Free Speech Alliance Members Request Meeting with Elon Musk to Discuss Free Speech on Twitter

January 9th, 2023 1:02 PM

Dozens of members of the Free Speech Alliance sent a letter to Twitter owner Elon Musk requesting for him to meet with conservative leaders to discuss methods to promote free speech on the Big Tech platform following years of massive censorship. The Media Research Center's CensorTrack database has currently logged over 4,800 cases of censorship across a litany of Big Tech platforms, and cases from Twitter make up over 55 percent of that number. You can read the entire letter below. 

Dear Mr. Musk,

We are so grateful for everything you are doing to defend and preserve free speech.

The great majority of Americans have long suspected that the social media platforms have been censoring speech, shadowbanning accounts and throttling posts. Despite the repeated denials by Twitter, Facebook and Google, we knew better. The proof was always on full display every time a person logged on to a social media account.

Twitter’s censorship, executed at the behest of various government entities, was illegal. We have repeatedly called out this illegal activity and demanded a full accounting of it. The day of reckoning is at hand. 

The 100 members of the Free Speech Alliance applaud you for taking swift action to identify and expose your company’s previous hateful actions against people they disagreed with. Twitter’s recent disclosures have focused on well-known conservative figures, but Twitter’s greater sin was its actions directed at countless individual Americans across the country. Most of these victims work hard every day to provide for themselves and their families, and their identities are not well-known. We have their stories and we have the evidence. 

There are thousands of documented cases of Twitter silencing Americans in CensorTrack.org, a database created and maintained by the Media Research Center, with the support of members of the Free Speech Alliance, to fight for everyday Americans whose free speech rights are under constant assault by Big Tech. 

In fact, 55 percent of the total number of documented cases in CensorTrack (2,604 out of 4,748 cases) occurred at the hands of Twitter employees. While abuses at Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and other platforms are extremely serious and must be rectified, Twitter’s direct efforts to muzzle dissenting voices exceeded all others combined. 

Twitter must hear from these Americans, too. 

We invite you to meet with the Free Speech Alliance so the new Twitter can better investigate and expose the extent of its harmful actions perpetrated against millions of people and make sure it never happens again. Justice cannot be achieved until every wrong is righted. The full scope of Twitter’s censorship must be made public. Every user who was shadowbanned or had their content limited in some manner must be made aware of how and when that censorship took place.  

We recognize the efforts at transparency since you purchased the platform, but the only way to restore trust in Twitter is through radical transparency and user empowerment, which starts with exposing all past acts of censorship to the light of day. We look forward to working with you on this vital project.

Sincerely,
 

L. Brent Bozell III

Founder and President

Media Research Center

 

Saul Anuzis

President

American Association of Senior Citizens

 

Rachel Bovard

Conservative Partnership Institute

 

Ryan Bomberger

Co-founder & Chief Creative Officer

The Radiance Foundation

 

Floyd Brown

Founder

Western Journal

 

Lou Cordia

Cordia & Associates

 

Ed Corrigan

Conservative Partnership Institute

 

Hon. Kenneth "Ken" Cuccinelli, II

Former Acting Deputy Secretary, DHS

Former Attorney General of Virginia

 

Marjorie Dannenfelser

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America

 

Steven Ertelt

Editor

LifeNews.com

 

Kevin D. Freeman

Founder, NSIC Institute

 

Mark J. Fitzgibbons

President of Corporate Affairs

American Target Advertising Inc

 

Josh Hammer

Internet Accountability Project 

 

Joseph M. Humire

Executive Director

Center for a Secure Free Society

 

Randy Long

Long Family Office

 

James Martin

Founder/Chairman

60 Plus Association

 

Jenny Beth Martin

Honorary Chairman

Tea Party Patriots Action

 

Christie-Lee McNally

Raven Strategies

President

 

Gene Mills

President

Louisiana Family Forum Office

 

Stephen Moore 

Committee to Unleash Prosperity

 

Michael Morris

Director

MRC Free Speech America

 

Tony Perkins

President

Family Research Council

 

Dace Potas

President

Lone Conservative

 

Austin Ruse

President

Center for Family & Human Rights

 

Anne Schlafly Cori

Eagle Forum

 

Terry Schilling

President

American Principles Project

 

Dan Schneider

Vice President

Media Research Center

 

Jon Schweppe

Director of Policy

American Principles Project

 

Eunie Smith

President Emeritus

Eagle Forum

 

Grace-Marie Turner

Galen Institute

 

Lieutenant Colonel Allen B. West (U.S. Army, Retired) 

Member, 112th U.S. Congress 

Former Chairman, Republican Party of Texas  

 

Ryan P. Williams

President, Claremont Institute

Publisher, Claremont Review of Books; The American Mind

 

Kris Ullman

President

Eagle Forum

 

Deborah Weiss

Attorney and Free Speech Advocate