On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Fox News Contributor and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley stated that the argument for government censorship on social media uses “the clarion call of every nation that has engaged in censorship” that people need to be protected from “harmful” views and ideas and pointed to the government pressing for restrictions on true statements.
Turley said, “[T]his is the clarion call of every nation that has engaged in censorship. They always say that they’re protecting citizens from harmful thoughts, harmful ideas, harmful viewpoints, that this is all for the good, because you shouldn’t hear these views. That’s always been the case. But what’s really distressing is when you read the Twitter Files and you read the evidence that we have seen come out recently, the government was even censoring what they call malinformation.