Rep Matt Gaetz says he is filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over Twitter’s election interference. Gaetz is one of the happy warriors in the House that leaves you wishing they were in the Senate rather than the RINO milquetoasts that resides there now. If any of the RINOs were to lose their next primary race, I would consider it a pick up for Republicans. Gaetz appeared on the Tucker Carlson Show and warned of the consequences of allowing social media to try to put the fix in the 2020 elections.
Gaetz is partnering with Missouri Senator Josh Hawley to offer a bill that will rewrite Section 230 that would expose social media platforms as being publishers and not merely platforms. Once they began censoring conservative voices, they quit being uninterested platforms. They have enjoyed the fruits of rule 230 for far too long.
Gaetz said:
“Big Tech buys off Congress, so as to maintain special privileges that local newspapers and television stations don’t enjoy. That’s why the President’s executive order today is one very important next step because if we just wait around, Big tech will steal this election from Donald Trump and the American people. In 2016, we won three Rust Belt states by a point each. And that was win nobody thought Donald Trump could win. In 2020, we’ve lost the element of surprise. And so, we have to be as aggressive as they are. That means bills like Senator [Josh] Hawley and I have filed to change Section 230 as to out these entities as publishers and not the unbiased platforms they [say they] are. It means an executive order like the President has issued.”
“It also means getting the other elements of government to enforce existing law. The Federal Election Commission needs to get off their duff. Twitter is interfering with an election. I heard Democrats saying for three years Russia was interfering with an election. That was a hoax. We have domestic election interference going on right now. I’ll be filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission tomorrow because of what they’ve done to President Trump. And as a voter, I have the standing to do it. President Trump should call for a decision on the Federal Election Commission questions that are before them so that these tech companies get flushed out of the bushes.”
“Again, Big Tech companies have a tremendous amount of influence over Congress. It’s one reason I don’t take their PAC money or anyone else’s federal PAC money. But on the question of what has to be done — I agree with you. But if someone is going to assert they are a non-biased neutral platform, we should not take that as an article of faith. We actually have to have investigative work done, transparency, disclosures. If we’re going to give these folks the privileges you would give a public utility company, maybe we should start regulating these companies like the public utilities they are.”