Posted on 09/27/2021 12:06:03 PM PDT by grayboots
I am authorizing FLSecofState and the Florida Department of State to open an investigation into Facebook’s alleged election interference through its whitelisting program.
Floridians deserve to know how much Big Tech has influenced our elections.
Sorry typo in headline MY TITLE
Mu?
What happened to Delta?.............
Mods, could you please fix the title of this post? Should be “My headline,” not “Mu headline.”
Should also do it with google. Check the news and political ads and search results for Florida vs the results for say New York.
I know there was a professor who was doing this. Can’t remember his name but he testified before Congress a couple years back. He has 100s, maybe 1000s, of computers across the country running searches and they are tabulating the results. He claims they can potentially move millions of votes by manipulating what people see and when.
I thought it was a fraternity.
But Rand Paul would be AGAINST this (just as he supported the techs when they de-platformed him), because Facebook is a PRIVATE COMPANY.
(don’t blame me, take it up with Rand, he helped prevent Trump from ending this shit)
Thank you. Why must people fixate on an obvious typo and not on the substance of the post? Oh well
Personally, I tend to agree with Rand on this.
A “publisher” should be allowed their own biases, just like fox news has their and MSNBC has a very different set of biases.
What I don’t agree with is that Facebook and Google and Twitter can have Section 230 protection when they declare themselves publishers and not platforms. If they want section 230 protections, then they shouldn’t be meddling in elections, censoring opinions, or white listing their pet favorites.
Really. Sadly, there is an increasing lack of seriousness hereabouts.
Of course, I’ve been guilty a time or two myself.
Good for DeSantis! I’m liking him more all the time. He’s proactive and challenges the crazy.
Excellent!
They’re corporations, it is HIGHLY ILLEGAL for them to interfere in elections (if it was legal, companies in the pre-woke days would have prevented this nightmare)...but Rand is fine with it, I guess.
The real culprit in this is the CEO of a company using the shield of the limited liability corporation to protect them from personal lawsuits brought by ordinary citizens. If citizen’s sue Facebook they have to defend the company with however many billions it takes to win. But if Mark Zuckerberg had to defend his acts or lose a large portion of his wealth in a class action suit he would focus on his legitimate job of maximizine shareholder value of his company and not on saving the world from reelecting Donald Trump.
The corporation charter law needs to be changed to only indemnify the CEO from lawsuits brought by shareholders or managers of the company and not from ordinary citizens. With the current law the CEOs have superpowers that ordinary people don’t have with no accountability to general society.
“Hold muh headline”.
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You are a fool. These are not private companies they are utilities and need to be regulated
You are a fool. These are not private companies they are utilities and need to be regulated
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I’ve made in depth posts on this topic in the past. Despite your incorrect assessment about myself, I have gone on record as saying that they should be forced to classify as either a platform or as a publisher.
If declare as platform, then yes, they should be treated in many of the same ways as regulated public utilities/services. They would still have some protections against frivolous litigation, but they would no longer be permitted to censor their users.
If declare as publisher, they may operate with all the biases as any other publisher (NYT, CNN, FNC, etc) but would not be protected against the lawsuits of the people or entities about whom they carry content.
Right now, the Twitters and the Facebooks of the world get the best of both worlds, and can operate with government protection yet treat people like crap.
You give them choice.
The public has little or no choice.
These are all platforms and need regulation
So is FreeRepublic a platform?
What regulations should it be forced to comply with ?
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