Jim Jordan Sends Demands to Big Tech Companies Ahead of 118th Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to the chief executive officers of Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft demanding documents and communications related to Big Tech censorship. Evidence suggests that Big Tech companies are colluding with the Biden Administration to suppress free speech online.
Excerpts from the letters:
Big Tech is out to get conservatives, and is increasingly willing to undermine First Amendment values by complying with the Biden Administration’s directives that suppress freedom of speech online. This approach undermines fundamental American principles and allows powerful government actors to silence political opponents and stifle opposing viewpoints. Publicly available information suggests that your companies’ treatment of certain speakers and content may stem from government directives or guidance designed to suppress dissenting views. Therefore, we write to request more information about the nature and extent of your companies’ collusion with the Biden Administration.
Big Tech’s role in shaping national and international public discourse today is well-known. In some cases, Big Tech’s ‘heavy-handed censorship’ has been ‘use[d] to silence prominent voices’ and to ‘stifle views that disagree with the prevailing progressive consensus.’
Because of Big Tech’s wide reach, it can serve as a powerful and effective partisan arm of the ‘woke speech police.’ Although the full extent of Big Tech’s collusion with the Biden Administration is unknown, there are prominent examples and strong indications of Big Tech censorship following directives or pressure from executive branch entities. These examples raise serious concerns about how and why tech companies suppress, silence, or reduce the reach of certain political speech and speakers. The collusion of Big Tech and Big Government to advance censorship undeniably undermines liberty and jeopardizes our country’s First Amendment values and protections.
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are investigating Big Tech’s commitment to freedom of speech online and the Biden Administration’s collusion with Big Tech to censor, silence, or reduce the reach of certain information and viewpoints. Congress has an important interest in protecting and advancing fundamental free speech principles, including by examining how private actors coordinate with the government to suppress First Amendment-protected speech.”
Read the full letter to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook here.
Read the full letter to Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy here.
Read the full letter to Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai here.
Read the full letter to Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckberg here.
Read the full letter to Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella here.
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