Is antitrust a remedy for Big Tech's suppression of speech?

A minidebate between Congressman Jim Jordan, Reason’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown, and me Stewart Baker | 6.24.2021 5:26 PM My story about Linkedin suppressing one of my posts has acquired a sequel. Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, recently accused Microsoft of being “out to get conservatives.” In support of that claim, he pointed to LinkedIn’s suppression of a short post of mine. In its entirety, it said, “The social media giants that won’t let you say the 2020 election was rigged are the people who did their best to rig it: Hunter Biden laptop was genuine and scandalous—Daily Mail.” Rep. Jordan’s complaint is part of his campaign against a half-dozen bipartisan Judiciary Committee antitrust bills aimed at Big Tech. He thinks the bills give Microsoft a free ride and fail to address conservatives’ objections to Silicon Valley suppression of their speech. He called on the company to “explain Microsoft’s basis for censoring user content about Hunter Biden [and] the origins of COVID-19” and to provide an accounting of LinkedIn content suppression decisions and standards in the last two years. The letter generated a dissent from Reason’s Senior Editor, Elizabeth Nolan Brown, who criticized what she called…
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