You’re probably old enough to remember when conservatives were told our claims of being “censored” were all in our heads. It wasn’t happening. Free speech was alive and well, and the only time people were shut down was supposedly to preserve precious democracy.

We watched friends and family get banned, throttled, demonetized, blacklisted, buried in search results, and thrown out of the public square. And interestingly enough, the people getting targeted were conservative voices, independent outlets, doctors who didn’t go along with the COVID flow, parents speaking out against leftwing hooey in schools, political dissidents, and ordinary citizens who were simply fed up with everything.

Those very normal Americans suddenly found themselves branded as “disinformation” spreaders or accused of spreading “hate speech.” But the government itself? Oh no. They were the keepers of truth and honesty. Everything they said was gospel, and if you disagreed, you were a threat to democracy.

The bill is called H.R. 8595.

The Cliff Notes version is this: if an NGO, contractor, nonprofit, or outside group gets taxpayer money through this bill, they can’t use that money to help censor lawful American speech online.

That means the government can’t just shovel piles of money to outside groups, let them pressure social media companies, advertisers, or foreign regulators, and then pretend it had nothing to do with the censorship that choked innocent Americans.

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