Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) recommended usingantitrust laws to curb the “massive power” of Facebook and other technology companies during a Tuesday interview with SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Breitbart News Tonight.
Pollak asked Cruz about possible solutions to “censorship of conservatives” on Facebook and across the broader internet landscape.
Cruz described technology companies’ growing control over the flow of information as a threat to democratic processes. He said, “I think, number one, the growing power of tech to censor speech is a profound threat. We’re seeing now some two-thirds of Americans are getting their news through social media, and these tech companies are hard-left. They are are partisan Democrats, and what we’re seeing is they’re amplifying the views they agree with, those of liberal Democrats, and they are suppressing the views of conservatives. They are blocking conservatives.”
Cruz added, “The scope of the power is truly unprecedented. You think back to the heights of yellow journalism, when publisher William Randolph Hearst controlled much of media and in fact got America into the Spanish-American War. These tech companies have power William Randolph Hearst could never have imagined.
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5 comments:
Let's talk about Garmin, Jeppesen, Microsoft, and google the same way...they have strangle-holds on certain technologies and are stimying choice and competition!
Would my Comcast bill be as ridiculously high as it is if there they had competition?
They are the only game in town and now I have had five increases in the last twelve months.
Lets not forget to add the Oil Companies. They are doing the same thing to energy prices and the Government is allowing it.
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The price of oil is generally not controlled by the US are by any US company. Oil is a fungible commodity.
Most politicians paid for by these companies.
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