Protect Political Speech from the Tech Oligarchs with The Civil Rights Act of 2019
" If
you haven't noticed that freedom of political speech in America is
under increasingly effective assault by the left, you haven't been
watching. Over the internet, over lunch with colleagues, in every
university classroom, indeed, everywhere in America, the wrong word, the
wrong thought, can spell banishment or professional and personal
destruction, or both.
The
First Amendment's protection of free expression is a limitation only on
governmental action. The Founders never dreamed that the major private
institutions of the Republic they were establishing would seriously
limit freedom of speech for Americans. But beyond any dispute, the day
has come when exactly that evil is occurring.
We
have a historical template for the solution, or at least a major part
of the solution, to the once creeping, now galloping, repression of free
speech in America. It is high time for a new Civil Rights Act
extending First Amendment freedoms to major private actors – to internet
forums, large employers, and the entire K-12 and university systems. "
[American Thinker]