Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Republican Ohio Sen. Jim Jordan are paying attention to Google over concerns that the tech giant is censoring users and violating Americans’ freedom of speech rights.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, which also owns YouTube, appears to be GOP’s next major tech target. Lawmakers appear to be turning their attention to the alphabet after Mark Zuckerberg’s meta ends the controversial fact-checking program in favor of a community note system similar to that used by Elon Musk’s X.
Cruz recently informed reporters of plans to protect his and his fellow senators of freedom of speech.
“Stop online censorship is a major priority for the Commerce Board,” Cruise said. I saidas reported by Politico. “And we need to use all leverage points to protect our freedom of speech online.” (Related: “The greatest threat to free speech”: Ted Cruz aims to take legal action against big technology to censor conservative media.
Following a meeting with Alphabet CEO Sundal Pichai last month, Cruz I said Outlet, “Big high-tech censorship was the most important topic.”
Big Technology is censoring opinions they dislike naked.
Currently, Big Tech is censoring the right side of the centre view, but then you can make an arbitrarily decisive decision to censor the left. It is extremely dangerous. pic.twitter.com/8wifsy1ob7
– Senator Ted Cruz (@sentedcruz) September 22, 2022
Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has been sent. Summons In alphabet Other high-tech giants Rumble, Tiktok and apple In February, he explained “compliance with efforts launched by foreign censorship laws, regulations, judicial orders, or other governments,” explains his intention to discover how foreign governments, or the Biden administration, are restricted in Americans’ access to free speech.
WASHINGTON, DC – March 5: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) will speak to the media outside the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearings at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (Photo by Graeme Sloan, Washington Post by Getty Images)
“Through the previous assembly, the committee has raised concerns about conservatives on YouTube and censoring political speeches,” Jordan said. I wrote it In a letter to Pichai in March. “To develop effective laws, including the enactment of potential new statutory restrictions on the ability to work with leading engineers to limit the distribution of content and depleted users, the committee must first understand how and to what extent the administrative agencies have given censorship speeches with other intermediaries.”
Jordan also summoned high-tech CEOs in 2023, including Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Apple’s Tim Cook and Pichai.
Despite recent actions against the tech giant, the fight dates back to President Donald Trump’s first administration. Cruz began his Google investigation in 2019 I was asked Karan Bhatia, then vice president of government affairs and public policy, during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Cruz has released a presentation that suggests that tech companies, including Google, are leaning towards freedom of speech and censorship.
Even during Congress breaks, pressure on Google continues to increase as a federal court Domination On Thursday, Google’s ad tech unit violates US antitrust laws and creates an illegal monopoly. This marks the second antitrust ruling against the tech giant as another court Domination In 2024, Google abused its control of the online search market.
Cruz, Jordan, and Google did not immediately respond to DCNF’s request for comment.
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