After years of dismissing the issue of Big Tech censorship, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler (D-NY) found out that censorship is no joke after it impacted his party’s presidential candidate.
In a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Nadler asked the Republican lawmaker to support his investigation of alleged limits placed on Vice President Kamala Harris’s X account. “Numerous users have recently reported being blocked from following Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign handle @KamalaHQ,” Nadler wrote.
Tried to follow the @KamalaHQ account & X gave me the below message & blocked me from following:
— Alyssa Farah Griffin (@Alyssafarah) July 22, 2024
Bizarre. I follow under 1,000 people. pic.twitter.com/PY85vdeIIi
Nadler was sure to remind Jordan about the Ohio congressman’s unwavering pro-free speech stance. “Given your long track record of fighting against political discrimination on the platform ‘town squares’ of American discourse, I trust that you will join me in requesting additional information from X regarding this apparent censorship of a candidate for President of the United States,” the New York congressman added.
Tellingly, Nadler ignored the fact that he has repeatedly criticized his colleague for said track record and dismissed the issue of Big Tech censorship. In 2023, for instance, Nadler dismissed Twitter Files’ evidence that blatantly pointed to the FBI’s collusion with Twitter to censor Americans’ free speech.
“The Republicans will make false claims about the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, claiming that it is somehow censoring conservatives,” Nadler retorted at the time. “According to committee Republicans, the Task Force’s efforts to track and prevent foreign influence operations amount to attacks on conservative speech.”
He went on to label this censorship concern a “nonsensical claim, considering that the Foreign Influence Task Force has nothing to do with censoring American free speech, and in fact, helps to ensure that American voices are heard by stopping Russian troll farms.”
In 2018, Nadler also attempted to derail a House Judiciary Committee hearing inquiring about censorship and content curation on Facebook, Twitter, Google Search and YouTube. Instead, he made a motion to discuss the Mueller report investigating former President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia in 2016.
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