Posted on 12/10/2024 12:51:32 PM PST by JV3MRC
It looks like the Federal Communications Commission under Brendan Carr won’t be the only agency looking to tear down the government-backed dystopian activities of website traffic cop NewsGuard.
Federal Trade Commissioner Andrew Ferguson issued a statement Dec. 2 joining his colleague Commissioner Melissa Holyoak in urging the agency “to investigate online platforms for unfair acts or practices relating to their opaque, unpredictable processes for banning users and censoring content.” Ferguson stipulated that “we must vigorously enforce the antitrust laws against any platforms found to be unlawfully limiting Americans’ ability to exchange ideas freely and openly.” Part of Ferguson’s antitrust push includes cracking down on unlawful, facilitated advertiser boycotts of right-leaning outlets by leftist media sentinels like NewsGuard and the World Federation of Advertisers’ Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) initiative.
(Excerpt) Read more at mrcfreespeechamerica.org ...
The swamp runs wide and deep in the censorship area.
At the end of the day government actors conspired with private actors to suppress freedom of speech.
now do the FISA court
Google needs to be taken down.
Not sexy news but important nonetheless.
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