Sen. Ted Cruz Blasts Google For Censorship Of The Federalist, Demands Answers About Collusion With NBC News
In his letter, Cruz points out the hypocrisy and irony presented by Google in this matter.
“Google’s decision to target The Federalist is transparently politically motivated,” noted Sen. Cruz. “Numerous ‘progressive’ media outlets allow comments, including, Huffington Post, Mother Jones, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Wonkette, Slate, Jezebel, The Root, Salon, The Intercept, The Young Turks, and many others.”
He also noted that “on any given day, there are thousands of profane, racist, and indefensible comments posted on YouTube, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Google.”
Cruz continued his letter by reprimanding Google for “abusing its monopoly power in an effort to censor political speech with which it disagrees” and naming a list of requests for Google to fulfill and provide information about to The Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee:
1. All communications in the past year between Google and the NBC News Verification Unit concerning The Federalist.
2. All communications in the past year between Google and the Center for Countering Digital Hate concerning The Federalist.
3. All internal communications or deliberations in the past year at Google or YouTube concerning The Federalist.