Trump’s “Censor the Internet” executive order would be the end of free speech online.

Dear Friend,

Last week, news leaked from the White House about a Trump executive order draft that would allow federal agencies to monitor and even censor political speech on the internet.

Trump's "Censor the Internet" executive order would be the end of free speech online. And now CNN reports that even officials within the Trump administration itself are pushing back — but Trump has given no public sign of backing away.

Demand Progress is running ads alerting the public to Trump's plan to censor the internet. Will you donate to keep those ads running until Trump’s executive order is off the table?

White supremacists and conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones and Richard Spencer have been complaining for years that websites like Google and Twitter are biased against them. Trump himself has repeated a widely debunked claim that "Google manipulated 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election!"1

There's no evidence to back up these bizarre claims. But Trump is using these and other complaints from his right-wing allies as the basis for a shocking attack on free speech with his "Censor the Internet" executive order.

A leaked draft of the order reveals plans to revoke free-speech protections that have been in place since the dawn of the Internet, replacing them with a bureaucracy of Trump appointees to censor whatever political content he and his cronies like Ajit Pai deem unacceptable.

Free-speech experts across the political spectrum are horrified that this order would give Trump unprecedented internet-censorship powers, and we cannot allow that to happen. Will you donate to help fund our ads against Trump's "Censor the Internet" executive order?

Yes, I’ll donate to keep our ads about Trump's internet censorship running until the executive order is off the table.

Thanks for standing with us.

Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress

Source:

1. The New York Times, "Fact-Checking Trump’s Claim That Google ‘Manipulated’ Millions of Votes for Clinton," August 19, 2019

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