This is a GREAT bill. No way the Democrats would be opposed, right? RIGHT?
It is a thread, but I will copy/paste in all its goodness.
It is a thread, but I will copy/paste in all its goodness.
In April 2024, the Committee uncovered how Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered multiple American companies, including X, to suspend or remove over 150 social media accounts—including the accounts of U.S. residents and journalists—or face massive fines.…
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In April 2024, the Committee uncovered how Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered multiple American companies, including X, to suspend or remove over 150 social media accountsincluding the accounts of U.S. residents and journalistsor face massive fines.
When @elonmusk, an American citizen, and X refused to comply, Justice de Moraes threatened X's legal representative in Brazil with arrest, froze Brazilian bank accounts of SpaceX, another Musk-owned company, and ordered Brazil's telecom agency to block access to X across Brazil
Last week, Justice Moraes ordered Rumble, a popular video sharing platform with headquarters in Florida, to be "suspended" in Brazil after it too refused to comply with Moraes' order to censor a U.S. resident and journalist.
If a Brazilian judge can order American companies to censor the speech of U.S. residents, American free speech is in jeopardy.
But the foreign threat to American speech is not just from Brazil. The EU has also attempted to censor American speech.
In August 2024, Thierry Bretonthe then-top EU official responsible for enforcing the EU's censorship law, the Digital Services Actthreatened Elon Musk, a U.S. citizen, and X with regulatory reprisal under EU law if Musk did not sufficiently censor his upcoming interview with
Breton publicly admitted what had been long suspected: Europe's Digital Services Act can be weaponized to censor American speech in the United States.
These examples illustrate why the Committee passed the No Censors on Our Shores Act, which would make foreign officials who violate Americans' First Amendment rights inadmissible to and deportable from the U.S.
Foreign government officials who have sought to silence Americans in the United States should not be able to turn around and visit their cushy vacation homes in the Hamptons or Miami Beach.
This is an issue of American sovereignty. Online speech is uniquely susceptible to foreign censorship pressure. This is why the Committee needed to act.
The No Censors on Our Shores Act will hold foreign officials accountable for violating Americans' First Amendment rights.