Marsha Blackburn

Amazon and Facebook have both smashed quarterly lobbying records Tuesday amidst rising interest regulating and using antitrust against America’s largest technology companies. 

Radio host Dennis Prager told Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) during a Senate committee hearing that he feels as though he is in a comedy skit after listening to a Google VP’s explanation as to why a PragerU video on the ten commandments has been placed on YouTube’s “restricted” list along with pornographic and violent videos. The “restricted” listing by Google prevents schools, libraries, and others from showing PragerU videos to young people — which Prager noted is PragerU’s target audience.

A representative from Google denied to Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) that the company operates search blacklists during a Senate hearing today, despite the fact that leaked emails published by Breitbart News have exposed the tech giant for doing exactly that.

During a recent senate hearing, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) grilled Google’s vice president of global government affairs and public policy on online censorship, particularly singling out attempts to censor Breitbart News.

President Donald Trump endorsed U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty on Friday for the U.S. Senate seat in Tennessee on the ballot in 2020 that opened up with the retirement of Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN).

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced on Thursday that a task force will be created to study America’s largest tech giants to “find answers to the issues of privacy and data security” as well as competition.

Thursday during an interview on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) called on big tech companies to take a look at how they manipulate their algorithms, and that might expose minors to various threats on the internet.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) met Tuesday with White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump on a paid family leave proposal that “empowers families” and helps businesses “succeed.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wrote a letter to Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, contending that the social media platform “fails to provide parents with adequate warnings about the platform’s dangers,” including adult content and child predators. 

During this week’s broadcast of “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News Channel, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) weighed in on the growing tensions between the United States and Iran. Blackburn said she is “holding out hopes for a diplomatic solution” when it

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Nike’s decision to pull its “Betsy Ross flag” shoes, concluding that the company is only interested in selling sneakers to people who “hate the American flag.” 

Those who complain about an American flag being on a pair of shoes could not fight like a soldier if they had to.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News Friday that, as America approaches Independence Day, she is calling for English, as the language of freedom, to be America’s official language.

Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Mark Warner (D-VA) will introduce legislation Monday to require Facebook, Google, and Amazon to disclose the value of their users’ data. 

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) blasted campus “free speech codes” during a speech in which she introduced a campus free speech resolution.

Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) proposed legislation Wednesday that would cut government waste and ensure accountability for government workers who fail to uphold their duty to serve the American people.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pushed back on Monday in a discussion about free speech with Washington Post tech reporter Tony Romm, who pressed Cruz about whether attacks on social media about people’s sexual orientation or ethnicity should be censored.

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) during Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” weighed in on the awaited inspector general report on the FBI’s handling of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and its potential findings. Blackburn said Democrats are “getting

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and other Senate Republicans proposed Sunday to block leftist states from forcing Americans to subsidize programs that expand benefits to illegal immigrants. 

Young conservative women and Turning Point USA chapter leaders from all over the country gathered at the Hyatt Regency Dallas on Thursday to attend the organization’s fifth annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit.

Forty-three state attorneys general sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), urging it to take action on big tech privacy and competition.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News’ Alana Mastrangelo on Thursday at Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit 2019 that passing her Browser Act would effectively protect users’ online privacy. Blackburn said the legislation would create “one set of rules for the entire Internet ecosystem” and make the Federal Trade Commission its only regulator.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) joined Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit in Dallas, Texas, Thursday where she discussed the things that she believes “sets conservative women apart.”

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is hosting a 4-day Young Women Leadership Summit (YWLS) in Dallas, Texas, this weekend. According to the conservative student organization, 1,500 young women from all over the country will be in attendance.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook Tuesday, asking the executive to establish a “Do Not Track” option for Apple customers and make Apple an “industry leader” on technology privacy. 

Pop megastar Taylor Swift revealed in a recent interview that she has no plans to give up her political activism mere months after her failed effort to help elect former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) to the U.S. Senate.

A conservative software engineer at Google recently published a blog post claiming that the tech giant has become dominated by “outrage mobs and witch hunts.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said Friday that the only thing Facebook did right in the last year is prove that large technology companies will not “self-regulate.”

Facebook and Google increasingly influence Congress as the social media giants censor conservative and alternative voices, dominate the Internet, and violate Americans’ privacy.

Ron Wyden told the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) they should hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally “liable” for the company’s many privacy violations.