(11-10-2023, 11:26 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: I doubt he was aware of that policy, which is my point. I posted the EO as a clear outward expression of HIS goals. Additionally, it was a frequent topic of public conversation. Trump said, "We’re asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to order an immediate halt to social media companies' illegal, shameful censorship of the American people." He also sued several of these companies. As soon as he got out of office, he created his own social media company promising not to restrict political points of view. There is more than enough evidence to believe that Trump outwardly expressed a desire that social media companies should not be regulating American speech.

I believe you can take it at face value, but I'm sure you will object, because you know his intent. It's always "facts" until those aren't useful. 

I believe he thought this problem was exclusively coming from social media bias and moved to address it. I think if he KNEW the extent of collusion between government agencies, this would be done differently. For example, the information available does not indicate that President Trump was aware of the coordination between the FBI, DHS, and social media companies regarding censorship. The House Judiciary Committee's report reveals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), particularly through its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), collaborated with the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to flag online speech by Trump and other Republicans for action by social media companies. This involved a "switchboard" process where reports of misinformation from state and local election officials were shared with social media platforms. However, there is no evidence in the report that Trump was informed about these activities.

In one instance, a local official flagged a tweet from Trump to CIS’ "misinformation" tipline, and this information was then forwarded to the EIP and CISA, and subsequently to Twitter, without informing the White House. “To be clear, this evidence shows an unelected executive branch official flagging a statement from the elected leader of the executive branch for removal from one of the world’s largest and most active public forums. CISA has not provided the Committee any evidence that it contacted the White House prior to making the referral to opine on the veracity of the claim in the tweet,” the report states. Do you really believe Trump would allow himself to be censored this way if he knew? Get out of here, man. 

The absence of direct communication to the White House, as indicated in the report, suggests that there might not have been explicit knowledge on the part of President Trump about these specific actions of censorship. I have now provided all of the information, and you have provided none.