Indiana Attorney General Rokita said Wednesday (April 7) that he will review five major U.S. technology companies for potential harm to Indiana consumers through “abusive, deceptive or unfair” practices that suppress conservative speech.
The five companies to be reviewed are Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter.
The attorney general will specifically review programs that restrict consumer access to specific content, by which he means the act of removing or blocking conservative posts.
Rokita said, “It is harmful and unfair for these companies to manipulate content by not discussing it publicly, or in ways that consumers don’t fully understand.” He will also review allegations that attorney Vanita Gupta encouraged social media platforms to censor conservative voices.
Gupta is Biden’s nominee for deputy attorney general.
“Gupta’s tweets described the Republican National Convention last year as ‘racist, xenophobic and outrageous lies,'” said U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
Rokita has previously been critical of censorship on social media. His own postings have been blocked by Twitter before. In February, he posted a Valentine’s Day card with an image of Trump that read, “You stole my heart, just like the 2020 election.” Twitter immediately blocked the post from being retweeted and replied to, tagging it with a false message that could lead to violence.
Also on April 1, the Texas Senate passed a bill to restrict social media. The bill prohibits social media companies, which have 100 million users, from blocking, banning, deactivating or discriminating against any user because of their political views.
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