Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri accused Thursday of wanting to “cheat” big tech companies, “cheat” Americans and “run our lives.”

In an interview Thursday night with Fox News Tonight host Piers Morgan, Hawley flatly denied the accusation, saying tech companies own Congress. Social media companies came under fire after they censored an October 2020 New York Post report about Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop ahead of the 2020 presidential election. (Related article: ‘They want to be in charge’: Sen. Josh Hawley calls on FBI to ‘clean up thoroughly’)

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“Big corporations and these big corporations are not content with just running our government, they want to run our lives,” Hawley told Morgan. “What they are doing is taking our personal information, effectively stealing it from us, and not paying us or obtaining our consent. The way is to enact laws to protect people’s personal information and say if you are.’ If you are going to take it away from me, first notify me and second with my consent. , thirdly you have to pay. “

Hawley earlier this year introduced the MATURE Act (also known as the MATURE Act), proposing a ban on children under the age of 16 from having social media accounts. S419, in February. The law requires social media companies to verify the age of their registrants.

“I can say to Big Tech and the big companies that benefit from Big Tech that they are spending money, hiring lobbyists, and effectively controlling the Capitol, it’s time to break the deadlock. ‘, said Holly. “Sometimes these people run around, control our lives, take our personal information, steal our most sensitive data, and never pay us a dime for it. will not.”

“It’s time to remove them from our lives in this way. It’s time to give people back control,” Hawley continued. “They should own their own personal information. Americans should own their own personal data.”

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