Posted on 07/27/2018 1:23:23 PM PDT by davikkm
If you’re reading the alternative media (also known as the real media) constantly, you’re probably aware of the fact that world’s tech giants are currently engaged in an unprecedented campaign of censoring free speech on their platforms. The whole thing about censoring dissenting views is as old as internet, and even older, provided there was anything prior (just kidding), but since Donald Trump got elected back in 2016, with a little help from the armies of Keks shooting memes and various red-pills right and left via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, the same corporate behemoths have decided that enough is enough, i.e. this should never happen again.
The problem with social media is that its owners are on the left side of the force, as in they’re firm believers in social justice, safe spaces, political correctness etc, which finally translates into censorship if it’s for a good cause, i.e. if it serves their current political agenda. Things got so mad lately, that whole Facebook groups with hundreds of thousands of users get zucced almost daily (I am exaggerating a bit for dramatic effect), YouTube routinely censors/demonetizes wrong-think (conservatives/pro Trump) creators and Twitter&Facebook ban/shadow- ban users on a whim. Google went so far as to steal Daily Stormer’s domain, basically banning them from the internet. Other companies followed Google’s 1984 example. And it was all because of a joke, regardless of how good or bad.
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I think “social media” is on minute 13 of it’s 15 minutes of fame. they’re on the verge of destroying themselves (or at least their credibility), and saving us the trouble.
I agree - the last thing we need is more government interference. If you think social media is manipulated by its leftist minders, wait until it is manipulated by a leftist government. You’ll look back with rue and regret and long for the ‘good old days.’
This is the same type of pretzel logic the left uses against the 2nd Amendment.
NO THANKS.
Don’t regulate them. Break them up.
Anti-trust approach?
Break up Big Data! Monopoly! Too much power! Create competition.
Let’em die the free market deaths they deserve to have.
“they’re firm believers in social justice”
They’re tax-dodging experts.
Maybe they truly are believers in social justice after all.
Regulate them as public utilities or bring anti trust actions against Google, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter. Speech codes and the any form of viewpoint discrimination should be banned.
No conservative should advocate more regulation of business. If you don’t like what a business is doing, don’t use that business.
At a minimum, they should be registered at PACs and have to follow all election law. They are not private companies, they are fully wings of the DNC.
No, they should not be regulated. The idea that someone brought up about hitting them with anti-trust is a good one.
I think that the market just may well correct the censoring abuses of these platforms. Look how much Facebook just dropped in value.
From the current severe financial troubles of Facebook, it looks to me like they're falling into the same error the Witch and Jebbie made in 2015-2016 when they thought they could run on essentially the same platform and ignore the massive, legitimate grievances that led to our PRESIDENT Trump's victory. The Google/Facebook/Twitter PC censorship, which violates the basic informal free speech agreement between those entities and their customers, cries out for the free market solution of a competitor that recognizes the need for a genuine free speech platform and provides it. Don't be surprised if one arises and wipes them out just the way our PRESIDENT Trump arose to defeate Jebbie and the Witch.
Worse, this is how totalitarian control begins. Those political appointees would inject their own version of political propaganda and repression of free speech.
Shall we let cell phone providers and ISPs ban based on political content? That’s what you’re advocating for.
Hell no!
How about Sprint or Verizon or AT&T can they ban Conservative political speech on their cell phone network?
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