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Exclusive Cruz: Big Tech Growing Threat to Our Democracy Breitbart

Cruz, one of the Senates loudest big tech critics, spoke to Breitbart News after he sent a letter to United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, urging him to remove language that would enshrine Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada and U.S.-Japan trade agreement.

Cruz contended in his letter to Lighthizer that enshrining Section 230 in those trade agreements would be a mistake and block Congress from amending the law in the future.

Cruz serves as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, in which he has held many hearings chastising big tech censorship and its dominance on the Internet.

The Texas senator said that big techs censorship serves as a fundamental threat to Americas democratic system of government by stifling free speech on the Internet.

Weve heard witness after witness testify; weve seen the evidence pile up of big tech silencing voices with which it disagrees.

Shadow banning conservatives, shadow banning anyone who does not follow the political orthodoxy of a handful of big tech Silicon Valley billionaires.

What is new is the ability of big tech to silently disappear the voices of those with which they disagree and simultaneously and equally silently amplify the voices with which they agree, and theres no transparency, theres no accountability, he added.

Professor Robert Epstein told the senator during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in July that Google could manipulate millions of voters into voting for Democrats during the 2020 election using their biased search engine.

In 2020 if all these companies are supporting the same candidate there are 15 million votes on the line that can be shifted without peoples knowledge, and without leaving a paper trail for authorities to trace, Epstein said.

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