Texas AG Fires Back at Big Tech for Trump Censorship, Parler Purge

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Despite Big Tech’s efforts to silence conservatives on Parler, one state’s Attorney General will not stand for it. 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has demanded answers from several Big Tech companies about the suppression of the free speech-oriented platform Parler.

Paxton has “issued civil investigative demands (CIDs) to Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon Web Services, and Apple, asking the companies for their policies and practices regarding content moderation and, more specifically, for information related to Parler, a social media application recently terminated or blocked by Google, Amazon, and Apple,” according to a Jan. 13 press release.

“For years, these Big Tech companies have silenced voices in the social media sphere and shut down competing companies and platforms. It has only grown worse in recent months. And just last week, this discriminatory action included the unprecedented step of removing and blocking President Donald Trump from online media platforms,” said the release. 

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Paxton’s investigation followed the recent purge of Parler from Apple and Google’s app stores, Amazon went so far as to remove the website from its web hosting servers. 

“First Amendment rights and transparency must be maintained for a free online community to operate and thrive. However, the seemingly coordinated de-platforming of the President of the United States and several leading voices not only chills free speech, it wholly silences those whose speech and political beliefs do not align with leaders of Big Tech companies,” said Paxton in a statement.  

“Every American should be concerned about this large-scale silencing and the effects it will have on the future of free speech. The public deserves the truth about how these companies moderate and possibly eliminate speech they disagree with,” he continued. 

“I am hopeful that these companies will set aside partisan politics and cooperate with these CIDs in order to get to the bottom of this contention and ensure a truly free online community consistent with the highest American ideals,” Paxton concluded.

Parler, too, will not go quietly into the night. The platform has brought a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that the company “violat[ed] Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act” and “breaching [its] contract with Parler.” 

Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on “hate speech” and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

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6 Comments

  1. GET RID OF 230! If you are going to edit, prevent free speech, free communication, and conversation? That IS NOT FREEDOM! IT’S TYRANNY AND DICTATORIAL BEHAVIOR! Do what I say or else! SCREW YOU! Think what I tell you to think! You are asking to have your ass handed to you, on no uncertain terms! You are messing with America’s freedoms and she will turn around and kick your ass! BIG TIME!

    1. AMEN revoke 230…this is STILL A FREE COUNTRY and we need to execute, imprison those communists that want to destroy it!! Bravo ATTY PAXTON for going after them..for Parler, twitter, you tube, google, rally point…its time to WEED OUT these demonic scum…If they aren’t pedophiles, then they are luciferians..whatever we DO NOT NEED THEM IN THIS COUNTRY…imho

    2. With Trump leaving office, hopefully peacefully, the strains of “Deutschland Uber Alles” are beginning to grow slightly softer. The Fraudulent AG shouldn’t be undertaking any long-term projects because with a little luck, they’ll get him to trial soon and make him a guest of the State of Texas. We have some wonderful facilities for him to spend his waning years in. Can we have a VOTE? I’LL VOLUNTEER to count votes.

  2. You Politicians need to quite telling Us Americans about the Crimes you all commit and the BS Tech companies and Start doing your job. This is a crime so issue a Frickin warrant and arrest the POS.

    All you are accomplishing is showing America just how ineffective and cowardly you are.

    Make them conform to the Law or Our Law abiding citizens might not vote ………..!

  3. The law should read; “If you can’t be neutral you cannot be”. Simple as that. Don’t need 5,000 pages.

  4. I wonder how long they’ll take before banning him? I definitely agree that 230 has to go, or at least me modified to prevent the very thing happening now. I hope we have enough honest judges out there.

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