Breitbart: Ted Cruz: Big Tech Is a "Growing Threat to Our Democracy'

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Breitbart's Sean Moran on Thursday highlighted U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) efforts to hold Big Tech accountable for its pattern of political bias and censorship, calling him "one of the Senate's loudest big tech critics."

As Moran writes in the article:

""Big tech has decided to abandon neutrality and instead become an aggressive left-wing filter and if they're going to engage in naked political bias, it seems to me there is no reason big tech should enjoy a congressionally granted immunity from liability that nobody else has,' Cruz added. While the senator continues to explore potential solutions for solving big tech's censorship, Cruz said he has met repeatedly with "officials in the administration at the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, I've called for law enforcement, I've met with state law enforcement officials, and we'll continue pressing for accountability for transparency and for protecting the free speech rights of Americans.'"

As chairman of the Subcommittee on The Constitution, Sen. Cruz:
* Penned a letter to U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, urging him to remove language in U.S. trade agreements similar to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides "near -blanket legal immunity" to technology companies.
* Wrote an op-ed in The Hill in response to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's announcement last week banning all political ads from the platform, calling the move "profoundly harmful."
* Chaired multiple hearings with representatives from Twitter, Facebook, and Google, where he raised his concerns about the technology companies engaging in a disturbing pattern of political censorship.
* Heard testimony from Dennis Prager of PragerU, whose videos are routinely censored on YouTube, and Dr. Robert Epstein, a psychologist who testified that Google's biased search results swung a minimum of 2.6 million votes to Hillary Clinton in 2016.

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