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Regulating social media giants is a road to Big Tech tyranny
Washington Examiner ^
| 2018-09-06 12:00
| Tyler Grant
Posted on 09/06/2018 3:22:28 AM PDT by McQ444
Last week, President Trump tweeted about potentially exploring regulation for companies such as Google, citing a report that claimed searching for Trump News pulls up disproportionately left-leaning results.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; censorship; facebook; fascistbook; globalwarminghoax; google; homosexualagenda; libertarians; markzuckerberg; mediawingofthednc; medicalmarijuana; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; sockpuppet; tech; twitter; youtube; zerotohero; zuckerberg
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posted on
09/06/2018 3:22:28 AM PDT
by
McQ444
To: McQ444
Break up monopolies and deregulate them.
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posted on
09/06/2018 3:27:24 AM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
To: McQ444; Old Sarge; 50mm; darkwing104
McQ444
Since Aug 29, 2018
SNIFF.
Cloudy with a chance of lightning
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posted on
09/06/2018 3:27:32 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: McQ444
The big social media are acting in a manner that indicates they want to be regulated. The big question is, why?
And going along with their censorship/regulation agenda is against the principles of freedom that all conservatives embrace, so how do we address this issue?
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posted on
09/06/2018 4:11:30 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: McQ444
"Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you." ~George Orwell: 1984"
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posted on
09/06/2018 4:15:15 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(President Trump has remained steadfast!This is leadership!Hold steadfast, America!We shall overcome!)
To: exDemMom
The big social media are acting in a manner that indicates they want to be regulated. The big question is, why? Because the political pendulum in this country swings both ways and they believe the Democrats will be back in power soon. That's when they can then use the power of big government to stifle any competition through their paid for Democrats then collude with the Government to fully implement fascism. That's where this all will go if they have their way: shut down all speech they don't agree with and destroy those who dare oppose them in any way.
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posted on
09/06/2018 4:15:40 AM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: McQ444
"if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposedif all records told the same talethen the lie passed into history and became truth." ~George Orwell:
1984.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
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posted on
09/06/2018 4:18:00 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(President Trump has remained steadfast!This is leadership!Hold steadfast, America!We shall overcome!)
To: exDemMom
“The big question is, why?”
Because then they become as much part of the government as the post office.
Constantly getting cash infusions, while having no competition BY LAW.
And look how many stupid people on our side are falling for it because “it’s muh town square”!
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posted on
09/06/2018 4:18:31 AM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
To: McQ444
When POTUS mentioned not being able to find POTUS-friendly sites when he googled "Trump News" was he specifically hoping to see the URL Trump.news listed?
Is that site even a legitimate Trump-friendly site? It seems at the moment to be. OR IS THAT site a Trojan horse, waiting to become popular, and then DUMP on the POTUS?
I see what https://www.whois.com/whois/trump.news shows almost everything says "REDACTED for PRIVACY"
However https://www.whois.com/whois/trump.com shows that it is owned by "The Trump Organization", "New York, New York, and clearly seems to be owned by the Trump family, but it is not a news site."
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posted on
09/06/2018 4:45:48 AM PDT
by
Future Useless Eater
(Congress: Add clarification that CO2 is a PLANT FOOD, not a pollutant covered by the Clean Air Act)
To: McQ444
It seems to me this is a fairly easy task for the the social media sites.
Let everyone participate uninhibited until a crime is reported/identified. When a crime is reported/identified, investigate the accounts and prosecute the account’s owner, just as we would do for someone in any public place.
Foreign entities should have to abide by United States laws and should be identifiable immediately as not being within the USA.
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posted on
09/06/2018 4:48:14 AM PDT
by
jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: McQ444
Vote by walking away.
Tough to do though.
I find Google searches to be superior to all others for non-political subjects.
Amazon finds one time purchase products better than the rest by a smaller margin than Google’s superiority.
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posted on
09/06/2018 5:11:52 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: VanDeKoik
its muh town square!
That it is, for many, many people.
I am not on social media, nor are many people I know. But most of the world IS (particularly younger people). And if we are going to spread the Conservative message and win converts, THAT is the forum in which we must do so.
Which is why they are trying to silence us, and why I must respectfully disagree on the subject of regulating them.
To: Buckeye McFrog
“That it is, for many, many people.”
Dont care.
Soft nationalization is not going to solve your problems. It will make it FAR WORSE.
To: jacknhoo
“Let everyone participate uninhibited until a crime is reported/identified. When a crime is reported/identified,...”
Therein lies the problem! Who identifies the crime? Who reports the crime? Who determines it actually IS a crime?
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posted on
09/06/2018 6:21:04 AM PDT
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
We've seen jihadists waved through while disabled children and nuns are shaken down by the TSA. It isn't the tools, it's who's holding them, that is the problem.
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posted on
09/06/2018 6:23:59 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: McQ444
Be careful what you ask for.....
Regulation is completely dependent on who designs the yardstick.
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posted on
09/06/2018 6:40:09 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: All
Break up monopolies. Proper USA government has done this before because we want competition. It is the nature of corporate business to collapse similar businesses onto themselves. This needs be undone on a regular basis.
Consolidation mostly stems from the artificial nature of legal fictions, sans corporations. Corporations last much longer than the real people who create private enterprise, so they accumulate this way.
Corporate grow and ownership of much of our resources is a function of _money_from_thin_air. We would not have such monstrous corporations without it. Fiat money is the _food_ for these legal fictions and for fiat government, like that one occupying DC.
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posted on
09/06/2018 6:59:03 AM PDT
by
veracious
(UN=OIC=Islam ; Dems may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
To: SgtHooper
Who identifies/reports the crime: users and bias free software algorithms and state and federal law enforcement.
Who determines/prosecutes the crime: law enforcement of the state where the account is based. If outside the US or if the state determines it is a federal crime, the feds.
No different than if people are standing on a public street or in a town hall forum.
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posted on
09/06/2018 7:23:48 AM PDT
by
jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: McQ444
These are now public commons and that means regulations.
They are also not privately held.
Regulate away!
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posted on
09/06/2018 7:36:43 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: SunkenCiv
We've seen jihadists waved through while disabled children and nuns are shaken down by the TSA. It isn't the tools, it's who's holding them... BINGO!
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posted on
09/06/2018 8:20:09 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Republicans act like they're at a country club- Democrats like they're at a boxing match. Starboard)
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