Sen Cruz's playbook to crack down on Big Tech for alleged anti-conservative bias

Coverage Type: 

Accusing Twitter and Facebook of suppressing conservative voices, Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) floated an overhaul to a key law that protects Internet platforms from legal liability for content posts on their sites, breaking up the companies, or even charging them with fraud. His three-part playbook: 

  1. Overhaul Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — a law that grants online platforms legal immunity for content posted on their sites. "That provides a special immunity from liability that Big Tech enjoys that nobody else gets,” Sen Cruz said. “Big Tech made effectively a bargain with Congress and a bargain with Congress and a bargain with the American people,” he added, which he termed as: “We'll be neutral, we'll be fair, and in exchange for that we'll receive what is effectively a federal subsidy for immunity from liability.” 
  2. Take antitrust action against the tech giants.
  3. Charge the companies with fraud. 

Sen Cruz's playbook to crack down on Big Tech for alleged anti-conservative bias