{"id":575183,"date":"2021-06-28T08:50:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=575183"},"modified":"2021-06-28T08:50:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:50:36","slug":"mccarthys-letter-launches-gop-attack-on-big-tech-silencing-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthys-letter-launches-gop-attack-on-big-tech-silencing-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy\u2019s Letter Launches GOP Attack On Big Tech Silencing Conservatives"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmccarthys-letter-launches-gop-attack-on-big-tech-silencing-conservatives%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=575183&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\/05\/Kevin-McCarthy-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>On Sunday night, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanleader.gov\/framework-to-stop-the-bias-and-check-big-tech\/\">fired off a letter<\/a> to fellow House Republicans in which he exhorted them to confront Big Tech for their<em> \u201c<\/em>infringement of public speech rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy minced no words in the letter, writing, \u201cThe examples of conservative censorship and bias across internet platforms has proliferated. Each one of you are all too familiar with how Big Tech and its overwhelmingly liberal executives want to set the agenda and silence conservatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy then segued to Big Tech for implementing a \u201cgatekeeper effect\u201d that provides them \u201cthe ability to stack the deck,\u201d opining, \u201cIf your company or product doesn\u2019t meet the criteria of corporate wokeism, it\u2019s increasingly likely Americans won\u2019t find it on these platforms.\u201d He added, \u201cBig Tech wants higher corporate taxes because companies like Amazon know it\u2019s the entrepreneurs and disruptors who will have to pay more to try to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy then outlined three principles the GOP should use to buttress their reformation of how Big Tech does business: First, \u201ctaking away the liability shield Big Tech has hidden behind for far too long. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act would be changed to limit liability protections for moderation of speech that is not protected by the First Amendment and would preclude Big Tech from discriminating against Americans based on their political affiliation. We would also require regular reauthorization of Section 230 so Congress may update regulations of the constantly-evolving internet landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Section 230 of the U.S. Code\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/47\/230\">states<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><em>No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account ofany action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Critics have pointed out that the vague phrase \u201cotherwise objectionable\u201d gives broad license to sites such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter to censor material on a subjective basis.<\/p>\n<p>Second, McCarthy demanded that Big Tech exhibit more transparency about their terms of service, writing that Americans would be empowered by \u201cending Big Tech\u2019s ability to hide behind vague terms of service that have not constrained their conduct in any meaningful way. We will do so by mandating that any Big Tech content moderation decisions or censorship must be listed, with specificity, on a publicly available website. In addition, by requiring Big Tech to implement and maintain a reasonable user-friendly appeals process, our plan will empower conservatives and others whose speech rights have been infringed to challenge Big Tech\u2019s attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last, McCarthy is determined not to let the ponderous pace of government impede the reformation of Big Tech. He wrote: \u201cThe status quo and bureaucratic delays are not acceptable when it comes to bringing long-overdue antitrust scrutiny to Big Tech. We will provide an expedited court process with direct appeal to the Supreme Court and empower state attorneys general to help lead the charge against the tech giants to break them up. We will also reform the administrative state and remove impediments that delay taking action on Big Tech power. \u2026 I have more faith in elected state leaders than in the unelected federal bureaucracy, which is as ideologically homogeneous as Big Tech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cConservatives and our ideas have been targeted by Big Tech for too long. We must step up because make no mistake, the Democrats continue to demonstrate no interest in addressing fairness when it comes to conservative viewpoints. And they\u2019ll continue to use Big Tech to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday night, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy fired off a letter to fellow House Republicans in which he exhorted them to confront Big Tech for their \u201cinfringement of public &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281490,"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\/05\/Kevin-McCarthy-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"McCarthy\u2019s Letter Launches GOP Attack On Big Tech Silencing Conservatives","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kevin-McCarthy-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"McCarthy\u2019s Letter Launches GOP Attack On Big Tech Silencing Conservatives","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575183","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=575183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}