The conservatives who cried censorship

Published August 8, 2019 5:33pm ET



For months, mainstream conservatives and far-right personalities have complained about an unfair, illegal bias in Big Tech. President Trump has openly sympathized with their concerns, even raising some of his own. But now he wants to do something about it.

According to three White House sources, Trump is considering an executive order that would address alleged anti-conservative bias. The order is only at its draft stage and none of the sources would describe its contents, Politico reported. But we don’t need to know what’s in it to understand that using the executive branch to force anti-conservative companies into submission is not conservative at all.

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