Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) reached out to a top Twitter executive to express his concern that the platform was suppressing free speech, as industry groups warned the company that a “blood bath” awai…
Days after the story was published in October 2020, Carl Szabo, the head of NetChoice, told Twitter public policy chief Lauren Culbertson that his group polled 12 members of Congress, nine Republicans and three Democrats, from “the House Judiciary Committee to Rep. Judy Chu’s office.”
“High level take away – every Republican said ‘this is a tipping point. It’s just too much.’ And both Democrats and Republicans were angry,” NetChoice told Twitter officials on Oct. 14, 2020. The trade association noted that lawmakers were frustrated that big tech companies had “grown so big that they can’t even regulate themselves, so government may need to intervene.”
Szabo also informed Culbertson that Twitter’s decision to censor the laptop story was being viewed as “tech’s Access Hollywood moment,” a reference to the jaw-dropping audio of then-candidate Donald Trump making lewd comments on the show “Access Hollywood” back in 2005 that was revealed weeks before the 2016 election.
“It’s tech’s Access Hollywood moment and it has no Hillary to hide behind,” Szabo wrote, quoting a congressional staffer.
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