He feels they have done everything in their power to try to clamp down on conservative views, and Cruz is not ready to give in without a fight. He wants to ensure that anyone who listens understands that Big Tech is coming after certain viewpoints.
Cruz is a ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee. On March 29, he sent letters to nine of the biggest technology companies in America about their efforts to investigate and censor certain content on their sites.
Newsbusters reports that Cruz sent the letter to Google, Meta, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Reddit, Yahoo!, Pinterest, Medium, and Wikipedia, asking them to address any potential contact they might have had with federal officials. Cruz wants to clarify this because he wants to ensure there is no undo coordination between these tech companies and federal government organizations. This is important to Cruz as he wishes to make sure that those companies are not getting away with manipulating what goes on their websites (and what is kept off of them) based on conversations that they might have had with government officials.
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The letter from Senator Cruz suggests that some of the agencies that might have worked directly with the Big Tech companies to shut down some accounts might have included: DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Departments of Justice and Defense, the CIA, the FDA, Office of the Surgeon General, and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).
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Cruz pointed to “The Twitter Files” as an example of apparent coordination between Big Tech companies and government organizations. He stated that those files will continue to “reveal the extent to which U.S. government employees, acting in an official capacity, applied pressure to, as well as coordinated with, social media companies in an effort to restrict Americans’ speech.”
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He stated: “Instead of focusing on their taxpayer-funded remit to protect and promote the interests of all Americans, agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of State (DOS) turned their attention to micromanaging what Americans can post and see online,” and “Often, this censorship directly interfered in legitimate public debate around issues of national significance, such as elections and the evolving science on COVID-19.”
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