美國東部時間 2021 年 7 月 8 日下午 12:31，特朗普特朗普正式起訟谷歌、Facebook、Twitter 三巨頭。

這三起訴訟專門針對谷歌首席執(zhí)行官桑達爾皮查伊、Facebook 首席執(zhí)行官馬克扎克伯格和推特首席執(zhí)行官杰克多爾西。

2020年，2021年皆為多事之秋，不僅特朗普起訴美國科技三巨頭，拜登也在強化對科技公司監(jiān)管。

不僅在美國，歐洲，中國也遇到類似場景。前不久螞蟻金服上市被叫停，滴滴25款A(yù)PP被下架。

7月8日特朗普在《華爾街日報》發(fā)表評論文章，解釋自己起訴美國科技巨頭的原因。特朗普認為這些公司聯(lián)合政府對民眾言論自由進行審查的行為，是美國民主最大的威脅。下面是特朗普發(fā)表文章的譯文：

今天我們民主面臨的最嚴重威脅之一是一群強大的大型科技公司，它們與政府合作審查美國人民的言論自由。這不僅是錯誤的——而且是違憲的。為了我自己和每個美國人恢復(fù)言論自由，我起訴大型科技公司阻止它。

社交媒體已成為言論自由的核心，就像前幾代人的市政廳、報紙和電視網(wǎng)絡(luò)一樣。互聯(lián)網(wǎng)是新的公共廣場。然而，近年來，大型科技平臺在審查和歧視社交媒體上的思想、信息和人員方面變得越來越無恥和無恥——禁止用戶、去平臺化組織，并積極阻止我們的民主所依賴的信息自由流動。

科技巨頭不再只是簡單地消除特定的暴力威脅。他們正在操縱和控制政治辯論本身?？紤]在過去一年中被審查的內(nèi)容。大型科技公司禁止用戶在他們的平臺上發(fā)布證據(jù)表明冠狀病毒來自中國實驗室，甚至企業(yè)媒體現(xiàn)在也承認這可能是真的。在大流行期間，大型科技公司禁止醫(yī)生討論羥氯喹等潛在治療方法，研究表明，羥氯喹確實可以緩解 Covid-19 的癥狀。在總統(tǒng)大選前幾周，這些平臺禁止《紐約郵報》——美國最古老的報紙——發(fā)表批評喬·拜登的故事?的家庭，一個故事拜登競選甚至沒有爭議。

也許最令人震驚的是，在選舉后的幾周內(nèi)，大型科技公司屏蔽了現(xiàn)任總統(tǒng)的社交媒體賬戶。如果他們可以對我這樣做，他們也可以對你這樣做——相信我，他們是。

密歇根州教師詹妮弗·霍頓 (Jennifer Horton)?因分享一篇質(zhì)疑幼兒強制戴口罩是否健康的文章而被Facebook禁止使用?。后來，當她的兄弟失蹤時，她無法使用 Facebook 發(fā)布消息?？屏_拉多醫(yī)生凱利勝利在為她的教堂制作了一段視頻，解釋如何安全地舉行服務(wù)后，被 YouTube 取消了平臺。佛羅里達州的 Kiyan Michael 和她的丈夫 Bobby 在兩次被驅(qū)逐的非法外國人造成的致命碰撞中失去了他們 21 歲的兒子。在他們發(fā)布邊境安全和移民執(zhí)法信息后，F(xiàn)acebook 對其進行了審查。

與此同時，中國宣傳人員和伊朗獨裁者在這些平臺上散布威脅和仇恨謊言而逍遙法外。

這種對言論自由的公然攻擊正在對我們的國家造成可怕的損害。這就是為什么我與美國優(yōu)先政策研究所一起提起集體訴訟，以迫使大型科技公司停止審查美國人民。訴訟要求損害賠償以阻止將來發(fā)生此類行為，并要求恢復(fù)我的帳戶。

我們的訴訟稱，大型科技公司正被用來實施非法和違憲的政府審查。1996 年，國會試圖通過將責(zé)任保護擴展到互聯(lián)網(wǎng)平臺來促進互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的發(fā)展，認識到它們正是平臺，而不是出版商。與發(fā)布商不同，F(xiàn)acebook 和Twitter等公司?不對發(fā)布到其網(wǎng)站的內(nèi)容承擔(dān)法律責(zé)任。沒有這種豁免權(quán)，社交媒體公司就不可能存在。

國會中的民主黨人正在利用這種影響力迫使平臺審查其政治對手。近年來，我們都看到國會在他們的委員會面前拖拽大型科技公司的 CEO，并要求他們審查“虛假”故事和“虛假信息”——這些標簽是由一群忠于民主黨的黨派事實核查人員確定的。正如其他原告霍頓女士、勝利博士和邁克爾家族的案例所表明的那樣，實際上這相當于壓制當權(quán)者不喜歡的言論。

此外，Big Tech 和政府機構(gòu)正在積極協(xié)調(diào)，根據(jù)疾病控制和預(yù)防中心等機構(gòu)的指導(dǎo)從平臺上刪除內(nèi)容。大型科技公司和傳統(tǒng)媒體實體組成了“可信新聞倡議”，該倡議實質(zhì)上是根據(jù) CDC 的指示，了解他們需要哪些信息來“作戰(zhàn)”。科技公司正在聽從政府的命令，勾結(jié)審查未經(jīng)批準的想法。

這種強制和協(xié)調(diào)是違憲的。最高法院認為，國會不能利用私人行為者來實現(xiàn)憲法禁止它自己做的事情。實際上，Big Tech 已被非法代理為美國政府的審查機構(gòu)。無論您的政治主張如何，這都應(yīng)該讓您感到震驚。這是不可接受的、非法的和非美國的。

通過這些訴訟，我打算恢復(fù)所有美國人——民主黨人、共和黨人和獨立人士的言論自由。我永遠不會停止為捍衛(wèi)美國人民的憲法權(quán)利和神圣自由而戰(zhàn)。

特朗普先生是美國第 45 任總統(tǒng)。

英語原文

One of the gravest threats to our democracy today is a powerful group of Big Tech corporations that have teamed up with government to censor the free speech of the American people. This is not only wrong—it is unconstitutional. To restore free speech for myself and for every American, I am suing Big Tech to stop it.

Social media has become as central to free speech as town meeting halls, newspapers and television networks were in prior generations. The internet is the new public square. In recent years, however, Big Tech platforms have become increasingly brazen and shameless in censoring and discriminating against ideas, information and people on social media—banning users, deplatforming organizations, and aggressively blocking the free flow of information on which our democracy depends.

No longer are Big Tech giants simply removing specific threats of violence. They are manipulating and controlling the political debate itself. Consider content that was censored in the past year. Big Tech companies banned users from their platforms for publishing evidence that showed the coronavirus emerged from a Chinese lab, which even the corporate media now admits may be true. In the middle of a pandemic, Big Tech censored physicians from discussing potential treatments such as hydroxychloroquine, which studies have now shown does work to relieve symptoms of Covid-19. In the weeks before a presidential election, the platforms banned the New York Post—America’s oldest newspaper—for publishing a story critical of?Joe Biden’s family, a story the Biden campaign did not even dispute.

Perhaps most egregious, in the weeks after the election, Big Tech blocked the social-media accounts of the sitting president. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you—and believe me, they are.

Jennifer Horton, a Michigan schoolteacher, was banned from?Facebook?for sharing an article questioning whether mandatory masks for young children are healthy. Later, when her brother went missing, she was unable to use Facebook to get the word out. Colorado physician Kelly Victory was deplatformed by YouTube after she made a video for her church explaining how to hold services safely. Kiyan Michael of Florida and her husband, Bobby, lost their 21-year-old son in a fatal collision caused by a twice-

deported illegal alien. Facebook censored them after they posted on border security and immigration enforcement.

Meanwhile, Chinese propagandists and the Iranian dictator spew threats and hateful lies on these platforms with impunity.

This flagrant attack on free speech is doing terrible damage to our country. That is why in conjunction with the America First Policy Institute, I filed class-action lawsuits to force Big Tech to stop censoring the American people. The suits seek damages to deter such behavior in the future and injunctions restoring my accounts.

Our lawsuits argue that Big Tech companies are being used to impose illegal and unconstitutional government censorship. In 1996 Congress sought to promote the growth of the internet by extending liability protections to internet platforms, recognizing that they were exactly that—platforms, not publishers. Unlike publishers, companies such as Facebook and?Twitter?can’t be held legally liable for the content posted to their sites. Without this immunity, social media companies could not exist.

Democrats in Congress are exploiting this leverage to coerce platforms into censoring their political opponents. In recent years, we have all watched Congress haul Big Tech CEOs before their committees and demand that they censor “false” stories and “disinformation”—labels determined by an army of partisan fact-checkers loyal to the Democrat Party. As the cases of fellow plaintiffs Ms. Horton, Dr. Victory and the Michael family demonstrate, in practice this amounts to suppression of speech that those in power do not like.

Further, Big Tech and government agencies are actively coordinating to remove content from the platforms according to the guidance of agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Big Tech and traditional media entities formed the Trusted News Initiative, which essentially takes instructions from the CDC about what information they need to “combat.” The tech companies are doing the government’s bidding, colluding to censor unAPProved ideas.

This coercion and coordination is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has held that Congress can’t use private actors to achieve what the constitution prohibits it from doing itself. In effect, Big Tech has been illegally deputized as the censorship arm of the U.S. government. This should alarm you no matter your political persuasion. It is unacceptable, unlawful and un-American.

Through these lawsuits, I intend to restore free speech for all Americans—Democrats, Republicans and independents. I will never stop fighting to defend the constitutional rights and sacred liberties of the American people.

Mr. Trump was the 45th president of the United States.