President Trump signs an executive order to stop big-text censorship of conservatives.

Luckily, we can sit down with a guy who has been fighting that very censorship for many years.

This is verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles, and the guy who's been fighting

this for many years, coincidentally, is Ted Cruz himself, Senator. Nice to see you,

even though we still have to do this virtually, digitally, and hopefully without any censorship.

Well, let's hope so, but we'll see if big-text pulls this podcast down.

That's right. Senator, I think everybody knows that big-text has been going after conservatives.

And probably for a lot of people listening to this right now, they themselves have felt this

kind of thing. If their account has been suspended for sharing a conservative view, I mean, I think,

frankly, it's probably happened to all of us at this point. So we know that there's a problem,

but there's been some debate over how you solve the problem. Do you pass some new regulation?

Do you break them up like there are monopoly with antitrust laws or do you enforce laws that are

already on the books? You focused in on something called Section 230 of the Communications

Decency Act of 1996. The president focused in on that as well in his executive order.

Can you tell us what that is and how the argument applies to big-text censorship?

Well, sure. And in answer your question about what you do, you listed several options.

My answers are yes, yes, and yes. Let's start with 230. What is 230? So 1996, Congress passes a law

called the Communications Decency Act. It was actually mainly focused at trying to regulate

internet porn, but it included a portion in its Section 230 that gave a special immunity

for liability for big-tech companies. And here was the reasoning at the time.

Remember, this is early. This was right when the internet is starting.

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