{"id":439722,"date":"2021-04-21T19:05:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T23:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=439722"},"modified":"2021-04-21T19:05:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T23:05:56","slug":"7-conservative-congressmen-vow-to-turn-down-big-techs-political-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/7-conservative-congressmen-vow-to-turn-down-big-techs-political-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Conservative Congressmen Vow To Turn Down Big Tech\u2019s Political Donations"},"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\">22<\/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%2F7-conservative-congressmen-vow-to-turn-down-big-techs-political-donations%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=439722&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\/04\/fb_image-3181.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Seven House Republicans on Wednesday signed a pledge stating they would not accept political donations from Big Tech companies, their Political Action Committees, or their executive employees.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buckforcolorado.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PLEDGE-FOR-AMERICA-1.pdf\">Pledge for America<\/a>,\u201d launched by Congressman Ken Buck (R-CO), specifically cites Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Twitter as companies that have a \u201cmonopoly\u201d on various markets. Other pledge co-signers include Chip Roy (R-TX), Greg Steube (R-FL), Ralph Norman (R-SC), Dan Bishop (R-NC), Burgess Owens (R-UT), and Andy Biggs (R-AZ).<\/p>\n<p>According to the pledge, \u201ceach one of these companies has used their monopoly power to stifle innovation and destroy competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the main issues the coalition has with the Big Tech companies is their \u201cunprecedented actions to silence political speech they disagree with.\u201d The congressmen cited various examples including YouTube deleting conservative channels, Twitter and Facebook permanently banning former President Donald Trump from their platforms, Amazon booting Parler from its web hosting services, and Google and Apple pulling the Parler app from their mobile stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs conservatives, we firmly believe in the free market and the free exchange of ideas. We will not continue to accept donations from companies who violate those convictions,\u201d the pledge states, later noting: \u201cThe threat posed by these monopolies is a real and present danger to conservatives, libertarians, and anyone who does not agree with these corporations\u2019 ultra-liberal points of view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/21\/technology\/republican-lawmakers-big-tech.html\">The New York Times<\/a>, four of the seven congressmen previously received political donations from Big Tech PACs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepresentatives Chip Roy of Texas, Gregory Steube of Florida and Andy Biggs of Arizona received a combined $3,500 in donations. Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina (not Oklahoma, as previously reported here) received $1,000 from Amazon\u2019s political committee,\u201d the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Even without the pledge, it is highly unlikely Big Tech companies would have sent donations to the representatives. Many of those corporations put a freeze on donations to those who objected to certifying the election results on January 6, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/11\/facebook-halts-political-donations-after-capitol-riot.html\">CNBC<\/a> reported. Congressmen Steube, Norman, Bishop, Owens, and Biggs voted against certifying the results in favor of President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven House Republicans on Wednesday signed a pledge stating they would not accept political donations from Big Tech companies, their Political Action Committees, or their executive employees.The \u201cPledge for America,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276426,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3181.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"7 Conservative Congressmen Vow To Turn Down Big Tech\u2019s Political Donations","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3181.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"7 Conservative Congressmen Vow To Turn Down Big Tech\u2019s Political Donations","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}