In a recent Senate Judiciary hearing, Journalist Ben Weingarten of Real Clear Politics issued a warning about what he termed the “Censorship Industrial Complex,” telling lawmakers to dismantle it immediately.
Weingarten, a senior contributor at the Federalist and Real Clear Politics, argued that government efforts to regulate online speech threaten American democracy, comparing them to a “social credit system with American characteristics.” He called for stricter barriers between government and public discourse.
“If we allow euphemistic whole-of-society schemes like the Censorship Industrial Complex to persist… we will be on the road to a disastrous fate,” Weingarten stated.
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