{"id":124402,"date":"2019-06-28T05:55:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T09:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=124402"},"modified":"2019-06-28T05:56:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T09:56:48","slug":"republicans-do-nothing-to-stop-outright-censorship-of-the-right-1st-amendment-now-violated-hourly-without-consequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=124402","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Do Nothing to Stop Outright Censorship of the <i>Right<\/i>, 1st Amendment Now Violated Hourly Without Consequence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>TUCKER CARLSON SLAMS REPUBLICANS FOR \u201cDOING NOTHING\u201d TO FIGHT BIG TECH CENSORSHIP<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cOne day they\u2019ll look up and find they have no supporters at all\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tucker Carlson has slammed Republicans and the Trump administration for doing nothing to fight back against Big Tech censorship \u201cwhile their ideas are suppressed and their supporters are silenced.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carlson explained how as soon as Trump took the White House in 2016, Big Tech began plotting to \u201ccontrol the election outcome in 2020\u201d by \u201cusing the excuse of \u201cfake news\u201d to control the public discourse.<\/p>\n<p>The Fox News host chastised the previous Republican Congress for failing to act, as well as the White House which refused to use its control of the \u201cvast regulatory apparatus\u201d to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve sat motionless and doing nothing,\u201d Carlson said of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker praised Senator Josh Hawley, who recently introduced a bill that would strip Big Tech companies of their legal immunity as platforms under Section 230 of the Communications Act, as \u201cthe only Republican who seems interested at all in keeping Big Tech in check.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TuckerCarlson<\/a> for highlighting our fight to hold Big Tech accountable <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HbUKxuuJjO\">pic.twitter.com\/HbUKxuuJjO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1143863088753577985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassing Hawley\u2019s bill doesn\u2019t seem to be a priority though, no one in Congress is talking about it,\u201d said Carlson, adding this was a \u201cbig mistake\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuccessful political parties look out for their supporters\u2026.and protect them from harm,\u201d said Carlson, slamming Republicans for \u201csitting in a stupefied fog of libertarianism doing nothing while their ideas are suppressed and their supporters are silenced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne day they\u2019ll look up and find they have no supporters at all \u2013 who will be to blame for that? Only themselves,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>As we\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2019\/06\/26\/election-meddling-reddit-quarantines-the-donald-forum-on-first-night-of-presidential-debates\/\">reported earlier<\/a>, the latest example of Big Tech election meddling is Reddit quarantining of \u2018The Donald\u2019 \u2013 a hugely popular forum with over 700,000 members that was credited with being the \u201cmost effective\u201d at spreading memes during the last presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tucker-carlson-slams-republicans-for-doing-nothing-to-fight-big-tech-censorship\/\">https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tucker-carlson-slams-republicans-for-doing-nothing-to-fight-big-tech-censorship\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUCKER CARLSON SLAMS REPUBLICANS FOR \u201cDOING NOTHING\u201d TO FIGHT BIG TECH CENSORSHIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}