{"id":47035,"date":"2021-01-11T15:07:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T19:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=47035"},"modified":"2021-01-11T15:07:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T19:07:51","slug":"parler-ban-violation-of-antitrust-civil-rights-rico-statute-there-should-be-a-racketeering-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=47035","title":{"rendered":"PARLER BAN: Violation of Antitrust, Civil Rights, RICO Statute \u2014 \u2018There Should Be a Racketeering Investigation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Nunes: Parler Ban a Violation of Antitrust, Civil Rights, the RICO Statute \u2014 \u2018There Should Be a Racketeering Investigation\u2019<\/h1>\n<p>by Jeff Poor<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rep Nunes calls for racketeering probe into Big Tech over Parler ban\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PDM3AQOUqgM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During this week\u2019s broadcast of FNC\u2019s \u201cSunday Morning Futures,\u201d Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, called on the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into tech companies\u2019 efforts to remove Parler as a platform from the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The California Republican cited violations of antitrust laws, civil rights and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, Maria, when I wrote that book, I was hoping to warn Americans so that they would vote right and that maybe this wouldn\u2019t happen and this could be prevented,\u201d he said. \u201cUnfortunately, it\u2019s far worse than what I could even imagine. The effect of this is that there is no longer a free and open social media company or site for any American to get on any longer, because these big companies, Apple, Amazon, Google, they have just destroyed a \u2014 what was likely \u2014 Parler is likely a billion-dollar company. Poof, it\u2019s gone. But it\u2019s more than just the financial aspect to that. Republicans have no way to communicate. If \u2014 and it doesn\u2019t even matter if you\u2019re a Republican or conservative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t want to be regulated by left-wingers that are at Twitter and Facebook and Instagram, where you get shadowbanned, nobody gets to see you \u2014 nobody gets to see you, they get to decide what\u2019s violent or not violent, it\u2019s preposterous,\u201d Nunes continued. \u201cSo, I don\u2019t know where the hell the Department of Justice is at right now or the FBI. This is clearly a violation of antitrust, civil rights, the RICO statute. There should be a racketeering investigation on all the people that coordinated this attack on not only a company but on all of those like us, like me, like you, Maria. I have 3 million followers on Parler. Tonight, I will no longer be able to communicate with those people. And they\u2019re Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/01\/10\/nunes-parler-ban-a-violation-of-antitrust-civil-rights-the-rico-statute-there-should-be-a-racketeering-investigation\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/01\/10\/nunes-parler-ban-a-violation-of-antitrust-civil-rights-the-rico-statute-there-should-be-a-racketeering-investigation\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nunes: Parler Ban a Violation of Antitrust, Civil Rights, the RICO Statute \u2014 \u2018There Should Be a Racketeering Investigation\u2019 by Jeff Poor Breitbart.com During this week\u2019s broadcast of FNC\u2019s \u201cSunday Morning Futures,\u201d Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the ranking Republican on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=47035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","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-47035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47035","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=47035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}