{"id":1189295,"date":"2022-01-05T02:19:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T07:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1189295"},"modified":"2022-01-05T02:19:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T07:19:33","slug":"exclusive-j-d-vance-on-big-tech-there-are-things-on-twitter-i-dont-talk-about-because-i-know-they-will-silence-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-j-d-vance-on-big-tech-there-are-things-on-twitter-i-dont-talk-about-because-i-know-they-will-silence-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 J.D. Vance on Big Tech: There Are Things on Twitter I Don&#039;t Talk About Because I Know They Will Silence Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">46<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-j-d-vance-on-big-tech-there-are-things-on-twitter-i-dont-talk-about-because-i-know-they-will-silence-me%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1189295&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/JD-Vance-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">J.D. Vance, author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hillbilly-Elegy-Memoir-Family-Culture\/dp\/0062300555?tag=breitbart035-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><em>Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat from Ohio, said on Tuesday\u2019s edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/the-breitbart-news-daily-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\"><em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em><\/a> podcast with host Alex Marlow that he practices degrees of self-censorship online to evade digital bans across \u201csocial media\u201d platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Vance\u2019s remarks came in the context of a discussion of Twitter and Facebook\u2019s recent deletion of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s (R-GA) online profiles and the world\u2019s largest technology companies\u2019 increasingly broad political censorship and information control.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Vance identified the events of January 6 \u2014 dubbed an \u201cinsurrection\u201d by leftist and partisan Democrat news media \u2014 as one of several subjects aggressively policed by Big Tech to ensure compliance with its associated political narratives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are things on Twitter that I don\u2019t talk about,\u201d he said, \u201cbecause I know that there are certain issues where if you say what you actually think, it\u2019s going to increase the odds that they censor you, and so you have to kind of \u2014 on the one hand \u2014 be careful while you\u2019re getting your message out, which is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Public discourse is corrupted as people engage in self-censorship due to fears of being deplatformed by Big Tech\u2019s enforcement of its sacred cow narratives, Vance observed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He continued, \u201cThat fact that I know that if I ask too many questions \u2013 I can tweet a little bit about the January 6 detainees, and I do \u2013 but if you ask too many questions, that\u2019s when it gets dangerous, and I think the fact that that goes on in the back of our minds and \u2026 the fact that I even have to think about how far over the line I can go before they silence me is basically destroying my ability to reach a big audience, just goes to show these companies are too powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vance called for breaking up Big Tech companies to facilitate competition and decentralize control over the digital flow of information and online discourse.<\/p>\n<p>He stated, \u201cUnless you have, basically, the threat of these companies being broken up, the threat of treating these companies as common carriers \u2014 if you if you own a private highway in Ohio, you can\u2019t discriminate against people based on their political viewpoints or their race \u2014 I think the Internet, the modern information superhighway, should be treated in the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued,&nbsp;\u201cA big part of, what\u2019s a driving the censorship machine with Big Tech is these companies are just too big, and they are too powerful. When you have that much concentrated power, it leads to censorship. It leads to control. I think we should break these companies up. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp is actually the same company. Those should be at least three separate companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazon controls the entire modern hardware infrastructure of the Internet,\u201d he remarked. \u201cWe should not allow that to happen. We should forcibly break them up and create more competition in the same way that Teddy Roosevelt created competition in the steel industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>He proposed, \u201cWe should be thinking about common carrier regulations for Twitter. If Twitter was subjected to common carrier [regulations], it would not have kicked off a sitting U.S. congresswoman. It would just be illegal. She would have a right of access. She would be able to sue them&nbsp;them in court, say, \u2018Reestablish it, give me back my platform. You can\u2019t kick me off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Big Tech\u2019s increasing consolidation of control over the Internet is the primary threat to American welfare, Vance held, describing the hazard as an existential risk to free speech and expression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we\u2019re unsuccessful [in defeating Big Tech censorship], it doesn\u2019t matter how secure or unsecure our elections are, doesn\u2019t matter how good our candidates are, doesn\u2019t matter how right we are on the philosophy or on the public policy,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we cannot debate our ideas, if our candidates cannot reach their constituents, if voters cannot even hear what we\u2019re saying, then we are never going to win another national or important state election in this country again. This is the issue, in my view, because it covers all the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The<em>&nbsp;Breitbart News Daily&nbsp;<\/em>podcast is&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/the-breitbart-news-daily-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">available<\/a>&nbsp;for listening and download via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Breitbart News Daily broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.D. 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