Josh Hawley: “I appreciate the conversation with my friend from Texas. We should do more of this. This is an enlightening…”

“I appreciate the conversation with my friend from Texas. We should do more of this. This is an enlightening conversation. Let me just say a few remarks. I won't query him further, unless he would like to query me. We don't debate much anymore on this floor, and it is a shame, particularly since my friend from Texas is a great debater. But let me just a say few things in response. Nobody has been more serious about taking on the big tech companies than Senator Cruz, so I appreciate your leadership on this issue. Here is what I would say: We shouldn't allow the big tech companies to be treated differently than any other company in any respect. I don't want to make them more liable than other American companies, but I also don't want to give them a sweetheart deal. They ought to be treated evenly, equally, like anybody else. And I don't think that AI is a get-out-of-jail-free card any more than social media is. We have seen what they do with their subsidy from government when it comes to social media. My friend from Texas referenced it. They censor the living daylights out of anybody they don't like. We just had the landmark case out of my State, Missouri v. Biden, that found that these social media companies actively and willingly colluded with the Federal Government to censor everything from the Hunter Biden laptop story to parents who want to talk about school board meetings, to questions about COVID-19.…”