China Xiaokang.com, October 23. In the case of the Democrats boycott meeting, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted with 12 votes in favor of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning, and 0 votes against the subpoena of Twitter CEO Dorsey (Jack Dorsey) ) And Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) to attend the hearing decision, on their decision to restrict last week’s New York Post article about the son of Democratic presidential candidate Biden, Hunter Biden ( The dissemination of negative reports by Hunter Biden accepts questions from members of Congress.
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US media reported that Democrats in Congress were dissatisfied that the Senate Judiciary Committee voted against President Trump’s nominee for Supreme Court justice and conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett before the election. Through this personnel appointment, he refused to attend the committee meeting on Thursday and did not participate in the summoning of Twitter and Facebook votes.
"My fellow Democrats asked me to put aside this (subpoena) vote, but I think it would be very beneficial for some social media people to answer questions about their platform, so I will continue to vote on this subpoena request," Senate The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee Graham (Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC) said before the vote, “I hope this will allow us to obtain their testimony more effectively.”
A week ago, the American social media giant pushed Tehe Facebook’s practice of blocking two New York Post reports on the Hunter. Biden corruption scandal has triggered criticism and backlash from Congressional Republicans and many Internet users. Many lawmakers criticized that these two social media giants are interfering in the upcoming presidential election.
"The tech giants are addicted to their power to interfere in our elections, silence free speech, and censor the media. That's why today the Judiciary Committee is voting to subpoena Facebook and Twitter," the Senate Judiciary Committee Republican member Cruz ( Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX) tweeted, “We need to hold them accountable and find answers for the American people.”
has repeatedly criticized the US technology giants for being too powerful and advocated the abolition of social media umbrellas. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), the Republican federal senator (Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO) of the so-called "Section 230", has spoken in the House for two consecutive days, demanding that legislative measures be passed to restrict the power of large technology companies.
"This (congress) institution should represent the people of this country, and this institution should defend the interests of the people, but this institution has long been obedient to large technology companies," Holly said on Wednesday (October 21) The Senate Chamber said in a speech, “If we are telling the truth, it’s no surprise that technology companies have spent large and shocking amounts of money to buy influence in Washington , and it’s time to end this day. Hawley also mentioned on Twitter that earlier this week, the original news said that several Republican members wanted to suspend the call to Facebook and Twitter. However, the vote on Thursday still won the support of all Republicans on the committee.
It is unclear when the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to require Facebook and Twitter to attend testimony, but it is expected that the hearing will be held before the November 3 election.
However, the chief executives of the two leading social media, as well as Google CEO Sundar Pichai (Sundar Pichai), have agreed to attend another session of the Senate Commerce Committee by video. A hearing on the topic of "validity".
