Today as Ranking Member of the @SenateCommerce Committee I opened an investigation into Big Tech’s censorship.
We are going to see accountability, transparency, and we’re going to shine a light on Big Tech’s efforts to silence conservatives. pic.twitter.com/nfK6lCPhBI
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) February 14, 2023
Citing the Commerce Committee’s jurisdiction over “half the U.S. economy, including all of telecom and all of Big Tech,” Cruz told Fox News that the recent Twitter Files (internal company records) offered a road map to go after Facebook, Google, YouTube TikTok, and all of Big Tech “that is trying to silence conservatives.”
“Elon Musk’s buying Twitter is a game changer because he’s done something that the Big Tech oligarchs never thought would happen, which is he’s gone open kimono,” Cruz said. “He’s exposed the corruption, he’s exposed the censorship, he’s exposed the collusion with Democrats in Congress, the collusion with the Biden White House, the collusion with the Deep State at the FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ.
[Newsmax’s story tries to make this about its dispute with DirecTV, but Cruz doesn’t make mention of that at all. He’s much more focused on the social-media platforms and their cooperation with law enforcement agencies in censoring and suppressing speech and dissent. This probably won’t go far either, not with Republicans in the Senate minority. It seems unlikely that Cruz will get the subpoena power necessary to move this forward in the upper chamber. House Republicans need to take up this issue and press hard on it. — Ed]
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