Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton slammed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Wednesday on the tech giant’s own platform after Dorsey sent out a tweet asking how his company could earn more users’ trust.
Delete your account. https://t.co/PyW9mMPyoG
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) October 28, 2020
The tweet came several hours after Dorsey testified before the Senate Commerce Committee, along with Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, over the tech giants’ seeming censorship of conservative content on their social media platforms.
The hearing kicked off with committee Chairman Roger Wicker referencing Twitter’s and Facebook’s suppression of a New York Post story about information on three laptops apparently owned by Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, related to alleged foreign pay-to-play business transactions.
“These recent incidents are only the latest trail of censorship and suppression of conservative voices on the internet,” Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, said during the hearing. “Reasonable observers are left to wonder whether Big Tech firms are obstructing the flow of information to benefit one political ideology.”
Republicans such as Wicker and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas want Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which gives liability protections to online social media platforms, to be eliminated or reformed, but the tech CEOs argued the provision is necessary for free speech online.
