Ben Domenech, publisher of The Federalist, joins 'Fox & Friends' with his take on censorship against conservatives.
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really unbelievable,
really unbelievable
biggest names in big tech
biggest companies in the world
grilled by lawmakers, from both
sides of the aisle over
unchecked power and influence.
I will cut to the case. Big
tech is out to get
conservatives.
We dont want to have any
bias in what we do.
Why does Google steal content
from businesses
with respect? I disagree?
Do they a have access about
third party products and
businesses?
Its a voluntary policy
does apple, not treat all app
developers. Equally,
sir, we treat every developer
the same. We have open and
transparent rules,
Brian Dominant here, to react
Ben Domenech.
What is your take away from
yesterday?
All of those issues are
legitimate.
I dont know what comes out of
it.
I think what comes out of it
for me is, I think, republican
politicians who have very long
been defenders of capitalism and,
frankly, big business, are
starting to recognize that this
bias that they hear complaints
about from all of their
constituents and from a lot of
conservatives, is just a feature
of the monopoly power of places
like Google.
I was impressed by the questions
that were asked yesterday.
Frankly think we should have
five hours with each of these
ceos individually, considering
the kind of market power that
they have.
I was particularly incensed by
Kelly Armstrong, who got out of
Google an admission that are not
just interested in controlling
all of the ad spaces. They do
right now
they are interested in driving
others out of the ad market so
that they have total control to
demonetize sites and they deem
fit
thats, something that I think we
should be very concerned about
going forward.
Brian look at Facebook. We found
a memo dated that buying up all
our enemies,
taking instagram and whats app
wipe out or buy my enemies. That
might be something they teach
new business school, but does it
help the country
im brought to this statement by
Mark Warner?
He says we have seen forty percent decline
in start ups in America and
venture backed deals, because
these companies have so much
control.
How I mean thats, not a
partisan issue,
if shouldnt be,
and one thing that I do think
that we should keep in Mind- is
that only business business can
afford big government.
Only these big dominant players
can afford to deal with the kind
of regulatory pressure that is
brought to bear whenever we
engage in these types of big
government expansion,
its the small people, the
competitors that get crushed by
it,
Brian Amazon, says yeah, you have
a product, I will knock it off
and sell it cheaper
oops!
Well, wait a second! What are
you talking about
all right,
so lets talk about something
that matters for November third,
and that is the suppression of
conservative thought
Breitbart claims that they have
lost. Ninety nine point: seven percent in visible since
two thousand and sixteen
stories that used to trend on
their algorithm, dont trend
anymore
daily caller has the same
complaints,
and you dont see much from Fox
NEWS on there.
The sites that give you a
diversity of opinion
have you noticed at the
Federalist?
Well, I actually would say
that we have escaped some of
this,
so maybe that says we need to be
a little bit more leaning into
things,
but to come honest
looking at the situation, its
clear, the data shows that what
they are claim something true.
They had a huge dropoff.
We are talking about stories
that they were breaking at the
daily caller, for instance, that
would get nationwide attention,
and yet they wouldnt be on
the first second or even the
third page of search for it.
This is clearly something that
looks like from the outside. It
was someone inside turning a
knob, pulling a switch that
prevented these sites from
having any kind of organic
traffic that they had already
earned,
thats, something that is totally
opposed to what people think
that they are getting from
Google search products, and I
think it absolutely represents
an attempt to influence the
conversation during an election.
Brian Ben here is what Google
said. There is no validity to
allegation of political bias.
They dont take ideology into
account,
go to extraordinary lengths to
build our products for everyone
in a apolitical way.
Anyone can easily cherry pick a
range of conservative,
progressive or nonpolitical
sites that have seen traffic
changes over time.
What can change?
I, a number of things, change
funny to see Jeff Bezos admit
the other day that the standards
of something like the southern
Poverty LAW center, which call
Ben Carson an extremist, may be
not that good.
We have to turn to somebody for
fact checking
maybe turn to somebody who says
that Ben Carson isnt an
extremist.
This is a situation that I think
requires a really holistic
change on the part of these
companies
again. The bias aspect of this is
just one attribute of their
outsized monthly power that they
are exercising
thats the real issue that needs
to be addressed and addressed
with updated approaches. How we
do this in an era that requires
it, given the dramatic amount of
change that these companies have
affected on America,
Brian im, proud they are
american companies.
I dont want them to destroy
America in the process.
Is that too much to ask
absolutely
Brian? We finally is Republicans.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-01.