Thursday, July 30, 2020

OPINION_ Big Tech must be brought to heel over election influencing: Devine

NEW YORK POST

OPINION

Big Tech must be brought to heel over election influencing: Devine

By Miranda Devine

July 29, 2020 | 10:43pm

Image: Rep. Jim Jordan
Graeme Jennings/Pool via REUTERS


As the war on conservative voices online reaches fever pitch in the run-up to November’s presidential election, Silicon Valley’s oligarchy finally was called to account Wednesday on ­Capitol Hill.

“Big Tech is out to get conservatives” Ohio Republican Jim Jordan told the bosses of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple. “That’s not a suspicion, that’s not a hunch. That’s a fact.”

Then he laid out a litany of censorship atrocities in a blistering opening statement before the congressional antitrust panel.

They included:

* Google removing conservative Web site Breitbart from its search results.

* Amazon’s video site Twitch suspending President Trump’s account “after he raises concerns about defunding the police.”

* Facebook removing posts from Trump’s re-election campaign.

*  Amazon temporarily banning an e-book critical of coronavirus lockdowns written by conservative commentator Alex Berenson.

* Amazon charity site Amazon Smile “won’t let you give to the [pro-life, pro-marriage] Family Research Council . . . but you can give to Planned Parenthood.”

* Facebook admitting to banning pro-life advertisements in 2018 during Ireland’s abortion referendum.

*  Former Facebook employees admitting to Gizmodo that the social-media behemoth routinely suppresses conservative views.

*  Google and YouTube censoring content that conflicts with World Health Organization recommendations.

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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2020/07/29/big-tech-taken-to-task-on-capitol-hill-over-election-influencing/

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“Think about that,” said Jordan. “They can lie for China. They can shill for China. But you say something against them, you get censored.”

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