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Exclusive: The House Republican Party will take steps to prevent big tech companies from hosting high-ranking Chinese Communist officials on social media platforms.
Republican Rep. Brian Mast, a member of the House Republican Research Committee, led the initiative with Jim Banks, Chairman of the Committee, Joe Wilson, Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Committee, and jointly. I am. Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany is working to “take responsibility for China and Big Tech.”
The “China Social Media Reciprocity Act” is a provider of social media platforms that provide accounts to individuals involved in the Chinese Communist Party unless the president can prove to Congress that the Chinese government and CCP have “clearly lifted the ban.” Will impose sanctions banning. US government officials are prohibited from accessing, using, or participating in China’s social media platforms. “
The bill “bans social media platforms from providing services to individuals and groups on the List of Specially Designated Countries, as well as certain officials and other individuals and groups in the People’s Republic of China.”
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The bill covers all US-owned social media companies.
To access US social media platforms and accounts, the bill will give the Chinese government access to social media platforms by Chinese people and browse content produced by US government officials and Americans in Chinese society. A media platform, an aide to the committee, told Fox News that it demands that all forms of censorship be removed.
According to the Commission, the president’s ability to abandon the bill will be abolished in two years, giving Congress “a final decision on whether China meets the standard requirements for lifting the ban.”
The bill applies to members of the State Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of National Security, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Public Safety, and other ministries. Not only high-ranking officials from other institutions.
“Freedom has always won tyranny, and the Chinese Communist Party knows that, which is why they have taken drastic steps to keep American ideas away from social platforms,” Mast told Fox News. “This bill is about leveling the competition.”
“Chinese authorities should not be allowed to spit out propaganda on US-based social media sites and actively block the free flow of ideas on their sites,” Mast added. rice field.
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The Commission’s aide told Fox News that Chinese government officials and senior CCP leaders “have full freedom to use the American social media platform to promote promotion,” but the same social media platform said. It is often banned in China. “
“China has banned its citizens from using Twitter and Facebook, but Chinese Communist Party officials are still using these platforms to push propaganda abroad,” Banks told Fox News. A finger to Communist Party executives who spread disinformation of the actual COVID and even denocide denial on the platform. “
“There is an amazing amount of hypocrisy from everyone involved,” the bank told Fox News. “The Republican Research Commission and my colleague Brian Mast’s bill countered disinformation in China to Big Tech and used sanctions to lift the ban on US social media until all Communists were lifted from the U.S. Banning from social media will force the United States to return to an equal position. “
Tiffany, the original co-sponsor of the law, told Fox News that the Big Tech company was a propaganda machine for the Chinese Communist Party and even the Taliban. .. ”
“Something is very wrong with this photo,” Tiffany said. “If a foreign deplat refuses to allow free and free access to an American social media platform, its dictator and his associates should be deplatformed.”
The bill was enacted last year after Republican lawmakers expanded U.S. sanctions legislation and proposed a bill that bans social media companies from using the platform by foreign individuals or groups sanctioned by terrorism. ..
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The bill, “No Social Media Account for State Sponsors of Terrorists or State Sponsors of Terrorism in 2021,” was first reported by Fox News and clarified existing sanctions legislation by empowering the President. increase. Maintaining accounts with state sponsors of terrorism and state sponsors of terrorism through social media platforms for foreign individuals or groups subject to terrorism.
Social media platforms also included Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
Parliamentary aides told Fox News that banks and US insurers are not allowed to provide accounts to sanctioned individuals or groups, but due to current loopholes in sanctions law, social media companies are informed. He explained that he was allowed to provide an account because it was related.
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The law “requires the president to implement regulations that treat social media platforms in the same way as banks and insurance companies. They cannot serve authorized individuals or groups,” the aide said.
The aide told Fox News that the bill had received 47 co-sponsors but had not yet been brought to the House of Representatives floor for consideration.