Speeches at CPAC (2020s): on Technology
Donald Trump:
The time has come to break up big tech monopolies
The time has come to break up big tech monopolies and restore fair competition. Republicans, conservatives must open up our platforms and repeal section 230 liability protections. And if the federal government refuses to act, then every state in the
union where we have the votes, which is a lot of them, big tech giants, like Twitter, Google, and Facebook should be punished with major sanctions whenever they silence conservative voices.
Source: Remarks by Pres. Trump at the 2021 CPAC Conference
Feb 28, 2021
Donald Trump:
I filed a big class action lawsuit against big tech giants
To protect the Constitutional rights and liberties of every citizen, I filed a major class action. Lot of people are joining. Yep. A big class action lawsuit against the big tech giants. We are taking Mark Zookerbucks, Jack Dorsey, and the other
Silicon Valley billionaires to federal court, and we will keep on fighting until we have stopped this assault on our liberties and until we have restored the sacred right to freedom of speech for every single American.
Source: Speech transcript from 2021 CPAC Conference
Jul 11, 2021
Jim Jordan:
Radical antitrust legislation not the answer to censorship
Rep. Ken Buck said that Republicans should not take donations from Big Tech, in order to avoid the appearance that they are being influenced by the massive corporations.[Contrasting Rep. Buck]: "Big Tech is out to get conservatives.
But rather than address Republican concerns of bias and censorship on the internet, Democrats spent the last two days pushing radical antitrust legislation that will systematically change the United States economy as we know it," Jim Jordan said.
Source: Fox News on 2021 CPAC Conference
Jul 10, 2021
Ken Buck:
Republicans should not take campaign donations from Big Tech
Buck said that Republicans should not take donations from Big Tech, in order to avoid the appearance that they are being influenced by the massive corporations. "I'm not taking money from the Big Tech companies, and I've encouraged other
Republicans not to do that, and I've started a pledge--we've got a number of Republicans that have signed that pledge--making sure that the public understands that we're not going to be in any way influenced by these big tech companies," he said.
Source: Fox News on 2021 CPAC Conference
Jul 10, 2021
Marsha Blackburn:
Protect user privacy: take away Section 230 from Big Tech
Nobody has been hit like President Donald Trump. First, they decided they were going to fact check him, and then they were going to temporarily ban him and then permanently ban him, the leader of the free world. The leader of Iran, Putin,
other leaders are on there spewing hate. They have not been fact checked or banned that I can find. But us conservatives, we have had to put up with this. Big Tech, big media, and the Democrats are never going to stop trying to silence us.
Let's start with online privacy. Big Tech cannot threaten, data mine, or share your information with a third party without getting your explicit consent. It is your privacy. When it comes to censorship, they cannot come in and remove you, remove or
block you or throttle you without telling you explicitly why. Big Tech, we are going to take away from you the Section 230 provisions and we are going to save them for little tech, the new entrants in the marketplace.
Source: Remarks by Rep. Blackburn at the 2021 CPAC Conference
Feb 26, 2021
Ron DeSantis:
Hold big tech accountable for political censorship
Florida is also leading in protecting our people from political censorship and holding big tech accountable. When our legislature convenes next month it will pass and I will sign the most ambitious reform yet proposed for combating
political censorship and preventing big tech from interfering in our elections and for safeguarding the privacy of your personal data. in Florida we are not going to let the terms of the debate in our country be set by Silicon Valley.
Source: Remarks by Senator DeSantis at the 2021 CPAC Conference
Feb 26, 2021
Ted Cruz:
Break big tech up into a million little pieces
There is a pattern of government asking Big Tech to silence dissent. In Canada, the Canadian truckers. The Canadian government says, "oh, GoFundMe, billionaires, please silence these pesky truckers."
The workers of the world had a revolt and the left is pissed. What is the answer? Fight the centralization of power. Break it up. Break big tech up into a million little pieces.
Source: Speech at the 2022 CPAC Conference in Orlando FL
Feb 24, 2022
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