U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) issued the following statement in response to the February 14, 2022 letter from Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Edward Markey (D-MA) to YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, demanding that it remove lawful content from its platform:
Government officials using their position and authority to demand that private businesses do what they constitutionally cannot is neither American nor moral. Unfortunately, this is increasingly the reality in today’s United States of America. The self-manufacturing of arms and related speech is not only permissible under federal law, it is steeped in American tradition and protected by the Constitution. But as we’ve seen time and time again, when the law isn’t on their side, tyrants will strongarm the private sector into doing their authoritarian bidding for them.
Shocking precisely no one, some of the most notorious tyrants in Congress—Senators Blumenthal, Menendez, Murphy, Booker, and Markey—have again shown that there is nothing beneath them in their quixotic quest to red-line the Constitution and limit the rights of the People. Their blatantly coercive letter to YouTube demanding the removal of lawful content and the de-platforming of speakers must be seen for what it is: A shameful abuse of authority, and proof-positive that the Second Amendment is at least as necessary today as it was when the natural right to keep and bear arms was enshrined in the Bill of Rights.
Rather than bow to censorious, authoritarian politicians who hate the Second Amendment and the people who exercise those rights, YouTube should stand strong and live up to its mission to, among other things, “give everyone a voice.” We agree with YouTube that “people should be able to speak freely,” that “everyone should have easy, open access to information,” and that “everyone should have a chance to be discovered, build a business and succeed on their own terms, and that people—not gatekeepers—decide what’s popular.” But their actions must match their words.
FPC calls on YouTube to reject these senators’ demands and protect speech, not placate authoritarian politicians.
About Firearms Policy Coalition
Firearms Policy Coalition (firearmspolicy.org) is a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization. FPC’s mission is to protect and defend constitutional rights—especially the right to keep and bear arms—advance individual liberty, and restore freedom through litigation and legal action, legislative and regulatory action, education, outreach, grassroots activism, other programs. FPC Law is the nation’s largest public interest legal team focused on the Second Amendment and adjacent fundamental rights including freedom of speech and due process, conducting litigation, research, scholarly publications, and amicus briefing, among other efforts.
Youtube is social media aka socialist in every way.
They need us more than we need them. Step back and think about it, these was life before social media and even before the internet,
All of the corporate social media giants as well as the Mainstream legacy media are social engineering Americans around the clock. If we participate, we are kept off balance and unable to focus on the threats to the republic. The corporations of the world want a larger pool of people to exploit and destroying borders as well as leveling standards of living between the 1st and 3rd world are on the menu. Free ownership of firearms and the means to defend the Republic are in the crosshairs.
Well said FPC
I would rather forget the YouTubes FB and Twits. Conservative values are respected on platforms like GETTR, PARLER, TRUTH, RUMBLE, etc.,,,Lets put our money and support there rather than “Tilting at Windmills”
For YouTube and other Big Tech to protect free speech, they would need to be on the side of free speech. They aren’t. It irks me every time that I read a conservative blog or visit a conservative site and see that they want me to “like” them on Facebook, or to follow them in places like that. Time to stop booking cruises on the Titanic, folks. We need another set of ships to sail on. Meanwhile, of course, if anyone in Big Tech honestly wants to repent of their sins, we can be forgiving at such a time, maybe.
waiting for someone, to home invade these pieces of trash. I would not lift a finger to save a demoncrat