The BL website reports that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been asked to turn over all documents related to the censorship of conservatives.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee asked Amazon to respond to allegations of “systematic discrimination based on viewpoint” against conservative views.
The House Judiciary Committee formally requested that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos provide all correspondence related to alleged instances of censorship of conservative viewpoints.
The lawmakers wrote, “Big tech companies, including Amazon, are engaging in ‘systematic discrimination based on viewpoint. In the unfortunate phenomenon of ‘cancellation Culture,’ Amazon is playing a leading role in suppressing and censoring the political speech of conservative Americans,”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Okla.) and Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), senior members of the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law, cited examples in the letter that demonstrate a “pattern” of Amazon’s “containment, censorship and removal of content from its platform that supports conservative views.”
“There are examples of Amazon exerting editorial control over content on its various platforms in a manner that is biased against conservatives and conservative viewpoints,” the letter said.” These editorial decisions give the appearance of a coordinated effort to shut down conservative speech on Amazon’s platforms.”
The letter references author Abigail Shrier, who alleges that in June 2020 Amazon blocked an ad for her book “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Frenzy That Lured Our Daughters,” saying it prohibited questioning gender identity.
“And in February 2021, during Black History Month, Amazon removed a documentary related to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas without warning or notifying the documentary’s director,” the letter continued.
Jordan and Buck asked Bezos to turn over “all documents and communications” related to the conservative censorship described in the letter to the Judiciary Committee by 5:00 p.m. on March 25.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline (D-R.I.) declined to sign the request, despite Nadler’s claim that the Judiciary Committee’s ongoing antitrust investigation is a bipartisan effort.
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