Most Freepers probably don't like Facebook, but the Democrats want to further restrict speech they don't like on Facebook, and we should oppose that.
Amy “Hydroxychloroquine” Klobuchar weighs in...
I used to think she was a democrat with some sense in her head. I see I was wrong.
They are trying to single out web “misinformation” and liability regarding it to merely not towing an official government line. Censorship Soviet style courtesy of the Dims.
This is just to give them cover for the Covid blackout.
They are publishers, not platforms. Strip ALL those section 230 protections.
Wanna bet this actually works in reverse - it protect social media if they censor according the Federale’s wishes?
If this bill were to become law then “Social Media” would have to ban all health information coming from the government.
Realistically their lawyers would tell them to ban all health information regardless of source.
I disagree with most people here about almost every aspect of COVID.
But to create a LEGAL category of “misinformation” to be policed either by the State or by their social media partners (leaving aside the question of just who is working for whom) is an obscenity.
Who knows? Maybe Jane Long will turn out to be right? Maybe Enlghtened1 has the whole thing nailed down?
And who gets to define ‘misinformation’? The Bai Din administration?
Hah, I love it when the Big Tech sycophants that thought they could kiss the *ss of the Biden Admin by censoring Conservative comments on their platforms and thus please their Dem masters, get bit in the butt anyhow by them because they aren’t censoring enough according to the Administration’s wishes.
So in order to avoid interference in their business practices by being obsequious to the radical Dem Admin, these fascist corporations find they are really are just the last ones to be eaten by the alligators they were running from. They will be eaten nevertheless. Fools all.
WHAT AN F'IN JOKE.
The “misinformation” that is front and center is that from the government.
LOL. Rats immediately going after the very people who put them in office. Did these fools at Facebook expect any gratitude from these feral beasts of the left? LOLOLOL.
And the attack on free speech is fully on.
What Klobuchar and the Democrats are doing is giving Facebook, Twatter and the rest "motivation" to censor their platforms based on the Government's demands, lest they lose their "protection" ... if you know what I mean.
In short, the Dem's are giving the "social media" sites cover to censor anything the Government (and they) don't like.
amy knucklehead is grandstanding: if her fake “bill” actually used the word “misinformation” and passed into law, it’d be thrown out in a heartbeat as unconstitutionally vague ...
Facebook and Twitter are BOTH PUBLIC UTILITIES MASQUERADING AS PUBLISHERS.
FB & Twit are about as much a publisher as Verizon, AT&T, etc., are..
THIS WHOLE THING IS OUT OF WHACK!
Why set the strictly to coronavirus vaccines or other public-health emergencies. ?
Obviously, Amy Klobuchar is content with all their selective censorship in political and other matters.
Go pound sand, Amy ! Just more double standard by the hypocrite party !
This is not about doing anything about Facebook or Twitter. It is about making our opinions illegal.