Posted on 06/07/2021 3:17:39 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, argued on "Sunday Morning Futures" that "it now is clear" that Facebook was "utilizing their monopoly position to censor on behalf of the government" regarding information related to COVID-19 and its origins.
Cruz made the comment reacting to Facebook saying on May 26 that it would no longer ban posts suggesting COVID-19 is man-made amid mounting calls from President Biden and other officials for further investigation into the pandemic’s origins.
The announcement marked a reversal for the social media giant. In February, Facebook said it would remove posts claiming the virus was man-made or manufactured "following consultations with leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization" who had "debunked" the claim.
"These latest breakthroughs have real consequence because it now is clear that Facebook was operating at the direction of and in the direct benefit of the federal government and operating as the government's censor, utilizing their monopoly position to censor on behalf of the government," Cruz told host Maria Bartiromo.
He then called it "a very dangerous admission that is now out there for Facebook," explaining that there could be legal ramifications for anybody "whose speech was censored by Facebook" on the topic.
"If you went out and posted the facts that led a year ago to the very strong likelihood that the COVID virus escaped from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan, China, if you posted that a year ago and they took it down, I think there's a very good argument you have a cause of action against Facebook," Cruz said.
"Facebook would ordinarily say, ‘We’re a private company, we’re not liable,’" he continued.
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My first reaction-
Which government?
Deep State
Stealth 0bama
Pedophile Joe
Dr. Mengele-Fauci
There are so many running simultaneously its hard to keep track.
Big Business and Big Government are functionally the same so their claims at being a private business (and thus allowed to censor anyone they want on their platform) is a bit disingenuous at best.
You forgot the ChiComs.
Cruz is all talk like the rest of the conservative movement. When DJT was in there and they had the House & Senate they did squat.
Fauxi and Zuckerberg talked via email.
Facebook censored people for benefit of one person in fedgov, Fauxi.
Facebook proves itself to be a content provider, not a content carrier, and as such is not to be granted waivers for liability under Section 230.
Facebook should be named as a coconspirator in the war crimes trial that must be held. The twit CEO should be held in GTMO while he is personally being tried as a mass murderer and traitor to the country.
If that is true then both should be put on trial for complicity of mass murder. If the United States government won't convene that trial maybe another country would? Surely the entire world is not in the bag for the CCP! 3,745,235 deaths worldwide!
There’s one subject they talk about that is redacted. I’m thinking it probably has to do with the many millions of dollars Zuckerberg poured into the election.
When DJT was in there and they had the House & Senate they did squat.
My first reaction, too.
Honesty, this censoring crap has gone on too long. Seriously, banning a President from facebook and twatter? Should be wholly unacceptable.
Yep, censoring a President, I'm sorry, should have been stopped DAY 1.
Ping.
“Facebook would ordinarily say, ‘We’re a private company, we’re not liable,’” he continued.
“Well, you know what, when they act at the behest of the government, when they contact [Anthony] Fauci, when they say, ‘Should we censor this?’ and Fauci says, ‘Yes’ and they censor it for the federal government and then magically when the government changes its mind, and say, ‘Oh, all those facts that were there a year ago, now you’re allowed to talk about it,’ they stopped censoring it with a flip of a switch, that lays a very strong argument that Facebook is operating as a state agency and that opens very significant legal liability.”
A Facebook spokesperson did not respond to Fox News’ request for comment to Cruz’s statements
BTTT.
That’s right. He said it!
Cruz: Fauci Led a ‘Systematic’ Effort to ‘Mislead the American People’
Cruz said, “I have to say this email dump that came out makes clear that this is not just being sloppy, it is systematic and systemically an effort to mislead the American people. As you noted, he wasn’t doing it alone, but he was doing it with much of the U.S. government behind him, and with Facebook and big tech operating as an extension of the U.S. government in order to silence any views that disagreed not with the science because he wasn’t looking for the science, he was suppressing the science but rather trying to silence anything that disagreed with the political narrative that was convenient that he was pushing at that moment.”
Discussing emails between about Facebook and Fauci, Cruz said, “It now is clear that Facebook was operating at the direction of and in the direct benefit of the federal government and operating as the government’s censor, utilizing monopoly position to censor on behalf of the government. That’s a dangerous admission that’s out there for Facebook because it means anybody in the country and anybody in the world whose statements, whose statement was censored by Facebook, if you went out and posted the facts that led a year ago to the very strong likelihood that the COVID virus escaped from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan, China, if you posted that a year ago and they took it down, I think there’s a very good argument that you have a cause of action against Facebook.”
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