PATTERN OF NOT CHALLENGING THE
RUSSIA CLAIMS ON RECORD.
JOINING ME IS THE HERITAGE
FOUNDATION TECH POLICY CENTER
ANALYST, WILL THEBOU.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE THIS
MORNING.
WHAT’S YOUR REACTION TO THE
TWITTER FILES?
>> GOOD MORNING, MARIA.
IT’S INTERESTING BECAUSE
PRESIDENT BIDEN WROTE AN OP-ED
IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WHERE
HE LAID OUT THREE POLICY REFORMS
ABOUT DIGITAL PRIVACY,
ANTI-TRUST, MARKET COMPETITION
PRESERVATION AND SECTION 230
REFORM THAT WE AT HERITAGE COULD
GET BEHIND GENERALLY.
YOU CAN’T TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY.
HE COMPLETELY IGNORED THE
TWITTER FILES.
WHAT I THINK WE LEARNED FROM
THESE RUSSIA GATE DROPS IS THE
THAT DEMOCRATS ARE
WELL-PRACTICED IN TEASING
LEGISLATIVE FIXES TO BIG TECH’S
TOTALITARIANISM AS LONG AS THE
COMPANIES HE OBEY CENSORSHIP
DEMANDS.
IT CAN’T CONTINUE LIKE THIS.
IT TYPICALLY HAPPENS THAT
THEY’LL ACCUSE RUSSIA OR SOME
OTHER FOREIGN ENTITY OF DOING
WHAT THE LEFT IS DOING AND FOR
THAT YOU CAN LOOK TO A FIRM LIKE
DEM CAST WHICH IS A HUGE DARK
MONEY BOT FIRM THE THAT DID
EXACTLY WHAT THEY THOUGHT OR
WANTED US TO BELIEVE RUSSIA WAS
DOING.
IT’S A DEEP STORY AND IT ONLY
GETS MORE TROUBLING.
MARIA: THAT’S RIGHT.
THAT’S THE STRATEGY OF THE LEFT.
WHATEVER THEY’RE DOING, THEY
COME OUT AND SAY THE OTHER SIDE
IS DOING AND WE CONTINUE TO SEE
EXPOSED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
YOU MENTIONED THAT OP-ED FROM
JOE BIDEN THIS WEEK.
WHAT A JOKE.
HE DOESN’T EVEN MENTION THE
TWITTER FILES.
HE DOESN’T EVEN MENTION THE
COLLUSION THE THAT WAS IN PLAIN
SIGHT AND HE’S TALKING ABOUT
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS
UNITING AGAINST BIG TECH ABUSES.
I DON’T KNOW WHY HE COMES OUT
WITH THIS YESTERDAY.
IT SEEMED LIKE IT WAS AN
EVERGREEN THAT WAS SITTING ON A
SHELF AND THEY SAID, WELL, LET’S
DISTRACT RIGHT NOW AND PUT THIS
OUT THERE.
IT WAS OBVIOUSLY NOT TALKING
ABOUT ANY OF THE ISSUES OF THE
DAY.
>> IT SHOWS HOW MUCH CONFIDENCE
HE HAS IN THE AMERICAN VOTER AND
THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD READ THAT
IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
AND THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT.
THERE IS A BIPARTISAN SOLUTION,
LIKE I SAID.
BUT THERE’S NO BIPARTISAN
SOLUTION THE IF PRESIDENT BIDEN
ISN’T WILLING TO SERIOUSLY
ADDRESS VIEWPOINT DISCRIMINATION
AND CENSORSHIP OF CONSERVATIVES
THAT WE ALL KNOW HAS BEEN
HAPPENING BUT IS EXPLICIT AND
CLEAR AT THE VERY LEAST SINCE
THE TWITTER FILES STARTED
DROPPING.
IF PRESIDENT BIDEN AND SENATE
DEMOCRATS ARE SERIOUS, THERE ARE
CONSERVATIVE VOTES TO GET EACH
POLICY PLANK THAT HE TALKED
ABOUT ACROSS THE FINISH LINE BUT
I’M NOT GOING TO HOLD MY BREATH
FOR THEM TO MEANINGFULLY PROTECT
THE ABILITY OF AMERICANS TO
SPEAK TRUTH ON THE INTERNET.
MARIA: YEAH.
I MEAN, NICK, JUMP IN HERE.
ARE YOU SURPRISED THAT THE
PRESIDENT COMES OUT WITH THIS
OP-ED THIS WEEK IN THE JOURNAL,
TALKING ABOUT UNITING AGAINST
BIG TECH ABUSES AND COMPLETELY
IGNORES THE FACT THAT HIS FBI
HAD, WHAT, 80 FBI AGENTS TASKED
WITH DEALING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA
SO THAT THEY COULD SUPPRESS THE
TRUTH AND AMPLY YOU PHI LIES.
>> AMPLIFY LIES.>> AND THEY WER
EMPLOYEES, PAYING THE BILL USING
TAXPAYER DOLLARS.
IT’S WORSE THAN WE COULD P
IMAGINE.
ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I HAVE,
THIS IS JUST THE TWITTER FILES,
WE DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FACEBOOK
OR GOOGLE FILES LOOK LIKE.
HOW MUCH BIGGER IS THIS?
THESE SOCIAL MEDIA AND TECH
GIANTS, THEY HAVE AN ENORMOUS
AMOUNT OF INFLUENCE OVER OUR
SOCIETY.
NOW WE HAVE ELECTED OFFICIALS
THAT ARE INFLUENCING THEM,
PRESSURING THEM TO LIE AND
DECEIVE THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.
WHAT SHOULD THE REPUBLICANS IN
CONGRESS BE DOING TO FIND OUT
WHAT’S GOING ON AT FACEBOOK AND
GOOGLE, NOT JUST TWITTER?
MARIA: YEAH, IT’S TRUE.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT,
WILL?
HOW MUCH MORE IS OUT THERE THAT
WE DON’T EVEN KNOW ABOUT?
>> LET’S NOT KID OURSELVES.
THERE IS A GOOGLE FILES, THERE
IS A FACEBOOK FILES AND WE DON’T
NEED TO WAIT FOR THOSE TO DROP
BEFORE WE TAKE SOME MEANINGFUL
ACTION.
I TEND TO THINK THAT SUNLIGHT IS
PRETTY GOOD MEDICINE SO LET’S AT
LEAST USE THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN
MAJORITY TO SHED SOME
DISINFECTANT ON THE ROT THAT
THESE COMPANIES ARE SPREADING
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
WE KNOW IT’S A SEAMLESS FABRIC
OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE
MILITARY, THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY, THE MEDIA, AND THE
LIBERAL REGIME AND THESE
COMPANIES.
THESE COMPANIES ARE AN EXTENSION
FOR THE REGIME TO PROMOTE
PROPAGANDA.
NOTHING LESS.
AS TIKTOK IS TO THE CHINESE
COMMUNIST PARTY, I THINK
TWITTER, FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE ARE
TO THE DEEP STATE AND TO THE
REGIME AND SO AS OF FENDED AS WE
ARE BY WHAT TIKTOK IS DOING TO
OUR CITIZENS AND TO OUR PUBLIC
DISCOURSE, WE SHOULD HAVE THAT
SAME LEVEL OF ANGST AND ANGER
EVEN AT WHAT SOME OF THESE
QUOTE, UNQUOTE, AMERICAN PRIVATE
COMPANIES ARE DOING TO OUR
PUBLIC DISCOURSE AND MEANINGFUL
HEY PREVENT THEIR ABILITY TO
OPERATE AS THEY HAVE.
MARIA: YOU YOU.MARIA: WILL, G