Attorney General Alan Wilson fights to protect free speech from big tech censorship

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined a multistate letter to YouTube and its parent company, Alphabet Inc., raising concerns about the censorship of conservative speech.

“Companies do not have to agree with consumers or those who use their services,” Attorney General Wilson stated. “But disagreement doesn’t mean suppression and censorship of those consumers’ viewpoints.”

The letter notes that Alphabet admitted in a 2025 letter that Biden administration officials “conducted repeated and sustained outreach” regarding user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

For example, commentators in Iowa may have been negatively affected by YouTube’s election fraud policies. YouTube prohibited CPAC from posting footage from the 2022 CPAC conference in Dallas, Texas, for an entire week.

“As Attorney General, my chief aim is to protect the public,” Attorney General Wilson said. “Deceptive acts and censorship of political viewpoints only serve to harm our institutions and political environment.

Attorney General Alan Wilson joined this letter along with Iowa, Texas, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.

You can read the letter here.