House Judiciary ranking member Jim Jordan sent letters to tech firms claiming they were 'out to get' conservatives and accused them of colluding with Biden.
made by Jordan back in September, the GOP’s leading role in the Judiciary Committee means the tech companies will, at the very least, be forced to do a whole hell of a lot of paperwork to assuage the new leadership’s demands. It also means previous priorities under Democratic leadership, like progressive antitrust reform, could risk taking a backseat to censorship questions.Privacy protection
“What we are seeing from representative Jim Jordan is something we have been calling for,” NeChoice Vice President and General Counsel Carl Szabo said during a phone interview with Gizmodo. “A robust investigation into how much our government is pressuring these businesses [tech platforms] to promote or remove content.”Szabo was quick to caveat that by acknowledging the Trump administration similarly tried to pressure social media companies.
“Jim Jordan needs to get his talking points straight,” Tech Oversight Project Executive Director Sacha Haworth told Gizmodo. “If he actually wanted to go after Big Tech, he’d save his postage and vote to rein them in. Yet every time antitrust and tech accountability legislation has come through the Judiciary Committee or to the House floor, he hawks and stands with his Big Tech donors.
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