US House Panel Subpoenas Alphabet Over Content Moderation (yahoo.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/06/2138250/us-house-panel-subpoenas-alphabet-over-content-moderation
- Source link: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/us-house-panel-subpoenas-alphabet-192229968.html
> The U.S. House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Alphabet on Thursday [1]seeking its communications with former President Joe Biden's administration about content moderation policies . House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, a Republican, also [2]asked the YouTube parent company for similar communications with companies and groups outside government, according to a copy of the subpoena seen by Reuters. The subpoena seeks communications about limits or bans on content about President Donald Trump, Tesla CEO and close Trump ally Elon Musk, the virus that causes COVID-19 and a host of other conservative discussion topics.
"Alphabet, to our knowledge, has not similarly disavowed the Biden-Harris Administration's attempts to censor speech," Jordan said in a letter.
Meanwhile, Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said the company will "continue to show the committee how we enforce our policies independently, rooted in our commitment to free expression."
[1] https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/us-house-panel-subpoenas-alphabet-192229968.html
[2] https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/jordan-subpoenas-alphabet-documents-about-biden-harris-censorship-efforts
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Check the cabana room at Mar a Lago.
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Wrong administration, try again.
It's a legit question. If there were communications between Biden's people and Alphabet, there should be records.
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Where did you get the idea they kept records?
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Email doesn't delete itself. Texts don't either.
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No, because that would be a violation of the Presidential Records Act.
They have those records, but there isn't anything in them worth publishing, so it's time for a witch hunt show trial over culture war bullshit rather than doing real oversight of the idiots lighting everything on fire - that's what this Congress does best.
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How exactly would it be a violation of the Presidential Records Act if the House requested records from the Trump administration related to the activities of a previous administration and the Trump administration agrees to supply them?
Footgun? (Score:3)
If the implied records do in fact exist - and even if they don't - it seems likely that equivalent records for similar Republican requests also exist. Alphabet might choose to publicly release ALL such records. I'm sure that would make highly informative and entertaining reading.
Also entertaining would be the various interested parties' attempts to lie about, obfuscate, distract from, and spin the resulting data. So yes, by all means, release the records!
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Good.
Let's get a public realtime censorship, demonitization, and deletion log too.
And next week (Score:3)
They will subpoena the numbers...
How dare they! (Score:5, Insightful)
How dare they restrict my right to propagate and repeat conspiracy theories and "alt-facts", if I say they are true, they are true! I am the orange one, and my word is truth because it came from my lips. If anyone isn't repeating my new-facts, then they must be fake-news and must be banned from the White House press.
A witch hunt. (Score:3)
Trump's witch hunt.
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Let's start first with eXt, TS, and FaceXook/IntaXram and all the rest of them... TikTok may still be usable?
Jim Jordan (Score:1)
Jim Jordan allowed a doctor to sexually molest wrestlers and did nothing about it. He repeatedly defamed the victims. However he was 100% convinced the previous election was stolen.
Re:Jim Jordan (Score:5, Informative)
He's also been in Congress for 17 years and has authored exactly zero pieces of legislation, passed or otherwise. And he has sponsored only a handful of bills. In fact, the non-partisan Center for Effective Lawmaking - a joint project between the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University has rated his effectiveness as a legislator thusly:
Last Congress, only four lawmakers ranked below him.
He has ranked in the bottom five among House Republicans each of the past four Congresses.
He has ranked in the bottom quarter of House Republicans in every full Congress he served in.
Before this Congress, its data don’t record any bills Jordan sponsored passing or receiving any action — whether in committee or on the floor.
All he does is stir shit up and act like an asshole. I can't fathom why middle Ohio keeps sending him back when he's doing literally nothing for them.
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He talks big on TV.
The MAGA people are sick of his "strongly worded letters" and call him trash for never taking action.
"All hat, no cattle," as they say in Amarillo.
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So a DEI hire then?
Gym Jordan at it again (Score:3)
This is the dude that conspired to engage in witness tampering and intimidation. He also defied house subpoena.
the Alphabet Biden-Harris Censorship Efforts (Score:1)
[1]Jordan Subpoenas Alphabet for Documents about the Biden-Harris Censorship Efforts [house.gov]
“During the 118th Congress, the Committee's oversight uncovered how the Biden-Harris Administration repeatedly pressured online platforms to censor Americans directly and by proxy.”
“Following this oversight, Meta , the parent company of Facebook and Instagram , admitted that it was wrong to bow to the Biden-Harris Administration's demands, publicly committed to restoring free speech on its platforms, and
[1] https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/jordan-subpoenas-alphabet-documents-about-biden-harris-censorship-efforts
Microsoft is next (Score:2)
All the no-shows-to-inauguration are considered rogue. It's open season.
The most important matter right now (Score:5, Funny)
Doesn’t president Elon have more veterans to fire today?