Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) spoke to Newsmax on Tuesday to elaborate on the problems he sees with cancel culture, that pervasive leftist penchant to silence, erase, and disenfranchise anyone with views that counter Democratic party positions.
"I think cancel culture, in the big sense, is the biggest threat to freedom we face. Do you have a functioning first amendment when only one side is allowed to talk?" Jordan asked.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) March 9, 2021
"Do you have free speech when only the left defines what can be said? So this is dangerous, the things we're seeing with this cancel culture."
Jordan called out two of his congressional colleagues, Representative Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney, both Democrats from California, for sending a letter to multiple platforms asking them to remove news broadcasters OAN, Newsmax, and Fox News.
He said that there's a "chilling effect" when members of congress seek to cancel press outlets, and said that he has asked for Newsmax to be included in the catalogue of programming that is available on Capitol Hill.
Jordan has been a vocal opponent of cancel culture and of the Democrat driven narrative that would isolate and disenfranchise so many voting Americans from the conversation surrounding governance and the future of America.
Along with his colleague Ken Buck, Jordan issued a letter to Twitter demanding that the social media platform answer for their suppression and censorship of conservatives.
The letter, addressed to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and cc'ed to two other House committees, is reproduced within the tweet. It read, in part:
"Big Tech, especially Twitter, Inc., is engaged in systematic viewpoint-based discrimination. In the unfortunate phenomenon of 'cancel culture,' Twitter plays a leading role in silencing and censoring political speech of conservative Americans."
"In recent months, Twitter throttled the dissemination of a mainstream newspaper article critical of then-candidate Joe Biden's son and later took the unprecedented step of de-platforming the sitting President of the United States."
"If Twitter can do this to the President of the United States, it can do it to any American for any reason."
The letter goes on to explain that bank in July 2020, documentation from Twitter had been requested, and that although "Twitter's lawyers offered a telephonic briefing," the information requested has never been supplied by Twitter.
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