{"id":1318047,"date":"2022-02-20T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T16:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1318047"},"modified":"2022-02-20T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T16:16:00","slug":"grassley-we-wouldnt-have-such-a-censorship-problem-if-more-journalists-did-their-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassley-we-wouldnt-have-such-a-censorship-problem-if-more-journalists-did-their-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassley: We Wouldn\u2019t Have Such a Censorship Problem \u2018If More Journalists Did Their Job\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgrassley-we-wouldnt-have-such-a-censorship-problem-if-more-journalists-did-their-job%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1318047&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Some things never change. The corrupt media peddles false narratives, Big Tech censors conservatives for \u201cdisinformation,\u201d and Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley absolutely takes them to town for it. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what happened during a floor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bFuCWiF8lkQ\">speech<\/a> on Thursday when the Iowa lawmaker tore into tech companies and the corporate media for colluding to censor conservative viewpoints, especially those that threaten Democrat narratives such as the Russia collusion hoax. Grassley was personally irked after Facebook flagged one of his posts linking to a Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/clinton-campaign-paid-infiltrate-trump-tower-white-house-servers?fbclid=IwAR18nADvSEBG0ut8r-WslQUXB6mAQDBgZm39NPZFEK3DGg7d5rTWQ65ctBw\">article<\/a> as \u201cfalse information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was an article about <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/14\/special-counsel-democrats-framed-and-spied-on-trump-while-he-was-president\/\">new allegations<\/a> against the Hillary Clinton campaign and its associates that were brought to light in Special Counsel John Durham\u2019s Feb. 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/14\/8-more-intrigues-inside-the-latest-special-counsel-filings\/\">federal court filing<\/a>. It cited Durham\u2019s filing directly, as well as a former chief congressional investigator who became acutely knowledgeable about the situation while working on the Trump-Russia probe for the House Intelligence Committee under California Republican Rep. Devin Nunes. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"509\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-17-at-3.09.35-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-267808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-17-at-3.09.35-PM.png 509w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-17-at-3.09.35-PM-285x300-1.png 285w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhy does Facebook and one of its third-party fact-checker partners get to make the decision that this news article is considered false information?\u201d Grassley asked. \u201cThat decision should be made by the American people who should be able to view that content and decide for themselves. It shouldn\u2019t be decided by our Big Tech overlords who seem to only find fault with content that is conservative or goes against the liberal narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though useful idiots will retort that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the like don\u2019t single out conservatives for censorship, the evidence suggests otherwise. Just this week, Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/16\/twitter-allows-actual-hacked-doxxing-of-freedom-convoy-donors-after-censoring-hunter-biden-reporting\/\">allowed<\/a> the private information of people who had donated to the Canadian Freedom Convoy to spread on its site after a leftist hacked GiveSendGo and doxxed them. Yet Twitter cited its <a href=\"https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/rules-and-policies\/hacked-materials\">hacked materials policy<\/a> as the justification for <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/14\/twitter-blocks-users-from-linking-to-the-new-york-posts-bombshell-hunter-biden-report\/\">censoring<\/a> the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story right before the 2020 election, despite no evidence of hacking. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/15\/11-hacks-leaks-and-hoaxes-that-twitter-and-facebook-didnt-throttle-because-they-hurt-trump\/\">11 Hacks, Leaks, And Hoaxes That Twitter And Facebook Didn\u2019t Throttle \u2014 Because They Hurt Trump<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Grassley mentioned, these are also the same tech and media companies that amplified the Steele dossier and broader fake Russia collusion narrative for years, and that are now \u201cdoing the bidding for the Clinton camp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are they so afraid of reporting that exposes the Russia collusion hoax?\u201d Grassley asked the question to which we already know the answer. It\u2019s the massive hoax they staked their reputations and careers on and which has since unraveled piece by piece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis wouldn\u2019t be an issue today if more journalists did their job of being the police of our society and reported on all investigations not just ones that appeal to a certain political party,\u201d Grassley said. \u201cWhat kind of message does this censorship send to a reporter who does take on the new allegations against the Clinton campaign and its associates and its labeled disinformation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to rethink Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, Grassley prescribed, referring to the provision that grants tech monopolies immunity regarding its users\u2019 content. Big Tech has weaponized the provision, however, using it in its ideological purges of what it calls \u201cmisinformation\u201d and \u201cdangerous\u201d content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has become increasingly clear that these dominant platforms controlling discussion and dialogue are more beholden to cancel culture and not to the fundamental free speech principles that this country was founded upon,\u201d Grassley said. \u201c\u2026Simply put we deserve better than woke monopolists and their liberal lapdogs deciding what we can discuss.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"AfDT7mv8jZuKnpPCLo\"><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religious liberty, and criminal justice. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things never change. The corrupt media peddles false narratives, Big Tech censors conservatives for \u201cdisinformation,\u201d and Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley absolutely takes them to town for it. That\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}