 4 legal principles that Congress must uphold to stop rampant censorship by DHS, the\\xa0Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency,\\xa0and multiple other agencies: (1) the government is not the arbiter of truth, (2) the First Amendment protects even false speech, (3) the government may not do indirectly what the First Amendment forbids it from doing directly, and (4) the First Amendment term "abridging" supplies the test to determine when the government has violated the right to free speech.

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Vec and Jenin talk with Mark about his Congressional testimony on social media censorship.

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