On Tuesday, the Senate had another hearing on big tech censorship. This is the second such meeting in a month. The hearings are ostensibly to the ends of deciding whether Congress should strip big tech of their protections under the Communications Decency Act, which gives them immunity from prosecution over the content of their sites.
The hearings are a pointless jerk-off. This Congress would never vote against big tech, because big tech throws around huge amounts of money. While most of the money goes to Democrats, Republicans can be bought off very cheaply, so Facebook, Google and Twitter buy them too.
Although the hearing was ostensibly to investigate if there is too much censorship, the Jew Senator Richard Blumenthal, known as Da Nang Dick for his lies about having fought in Vietnam, used the opportunity to demand more censorship.
Blumenthal demanded that his Jewish kinsman Mark Zuckerberg ban the account of Steve Bannon. Bannon was recently banned from Twitter and YouTube (Google) for saying he wanted Anthony Fauci’s head on a pike.
Blumenthal also attacks the Facebook accounts of @BreitbartNews , @EricTrump , @DonaldJTrumpJr & @gatewaypundit & accuses Zuckerberg of carrying water for conservatives.
Blumenthal lives in Bizarro World. https://t.co/kM5WoF0pVX
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) November 17, 2020
On the other side, Ted Cruz engaged in another EPIC TAKEDOWN of the weirdo Jack Dorsey.
Senator @tedcruz Questioning Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey About Voter Fraud@SenTedCruz reads two statements and asks Mr. Dorsey whether they would flag them. Mr. Dorsey says they would likely flag them. The statements both come from the Carter-Baker Commission on election reform. pic.twitter.com/VGL8a9LR4U
— The Columbia Bugle ?? (@ColumbiaBugle) November 17, 2020
It’s a nice clip, but the reality is that none of these congresspeople who are in the EPIC TAKEDOWN business ever end up doing anything at all.
The one thing of interest that did happen was the Senator Josh Hawley, who has been leading a campaign against big tech, got Mark Zuckerberg to admit that they have a system to coordinate censorship across competing platforms (i.e., Facebook communicates with Google and Twitter to silence people all at once).
Rush gets it: Zuckerberg admitted under oath today that Facebook DOES have the ability to coordinate censorship with @Twitter and @Google, and a FB whistleblower has explained how they do it https://t.co/p3qSK2NtKB
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) November 17, 2020
Hawley had previously gotten a tip from a whistleblower that such programs existed.
.@Facebook whistleblower tells me FB uses its internal project management system, “Tasks,” to coordinate censorship with @Twitter and @Google. Pic of example Task page below pic.twitter.com/TR2qbFawpl
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) November 17, 2020
But is that going to change the willingness of a totally bought and paid for Congress to make any single change in the way these tech companies are allowed to operate?
No. Of course it won’t. Very few of the boomers that run Congress would even understand the significance of it, and virtually none of them would care.
Hawley also got Facebook to admit to using secret tools to track people across the internet, something that we already knew existed but had previously been denied by Zuckerberg.
Under oath, Zuckerberg admits @Facebook DOES have “tools” to track its users across the internet, across platforms, across accounts – all without user knowledge. I ask how many times this tool has been used domestically against Americans. Zuck won’t say
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) November 17, 2020
Here’s that full exchange.
Hawley also apparently caught Zuckerberg lying under oath.
Interesting that @Facebook officials can now remember Centra — Zuckerberg told me not one hour ago, under oath, that he didn’t know of any tool or platform by that name and seemed to be suffering terrible amnesia https://t.co/GPxjUCIZsf
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) November 17, 2020
But that doesn’t really matter either.
Who is going to charge him? The Justice Department?
Hawley also appeared on Tucker Carlson last night after the hearing to discuss what happened.
I wish I could believe that something is going to happen with big tech, but I frankly just do not see it.
If Donald Trump has the election stolen from him, this is all going to get much more outrageous. They are just going to ban anyone who says anything, and establish a complete and total lockdown on all information.