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Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to Adobe, Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic PBC, Apple, Cohere, International Business Machines Corp., Inflection AI, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Open AI, Palantir Technologies, Salesforce, Scale AI, and Stability AI seeking all documents and communications with the Biden-Harris Administration related to content moderation and suppression as the Committee conducts oversight of how and to what extent the executive branch coerced or colluded with artificial intelligence (AI) companies and other intermediaries to censor lawful speech.

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[–] Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this the same House GOP pressuring universities to expel students for protesting and pushing police to arrest and imprison protesters? That House GOP?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

The very same House GOP which removed impartial media companies from their offices in DC and replaced them with right wing partisan hacks.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 88 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And to absolutely nobody's surprise, Twitter was NOT asked to testify about their long and proven censorship of content when Trump or Musk are called out for direct lies in favor of the Trump campaign, and hiding content in favor of Biden/Harris. But noooo, this administration would never use the justice department for retribution. /s

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm also not seeing TikTok in the list.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

And when it’s once again found that they only censor left-of-center speech, what then?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wish it was just the SCOTUS that was corrupt and bogus. This all three branches thing is bumming me out.

[–] MooseyMoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Checks and balances ftw. I wanna leave this planet.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

If they want to know who’s trying to ban lawful speech, maybe look toward their wannabe king and his Nazi sidekick.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

This post, right below the post about Columbia university.

Double plus ungood!

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

All those idiots CEOs who showed up at the Inauguration got egg on their face.

[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are they soliciting protection payments from these companies? Where is xAI on this list?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago

I suspect that they are just going to be instructing the companies on which speech they should be censoring, and which amplified.

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago

"Make shit up for us and we'll throw some taxes your way"

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Time for a few more $1M donations.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The evidence is all right there in HuNtEr'S LaPtOp ! ! !

[–] Spezi@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

What a fucking ugly logo. They really fired everyone competent, didn‘t they?

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What a waste of taxpayer money. Maybe all that claptrap about government waste was just a confession after all... /s

[–] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago