Sen Cruz's playbook to crack down on Big Tech for alleged anti-conservative bias
April 11, 2019
Accusing Twitter and Facebook of suppressing conservative voices, Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) floated an overhaul to a key law that protects Internet platforms from legal liability for content posts on their sites, breaking up the companies, or even charging them with fraud. His three-part playbook:
- Overhaul Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — a law that grants online platforms legal immunity for content posted on their sites. "That provides a special immunity from liability that Big Tech enjoys that nobody else gets,” Sen Cruz said. “Big Tech made effectively a bargain with Congress and a bargain with Congress and a bargain with the American people,” he added, which he termed as: “We'll be neutral, we'll be fair, and in exchange for that we'll receive what is effectively a federal subsidy for immunity from liability.”
- Take antitrust action against the tech giants.
- Charge the companies with fraud.
Sen Cruz's playbook to crack down on Big Tech for alleged anti-conservative bias