“What is happening here is a disgrace,” Sen. Brian Schatz plans to say, foregoing questions in what he considers a sham hearing.A top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee plans to plead with the CEOs of Google, Facebook and Twitter to “stand up to this immoral behavior” of the Republicans for hauling them in for Wednesday's hearing on alleged censorship so soon before the Nov. 3 election.
“What is happening here is a disgrace,” Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii, the top Democrat on the telecom subcommittee, will say, according to prepared“What we are seeing today is United States senators attempting to bully the CEOs of private companies into carrying out a hit job on a presidential candidate by making sure they push out foreign and domestic misinformation meant to influence the election,” he will add.
The Democratic lawmaker will forgo asking tech CEOs questions given what he calls a “disgrace” and “sham” of a proceeding.
YOU ALL HAVE BEEN PAID OFF BY THE BIDENS!! YOU HAVE BEEN EXPOSED ON THE BIDEN LAPTOP! MADE A DEAL WITH ZUCKERBERG TO CENSOR TRUMP AND ALL HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED!! F?$!💩👎🏼 All you!!
So the same Senators who are all SOOO worried we stumble into socialism and end up like Venezuela want to tell private entities what to say?! Republican Party went from the “business party” to the “in your business party.” SenateGOP tedcruz Hypocrites SenateHearing pathetic
I never asked for conservative sites to be on my page but Facebook allowed it. But when I respond they want to block me for 2 word content which was not vulgar. What deal with these conservative sites allowing them to complain about a response. I never approved wanted them on pag
Facebook and Twitter already breaking promises about elections ads as they are testifying duh.
Why doesnt the government hold these meeting in the evening when most Americans are home?
User posts like the NY Post, which is still locked out of its account, for a story which has been confirmed true
Let me get this straight: The GOP—the party of free markets & free speech & free labor & free money for corporations & freedom from regulations—is demanding private companies censor speech on their private platforms? AmericanHypocrisy. The new AmericanExceptionalism
Google & Facebook used Section 230 in court as a shield to allow terrorist posts by Hamas and ISIS leading to the murder of Americans but Twitter uses S. 230 as a sword to quash investigative journalism stories that are politically undesirable.
Wait -- the Senate is in recess. How is this happening? Or is the Senate ONLY in recess on covid relief, but can conduct any other form of business? What a disgusting Senate we have.
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