Brent Bozell: ‘What They Are Doing Now is Censoring Speech’

(CNSNews.com) – Brent Bozell, the founder and president of the Media Research Center (of which CNSNews.com is a part), participated in a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, where he talked about Big Tech censoring speech.

The panel, which was moderated by radio talk-show host Larry O’Connor, also included Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter and Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik.

“What you’ve done at Media Research Center in the last five years is shift much of your focus on Big Tech,” O’Connor said to Bozell at one point in the discussion.

“The Silicon Valley media bias, the use of Big Tech as a weapon to silence and censor us…it’s again a hundred times worse than what it was,” O’Connor said.

“Far more serious, far more serious, because what you have, you’ve gone beyond the bias,” said Bozell.

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“What they are doing now is censoring speech,” he said, “not just in the United States, worldwide. Worldwide we’re being told if you want to talk to two billion people on Facebook, you must talk this way. If you want to be on YouTube with a video, you must do it this way. If you can’t do it, we won’t allow you to communicate with your fellow man.

“In the history of man, we have never seen this,” said Bozell. “And this is what happens to you, and to you and to you. And the attacks that come on you. And you try to defend yourself and, boom, you are taken off.”

Here is a transcript of the part of the panel discussion where they discuss Big Tech censorship:

Larry O’Connor: “So, Brent, I mean, you started Media Research Center in 1987. In a weird way, it was sort of what Chaya does now with Libs of TikTok. All you did was—and you still do brilliantly at Media Research Center—is just make a record of everything that’s said in the media and then repeat it so everybody can see what they’re saying, so we can all see exactly what they are doing. But back than it was a quaint notion of media bias. I think we’ve come a long way from just media bias, haven’t we?”

Brent Bozell: “Yeah. Yeah. But first of all I want to say I identify as ‘he,’ ‘we.’ And if I ever transition, I want to be Chaya. So–.”

O’Connor: “Hold on a second. I’m sorry. I lost the bet on that one.”

Chaya Raichik: “What?”

O’Connor: “I thought something else was going on there with the transitioning, Brent. And I–”

Bozell: “No, no—.”

Raichik: “Can you please explain what’s going on there?”

O’Connor: “Well, I bet Kurt that he identifies as a they—I’ll tell you later.”

Bozell: “No, no. Here’s the reality: When we started in 1987, we went after this thing called liberal media bias. It doesn’t exist anymore. We’re not talking about a liberal media, you’re talking about a media that could care less about the news. They don’t report the news. They are weaponized. They’re Marxists. Many of them are Marxists. They are projecting the far, far left in America. Now, if you want to do that as an opinion writer, well, go ahead. But for them then to say that they are CNN, that they are CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, that’s an insult to America to do this. I do find that insulting. I also find them idiotic, because—look, look, look: There’s a leak. Something happens where a virus comes out and kills half of humanity, or whatever, and there’s a lab in Wuhan and Donald Trump says: Well, I think there was a leak in that lab—‘No, you don’t, and that’s racist!’

“Come on, folks. It was so obvious all along where it came from. So, now, all of them are saying: ‘Well, yes, that’s true. Yeah, I guess we should have reported on Hunter Biden. Yeah, I guess we should have covered a thousand and one Biden scandals. But, no, they don’t want to do it.”

O’Connor: “Well, and what you’ve done at Media Research Center in the last, just, five years, is shift much of your focus on Big Tech. I mean, now, thank God, Elon Musk bought Twitter because he was able to expose to the world what we all saw in plain sight what was going on there. The Silicon Valley media bias, the use of Big Tech as a weapon to silence and censor us—and, yes, we are going to get to you in a minute—it’s again a hundred times worse than what it was.”

Bozell: “Far more serious, far more serious, because what you have, you’ve gone beyond the bias. What they are doing now is censoring speech, not just in the United States, worldwide. Worldwide we’re being told if you want to talk to two billion people on Facebook, you must talk this way. If you want to be on YouTube with a video, you must do it this way. If you can’t do it, we won’t allow you to communicate with your fellow man. In the history of man, we have never seen this. And this is what happens to you, and to you and to you. And the attacks that come on you. And you try to defend yourself and, boom, you are taken off.”

O’Connor: “And one of the great things you are doing at Media Research Center right now in terms of focusing on what’s going on in Big Tech is they constantly repeat a very important thing that you all need to hear, digest and make this part of your DNA when you talk about censorship: When Donald Trump is removed from Twitter, yeah, it’s terrible. It’s awful for him. But it’s really an attack on you because his right to free speech means you have the right to hear what he has to say. And they are getting in the way of you’re right to hear not just his right to speak. And that is a terrifying notion in a constitutional republic–long may she wave.”