{"id":32141,"date":"2020-10-16T17:13:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T21:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32141"},"modified":"2020-10-16T17:13:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T21:13:47","slug":"will-the-senate-really-prosecute-twitter-for-outright-violations-of-the-2nd-amendment-or-is-this-all-talk-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32141","title":{"rendered":"Will the Senate really prosecute Twitter for outright violations of the 2nd Amendment or is this all talk as usual?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1>Hawley wants Twitter, Facebook to come before Senate following censorship of Hunter Biden report<\/h1>\n<h2>Lawmaker accuses tech giants of &#8216;in-kind contribution to the Biden campaign&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>By Charles Creitz | Fox News<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32142\" style=\"width: 941px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32142\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32142\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/image-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"931\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/image-2.jpg 931w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/image-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/image-2-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Judiciary Committee member Josh Hawley, R-Mo.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/tech\/companies\/facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/tech\/companies\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0showed Wednesday that they &#8220;want to rig an election,&#8221; Senate Judiciary Committee member Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/shows\/ingraham-angle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Ingraham Angle<\/a>&#8221; after the social media giants censored or blocked dissemination of a bombshell New York Post report on Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;It&#8217;s basically Big Tech\u00a0versus democracy,&#8221; Hawley told host Laura Ingraham. &#8220;These tech\u00a0companies &#8230;\u00a0want to control what we\u00a0read.\u00a0They want to control journalists\u00a0in this country.\u00a0They want to control the news.\u00a0And we just can&#8217;t let them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why I will be inviting Facebook and Twitter to\u00a0come testify under oath to my\u00a0subcommittee in the\u00a0United States Senate,&#8221; added Hawley, referring to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Police, and Consumer Rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The American people deserve\u00a0answers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/hawley-facebook-for-censoring-nypost-hunter-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>HAWLEY DEMANDS ANSWERS FROM FACEBOOK FOR &#8216;CENSORING A NEWS REPORT&#8217; ON HUNTER BIDEN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=true&amp;id=1316535709021491200&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Ftwitter-facebook-hunter-biden-censorship-hawley&amp;siteScreenName=foxnews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1316535709021491200\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hawley said Facebook and Twitter must explain what specifically led them to censor the report from the venerable tabloid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This looks like an in-kind\u00a0campaign contribution to the\u00a0Biden campaign,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;This just stinks &#8212; it reeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hawley further posited that the ongoing controversy will have\u00a0exposed politically-charged corruption involving the nation&#8217;s tech giants\u00a0when all is said and done.<\/p>\n<p>He also dismissed a late evening statement from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that described the company&#8217;s &#8220;communication&#8221; about its censorship decision as &#8220;not great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hawley called Dorsey&#8217;s response &#8220;insulting&#8221;\u00a0 and\u00a0accused Twitter and Facebook of rushing to the aid of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, and using their &#8220;monopoly&#8221; over social media to affect a major political election.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/twitter-facebook-hunter-biden-censorship-hawley\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/twitter-facebook-hunter-biden-censorship-hawley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}