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<\/a>It appears that President Trump is getting ready to bring down the hammer on the big social media companies.\u00a0 According\u00a0to Politico<\/a>, the Trump administration is in the process of drafting an executive order that will \u201ctackle Silicon Valley\u2019s alleged anti-conservative bias\u201d.\u00a0 And it is very much in President Trump\u2019s own self-interest to do this.\u00a0 Social media played a key role in helping him win in 2016, but since that time we have seen an unprecedented wave of censorship on the major social media platforms, and most of that censorship has been directed at conservative voices.\u00a0 If President Trump doesn\u2019t do something, it is hard to see how he will win in 2020, and of course that is precisely what the leftist executives at the big social media companies want.<\/p>\nUltimately, it would take an act of Congress to do everything that needs to be done, but President Trump should be applauded for trying to do what he can on his own.\u00a0 Apparently Politico was able to speak to three separate sources that are familiar with the drafting of this new executive order, and after speaking to all of them Politico came to the conclusion that the Trump administration is very serious about\u00a0\u201cwielding the federal government\u2019s power against Silicon Valley\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n The White House is circulating drafts of a proposed executive order that would address allegations of anti-conservative bias by social media companies, according to a White House official and two other people familiar with the matter \u2014 a month after President Donald Trump pledged to explore \u201call regulatory and legislative solutions\u201d on the issue.<\/p>\n None of the three would describe the contents of the order, which one person cautioned has already taken many different forms and remains in flux. But its existence, and the deliberations surrounding it, are evidence that the administration is taking a serious look at wielding the federal government\u2019s power against Silicon Valley.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It is not clear if such an executive order would hold up in court, and undoubtedly there will be legal challenges right away.\u00a0 Of course those legal challenges will take a long time to play out, because we all know how quickly our legal system moves.<\/p>\n But for the short-term, what really matters is what effect this will have on the behavior of the big social media companies.\u00a0 The goal should be to scare them into doing the right thing, and hopefully the wording of this executive order will be as forceful as possible.<\/p>\n Since some of these big tech companies have contracts with the federal government, in his executive order Trump could try to prohibit federal contractors from discriminating against customers based on their political views.\u00a0 A similar approach has been attempted\u00a0a couple of times before<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n One potential approach could involve using the government\u2019s leverage over federal contractors, a tactic the Obama administration used to advance LGBT rights. A\u00a02014 executive order<\/a>\u00a0prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against workers on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.<\/p>\n Trump earlier this year signed an executive order\u00a0meant to promote<\/a>\u00a0free speech on college campuses by requiring schools to agree to promote free inquiry in order to receive federal research funding \u2014 something the schools were already supposed to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We\u2019ll see what happens, but hopefully Trump can get this executive order issued quickly, because the 2020 election season has already begun.<\/p>\n Of course liberals are upset about this potential executive order, and many of them continue to insist that conservatives are not being specifically targeted by the social media companies.\u00a0 For example, just check out this excerpt\u00a0from a Vox article<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n As Recode and other outlets have reported, there has been no evidence to prove that companies such as\u00a0Google<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter have anti-conservative bias<\/a>\u00a0baked into their products. Regardless, the president and\u00a0Republican lawmakers<\/a>\u00a0have continued to make such claims, emboldened in part by a\u00a0recent claim by a former Google engineer<\/a>\u00a0that he was fired for his conservative political views. (Google\u00a0says the employee was fired for misusing company equipment<\/a>; other reports indicate that he shared emails internally in which he\u00a0defended white supremacist groups.)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Seriously?<\/p>\n Because of what I do, I have connections throughout the conservative media, and just about everyone I know has been censored, banned, shadowbanned or deplatformed in some way, shape or form.\u00a0 Over the past two and a half years we have witnessed the greatest purge in the history of the Internet, and it has been absolutely brutal.<\/p>\n Some conservative voices are still able to use social media, but the heavy hand of censorship is always present.\u00a0 For example, every time Dr. Michael Brown posts a video on YouTube, it is immediately\u00a0\u201cflagged as unsuitable for most advertisers\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n To this moment, the instant one of my YouTube videos is posted\u2014and I mean the very instant\u2014it gets flagged as unsuitable for most advertisers, which we then have to contest by calling for a manual review. At that point, you genuinely have no idea what the reviewer will decide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course other conservative voices have been targeted for elimination from social media altogether.\u00a0 Mike Adams of Natural News is an incredibly genuine guy and one of the most articulate conservative voices on the entire Internet, and he has been deplatformed\u00a0by just about every social media platform that exists<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n In response to a coordinated, heavily-funded smear campaign against Natural News and myself, the Health Ranger, Facebook has now permanently banned Natural News from posting content. The channel name that has been banned is Facebook.com\/healthranger, which was our primary channel reaching over 2.5 million people.<\/p>\n This is on top of the permanent bans of Natural News content from Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Google News, Apple and other techno-fascists that now represent the greatest threat to human freedom the world has ever seen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There is no reason why Mike Adams should have ever been banned by anyone.\u00a0 I have had the opportunity to sit down with him in person, and he is someone that cares deeply for America and for those around him.\u00a0 What the big social media companies have done to him is absolutely disgusting.<\/p>\n But of course he is far from alone.\u00a0 One study found that since the 2016 presidential election, social media traffic to a group of some of the most conservative websites on the Internet was down by 93 percent.\u00a0 You can find the full study\u00a0right here<\/a>, and it is definitely worth reading.<\/p>\n In the end, it is very simple.\u00a0 The leftists that run the big social media companies hate what we believe, and they don\u2019t want us\u00a0to get the truth out<\/a>.\u00a0 The don\u2019t believe in a free marketplace of ideas, because their ideas always lose.<\/p>\n So the only way that they can win is by shutting us up, and that is precisely what they have been attempting to do.<\/p>\n The social media giants built multi-billion dollar empires by giving everyone a voice, but now that they have such a dominant position on the Internet they have decided that many prominent conservative voices should be completely silenced.<\/p>\n They want to control what ideas people are exposed to, thus shaping the overall direction of the country as a whole.<\/p>\n If they are allowed to get away with it, they will greatly alter the political future of America far beyond the 2020 election.<\/p>\n Something needs to be done immediately, and so let us hope that President Trump gives this executive order some really strong teeth.<\/p>\n