Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO): Democrats Are In Love With Big Tech’s Monopoly Power
On Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) reacted to former President Trump putting out a statement endorsing his book and why Democrats are not interested in limiting the power of Big Tech.
“I’m very grateful to the former President. Of course, he has a strong, strong record of standing up to these tech companies. And what they’ve tried to do to him is great evidence, it’s great proof of their monopoly power and the kind of control they have over speech in this country and they want to have over politics. If you think Big Tech isn’t powerful, just take a look at what they’ve done this week alone to the former President.”
“Democrats are really in love with this monopoly power because they think they could get the tech companies to do what government can’t do, to go out and censor speech, to go out and track Americans, surveil them and report back. And if the government did that, the First Amendment would stand in the way, or at least it should. But of course, big tech could do it without any legal process at all. But this will blow back on the left and we’re already seeing it. These companies want to have control over news, they want to have control over journalism, they want to run the country and they will unless we do something about it.”
“You think of the 75 million people approximately who voted for Donald Trump and the millions who voted for conservative candidates in other races. I mean, are those people, to use the Michael Jordan’s old phrase, did they not buy sneakers, too? I mean, are they not good customers? And what’s happening right now is these monopoly corporations think, hey, we’re so powerful, we don’t have to listen to half of our customers, we can just ignore them and force this down their throats. And this is why we need more competition in the marketplace. If we had more competition with these tech companies, they wouldn’t be able to censor conservatives and platform them with impunity. There be consequences because customers would say, heck, I’m going to go elsewhere.”
