Key ideas from Eric Schmitt

• "This was the greatest affront to the First Amendment we've ever seen in the history of our country" - Eric Schmitt on the COVID-era censorship enterprise
• Biden v. Missouri lawsuit uncovered tens of thousands of documents showing government-big tech collusion to censor American speech through special portals and coordinated flagging systems
• FBI had Hunter Biden's laptop in November 2019, knew it was authentic, yet spent months priming social networks to view any Hunter Biden revelations as Russian disinformation
• Elvis Chan, FBI agent in Northern California, ran weekly meetings with 80 FBI agents submitting takedown requests to Twitter and other social networks
• Gallup survey shows Ukrainian support for war collapsed from 60-70% a year ago to just 24%, with majority now wanting resolution even with concessions
• Hamilton 68 dashboard claiming to track 600 Russian disinformation accounts was exposed as complete fraud - accounts were just random mix of conservatives and Canadians
• "If you're going to start making these editorial decisions, whether it's somebody individually flagging it or you have an algorithm that is essentially excluding 50% of the points of view, you should not get the multi-billion dollar subsidy" - Schmitt on Section 230