Elites “view free speech as a threat” because of its power, a top Federal Communications Commission official stated.
FCC commissioner Brendan Carr called out government and social media censorship efforts and praised free speech. “Established gatekeepers are engaged in an intentional and coordinated effort to silence political speech they don’t like by slapping the label ‘misinformation’ on it,” Carr warned Sunday on X.
Carr’s remarks come amid mounting concerns that the left is weaponizing the label of “misinformation” to censor the constitutionally-protected speech of political opponents. “‘Misinformation’ is the new misinformation,” he commented, highlighting the paradox.
The censors, Carr continued, are not concerned about ensuring that online users “will be misled by the words they’ve chosen to read,” but rather…
