Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), wrote on FoxNews.com Tuesday (May 18) that big tech companies in the United States are powerful and reach into every aspect of American life, but are taking sides in politics and blatantly suppressing right-wing voices. She said, “If they can get the president of the United States to ban his voice, then anyone can be banned.”
A translation of McDaniel’s article follows.
You’ve heard the news, right? America’s big tech oligarchy can deny you your constitutional right to free speech.
Earlier this month, the Facebook Oversight Board upheld the decision to ban President Trump (Trump) from using Facebook and Instagram, which he has been banned from Twitter for months.
These things prove what many conservatives already unfortunately know: Big Tech is a partisan player who suppresses the voices of the right because they are guilty of opposing the orthodox left.
Now, they have silenced the 45th President of the United States. This is just the latest and most egregious example of Big Tech’s clear bias against conservatives.
Recall that before the 2020 election, the New York Post published a series of in-depth stories about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings and a federal investigation related to his taxes.
Twitter hastily blocked the stories and unilaterally froze the New York Post’s account on Twitter. The New York Post, however, is one of the most well-known and widely circulated newspapers in the United States.
The disclosures made by the New York Post were later confirmed. A poll conducted after the scandal found that 13 percent of Biden voters would have voted for someone else if they had known about the Biden son scandal beforehand.
Rather than discriminating against others, Big Tech is ironically suppressing conservative voices at every level.
In the past few weeks, Twitter suspended the account of the chairwoman of the California Republican Party for 12 days with no explanation for her “suspicious activity” and permanently banned conservative radical James O’Keefe.
Twitter usually refers to these politically motivated bans as “mistakes. But for some reason, those errors in judgment always seem to be directed at the right.
You get more worried when you see who big tech companies allow to use their platforms. Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted an outright denial of the Jewish Holocaust. He is still tweeting.
Louis Farrakhan has repeatedly called for violence and publicly tweeted anti-Semitism. Twitter is not looking for trouble with him.
What about the representatives of the Chinese Communist government involved in the genocide against Uighur Muslims? Their accounts are safe, too. America’s enemies can use Twitter, but Big Tech wants to ban vocal conservatives.
Facebook and Twitter are both multi-billion dollar companies led by some of the richest people in the world. They are not accountable to voters and do not represent a politically diverse citizenry in the United States.
But they are pervasive in every aspect of American life, attract millions of users, and represent the public square of modern society. They have great power, yet they choose to take sides in politics and blatantly attack those who stray from the left-wing parties.
This is unacceptable. Some conservatives are taking real and effective action to counter Big Tech’s overwhelming political bias.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) is spearheading legislation to put the balance of power back in the hands of consumers, giving them greater control over their privacy and data, which Big Tech is known to abuse.
Missouri Republican U.S. Senator Josh Hawley recently introduced legislation to dismantle Silicon Valley’s technology oligarchy to reduce their corrupting and partisan control of public speech.
Republicans will continue to lead the fight to protect your rights against these Silicon Valley billionaires.
Every American needs to understand the lesson of Facebook’s recent ban on President Trump: If they can do it to a U.S. president, they can do it to you.
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