President Trump and the US Congress are taking aim at Silicon Valley tech giants with Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google finding themselves the target of antitrust investigations.
The investigations have bi-partisan support in Congress with the Trump administration particularly eager to see them proceed as these same tech giants have shown blatant bias against both conservatives and supporters of the President.
This Monday the market value of Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc as well as Amazon and Facebook dropped by billions of dollars which was linked to a Department of Justice investigation and Federal Trade Commission investigation into these colossal companies.
Many Trump supporters have been calling for the Federal government to intervene and break up these companies for several years.
In reaction the tech giants and their social media networks have gone into overdrive in their suppression of conservative speech and banned numerous right-wing pundits and Trump supporters ahead of the 2020 election campaign.
Meanwhile, Democrats have demanded that these companies be even more censorious of hate speech, which is to say anything, factual or not, that contradicts their progressive agenda.
Facebook has insisted that is banning of even mentioning numerous media figures including Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones was part of an ongoing campaign against “individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology.”
However, many social media users have been quick to point out that Muslim and black figures and groups that promote hatred of Christians and white people are allowed to continue to operate without any censorship.
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