Posted on 03/12/2019 10:37:08 AM PDT by blam
President Donald Trump accused companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google of colluding with Democrats to censor his supporters online to their political advantage.
“Actually it’s incredible that I won the election because you know it was so rigged against me,” he said. “It wasn’t Russians. Russia collusion was a delusion. But what there is, is there was collusion between the Democrats and these tech companies.”
The president spoke about political bias in top Silicon Valley companies in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Monday.
The president said that any Republican running in 2020 would face a “tremendous disadvantage” in social media after he surprised tech companies by beating Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
“It’s totally steered, which has been proven now, totally steered toward the Democrats and yet I won,” he said.
Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow told the president he would be running against not only the Democrats and the media but also against the big tech companies during his presidential run in 2020.
The president responded by noting Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign proposal to break up the big tech companies.
“Isn’t it funny? Elizabeth Warren called for their total breakup,” he said. “I do smile though, they’re so protective of her.”
He sympathized with critics of the big tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter who wanted to regulate the companies.
“I understand a lot of people wanting to look into it. I mean normally I’d like to say let it be free, let it all be free, but it’s not free,” Trump said. “It’s really run by a small number of people.”
The president also referred to reports from Breitbart News exposing tech bias against conservatives in companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Google.
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It’s on baby....designate them as political action committees.
This is news?
Well, duh.
It’s true. They even boast about it.
C’est la vie. Que cera cera.
Either do something about it, or do nothing. You’re the effective man in the big kahuna chair
Lower echelon employees boast about it. Top brass and owners lie through their teeth.
All they need to do is have the SEC and FTC start investigating them for violating US securities laws with their heavy-handed censorship of the political Right.
Enemies domestic ALERT! Collusion? ABSOLUTELY.
...meanwhile at the Bush family compound we hear...”what is a Facebook? Lets get one and read it to the grand kids!”
Et tu, Tim Apple?
“This is news?”
No, it isn’t. But the fact the sitting US president is saying it...is something. Hopefully, he’ll call for an investigation.
If that happens, see comment #2 above...
And what is he going to do about it, other than whining?
He should order the DOJ & FTC to prosecute these companies for monopolization & violating citizens’ free speech rights on their monopolized public platforms.
But he won’t.
“It’s totally steered, which has been proven now, totally steered toward the Democrats and yet I won,” he said. ( Trump)
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So?....Isn’t this a form of unreported political contributions? How can that be legal?
Also....If they support one side against another doesn’t that make them publishers of opinion and subject to the same laws as newspapers and magazines?
> How can that be legal?
It’s not illegal if you get away with it. That is the world ushered in by the election of Bill Clinton, and we’re still here.
We need more than tweets. Antitrust enforcement and consumer labeling of politically biased search algorithms are needed. Break-up Google.
And.......that’s the end of this discussion. Maybe a tweet or two, but everyone supporting Trump in 2020 will get banned.
Yep!
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