American Oligarchs
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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4.8 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Just two weeks before the election, Big Tech tyrants censored (read: completely hid) a bombshell story from the New York Post about Hunter Biden, and they are going to answer for it. Following his call to subpoena the Big Tech bosses to the Judiciary Committee room and following the DOJ’s decision to sue Google, Senator Cruz joins Michael Knowles to discuss why these moves are so important to the future of democracy in America and why allowing a few billionaires to have a monopoly over every means of communication is incredibly dangerous. Plus, is the Senator really a vegan?
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| 0:00.0 | We have all talked for months and months and years and years about the threats that big tech is posing to free expression, to the First Amendment, to our public square, to self-government itself. |
| 0:14.0 | Now, finally, the government is taking action. The Department of Justice is suing Google on the grounds of antitrust. The U.S. |
| 0:22.8 | Senate is going to subpoena, Jack Dorsey, and Mark Zuckerberg, the heads of Twitter and Facebook. |
| 0:29.2 | Big Tech is finally being called to account. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. |
| 0:41.8 | Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. |
| 0:45.4 | I'm Michael Knowles, joined as ever by Senator Cruz. |
| 0:50.1 | Senator, I like to think that on this show, we predict the future. |
| 0:55.4 | And I guess sometimes actually maybe affect the future because we're talking about laws that could be passed and big moves that could be taking place in the federal government. Last episode, we talked |
| 1:00.6 | about this crazy story with Big Tech censoring a New York Post investigation into Hunter Biden |
| 1:06.9 | and possible corruption involving Joe Biden. Big Tech suppressed the story, shut it down. |
| 1:12.2 | We also are going on for days. |
| 1:13.6 | Now it appears the federal government is taking action. |
| 1:16.5 | All I've seen are the headline, Senator, that the DOJ is going to try to break up Google |
| 1:20.7 | and that the Senate Judiciary Committee is going to subpoena the other heads of Big Tech. |
| 1:25.7 | What can you tell us about what is actually going on? |
| 1:28.3 | Well, sure. This has been a big and momentous week on multiple fronts, as you just noted, concerning big tech. |
| 1:35.3 | Let's start with Twitter and Facebook. And last week during the confirmation hearing on Judge Barrett, we had one story that came out Wednesday night. |
| 1:46.1 | That was the New York Post blockbuster story on Ukraine based on Hunter Biden's emails. |
| 1:54.2 | And alleging on its face, corruption by Joe Biden and that he had lied in saying that he had not met with |
| 2:04.9 | these Ukrainian oligarchs. The next day, Thursday, and we recorded a verdict podcast with that |
| 2:12.2 | information that night, because both Twitter and Facebook blocked that story. |
| 2:27.4 | If any individual user tried to tweet out that New York Post story, you got a warning sign that said you couldn't tweet it. |
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