17 Republican AGs DEMAND Google Not Censor Pro-Life Clinics

mrc NewsBusters ^ | July 26, 2022 | Catherine Salgado

[Morgana]

A group of Republican attorneys general are warning Google of potential legal action if the tech company buckles to leftist pro-abortion pressure to target pro-lifers.

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron are leading a group of 17 Republican attorneys general across the U.S. who are uniting against Google’s reported censorship of pro-life center search results.

Democrat lawmakers and the leftist Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) have demanded that Google sic its activist censors against pro-lifers. The attorneys general warned Google of potential legal action in the letter, as Daily Wire reported. The pro-abortion leftists have called pregnancy centers “anti-abortion fake clinics.”

The letter noted that some politicians now “seek to wield Google’s immense market power by pressuring the company to discriminate against pro-life crisis pregnancy centers.” Google’s influence and reach would make pro-abortion censorship a “grave assault on the principle of free speech,” the attorneys general wrote.

“As the chief legal officers of our respective States, we the undersigned Attorneys General are extremely troubled by this gallingly un-American political pressure,” the letter said.

The attorneys general called it “unconscionable” for congressional Democrats to call for the federal government to shut down pro-life centers, noting that crisis pregnancy centers provided $266 million worth of free services to almost 2 million clients in 2019. Those services included post-abortive care and recovery counseling, baby clothes, car seats, pregnancy tests, and ultrasounds.

MRC Free Speech America previously highlighted 67 cases of pro-abortion calls for violence on social media against pro-life clinics and others following the Supreme Court’s overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. Social media companies allowed many of the violent posts to remain displayed scot free.

The attorneys general proposed taking action against Google if it continues to acquiesce to leftist demands for pro-abortion censorship. “We wish to make this very clear to Google and the other market participants that it dwarfs: If you fail to resist this [pro-abortion] political pressure, we will act swiftly to protect American consumers from this dangerous axis of corporate and government power.”

Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency and an 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.

[combat_boots]

The Gorg responds, “Make me.”

[Brian Griffin]

Google has a perfect right to refuse to post information.

And states have a perfect right to break google, which has excessive market power, into two or three.

[SoConPubbie]

I see my state’s AG(ID) was too much of a coward to join in.

[I want the USA back]

Google is very much a slave to the democrat party. What does the dem party give them in return?

[married21]

I’d like to know which 17 states’ AGs these are. 👍

[SoConPubbie]

I’d like to know which 17 states’ AGs these are. 👍

It's there, but you have to go three layers deep to find it.

[JoJo354]

I don’t understand why the left thinks the right hates them because of abortion. We don’t hate them...we feel they are going down the wrong path but that isn’t hate...it’s an opinion!

[Subcutaneous Fishstick Blues]

Between incidents like this, crazy Lizzy Warren's rant that crisis pregnancy centers are "tricking" women into not having abortions and the attacks on the centers themselves, it seems we can safely retire the term "pro-choice".

I guess that the late great Rush Limbaugh was right, once again, when he coined the word "feminazi" and defined it to mean those feminists who become upset when a woman carries a baby to term and gives birth.

[deks]

Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, West Virginia

Read the letter here...

https://www.oag.state.va.us/files/StateAttorneysGeneralLettertoGoogleJuly21,2022.pdf

[Chickensoup]

The appropriate response is to arrest their top management

[RobertoinAL]

Thanks you Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.

[libertylover]

The letter noted that some politicians now “seek to wield Google’s immense market power by pressuring the company to discriminate against pro-life crisis pregnancy centers.” Google’s influence and reach would make pro-abortion censorship a “grave assault on the principle of free speech,” the attorneys general wrote.

Generally speaking, I'm against bigger government, but I think these companies should be regulated like a utility. There's no way an electric company would be allowed to cut off electricity to someone because of their political beliefs.

[married21]

Thanks

[T.B. Yoits]

Google is long overdue to have their Section 230 protection removed. By censoring, they’re no longer a content carrier but a content publisher.