What You Need to Know About Big Tech’s Crackdown on Trump, Parler

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🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Following the mob violence at the U.S. Capitol last week, Facebook suspended President Donald Trump from its platform, and Twitter followed suit shortly thereafter.

Over the weekend, Google and Apple removed Parler, a social media platform widely used by conservatives, from its app stores. Then, Amazon suspended Parler from its web services Sunday evening. Now, many Americans are voicing their concerns over the power such platforms have to limit free speech.

Klon Kitchen, director of the Center for Technology Policy at The Heritage Foundation, joins the show to explain why Twitter and Facebook say they banned the president, and why Google, Apple, and Amazon are actively suppressing Parler.

Kitchen also explains what laws and reforms are needed to keep the power of technology giants in check.

We also cover these stories:

Democrats file an impeachment article against Trump, citing the Jan. 6 unrest at the Capitol.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., asks that Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas be removed from the Senate following their attempts to object to the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
The social media platform Parler sues Amazon after being suspended from Amazon Web Services.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, January 12th. I'm Rachel Del Judas.
0:09.9	And I'm Virginia Allen.
0:11.8	Twitter and Facebook have banned President Trump
0:15.2	from their platforms and Google, Apple, and Amazon
0:18.6	have suppressed the social media platform Parlor
0:22.3	Clon Kitchen, the director for the Center for Technology Policy at the Heritage Foundation,
0:27.0	joins the podcast to explain what you need to know about the actions of these big tech companies.
0:33.8	And don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast,
0:36.5	please be sure to leave a review or a five star rating
0:39.5	on Apple Podcasts and encourage others to subscribe. Now on to our top news.
0:45.0	Democrats have filed an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump
0:56.0	citing Wednesday's unrest at the Capitol, authored by Democrats David
1:00.0	Sisolini of Rhode Island, Ted Lou of California, and Jamie Raskin of Maryland. The
1:05.0	Cisselini of Rhode Island, the article says that Trump was willfully inciting violence
1:08.0	against the government of the United States
1:10.0	and adds that President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of government.
1:17.3	He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with a peaceful transfer of power, and imperiled a colloquial branch of government.
1:26.2	He thereby betrayed his justice president to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Democrats issued a resolution on the House floor Monday, calling for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the President from office.
1:42.0	Republicans blocked the immediate consideration of the resolution with one objection
1:46.8	from Representative Alex Mooney, Republican of West Virginia.
1:50.6	House rules allow one objection to delay consideration of such a resolution.
1:56.8	In a statement Monday, Muni said, Speaker Pelosi should not attempt to adopt a resolution of this magnitude without any debate on the
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