Posted on 03/18/2019 4:27:46 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
(EXCERPTED) From “shadowbans” on Facebook and Twitter, to demonetization of YouTube videos, to pulled ads for Republican candidates at the critical junctures of election campaigns, the list of violations against the online practices and speech of conservatives is long...
...While nothing about Big Tech's censorship of conservatives truly surprises me anymore, it's still chilling to see the proof for yourself. If it can happen to me, the son of the president, with millions of followers on social media, just think about how bad it must be for conservatives with smaller followings and those who don't have the soapbox or media reach to push back when they're being targeted?
...Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) pointed out that Big Tech companies already enjoy “sweetheart deals” under current regulations that make their malfeasance a matter of public concern. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, for instance, allows them to avoid liability for the content that users post to their platforms...
...Left unchecked, Big Tech and liberal activists could construct a private “social credit” system — not unlike what the communists have nightmarishly implemented in China — that excludes outspoken conservatives from wide swaths of American life simply because their political views differ from those of tech executives.
There is no conservative principle that even remotely suggests we are obligated to adopt a laissez-faire attitude while the richest companies on earth abuse the power we give them to put a thumb on the scale for our political enemies.
If anything, our love of the free market dictates that we must do whatever is necessary to ensure that the free marketplace of ideas remains open to all.
Close em down or break em up.
Or find a crime.
Should be easier than it was for mueller.
Bttt.
5.56mm
The politicians will always get respect from big business but the people out of power like “We the People” will be the ones banned, censored from the internet.
The Facebook and Instagram “outage” was part of a similar unlinking in the cyber world... by- well, the best way to describe them is “white hats”. The exposure of FB’s selling of personal data and no personal security (cause, after all, that is what the DARPA/LifeLog project was all about— voluntary 24 hour surveillance and data mining)— has caused millions of millenials to leave FB and their own derivative Instagram. they are hemorrhaging participants, and thus losing value the fake value they already had. This in turn is weakening this section of the Leftist deep state. All good. Next up-- Twitter
Bkmrk.
POS Tech Lord Dave McClure loses his sh*t and advocates a conspiracy against Trump and his supporters on November 9, 2016:
Bttt.
5.56mm
Just wait til the EU’s Articles 11 and 13 kick in, the link tax and meme ban..
John 9:4
I believe our 100yr old Anti Trust Laws have enough teeth TODAY to put the Execs of ALL these companies in PRISON for a very long time as well as BILLIONS of DOLLARS in Fines.
Donald Trump Jr.,
you are brilliant in highlighting the key issues of Big Tech Monopoly.
Additionally, software patent protection is a dubious privilege.
I left Twitter. My tweets went nowhere even though I had five thousand followers. No one got them.
Yes, the DEEP STATE controls so much more than most could understand.
MySpace was king of the hill once. Now there are Facebook and Twitter. If they can topple MySpace, they too can be toppled.
MeWe.com
Same here. I figured out I was being shadow banned long before there was the term - about five years ago.
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The Deep State uses Orwell’s 1984 as a “how to” manual.
Orwell suggested that the state would not stop at propaganda or even censorship. Their ultimate goal would be to control your thoughts so you would be incapable of imagining a challenge to their narrative.
That has already been achieved with many young people.
Public Accommodation.
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