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mo4ch:>Election-meddling & 'good censorship': Google ‘pushes the boundaries till its hand gets slapped’ | Mo4ch News

Senate Republicans tore into Google, demanding accountability for its biased, election-skewing algorithms during a hearing, while Democrats ran interference, denying the company was censoring anyone – and suggesting it should."If Big Tech cannot provide us with evidence that it's not playing Big Brother with its vast immense powers, there's no reason Congress should give them a special subsidy with section 230," Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution chair Ted Cruz (R-Texas) warned, opening Tuesday's hearing on Google and Censorship through Search Engines. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives internet platforms legal immunity for content they host, so long as they make no editorial judgments about that content. Google, Cruz and his colleagues declared, had long since overstepped that boundary.Also on rt.comUS draft bill seeks to ban big tech from taking over economy with private cryptocurrenciesAdmitting "The Good Censor,&…