Utah Sen. Mike Lee argues Big Tech now heading for overhaul amid censorship allegations.
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Thats, taking a disputed policy
position,
twitter suspended the account
of Mark Morgan, specifically for
a tweet, celebrating the success
of the: U Dot S southern border
wall.
We evaluated his tweet again
and we found that we were wrong.
That was a mistake.
I understand that mistakes
happen.
Mistakes happen a whole lot
more, almost entirely on one
side of the political aisle,
rather than the other
Steve, its kind of funny. How
that all works out
that man in the last video is
Utah Senator MIKE Lee member of
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
He joins us right now,
Senator Lee Good Morning to
you
good Morning,
Steve, you know what was
different about yesterdays
hearing was members of the
Senate Judiciary Committee had a
whistleblower from inside and
told him about these secret
tools that nobody had heard
about and the platforms that
they use.
Zuckerberg was asked about
tasks which is a program a
tool used to coordinate.
You know. Censorship, essentially,
is what you said,
but also they talked about
this program called Sentra
and they they asked Mark
Zuckerberg about SEN trap.
He said I never heard of that
Facebook officials were saying
yes, that is something we have
been using for a while.
Yes,
this is just one more
indication Steve the fact that
these two social media platform
giants Facebook and Twitter have
been offering one thing to the
public that is offering to their
customers neutral platform. Where
people can have a conversation,
they said we do not put our
thumb on the still politically.
We are unbiased and in fact they
are offering a very different
product than that that violates
section fifty six, the Federal Trade
Commission ACT because its an
unfair or deceptive trade
practice.
When you offer one thing and
provide another, that is not the
thing you promised thats
against the law
and thats a big problem. We
uncovered that in great
abundance. Yesterday, thats this
is going to be a big problem for
these two tech giants.
Ainsley senator Feinstein had a
chance to talk yesterday and was
talking about president trumps
social media and how that
insights, violence.
Listen to this
im really struck by it that people armed with assault
people armed with assault
weapons as a product of a tweet,
could rally outside of an
election office.
I think its a serious issue
that needs to be considered
and there need to be once you
signal that, and people respond
to it. It has to be in some way
abated or some way pointed out
or restructured on the internet
itself.
Ainsley and your response to
her was the only violence im
aware of is from Antifa.
What else do you want to say
this morning?
Well, yeah,
look you had Washington D, DOT C
full to overflowing, with
peaceful trump protesters.
People protesting signaling
their support for president
Trump
and showing gratitude tore for
him.
Not one act of violence was
attributed to them.
Meanwhile, you had people
shooting industrial strength,
fireworks into places where they
were eating.
You had people approaching and
beating up and saying vile
things and putting people in
physical danger, including
elderly people, including women
and children.
All of this was done by trump
haters
by Antifa people who couldnt
handle the fact that there were
people peacefully showing their
support for president Trump.
So I dont know what my
colleague Senator Feinstein is
talking about,
but I thought that was
inappropriate comment.
Not one act of violence has been
linked to President Trump in
connection with events
surrounding this election
and I think she needs to recant
her statement and apologize.
Brian remember Senator Cory
Booker, who just wreaks of
politics didnt, want to get to
the bottom of this. In my
judgment,
what are we going to do about
the President and his twitter? We
thought about that executives,
unbelievable coordination there
Senator Lee. I did notice that
you brought up the Anti Biden
ads about abortion.
I did notice you brought up Mark
Morgans account was frozen.
Sorry about that. Shouldnt have
done that we will look into it
at the end of it. I thought to
myself I learned a lot but
whats going to change.
I understand that Republicans
Democrats and these executives
kind of agree that they should
let everybody know about their
path towards transparency.
What goes into their decisions
we would is unlike to know,
and we also have a regulatory
framework they are asking for an
update.
Last one was one hundred and ninety six.
What are we going to get?
Can you guys work together to
get something regardless of what
they want?
What are you going to give them?
Okay,
I think we can give a few
things.
First of all, I think, no matter
what they are now headed for a
major overhaul of section, two hundred and thirty of
the telecommunications Decency
act.
It is going to subject them
perhaps to liability. There could
be other changes that take them
outside of the two hundred and thirty protection
if they dont stop providing
misinformation
if they dont stop lying to
their own customers.
I also think that out of this,
even under existing law,
even between now and whenever we
can bring about such changes to
section two hundred and thirty,
I think they have now given more
than enough information to the
Federal Trade Commission to be
subject to aggressive action by
the Federal Trade Commission for
violating section. Five of the
Federal Trade Commission acted
because they have engaged in
unfair and deceptive trade
practice.
So I think there is a path
forward here,
but yeah yesterday they made
very clear that they have lied
to their own customers.
They have lied to their people
on the left in order to punish
the right and make sure that the
left wins.
This isnt fair,
especially when they speak state
sponsored media. They are
speaking with an air of official
thats, not right.
American people are not
Brian bent to over other
country, Vietnam and China and
oppressive rules. Whatever you
as long as we are allowed to
advertise, there
weave dont care when you do to
Muslims or your people or screen
out what Google does
just pay.
We just upght the ad revenue.
I think a lot of things were
exposed yesterday,
Steve all right, Senator Lee.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-18.