Posted on 03/26/2019 7:27:02 PM PDT by blam
We either take down Facebook and Google and turn them into tightly regulated transparent public utilities available to all or they will destroy what little is left of American democracy.
The RussiaGate Narrative has been revealed as a Big Con (a.k.a. Nothing-Burger), but what's dangerously real is the censorship that's being carried out by the for-profit monopolies Facebook and Google on behalf of the status quo's Big Con.
This site got a taste of Facebook-Google-Big-Media's Orwellian Authoritarian-Totalitarian censorship back in 2016 when a shadowy fake-news site called PropOrNot aggregated every major alt-media site that had published anything remotely skeptical of the coronation of Hillary Clinton as president and labeled us all shills for Russian propaganda.
Without any investigation of the perps running the site or their fake-news methodology, The Washington Post (Jeff Bezos' plaything) saw fit to promote the fake-news on Page One as if it were journalistically legitimate. Why would a newspaper that supposedly values the integrity of its content run with such shameless fake-news propaganda? Because it fit the Post's own political agenda and biases.
This is the essence of Facebook-Google-Big-Media's Orwellian Authoritarian-Totalitarian censorship: sacrifice accepted journalistic practice, free speech and transparency to promote an absurdly obvious political and social agenda.
If there was any real justice in America, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai should be wearing prison jumpsuits for what Facebook and Google have done to American democracy. Both of these monopolies have manipulated news feeds, search results and what individuals are shown in complete secret, with zero public oversight or transparency.
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(Excerpt) Read more at charleshughsmith.blogspot.com ...
Break em up!!
Their censorship should be equated to campaign contributions.
The only way to tackle them is to stop using them.
Nope. Not good enough. They are a propaganda machine for the masses. Conservatives will lose their voice as they are every day.
Why not a 15% tax on all advertising, including movie product placement?
It hits the media, big tech, the entertainment industry- all the enemies of Western Civilization.
And, if it makes a difference in the life of one child it’ll all be worth it.
If they are publicly traded companies then they have to tell the truth in their filings. Easy peasy way of holding them accountable if someone wants to
Amen to that...
Better yet, we should hit them with a sliding scale tax rate. Soak the rich media and ensure they pay their fair share. Then regulate them like a utility. What's good for the goose, certainly should be good for the gander, especially since they promote this very ideology themselves. Hoist them on their own petards.
It really is quite insidious what leftist rats will do to society if we let them.
When the treason and seditious conspiracy charges get handed down, do not expect executives from Twitter, FB, and Google to remain unscathed.
We have still yet to see the reveal about what Google was doing in North Korea, but I’m rather certain the reveal will be nuclear in its devastation of that company.
Charles Hughes Smith is a very sharp guy—I recommend checking out his blog if you have not done so.
His expertise is economics—the kind they don’t teach in school—systemic failure and corruption (because the schools are systemic failures and intellectually corrupt) !
:: We either take down Facebook and Google and turn them into tightly regulated transparent public utilities available to all or they will destroy what little is left of American democracy. ::
Because if they are made regulated “utilities”, no one would subscribe because the cost would be too high and always escalating. And that’s a bad thing because, because
Oh...wait...I see what you meant.
Thanks blam. This wouldn't be such a problem if there were oversight by shareholders. Or if the ***holes who run the things were dragged out of their limos and beaten to death with steel pipes. Naturally, I mean that in the nicest possible way.
Drag all these CEO's and 'Bigs' through the mud ( even if we can't find something on them connected to what we're looking for) we can ruin and bankrupt them.
Maybe a SWAT team to take out Madeleine Albright, George Soros, and Jeff Bezos at 5 AM with Fox News Crews tipped off ahead of time...
Let's show Democrats and their thugs in the press, what they are... let's run investigations the way THEY run investigations.
Maybe, but here he's advocating for the government to jail people because he doesn't like what's on their privately owned websites or newspapers.
I guess fascists can be smart...
"It’s simply censorship by proxy, the hallmark of an end-state corporatist oligopoly."
https://tomluongo.me/2019/03/20/censorship-government-control-christchurch/
Nonsense.
EPIC alleges that law enforcement is using Google, a private entity, to bypass the Fourth Amendment, which requires due process and probable cause before “searching or seizing” someone’s property.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-government-warrantless-searches-epic,38955.html
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