A conservative nonprofit organization is introducing a new ad campaign in response to online censorship by Big Tech, Fox News informed.
The conservative charity Common Sense Leadership Fund (CSLF) began the fresh seven-figure ad campaign on Monday, arguing against two bills now pending in Congress.
CSLF president Kevin McLaughlin told Fox News Digital that the last thing people need now is the federal government enacting this kind of legislation, giving power to Big Tech to shut off anyone they disagree with, in a political context.
The ad, titled “Big Brother,” was initially received by Fox News Digital and focuses on loopholes in two legislation pieces, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act and the Open App Markets Act, that define the word “safety” loosely.
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act includes a provision that creates a legal defense for tech companies’ possible censorship if the measure is implemented to “guard safety, the user privacy, the security of data that is non-public, or the security of the protected platform.”
The Open App Markets Act has an identical “digital safety” requirement.
The ad tells the viewer that if someone does not have the right opinion or has facts that are inconvenient truth, they will get censored or banned.
The ad continues that this is not the ‘Big Brother’, but companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and YouTube, and all of this is decided behind closed doors.
The two measures, according to the CSLF, would codify the censorship power in federal law, and the Big Tech needs rigorous regulation – not more rules that empower them to control online speech.
The ad concludes that everyone should tell Congress to oppose both bills.
Conservative pundits argue that the legislation would harm American firms by drastically altering antitrust regulations and altering the nature of eCommerce.
Senator Chuck Schumer, D-New York, has stated that he plans to introduce the American Innovation and Choice Online Act by early summer.
Schumer’s decision to put the bill up for a vote comes just a week after President Biden’s misinformation board was disbanded.
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