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ORLANDO, Fla. – GOP Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty blasted Big Tech for its hypocrisy over what it chooses to censor on its platforms or not.
The senator, speaking on Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), told Fox News Digital it’s “amazing” to see how Big Tech picks and chooses which viewpoints to silence on its platforms.
Authoritarians, such as Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said, are “welcome” on large social media platforms — while conservatives in America, such as former President Donald Trump, are silenced.
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“It’s amazing to me that this is the path that Big Tech seems to choose. Where authoritarians are welcome to use Big Tech. Where the Ayatollah can call for ‘death for America,’ yet they’ll censor a president of the United States.”
Sen. Bill Hagerty, a Republican from Tennessee, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, U.S., on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. Launched in 1974, the Conservative Political Action Conference is the largest gathering of conservatives in the world. (Photographer: Tristan Wheelock/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Hagerty was referring to how Twitter has allowed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to tweet threats against the U.S., yet it has permanently banned Trump and a number of his conservative colleagues from the platform.
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Hagerty said one solution to this double standard is the Big Tech bill, introduced in April 2021, which he said unfortunately doesn’t have a single Democratic supporter in the Senate.
The Tennessee senator said the legislation would regulate Big Tech and make companies “explicitly state the criteria” if they want to censor something.
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