Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, attends a judicial confirmation hearing in the Senate Office Building on November 18, 2020.
Unregulated social media companies and unverified mail-in ballots will destroy us conservatism, Lindsey Graham, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has said. In response, Trump tweeted that he would veto the defense bill and definitely end Section230.
“I will veto the defense bill. It will upset the CCP,” Trump tweeted on Thursday morning. They like it. Must end Section 230, protect our national monuments, and allow the withdrawal of troops from distant and deeply ungrateful lands. Thank you very much!”
The tweet retweeted reports of Graham’s interview on Fox News’ “Hannity” on Monday. In an interview, he said there were two major threats to conservatism: massive, unverified postal voting and unregulated social media companies. He also noted that big tech companies cannot be sued when they delete conservative comments.
“They are politically biased.” “If we don’t fight back, social media companies and postal voting will destroy conservatism,” he said.
Mr. Graham also said he planned to introduce a new bill on Tuesday that would seek to end Section 230 of the Communications and Decency Act on Jan. 1, 2023. The provision protects big tech companies from lawsuits if they refuse to release information without good reason.
“Section 230 allows big tech companies to take down content without being sued, and they’re not regulated,” he says. “I don’t know of any business in the United States other than big technology companies that can’t be prosecuted for their actions and are not subject to any level of government oversight.”
Separately, a September 2020 poll showed that more than half of US voters supported the dissolution of big technology companies. Graham says there is actually bipartisan support in Congress for limiting these companies. He recounts how He was told by Democrats that he “hated these big tech companies” because they “abused their power” and had no checks and balances on the flow of information.
The censoring and blocking of speech by the big tech companies (facebook, twitter, Google, etc.) was most evident in the Hunter Biden “hard drive gate” (or “computer gate”) scandal that broke in October, and in the rigging of the 2020 us presidential election.
Earlier this month, Trump called for repeal of Section 230 to be included in the $740 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and warned he would veto the bill if it did not. On December 11th, however, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act without repealing Section 230.
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