Lawmakers Urge New Twitter CEO to Uphold First Amendment Rights

Catherine Salgado
December 20th, 2021 5:21 PM

A group of congressmen have sent a letter to new pro-censorship Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, urging the new CEO to address Twitter’s history of biased censorship and make the platform more pro-free speech.

 

Congresswoman WRECKS Dem Calls for ‘Emotional Injury’ Law in Big Tech

Alexander Hall
December 6th, 2021 3:01 PM

House Democrats are pushing legislation that would allow platform users to sue Big Tech companies for “emotional injury.” House Energy and Commerce Committee ranking member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) skewered the legislation and those pushing it.

 

GOP Reps. SLAM Facebook’s Reported Censorship of Conservatives

Catherine Salgado
October 27th, 2021 1:44 PM

Facebook’s algorithms and tools reportedly unfairly limited conservative news sites and personalities. Facebook employees also reportedly exerted continual pressure on their company to censor more. But Congressmen have had enough and spoke out against Facebook’s unfair bias.

 

House Republicans Launch Assault Against Big Tech, Unveil 32 Bills

Kayla Sargent
July 30th, 2021 1:07 PM

House Republicans launched an effort to rein in Big Tech’s growing tyranny with an onslaught of new bills in a massive push to fight back against online censorship. Republicans in the House Energy and Commerce Committee unveiled a package of 32 bills to hold Big Tech accountable by reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, protecting children and improving transparency, among…

 

House Republicans SLAM Left’s Attack on Free Speech During Hearing

Kayla Sargent
February 24th, 2021 5:06 PM

The war against free speech has spilled over from Big Tech and has now begun to rage in traditional media forums. The left has now sought to target conservative media in a congressional hearing today, but House Republicans were not having it.  The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing on Feb. 24 entitled “Fanning the Flames: Disinformation and Extremism in the…

 

House Subcommittee Hearing Explores How Big Tech Radicalizes America

Kayla Sargent
September 24th, 2020 4:06 PM

Amidst calls for Section 230 reform and antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook, a House subcommittee hearing today explored the relationship between Big Tech’s lack of accountability and the radicalization of their respective platforms’ users. 


The House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce held a hearing entitled “…

 

GOP Rep. Warns of Danger of Big Government Regulating Tech

Corinne Weaver
October 17th, 2019 9:22 AM
Big tech has presented many problems for the legislators in Washington to tackle. One of those is regulation. Many politicians on both sides of the aisle have discussed government regulation of Big Tech. Government regulation and amending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act are seen as a solution to the scandals plaguing tech companies.
 

MSNBC's Ball: GOPers 'Must Feel Like They Should Take a Vow of Silence

Brad Wilmouth
January 30th, 2014 1:45 PM
Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC's Krystal Ball cracked that Republicans "must feel like they should just take a vow of silence" until the election as she alluded to New York Republican Rep. Michael Grimm's meltdown with a reporter and Mike Huckabee's recent comments about the so-called "war on women." Referring to Washington Rep. Cathy…
 

MSNBC's Alex Wagner Condescends About GOP Woman's Response to Obama

Matthew Balan
January 29th, 2014 2:36 PM
On Tuesday night, Alex Wagner gave the latest example of "if it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all" (a regular saying of conservative talk show host Chris Plante). The MSNBC host took to Twitter to slam Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers's fireside setting, where she delivered the official Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union: "Living room.…
 

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski Frames Alternate SOTU Responses as Part of 'Wa

Paul Bremmer
January 28th, 2014 4:11 PM
In the minds of MSNBC personalities, the so-called Republican “War on Women” is fought on many fronts – even in the amount of GOP responses to this year’s State of the Union address. On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, the panelists were discussing the three planned responses to Tuesday's State of the Union: Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ official GOP response, Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s Tea Party…