{"id":57263,"date":"2021-03-27T06:53:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T11:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57263"},"modified":"2021-03-27T06:54:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T11:54:57","slug":"congress-in-a-five-hour-hearing-demands-tech-ceos-censor-the-internet-even-more-aggressively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57263","title":{"rendered":"Congress, in a Five-Hour Hearing, Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet Even More Aggressively"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Congress, in a Five-Hour Hearing, Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet Even More Aggressively<\/a><\/h3>\n

The repressive objective of the Democratic-controlled Congress is to transfer the power to police and censor political discourse from these tech giants to themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Google\/Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Mar. 25, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Over the course of<\/strong>\u00a0five-plus hours on Thursday, a House Committee along with two subcommittees badgered three tech CEOs, repeatedly demanding that they censor more political content from their platforms and vowing legislative retaliation if they fail to comply. The\u00a0hearing<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 convened by the House Energy and Commerce Committee\u2019s Chair Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and the two Chairs of its Subcommittees, Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) \u2014 was one of the most stunning displays of the growing authoritarian effort in Congress to commandeer the control which these companies wield over political discourse for their own political interests and purposes.<\/p>\n

As I noted when I\u00a0reported last month<\/a>\u00a0on the scheduling of this hearing, this was \u201cthe third time\u00a0in\u00a0less than<\/a>\u00a0five months<\/a>\u00a0that 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.\u201d The bulk of Thursday\u2019s lengthy hearing consisted of one Democratic member after the next complaining that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google\/Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have failed in their duties to censor political voices and ideological content that these elected officials regard as adversarial or harmful, accompanied by threats that legislative punishment (including possible revocation of Section 230 immunity) is imminent in order to force compliance (Section 230<\/a>\u00a0is the provision of the 1996 Communications Decency Act that shields internet companies from liability for content posted by their users).<\/p>\n

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Congress, in a Five-Hour Hearing, Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet Even More Aggressively The repressive objective of the Democratic-controlled Congress is to transfer the power to police and censor political discourse from these tech giants to themselves. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Google\/Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testify before the House […]<\/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":[9336,120,5437,14545,1169,1796,843],"class_list":["post-57263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-big-tech","tag-censorship","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-narrative-control","tag-social-media","tag-us-congress","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57263","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=57263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57265,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57263\/revisions\/57265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}