U.S. Senate Republican asks tech firms to explain account, content removals

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The outgoing Republican chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee asked the chief executives of five major U.S. tech firms to answer detailed questions about decisions to restrict or permanently ban accounts of conservative users.

Senator Roger Wicker sent letters to Apple Inc, Facebook Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Alphabet Inc and Twitter in which he said “thousands of conservative users’ accounts and content” have been “restricted or permanently removed from platforms.”

The companies took their strongest actions yet against President Donald Trump to limit his reach, fearing continued violence stemming from his posts after his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol building last week. Apple, Google and Amazon also suspended Parler - a pro-Trump app where users have threatened more violence - from their respective app stores and Web-hosting services, a set of moves that stand to severely handicap the service.“Americans deserve transparency and accountability for what appears to be politically biased censorship - silencing the voices of users and public figures alike,” Wicker wrote.Twitter said on Friday the company has received the letter and will be responding to it.

 

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They said, 'this is you, being Teabagged'.

It is quite simple GOP. Most of you have become an anti-American, anti-constitutional, seditious party of insurrection. The free markets that you used to love, before you relabeled them 'cancel culture', dictate that we the people & businesses can elect not to deal with you.

No. You agreed to their terms when you signed up.

Most of the old farts have no idea what they asking

Thank God they did no politician would ever do that

Let me take a wild guess as to why this happened... Tech had no interest in being used as the tool for conspiracies to overthrow the government.

You are an enemy of the state spewing lies, sedition, and hate. You get banned. Don’t need to be a neurosurgeon to figure that out! Ask Ben!

Stop whining. Everyone, including the president, senators and Joe Public agree to terms of service. Read the fine print. Spreading lies to incite violence is a No-No, children.

You're fomenting violence and sedition. Next question.

They need to silence us. BLM's & Biden's Antifa's can say what they want. we can't.

Inciting division, hatred, untrue and untrustworthy conspiracies that lead to the death of fellow citizens !! Pretty simple, really !! Saving people from themselves !! 🇳🇿

What is the hard part of understanding incitement and inflammatory language

Remind them about the 'Baker'

Jan 6 'tour' of Capitol Hill?

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