[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 110 (Thursday, June 24, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3118]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          IMPACT OF BIG TECH CENSORSHIP IN FIGHT AGAINST COVID

  (Mr. ROSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROSE. Mr. Speaker, for far too long, the mainstream media and Big 
Tech companies like Twitter, Google, and Facebook have used their power 
to censor one type of speech while favoring and promoting other speech 
that they prefer in an attempt to manipulate public discourse.
  There is even evidence that the mainstream media and Big Tech use 
their own judgment to suppress information related to the origins of 
coronavirus as well as available medication and treatment options.
  In December 2020, shortly after medical professionals and infectious 
disease specialists testified before the United States Senate on the 
effectiveness of COVID-19 treatments, Google's YouTube removed the 
testimony from their online platform. The big takeaway is that these 
conglomerates have been complicit in limiting discussion of facts and 
evidence about the COVID-19 pandemic to the detriment of the American 
people.
  We must rein in Big Tech and the mainstream media's abusive and 
monopolistic practices that have led to an abundance of censorship, 
views, and opinions deemed, in their own judgment, to be objectionable.

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