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Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment<\/a><\/h3>\n

In their zeal for control over online speech, House Democrats are getting closer and closer to the constitutional line, if they have not already crossed it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey (R) and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (L) are sworn in to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 5, 2018. (Photo by Jim WATSON \/ AFP) (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

For the third time<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0less than<\/a>\u00a0five months<\/a>, the U.S. Congress has summoned the CEOs of social media companies to appear before them, with the explicit intent to pressure and coerce them to censor more content from their platforms. On March 25, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will interrogate Twitter\u2019s Jack Dorsey, Facebooks\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg and Google\u2019s Sundar Pichai at a hearing which the Committee\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0will focus \u201con misinformation and disinformation plaguing online platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Committee\u2019s Chair, Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and the two Chairs of the Subcommittees holding the hearings, Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), said in a joint statement that the impetus was \u201cfalsehoods about the COVID-19 vaccine\u201d and \u201cdebunked claims of election fraud.\u201d They argued that \u201cthese online platforms have allowed misinformation to spread, intensifying national crises with real-life, grim consequences for public health and safety,\u201d adding: \u201cThis hearing will continue the Committee\u2019s work of holding online platforms accountable for the growing rise of misinformation and disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

House Democrats have made no secret of their ultimate goal with this hearing: to exert control over the content on these online platforms…<\/p>\n

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Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment In their zeal for control over online speech, House Democrats are getting closer and closer to the constitutional line, if they have not already crossed it. CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey (R) and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (L) are sworn in to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,3717,1493,5437,30955,1426,1169,819,843],"class_list":["post-56859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-disinformation","tag-facebook","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-goggle","tag-misinformation","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}