{"id":1873266,"date":"2023-03-09T17:13:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T22:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-votes-for-new-curbs-on-government-censorship-in-response-to-twitter-files\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T17:16:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T22:16:03","slug":"house-votes-for-new-curbs-on-government-censorship-in-response-to-twitter-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-votes-for-new-curbs-on-government-censorship-in-response-to-twitter-files\/","title":{"rendered":"House votes for new curbs on government censorship in response to Twitter Files"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fhouse-votes-for-new-curbs-on-government-censorship-in-response-to-twitter-files%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=1873266&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-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body RichTextBody\">\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">T<\/span>The House voted to add new restrictions to federal employees who help or press private entities to censor.  <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/free-speech\">Political speech<\/a> Republicans respond to internal Twitter documents revealing the close relationship federal agencies have with Big Tech. <\/p>\n<p>219-206 was the vote on the Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act  <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\">The lower chamber<\/a> . The legislation would extend the Hatch Act which prohibits federal employees engaging in political activity to include a ban on employees working with private platforms or companies to censor lawful expression. 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Twitter executives  <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/no-unlawful-collusion-twitter-execs-walk-hunter-biden-laptop-censorship\"><\/a> A February 2023 hearing was held to hear the decision to ban all links to the<i> <\/i>This story was created by Twitter staff, not government employees.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Compelling social media to carry the pro<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Learn More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/faith-freedom-self-reliance\/bill-government-censorship-penalization\">House votes to limit government censorship as a response to Twitter files<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TThe House voted to add new restrictions to federal employees who help or press private entities to censor. Political speech Republicans respond to internal Twitter documents revealing the close relationship federal agencies have with Big Tech. 219-206 was the vote on the Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act The lower chamber . 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