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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) asked about digital censorship of social media during a conference call regarding the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

“I got shadowbanned,” Jocko Willink, retired Navy SEAL and author, said in a clip from his Jocko Underground podcast published on Monday. He said his months-long shadowbanning — which he notes had since been reversed — on an unspecified “social media” platform was imposed after making the Biden administration “look like idiots” in relation to the White House’s management of withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday evening unveiled what has been dubbed the “Digital Bill of Rights,” which the governor said aims to protect the privacy of Floridians in the digital realm.

House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) subpoenaed five big tech CEOs Tuesday for documents related to their companies’ censorship practices and to what extent, if any, those practices involved the U.S. government.

The city of Chicago, Illinois, in partnership with big business, is launching an effort to score jobs for foreign H-1B visa workers who have been laid off from their tech jobs in recent weeks. 

The Dutch government has reportedly told public authorities to refrain from using Chinese social media platform TikTok over data security fears.

Facebook (now known as Meta) will reportedly end former President Donald Trump’s suspension from its main platform as well as Instagram following an announcement made at the beginning of January that it would decide on reinstating Trump “in the coming weeks.”

Former President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., told Breitbart News exclusively that a podcast venture he is launching later this month with Rumble is part of a broader initiative he is undertaking to try to build up what he calls a “parallel economy” of companies and platforms that do not silence conservatives.

Former President Donald J. Trump is set to host the first public event for his 2024 presidential campaign later this month in South Carolina, one of the earliest states to hold its Republican primary.

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) announced his plans to summon Disney CEO Bob Iger and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to appear before the Select Committee on China.

Alexandra Pierce, founder and designer of HRH Collection, says “cancel culture ruins everything” including free speech, honesty among peers, and comedy. 

Most likely voters believe Congress should investigate to see if the FBI was involved in social media censorship, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found.

The lobbying arm of Silicon Valley’s tech investors, represented by billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us, admits it is “extremely unlikely” that an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens can pass the lame-duck Congress.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Tuesday on his show “The Lead” that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) were protecting “anti-American” big tech monopolies.

Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), Breitbart News senior contributor, and author of Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, said on Monday he believed the incoming Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives would investigate conflicts of interest pertaining to President Joe Biden via his second son, Hunter Biden, including the issuance of subpoenas to testify before congressional committees.

Former President Donald J. Trump unveiled a free-speech policy platform on Thursday to “shatter the left-wing censorship regime and reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans.”

The Senate’s EAGLE Act is riddled with holes “any idiot could drive a truck through,” according to Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who warned ahead of a key House vote on the bill of the threats it poses to Americans by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Most voters support Republicans in Congress investigating allegations of censorship by social media companies, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Tuesday found.

There is proof the medical establishment targeted “scientific dissenters” as part of an overarching attempt to control the narrative on the Chinese coronavirus, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said during a roundtable discussion on Tuesday. 

The survey follows Elon Musk’s release of information showing that Twitter censored and blacklisted conservatives.

Big Tech executives are throwing their support behind Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Kyrsten Sinema’s (I-AZ) last-ditch amnesty and foreign worker expansion plan.

House Majority Whip-elect Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) will oppose any efforts to include the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) in the end-of-year spending bill, Breitbart News has learned.

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) called for removing liability protection for Big Tech companies as a measure to combat digital censorship on Wednesday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said the Open App Markets Act would end Apple’s and Google’s shared role as “gatekeepers” of mobile apps.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said it is not in his lane to say whether or not individuals should be “allowed” to voice opinions on social media that he believes could harm the public, claiming not to “know what the legal or other First Amendment issues are associated with that.”

During an interview with the “Fox News Rundown” podcast released on Monday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) argued that there need to be regulations for social media and “other communication techniques, that you can’t pick winners and losers based on your politics,

Donald Trump suggested the “termination” of the United States Constitution could be allowable in response to the bombshell report that the Democrat Party colluded with Twitter to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election.

House Democrat staffers wanted Twitter to censor more, arguing the “First Amendment isn’t absolute,” according to internal Twitter emails.

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell tried to move through the U.S. Senate a highly controversial plan called the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) using a procedure called a “hotline,” Breitbart News has learned.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued a call to arms for Americans to demand their U.S. Senators oppose the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA).

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki must be deposed in the lawsuit alleging the Biden Administration colluded with Big Tech.

Beltway lobbyists are hoping a lame duck Congress rams through a green card giveaway for the nation’s largest tech conglomerates that would hugely reward them for rapidly outsourcing American jobs to foreign visa workers. 

Legendary Greek footballer Vassilis Tsiartas has been given a 10-month suspended prison sentence over comments critical of child sex changes. 

The Deputy Prime Minister (Tánaiste) of Ireland has taken it upon himself to weigh in on layoffs at Twitter, recently published by Tesla’s Elon Musk.

CNBC reported on Monday that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt oversaw a government commission ostensibly established to provide guidance to the U.S. government regarding policies on AI and machine learning technologies without disclosing personal investments in startups working in the AI space.

Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is demanding PayPal provide answers about new language added and then removed from its user agreement — asking specifically if the payment processing giant consulted with the Biden administration on the policy.