Live updates: Republicans fan allegations of tech company-government collusion at combative hearing

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The lights in a Capitol meeting room went dark while the Oversight committee was questioning former Twitter employees about censorship.

The First Amendment protects Americans from censorship by the government, not by private-sector companies, a key distinction in the debate over social media companies’ “censoring” online speech. Republicans’ justification for this hearing rests, in part, on the allegation that the government has at times pressured Twitter to suppress certain posts or accounts, which could raise some First Amendment questions. Even then, it’sRep.

showing communications in which the FBI and other federal agencies flagged posts and accounts for Twitter to review as possible violations of its rules.

 

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Did the lights go back on?

It must have got cloudy ..... or maybe the wind stopped blowing ..... so the diesel generators kicked in .....

Democracy dies in darkness...

Keep going when the lights come on, GOP! Nail ALL these weasels that try to stop FREE SPEECH!❤️🇺🇸❤️💪

🚨Metaphor alert!🚨

Yes isn't that something liberal Twitter let's get the word out. This is a free country stop suppressing the liberals viewpoint and let's get it out in the open so the people know, What many of us on the right already know. The Left is anti-American.

Republicans frantically regrouping for new tactics since their butt is getting handed to them by the Dems

Dam, I was having fun watching house Republicans looking like a bunch of clowns. Oh well, plenty of that more to come

How convenient.

The hearing will now resume at 2 p.m. because power has been restored, a committee aide said. The House Recording Studio is working on getting video up and running again, the person added.

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