Posted on 12/14/2018 4:51:34 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
Big Tech lobbyists orchestrated the quiet insertion of a seemingly innocuous provision into the deal that will allow them to silence conservative voices.
...Unfortunately, an obscure article in one provision of the agreement only serves the interests of the largest tech monopolies by granting them special privilege to censor conservatives.
...Big Tech lobbyists orchestrated the quiet insertion of a seemingly innocuous provision (Article 19.17) into the deal that is based on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230, much beloved by big tech, and an essential building block of their monopolistic dominance, holds that platforms like Facebook cannot be held liable as a “publisher or speaker” of their users’ content.
Under the right circumstances, there’s good reason for tech companies to have this type of immunity. If Facebook were legally responsible for everything its more than 2 billion users post, then it would enforce overly restrictive rules and restrictions and block lawful posts. Because Congress explicitly acknowledged that these platforms served as a “forum for a true diversity of political discourse,” it granted this important privilege.
However, as Senator-elect Josh Hawley — who was an active leader on challenging the power of big tech when he served as Missouri attorney general, and shows every sign of leading this fight in the Senate — pointed out, these platforms no longer support the political diversity that the law was premised on. Instead, big tech relentlessly censors conservatives. They take all of the benefit of the provision, while accepting none of the costs.
Similarly, Sen. Ted Cruz has argued that dominant tech platforms aren’t acting neutrally, so they “should be considered to be a ‘publisher or speaker’ of user content if they pick and choose what gets published or spoken.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Second worst trade deal ever neotiated?
Big money buys what it wants in DC. Obviously. Nothing new.
Shut them down.
That is why Nancy said they have to pass a bill to see what is in it. People always sneak things into a bill that no one else knows until after it is passed.
The authors of the Confederate Constitution took note of all these quirks and actually made some major improvements.
I did not know until recently that Congress was passing corrupt Omnibus spending bills as early as 1840 and before.
And the corruption in elections made Broward County look benign.
The Civil War did not result from just a normal flow of events. It was orchestrated.
I sure hope President Trump takes time to read the fine print in this “deal”. I have heard that it is nothing more then a warmed over version of T.P.P.
There is no new NAFTA trade deal.
NAFTA was replaced.
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