{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://clyde.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=587", "Rep. Clyde Introduces Legislation to Eliminate Government-by-Proxy Censorship", "2022-12-07", "2022", "2022-12", "Republican", "House", "GA", "Andrew S. Clyde", "C001116", "clyde.house.gov", "clyde", "https://clyde.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.\u2014 Today, Congressman Andrew Clyde (GA-09) led 10 of his colleagues in introducing the Free Speech Defense Act to eliminate government-by-proxy censorship.\n\nIn light of the latest developments with the Twitter Files, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s admission that warnings from the FBI led the company to suppress posts related to the Hunter Biden laptop story, and recent reporting indicating that the Biden Administration is utilizing the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to police Americans\u2019 online speech, Rep. Clyde is championing legislation to prohibit the federal government from using Big Tech to circumvent Americans\u2019 First Amendment rights.\n\n\u201cThe very purpose of our First Amendment is to safeguard the People from the government prohibiting free speech \u2014 setting us apart from brutal regimes such as Russia and China,\u201dsaid Clyde. \u201cBy using social media companies like Facebook and Twitter as private sector proxies to carry out its bidding, the federal government is brazenly infringing on Americans\u2019 civil liberties and dangerously violating our Constitution. My legislation will bring an end to the government-by-proxy censorship that is tarnishing the bedrock of our nation and unjustly depriving Americans of their First Amendment freedoms.\u201d\n\nRead the Daily Caller\u2019s exclusive on the Free Speech Defense Act HERE.\n\nFull text of the Free Speech Defense Act can be found HERE.\n\nOriginal cosponsors include Representatives Brian Babin (TX-36), Andy Biggs (AZ-05), Madison Cawthorn (NC-11), James Comer (KY-01), Matt Gaetz (FL-01), Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), Thomas Massie (KY-04), Mary Miller (IL-15), Barry Moore (AL-02), and Randy Weber (TX-14).\n\nBackground:\n\nRep. Clyde\u2019s Free Speech Defense Act:\n\nProhibits the federal government from directing, encouraging, or coercing social media companies to deplatform users, label content as misleading, trusted, true, or untrue, or share users\u2019 data without a warrant\n\nDismantles the Disinformation Governance Board and bans federal funding for any future iterations of such a panel\n\nStrengthens the Antideficiency Act by prohibiting employees of the federal government from soliciting or accepting no-cost services, such as free advertising\n\nAllows enforcement against the government in federal court if Americans can show that they were censored, deplatformed, or labeled, as these actions would violate the Free Speech Defense Act\n\nRequires an annual report to Congress by the U.S. Attorney General, in consultation with the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, on the federal government\u2019s compliance with the provisions within the legislation", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://clyde.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=587"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 4.708447027951479, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}