Alphabet Is Slammed For Not Turning Over All Subpoenaed Communications Regarding Censorship Collusion

In the US, the House Judiciary Committee is demanding that Google (Alphabet) start acting fully in accordance with a congressional subpoena, issued in order to allow for an investigation into suspected government/Google censorship collusion. In a letter signed by Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and dated May 8, Alphabet is informed that this body is conducting a probe into the extent and the manner in which the government either coerced or colluded with tech giants to censor lawful speech. We obtained a copy of the letter for you here. With that goal in mind, the Committee in February subpoenaed Alphabet, after the corporation proved unresponsive to attempts to get it to provide the requested information voluntarily. The subpoena’s deadline, March 23, has come and gone, and the degree to which Alphabet has so far complied is insufficient, the letter states, noting “concern” over this fact. The patchy compliance includes producing only 4,049 pages of the total requested by the Committee – and then also, in spite of explicit instructions to the contrary, redacting information regarded as of key importance. Now, the Committee wants these, and a number of other non-compliance behaviors to be corrected – namely, for Alphabet to turn over all requested material and stop redacting any of it. Next, Alphabet’s rolling productions (of subpoenaed documents) so far could be missing some information relevant to the subpoena that the congressional body wants to have access to – and the letter in fact describes some of these documents as a priority….Alphabet Is Slammed For Not Turning Over All Subpoenaed Communications Regarding Censorship Collusion