'Testing the Death Star': Ted Cruz says 'evil' Google has become 'the Empire in <i>Star Wars</i>'

By Spencer Neale

Published June 17, 2020 9:04pm ET

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'Testing the Death Star': Ted Cruz says 'evil' Google has become 'the Empire in <i>Star Wars</i>' — Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., left, and Senate Transportation subcommittee chair Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listen during a Senate Transportation subcommittee on commercial airline safety, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 27, 2019, in Washington. Two recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes, in Ethiopia and Indonesia, which killed nearly 350 people, have lead to the temporary grounding of models of the aircraft and to increased scrutiny of the FAA's delegation of a number of aspects of the certification process to the aircraft manufacturers themselves. | AP Photo / Alex Brandon

Sen. Ted Cruz claimed Google was acting like villains from Star Wars after an NBC News article claimed the company had barred two conservative websites from earning ad revenue.

“Google today has become like the Empire in Star Wars,” Cruz, a Republican from Texas, told Fox News host Dana Perino on Wednesday. “What they’re doing with this step is testing the Death Star.”

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