A Washington, D.C.-based think tank attacked free speech, FCC Chair Brendan Carr and the Trump administration at a panel largely indistinguishable from the ideological diversity you’d see on an MSNBC segment.
An Oct. 8 American Enterprise Institute (AEI) panel repeatedly defended “the free speech rights of platforms,” or, as freedom-loving Americans like to say, Big Tech assaults on free speech. AEI panelists also bashed Carr and the Trump administration over several cases involving the use of public airwaves to engage in election interference, to spread false claims, or to broadcast the location of ICE agents. In their broad assault on Carr and online free speech, panelists even praised one of his predecessors for refusing to use Section 230 to defend the speech rights of social media users.