There is new evidence of the federal government doing an end-around the First Amendment by using private tech companies to stifle free speech. The latest revelation comes as part of a lawsuit against the Biden Administration, which revealed e-mails showing the federal government promoted censorship tools to Big Tech companies ahead of the 2020 election. Of course, it was done under the guise of battling "misinformation," which has become a catch-all for censoring conservatives or critics of the government.
One of those targeted by this government-big tech alliance is Alex Berenson, writer and outspoken COVID vaccine critic. He is suing President Biden, several White House officials, and the head of Pfizer for colluding with Big Tech to get him kicked off of social media. "In 2021, the White House tried to get me banned from Twitter...that's pretty much a prima facie violation of my First Amendment rights," Berenson tells Fox's Tucker Carlson in a new interview.
Berenson noted there was a much different standard applied to critics of Donald Trump. "In that case brought against Trump, the judge ruled that you can't ban people from commenting on Donald Trump's Twitter account," he says. "To some extent, that's what the White House was trying to do...they were trying to prevent me from commenting on Joe Biden."
To do that, Berenson says the feds went to great lengths. "The White House did not want Twitter to let me make comments about anything related to the vaccines, and they pushed Twitter to ban me," he continues. "That didn't work, because Twitter knew I wasn't violating its policies. So Scott Gottlieb, former FDA Commissioner and board member at Pfizer, stepped in and told Twitter to ban me, and then Twitter did."
Berensen tells Carlson he hopes his lawsuit will expose the alliance between Big Government, Big Tech and Big Pharma to silence Americans. "I have to say this...who has two thumbs and sued the President of the United States today? This guy."
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