Conservative radio and TV host Dan Bongino says he’s ready to “go to war” with anyone who tries to restrict free speech, calling it a “fight” worth pursuing.
“If you can’t speak, you don’t have a constitutional republic. Throw it out the window,” Bongino said Saturday on Fox & Friends.
Referencing the recent release of the “Twitter files,” when CEO Elon Musk directed users to an information dump about the company’s behind-the-scenes musings on the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop, Bongino welcomed the decision.
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“The government cannot deputize private actors to do what the government is forbidden from doing constitutionally,” Bongino said.
“On free speech, this most sacred of rights, you can’t say to Twitter, ‘Listen, you need to do this on our behalf and communicate with government officials because we can’t do it ourselves’ … [or] do kind of an end around,” he said. Bongino also agreed with the panel of hosts that the story doesn’t stop with Twitter.
“I think it’s broader than people understand,” the radio and TV host said when prompted on how wide the deputizing of Big Tech against the First Amendment has been.
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Bongino decried how fact-checkers, which he said are more like “opinion checkers,” can lead a page to become demonetized or terminated. He noted that it is also often targeted more toward conservative voices.
“What they do is if they don’t like an opinion, they’ll call something missing context or whatever. … It then reduces the reach of your page and shuts you down,” Bongino said.
“They never do that to liberals. … This war on free speech is real, guys. This is not a joke,” he said.
