Deputy Andy Biggs, R-Arizona, condemned recent acts by Big Tech, such as deploring the right-wing social media site Parler, as “dictatorial” efforts to suppress speech.
In an interview on “Outnumbered Overtime”, the conservative congressman said he feared that such gestures from Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter would lead to more “bitterness” in public speaking.
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REP. ANDY BIGGS: First, I condemn the [Capitol] violence. That was outrageous, and it was horrible, frankly. I have full confidence that these people will be arrested and prosecuted. But [Senator Chuck Schumer] asks for a declaration that they are domestic terrorists. He wants it done immediately to prevent them from getting on planes. I’m not sure if this is the wisest thing. Certainly, we need to go after these people, arrest them and prosecute them, and that would be appropriate …
You have a Josh Hawley book contract being canceled. This is part of the culture of cancellation. If you really want to join and cool the embers that are burning now, don’t put any more gas in the fire. That’s what I think these people are trying to do …
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When you start to suppress speech, in the first place, it is dictatorial. Second, it violates our constitutional right. But the third thing I would say is that it makes people go underground, and as people go underground … you have more conspiracy theories involved. It is injected with more hatred. It is injected with more bitterness … The way they are doing it, they will avoid discussions that make us progress and solve problems. Instead, they will foster more problems, more discord in doing so. In my opinion, they are trying to create a one-party system, and that is wrong.