Posted on 09/05/2018 5:27:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Social Media and search giants are being hit with a class-action lawsuit from a pro-Trump group who claims that they conspired against Conservatives.
Freedom Watch, which promotes right to privacy among other causes, claims that Facebook, Google, Twitter and Apple violated antitrust laws.
Our YouTube account on Google never gets above 49 thousand, said Larry Klayman, the groups founder, during an interview on FOX Business Varney & Co. on Tuesday. It goes up, it goes down. Thats been going on for about six months, he claimed while adding that other conservative groups and interests are also experiencing the same issues.
Klayman, a former antitrust lawyer who helped break up AT&Ts telephone monopoly during the Regan administration, also alleged the tech companies collaborated to restrain trade.
Theres also a concept of conscious parallelism, he said. When companies move in tandem in parallel fashion that do the same thing that can be restraint of trade. So we believe theres an actual agreement between these leftist owned media giants like Google, Twitter, YouTube etc., he explained.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...
The conservative genius Roger Ailes created Fox News with a faitr and balcnced outlook. He suceeded.
What is needed is a RogerAiles approach to Facebook. A fair and balenced place to gather with out leftwing censorship
We’d already have our own platforms had they not waited until just before the election to ban us. They are actively engaged in election meddling.
That makes sense. Anyone who pays attention knows there is quite a difference in scope and intent of regulation.
I don't doubt that. I'll bet they view you as a pork rind eating hillbilly, and don't think twice about the stereotyping...those people are pretty blind when it comes to seeing their faults on their own backs...
Anyway, thanks for the clarification. Interestingly, I am very squeamish about companies like Amazon and Google running cloud services that our intelligence communities depend on...that makes me very nervous.
Perhaps the anti-trust issue is the best approach to the billionaire monopoly of all media, including social media. I am a non-user of almost all of that stuff, but, for example, I see Google tracking me even though I have never used Google. I do not begrudge folks their wealth, but I do resent their arrogance in trying to control my life... Most obvious irritation: AUTOCORRECT!
“this time”?
Same cabal as been around since the McCarthy era, just feeling their oats because Trump has given them a focus for their deep-seated hatred of liberty.
Opposition plan is as was: expose and annihilate with extreme prejudice.
Good article. Additionally, platforms are offered protections against liability under the DMCA that publishers don't have.
This is a sticky problem...but I DO agree with you, even though I do think that the “conservative solution” while a good one in concept, is not an easy solution to implement, and will take a far longer period of time.
And as you infer, we (conservative voices on the Internet) might well be toast by the time something takes hold.
Thanks, Brown Deer...
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