Republican presidential nominee Ron DeSantis said Thursday that he would have “no tolerance” for the FBI and Homeland Security to be “colluding” with social media companies if he were elected president.

U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on Tuesday issued an injunction barring Biden administration officials from multiple agencies, including the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services, from contacting and pressuring social media companies. issued an order. “Remove, remove, suppress, or reduce content that contains protected free speech.” “I think it was a massive abuse of power,” DeSantis told Newsmax host Chris Salcedo. (Related article: ‘Coronavirus was a Trojan horse’: Missouri reacts to judge’s ruling against Biden administration’s censorship efforts)

“As president, we’re going to clean up all this stuff,” DeSantis said. We’re going to have the door shoved at us, and we have no tolerance for that.

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Doughty cited 25 instances in which social media companies censored or were pressured to censor by the Biden administration. according to Twitter thread posted by Justin Hart, author of Inference of coronavirus Substack newsletter.

Tucker Carlson, co-founder of The Daily Caller and the Daily Caller News Foundation, according to an April 14, 2021 email from then-White House Digital Strategy Director Rob Flaherty to an unidentified person. was also subject to censorship by the Biden administration. Facebook employees have asked the company to censor a video about Mr. Carlson’s vaccine released in January of the same year.

“We believe that it is fundamental that people have a right to speak and these companies are tackling a lot of censorship, but that in itself is a problem because they are monopolies and , because then they have liability protection under the idea of ​​being an open “market,” DeSantis said. “But as we see them, they apply unfavorable terms of service to conservative voices, so even technology censorship itself is a major issue that we address as president. We want to make sure everyone has the ability to have a say.”

“But if the federal government colludes to force censorship on big tech companies, that’s a total violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” DeSantis continued. “This judge was completely correct in his decision. You cannot indirectly do something that is directly prohibited by the First Amendment. Therefore, this is a grave abuse of power.”

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will appeal Doughty’s ruling.

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