{"id":596662,"date":"2021-07-19T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=596662"},"modified":"2021-07-19T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T14:20:23","slug":"the-road-to-serfdom-rep-donalds-slams-biden-administration-for-pressuring-social-media-to-censor-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-road-to-serfdom-rep-donalds-slams-biden-administration-for-pressuring-social-media-to-censor-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Road To Serfdom\u2019: Rep. Donalds Slams Biden Administration For Pressuring Social Media \u2018To Censor Speech\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fthe-road-to-serfdom-rep-donalds-slams-biden-administration-for-pressuring-social-media-to-censor-speech%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=596662&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>Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds said Monday that the Biden administration has overstepped its authority in pressuring social media companies to censor COVID-19 vaccine posts and is taking America on \u201cthe road to serfdom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is actually the road to serfdom. When you allow a government entity like the White House \u2026 to begin to take on more and more power and step outside of what they are authorized to do, then they have these bright ideas that they\u2019re the ones that get to shape reality for everybody else,\u201d Donalds told \u201cFox &amp; Friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a real problem for them because they could have just stopped and say we recommend people to get vaccinated, please look at the vaccine,\u201d the congressman continued, noting that the Biden administration simply needed to inform people that the vaccine was available in sufficient quantities. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/26\/donald-trump-tom-cotton-wuhan-institute-of-virology\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Lunatic Conspiracy Theories\u2019: Here\u2019s How Liberal Fact Checkers Treated People Who Supported Lab Leak)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut they\u2019ve gone way past that. They\u2019re now putting pressure on social media companies to censor speech in our country. That is not the job of the president of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/covid-19-jen-psaki-white-house-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said Thursday<\/a> that the White House is not only working with Facebook to flag disinformation on vaccines \u2014 it\u2019s also asking Facebook to share data on the reach and engagement of posts deemed disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/28\/covid-19-coronavirus-wuhan-lab-leak-media-censorship-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">actively suppressed<\/a> any posts that claimed the COVID-19 virus had its origins at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic National Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/12\/joe-biden-dnc-vaccine-misinformation-covid-19-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has called on phone companies<\/a> to monitor text messages that carry any \u201cmisinformation\u201d about the COVID-19 vaccine. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/01\/white-house-surge-response-teams-covid-19-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: White House Announces \u2018Surge Response\u2019 Teams To Combat COVID-19 Delta Variant)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7237562\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7237562\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7237562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1328570507-scaled-e1626352971287.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Joe Biden walks across the South Lawn as he returns to the White House on July 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1328570507-scaled-e1626352971287.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1328570507-scaled-e1626352971287-279x120.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1328570507-scaled-e1626352971287-620x266-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1328570507-scaled-e1626352971287-768x330-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1328570507-scaled-e1626352971287-1536x660-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1328570507-scaled-e1626352971287-2048x880-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7237562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Joe Biden walks across the South Lawn as he returns to the White House on July 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But Donalds said these actions are government overreach. \u201cNews flash: stop being a pest, stop pressuring everybody. Stop throwing it in people\u2019s faces,\u201d he said, suggesting that this kind of activity merely promotes \u201crevolt\u201d because people don\u2019t like to be told what to do by the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStep back and let adults manage their own lives. This is a free country. People are going to do what they want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donald noted that he contracted the coronavirus and has made the decision not to receive the vaccine.&nbsp; \u201cIt has nothing to do with what Joe Biden wants: that is my own decision as a free-thinking human being \u2026 Leave us alone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds said Monday that the Biden administration has overstepped its authority in pressuring social media companies to censor COVID-19 vaccine posts and is taking America on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596662","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\/596662","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=596662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596662\/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=596662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}