[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 189 (Tuesday, December 6, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8782]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           PREVENTING COMMUNICATION DURING PROTESTS IN CHINA

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to address the problems in 
China, the protests in China, and the degree to which perhaps the 
largest American corporation, Apple corporation, out of sheer greed, is 
weighing in and preventing protesters from communicating with each 
other.
  Their CEO, Tim Cook, who is making over $90 million a year, is right 
now preventing AirDrops from being made between different protesters. 
Without communicating with each other, those protests will not succeed.
  China right now has one of the most repressive regimes in the world, 
atheistic totalitarianism. It has been the greatest threat to freedom 
in this country for the last 100 years.
  It is disappointing, though perhaps not surprising, that American 
corporations, the wealthiest country in the world, cannot resist 
shutting down free speech in China to make a few more dollars.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge Congress to act and do something with these large 
corporations that, in America as well, have a monopoly on free speech, 
a monopoly on communication, and are using it to support atheistic 
totalitarianism.

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