by Didi Rankovic, Reclaim The Net:
Democrats deflect and dismiss as House Judiciary Committee exposes deepening censorship collusion.
US House Democrats seem to have chosen the path of not taking any accountability whatsoever for the goings-on during a number of previous years, which resulted in an unprecedented form of “public-private partnership” – what is known, and investigated, as the government-Big Tech censorship collusion.
The House Judiciary Committee is behind one of the more prominent investigations (yet another is conducted by the Committee on Small Businesses) and the Judiciary body just held a hearing titled, “The Censorship-Industrial Complex.”
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But it was mostly an opportunity for Democrats who showed up to deny, deflect, downplay – pretty much every point of this fundamentally important problem.
Democrat members of the House of Representatives present – Jamie Raskin, Eric Swalwell, Jasmine Crockett, Pramila Jayapal – had to first sit there and listen to Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, a Republican, open by painting the big, and damning picture of how the events relevant to the inquiry unfolded over the years of the Biden administration.
Jordan first reminded everyone of the time when now US President Donald Trump was a pariah, banned on all major platforms, while cable providers started coming under pressure from Congress Democrats to figuratively and literally “deplatform” big conservative media like Fox and Newsmax.
We now all know how that turned out, for each of the players – but in the meantime, a pivotal development took place – the publishing of the Twitter Files, the first hard and concrete set of internal files documenting the sometimes roundabout (via third-party “fact checkers,” “raters,” etc) but the unmistakable way the former government was attempting – and succeeding – in circumvent constitutional limitations it came up against while censoring Americans’ lawful speech.
The truth about the nature and mechanisms of what the Committee – but also the public, in the US, and beyond – learned about, piece by piece, during the investigative process, was in a way “cemented” very publicly when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, shortly before the 2024 election, submitted a letter openly speaking about the now former White House pressuring the tech and social media giant to censor – and admitting it was a mistake to give in to that pressure.
According to Jordan, the (official, and unlawful) collusion started on the third day of the Biden administration in 2021, when then Twitter was asked in an email from Clark Humphrey to censor Robert F. Kennedy – for a post about the damage from Covid vaccines (that, according to Jordan, presented factual information – and the Committee chair made sure to point out Kennedy is now “the guy who’s gonna be named Secretary of Health and Human Services.”)
