Americans fed up with the federal government’s censorship scheme may soon be able to file civil lawsuits against the bureaucrats stifling their free speech online, a newly introduced bill stipulates.
The bill, named the Standing to Challenge Government Censorship Act, would prohibit federal workers and contractors from using their positions to instruct Big Tech platforms to censor constitutionally protected speech online. Bureaucrats who break the law would face civil lawsuits from affected Americans.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Reps. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) and Dan Bishop (R-NC) introduced the bill on Wednesday in response to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Murthy v. Missouri. The Court ruled that the pro-free speech plaintiffs did not have standing to sue the federal government over its censorship collusion with Big Tech.
The court ruled that the…
