Varney on censorship: Big Tech CEOs have extraordinary power <\/h2>\n

FOX Business\u2019 Stuart Varney argues social media companies, like Twitter, are censoring President Trump with bans. <\/p>\n

FOX Business’ Stuart Varney, in his latest “My Take,” argues Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s permanent ban of President Trump is “censorship, plain and simple.”<\/p>\n

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“Dorsey justifies this by saying the president incited violence,” Varney said. “I’d like to be the judge of that. I can decide for myself. I want to see and hear what the president has to say.”<\/p>\n

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After receiving criticism for the ban of Trump’s account, Dorsey on Wednesday posted a series of tweets.<\/p>\n

“He’s trying to justify censorship, but he seems confused,” Varney said. “He says banning the president was ‘the right decision’ and then he tweets that it ‘sets a precedent I feel is dangerous: the power an individual or corporation has over a part of the global public conversation.'"<\/p>\n

Varney went on to say the ban is a “danger to an open democracy.”<\/p>\n

“Do we really want a couple of billionaires who run near-monopoly businesses, dictating what we may see and hear?” he asked.<\/p>\n

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Varney said the power the world has given to tech leaders, like Dorsey and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, is an extraordinary and new phenomenon.<\/p>\n

“The recent events in Washington have brought into full view the dangers of monopoly power when applied to public speech,” Varney said. “It doesn’t matter whether it’s the government or a private company that’s telling us what we can see and hear. Big government or big corporation — censorship of political opinion by a monopoly is wrong.”<\/p>\n

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Powered by<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Varney said Americans must never accept limits on free speech or allow themselves to be forced into an “acceptable” way of thinking.<\/p>\n GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE<\/strong><\/p>\n “This is America, and we are not sheep!” he said. “We will always be divided if one side thinks their point of view is being suppressed by the corporate elite.”<\/p>\n Source: Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Varney on censorship: Big Tech CEOs have extraordinary power FOX Business\u2019 Stuart Varney argues social media companies, like Twitter, are censoring President Trump with bans. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n