Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., criticized Google on Wednesday for connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), following a House subcommittee hearing on antitrust with America’s…
Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., criticized Google on Wednesday for connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), following a House subcommittee hearing on antitrust with America’s big tech CEOs.
“If Google wants to cozy up to Communist China, Sundar Pichai must answer for the atrocities committed by the Chinese Communist Party,” he told Fox News after Pichai, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg all testified before Congress.
The Colorado Republican has been an outspoken critic of the CCP’s tactics and introduced legislation in the House on Wednesday based on Sen. Josh Hawley’s “Slave-Free Business Certification Act,” which attempts to hold U. S. companies accountable for any use of forced labor throughout the supply chain.
In addition to discovering troubling ties between big tech companies and the CCP, there was a consensus among both parties that the hearing revealed nefarious efforts to stifle competition within the free market, Buck added.
“It’s absolutely clear that these platforms are using their position to stifle innovation and you hear it from both sides of the aisle,” he continued. “You hear the CEOs unable to speak to the specific examples that they are being faced with, so it was very informative.”
Buck also addressed the notion that anti-competitive practices can lead to political bias and the censorship of certain materials on the web, specifically with regard to news and media outlets.
