by Andi Shae Napier
Republican Senator Ted Cruz and the Republican Republican Ohio Jim Jordan pay attention to Google to fears that the technological giant censor users and violates the rights of freedom of Americans.
Google Alphabet, which also owns YouTube, seems to be another large goal of GOP. The legislators seem to pay attention to the alphabet to the meta ended His controversial program of checking facts for the system of community notes similar to the one used by X.
Cruz recently informed reporters about his and other senators’ plans protect Freedom of speech.
“Online censorship stopping is the main priority for the Commercial Committee”, Cruz he saidAs reported by German Politico. “And we intend to use every lever point that we need to protect freedom of speech online.”
After meeting the Alphabet Sundar Pichai last month, Cruz he said The “Big Tech censorship outlet was the most important topic.”
Jordan, chairman of the judicial committee, sent Call Down Alphabet and other technological giants, such as BangIN Thicket AND Apple In February, regarding “compliance with the provisions on foreign censorship, provisions, court orders or other efforts initiated by the government” with the intention to discover how foreign rule or administration biden have confined access to Americans to freedom of speech.
“During the previous Congress, the Committee expressed concern on the censorship of conservatives and political speech YouTube,” Jordan wrote In a letter to Pichai in March. “To develop effective legislation, such as the possible introduction of new statutory restrictions on the capacity of the Executive Department to work with high technology in order to limit the circulation of content content and depictor, the Committee must first understand how and to what extent the executive department has decreased and assembled with companies and other intermediaries to form a central formulation.”
Jordan Call garden Tech Directors in 2023, including, among others, satya nadella from Microsoft, Tim Cook from Apple and Pichai.
Despite the recent actions against the technological giant, the battle reaches the first administration of President Donald Trump. Cruz began investigating Google in 2019, when he asked Karania Bhatia, vice president of the company for government and public policy at that time, at the hearing of the Senate court committee. Cruz brought a presentation suggesting that technology companies, including Google, wandered from freedom of speech and leaning into censorship.
Even during the break of the Congress, Pressure on Google is still growing as a federal court he ruled On Thursday, that the Google advertising unit violates us antitrust regulations and creates an illegal monopoly. This is the second antitrust ruling against the technological giant as another court he ruled In 2024, Google used the dominance of the online search market.
Cruz, Jordan and Google did not answer immediately at the request of DCNF for comment.
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Andi Shae Napier is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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