[CLIP] Censorship, Guns, and Administrative Power: Mark Chenoweth

"What we have learned is that there were multiple instances - And by multiple, I don't mean five or 10, I mean, hundreds of times when different agencies in the federal government went to the various platforms and directed them to take down particular kinds of speech. They even worked with them to try to change their policies on what would and wouldn't be allowed on those platforms. Already, we're in violating First Amendment territory, because what the First Amendment states is that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. And if you look at what 'abridging' means, it's not a term we use that much anymore. But it means diminishing. And so do you think if the administration is calling these platforms and telling them to take down speech, that might be diminishing the amount of speech on those platforms? Of course it is." - Mark Chenoweth