Adam Schiff, Democrats Threaten Facebook: ‘Censor or Else’

Democrats are terrified right now, because they are slowly losing their control of social media.

For years they’ve worked to censor conservatives and have been largely successful at it.

Those days may be coming to an end though.

Facebook and Twitter have both taken steps to restore freedom of speech on their platforms.

This hasn’t sat well with democrats.

A group of anti-free speech democrats led by Adam Schiff have sent a threatening letter to Facebook.

The democrats say that if Facebook lays off of its censorship system, they will take congressional action.

Censor or else: Democratic lawmakers warn Facebook not to ‘backslide’ on censorship https://t.co/lYFTjZHuo1

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 18, 2022

Here’s the latest on Schiff and the threatening democrats from Fox News:

With the restoration of free speech protections on Twitter, panic has grown on the left that its control over social media could come to an end. Now, some of the greatest advocates of censorship in Congress are specifically warning Facebook not to follow Twitter in restoring free speech to its platform.

In a chilling letter from Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., André Carson, D-Ind., Kathy Castor, D-Fla., and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Facebook was given a not-so-subtle threat that reducing its infamous censorship system will invite congressional action. The letter to Meta’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, is written on congressional stationery “as part of our ongoing oversight efforts.”

With House Republicans pledging to investigate social media censorship when they take control in January, these four Democratic members are trying to force Facebook to “recommit” to censoring opposing views and to make election censorship policies permanent. Otherwise, they suggest, they may be forced to exercise oversight into any move by Facebook to “alter or rollback certain misinformation policies.”

Democrats worried about free speech efforts at Twitter are warning Facebook that it must NOT backslide on censorship. Conservatives MUST Be censored or the social network will be at risk of sanctions. https://t.co/P0Rkm9AfzY

— @amuse (@amuse) December 18, 2022

https://twitter.com/LalaKent17/status/1603483855159189525?s=20&t=j7kPM9brXpVQUSeQfuRmuA

…Democrats fear Facebook and other social media companies might “backslide” into free speech as Facebook is faced with declining revenues and ordering layoffs. These members specifically want assurances that those layoffs will not reduce the staff censoring social media…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) December 18, 2022

Amid changes at Twitter, Democrat lawmakers issued a threat to Facebook: Censor more or face greater congressional oversight — and of course noted misinformation pusher Adam Schiff is one of the Dems leading the charge.https://t.co/yeTIA5UItd

— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) December 19, 2022

“If Facebook were to restore free-speech protections, the control over social media could evaporate.”https://t.co/AhupvA1gZf

— Stan Hubbard (@hubnm) December 19, 2022

Schiff is so panicked that he’s fighting a two front war against both Facebook AND Twitter.

Schiff also took aim at Elon Musk over at Twitter.

The New York Post has more:

Adam Schiff popped up on CNN’s “State of The Union” show Sunday morning to issue barely veiled threats to Elon Musk for trying to restore free speech on Twitter.

Ostensibly, the lame-duck chairman of the House Intelligence Committee joined Jake Tapper to crow about expected charges against Donald Trump on Monday from his January 6 star chamber.

But Schiff moved on to complain about the “big problem right now with social media companies and their failure to moderate content and the explosion of hate on Twitter, the banning of journalists on Twitter.”

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Then he suggested ominously that Twitter and social media companies may not continue to enjoy “immunity from responsibility and liability.”

In other words, keep policing free speech as an arm of the federal government or watch your business go up in smoke.

Tell me this man doesn’t look and sound panicked:

Here’s Democrat congressman Adam Schiff blatantly admitting his desire to blackmail social media companies to censor people. https://t.co/ls2M72LxhJ

— Accuracy In Media (@AccuracyInMedia) December 19, 2022

Schiff is a damn idiot. He is pissed the Left can't say shit unfettered across social media on Twitter, and soon to be anywhere once all this government shit is exposed. The Facebook and Google stuff will come out as well. This validates even more everything Snowden was saying https://t.co/8Hq5mcIHem

— Dirty (@cappershideaway) December 19, 2022

Luckily, nobody gives a ‘Schiff’ what he has to say, as evidence by the latest news on President Donald Trump’s very own Facebook account:

TRUMP FACEBOOK UPDATE: Despite the efforts of leading Democrats to pressure Meta into extending the ban keeping former President Donald Trump off Facebook, social media experts expect the tech company to reinstate Trump’s account. https://t.co/yQbHCX8jze pic.twitter.com/sSIC8BqCt4

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) December 19, 2022