Thu Apr 7, 2022 – 10:39 am EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Indiana Republican congressman Jim Banks sent a letter that asked Twitter’s newest board member to ensure free speech is protected on the platform.
“Now that you are Twitter’s single largest shareholder, I urge you to advocate for revising Twitter’s content policy to allow all speech that is both lawful and factually accurate,” Rep. Banks wrote to Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday in a letter first obtained by The Daily Caller. The entrepreneur recently took a 9.2 percent stake in the Big Tech company, becoming its largest shareholder.
“This would be a basic but important step towards restoring free expression to a platform that you described as the ‘de facto public town square,’” Banks wrote.
The conservative congressman mentioned his own experience with Twitter censorship – the Big Tech platform locked his account in October 2021 for referring accurately to Biden administration official Richard “Rachel” Levine as a man. It’s also locked the accounts of LifeSiteNews, The Babylon Bee, Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk, and Tucker Carlson for making similar references to the gender-confused Biden official.
“While this change is simple, it would significantly alter
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