Social media platform GETTR’s CEO Jason Miller issued a response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union calling for more attention to censorship across online platforms.
“Tonight we felt the need to go and offer a response to Biden’s State of the Union to make sure that the issues of free speech, political discrimination, and the rise of a politicized big tech were not ignored even if Joe Biden ignored them from the U.S. Capitol,” Miller said Wednesday.
“What we saw in 2020 and 2021 were the worst years of political discrimination and political censorship in U.S. history,” Miller said.
The CEO pointed to Twitter‘s indefinite ban of former President Donald Trump and Facebook‘s similar two-year ban as examples.
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“As soon as free speech starts to erode, we see our other freedoms begin to erode,” Miller said.
“We see what’s happening in Canada with the seizing of bank accounts as it pertains to the truck convoy. We see what’s happening in Australia as it pertains to people being locked in their homes for month after month after month, the freedom of movement being taken away. We see what happens in Russia, with free elections being taken away.”
“The fact that a Democratic President of the United States is now willing to stand there at the State of the Union and call out Big Tech… I think it shows that Facebook and now Meta are now really in the crosshairs.”#GETTR CEO @JasonMillerinDC discusses Biden’s SOTU address. pic.twitter.com/fVaceg0Wqx
— GETTR (@GETTRofficial) March 2, 2022
Miller went on to say he noticed many a “missed opportunity” for the president to mention free speech, censorship, and Section 230, the law that eliminates civil and state liability for digital hosts when it comes to third-party posts.
However, he did applaud Biden for inviting Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, calling the move “smart and telling.”
“I still believe in the power of social media to be that tool to bring freedom and democracy to places where we don’t have it and to make sure we preserve those liberties at home,” Miller said.
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GETTR began in July 2021 and currently hosts 5 million users whom Miller likes to call “patriots.”
