'Genuine threat to democracy': RFK Jr accuses President Joe Biden of censoring political opponents online on 'Fox & Friends'
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr joined the hosts of 'Fox & Friends' to double down on his criticism of President Joe Biden and called him a bigger threat to democracy than Donald Trump on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.
According to him, the Biden administration's alleged efforts to censor political speech on the internet have led to the formulation of his opinion, which he had previously mentioned in an interview with CNN.
RFK Jr accuses Joe Biden of censoring his political opponents
"President Biden has done something that no other president in history has done, which is to order media, particularly social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Google to censor his political opponents," RFK Jr told 'Fox & Friends'.
"If you have a president who can censor his political opponents, he is the license for any kind of atrocity, that is a genuine threat to our democracy," he continued.
"What Trump said about… questioning the election and… to the extent that he engaged… in an effort to overthrow that, of course, that's a threat to democracy," he said, before adding, "But it is not the worst threat undermining the First Amendment of our Constitution and then weaponizing the federal agencies, to get his opponents off the ballot."
Allegations against the Biden administration
According to Fox News, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case in March which was based on a lawsuit filed by the attorney generals of Missouri and Louisiana.
They accused senior government officials of colluding with major social media companies to counter misinformation, with the collaboration leading to the censorship of speech on various topics, including Hunter Biden's laptop, the origins of COVID-19, and the effectiveness of face masks.
"All of this, the use of the courts, the use of prosecutors, the use of all these federal agencies to change our political landscape, it just is wrong, and we should be debating about it," stated Kennedy Jr.
"He (Biden) forced… he told the social media companies… we're going to bring an antitrust case against you, and we're going to withdraw your Section 230 immunity, which is existential for those companies, if you don't give us a portal to censor," he said.
"And then who did he give access to that portal? The CIA, the FBI, CISA, the IRS, NIH, so you had all these federal agencies that were now able to silence people who were questioning their policies, and that is really an arrogant, an anti-democratic," he added.
