Jon Ossoff

I think the other piece of this that it's like more complicated, but potentially equally dangerous is...

the use of official power to bully tech companies into how they run the algorithm that delivers content to people, right?

Like threatening to take NBC off the air because you think that their coverage is too negative is obviously like a brazen, unconstitutional, un-American attempt at a sort of classic form of censorship.

But

You know, if they go to Meta or they go to Musk or this group of allies who may now be running TikTok and they say,

Turn the dial.

Turn the dial.

That is a more subtle, but in this world that we're living in, potentially more powerful way for them to control the information that gets to the public.

I think probably yes, in some cases.

But I think that the whataboutism is like pretty limited in its validity because we're talking about things that are vastly different, right?

And I think federal courts rebuked the Biden administration for some of the way that the tech companies were being talked to about information about public health that was coming out during the COVID pandemic, right?

And that was probably overreach.

But it's nothing like the president saying, I'm going to take broadcasters off the air because their coverage is too negative.

So, you know, we should not... Yeah, we obviously need to practice what we preach and acknowledge where there may have been mistakes.

But let's not for a moment indulge the lie that these are equivalent in any way.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, I've been investigating not just Homeland Security facilities, but federal prisons, state and local prisons and jails since I was elected.

I mean, and, you know, that has been sort of the continuity of effort for me having left investigative journalism and entering office.

The oversight muscles in Congress are so atrophied, right?

Like most of the oversight is partisan oversight and very little of it is just pure public interest oversight.