Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R)
Attorneys’ General offices in both Louisiana and Alabama are now offering a complaint form for people who feel they are being censored on social media. Louisiana AG Jeff Landry said Big Tech social media companies have created a virtual public square that should have 1st Amendment protections.
“We know that Big Tech is controlling more and more of our lives, they are intruding into that,” said Landry. “We want to know if Big Tech is censoring the things that you are putting up in hopes of seeing the breadth and gravity of this kind of censorship.”
The form includes categories for de-platforming, suppression of posts, the altering or deleting of content, suspensions or banning of accounts, the attachment of editorial messages, and the obscuring of your posts.
Landry said this censorship deprives Americans of access to important information. He cited the censorship of posts about the Wuhan lab’s alleged involvement with the virus.
“American citizens were locked out of that particular debate, not allowed to discuss those issues on the only medium where they have the opportunity to connect and dialog with other citizens,” said Landry.
There is still widespread agreement amongst health experts that the virus was not man-made, but there have been recent reports suggesting it may have escaped contained from a coronavirus lab in Wuhan, China.
Landry asked that impacted residents leave as detailed a response as possible on the submission form, including pictures if available. Once enough data is compiled he may initiate litigation.
“But what we would really love is for Big Tech to stop.”
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