Snapchat stokes GOP ire for refusing to promote Trump's account
Snapchat drew a wave of repudiations from top Republicans but praise from Democrat Joe Biden after becoming the latest social media platform to penalize President Donald Trump for threatening violence against protesters.
The multimedia messaging company's decision to stop promoting Trump's account to other users instantly pulled the app's parent company, Snap, deeper into the Washington political-speech fight that has mainly focused on its peers.
Snap said it was reacting to threatening statements the president has made on other platforms, such as Twitter, not on Snapchat itself. And that made its action particularly troublesome, said one prominent Trump ally, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
“At this point, it is no surprise to anyone that Big Tech doesn’t believe in free speech and will happily censor views with which they disagree. But this move is extraordinary even when measured by that low bar," Cruz, a frequent critic of the tech industry, told POLITICO in a statement. "Snapchat is explicitly censoring admittedly unobjectionable speech as punishment for completely unrelated speech off of Snapchat’s platform.”
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