Ted Cruz confronts Google with an internal presentation showing how tech companies are leaning toward censorship

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Ted Cruz confronts Google with internal presentation showing Big Tech leaning toward censorship

Google vice president for government affairs & public policy Karan Bhatia made his first public testimony Tuesday.

Senator Ted Cruz opened his questioning with an acquired 2018 presentation that showed tech firms including Google, are unbalanced when it comes to free speech.In his first line of questioning forduring a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz, R-Tx., displayed a Google presentation dated 2018 suggesting that tech firms, including Google, were moving away from unmediated free speech and toward censorship.

Google Vice President for Government Affairs & Public Policy, Karan Bhatia appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss censorship through search engines on Tuesday. Google has faced concern from Republican politicians including Senator Cruz, who allege the company censors right-leaning search results.

Cruz showed a presentation slide that read "Tech firms are performing a balancing act between two incompatible positions." The slide included logos from

 

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Rafael needs to go back to his own country.

The problem for Ted Cruz is when an algorithm tries to limit hate speech, it tends to censor Republicans more than Democrats. That's probably because Republicans lean more towards hate than your average Democrat.

Then we have the Tweeter in Chief leaning towards “all racism, all the time”. Which do you choose, and why?

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