A Democrat lawyer argued on behalf of government-funded censorship of speech it disagrees with at a Senate subcommittee Tuesday, defending former President Joe Biden’s “censorship industrial complex” and drawing a rebuke from Republicans and experts.

“Protecting Americans’ freedom of speech is critical,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution that held the “Censorship Industrial Complex” hearing, wrote on X.

“The Biden Administration created a vast censorship enterprise to silence disfavored speech online. NGOs help to fuel that censorship.”

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