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In a letter outlining the pledge, the Republicans cite accusations of the tech companies “unprecedented actions to silence” conservative speech.
They noted Twitter and Facebook’s decisions to ban and suspend former President Trumps’ accounts, as well as Google, Apple and Amazon’s action taken against the fringe social network Parler after the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“These monopolies have shown that personal liberty can be threatened by corporate tyranny just as much as by government tyranny. They have demonstrated that they are willing to relegate those who do not agree with their worldview to the status of a second-class citizen by cutting dissenters’ access to the infrastructures of business and public discourse,” the Republicans wrote.