White House Trade Adviser: Amazon Suspension of Parler Is ‘Chilling’

White House Trade Adviser: Amazon Suspension of Parler Is ‘Chilling’
White House adviser Peter Navarro speaks during a briefing on the CCP virus pandemic in the press briefing room of the White House in Washington on March 27, 2020. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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The move by large technology firms to de-platform “free speech” social media site Parler has a chilling effect, said White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Director Peter Navarro.

“What we have here is a classic collusive oligopoly, a kind of new wine in an old bottle,” Navarro told Fox Business. “What we saw with this attack on Parler was chilling to me. It’s one thing to de-platform everybody for free speech. But, this was a pincer move where Google and Apple, [the] first part of the pincer, was to not allow Parler apps to be down.”
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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