GOOGLE_ Ted Cruz: Google has 'a staggering amount of power' to shape culture

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Ted Cruz: Google has 'a staggering amount of power' to shape culture

by Jerry Dunleavy | July 16, 2019 04:28 PM


Senator Ted Cruz told a top Google executive for Tuesday that "more and more Americans demand accountability from Big Tech," alleging the Silicon Valley giant is biased against conservatives.

The Texas Republican, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, held a hearing focused on Google and its content policies Tuesday.

Cruz said Google has unprecedented control over what people hear, watch, read, and say pointing to the 90% of internet searches in the U.S. conducted through the search engine.

“This is a staggering amount of power to ban speech, manipulate search results, destroy rivals, and shape culture,” Cruz said.

Cruz’s statement also referred to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which gives tech companies legal immunity from the content that is published on their platforms He said that tech companies get a perk or subsidy thanks to the law, but that implicit in that law was an agreement from companies like Google that they wouldn't discriminate based on political viewpoint.

Cruz said that, when that law was written, it was done so under the assumption that “there wouldn’t be a conservative internet and a liberal internet: just the internet,” but that bargain is falling apart.

“The American people are instead subject to both overt censorship and covert manipulation,” Cruz said. “If Big Tech cannot provide us with evidence that it’s not playing Big Brother with its immense powers, we don’t need to give them a subsidy through Section 230.”

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