"I'm not taking money from the Big Tech companies, and I've encouraged other Republicans not to do that, and I've started a pledge – we've got a number of Republicans that have signed that pledge – making sure that the public understands that we're not going to be in any way influenced by these big tech companies," he said.
"Big Tech is out to get conservatives. But rather than address Republican concerns of bias and censorship on the internet, Democrats spent the last two days pushing radical antitrust legislation that will systematically change the United States economy as we know it," Jim Jordan said last month of bills that many Republicans supported as well.
Buck said that the differences within the GOP come from a"healthy debate," and that he's"not attributing bad motives to anybody that doesn't agree with me on this anti-trust area." Fighting big tech has been a hot issue on the right at CPAC – where there are multiple forums on the topic – and more generally. Former President Donald Trump even announced a class-action lawsuit, which experts say is nearly certain to fail, against big tech companies over alleged censorship.