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To: Ozguy1945

What does that even mean??

Don’t screw with my God given rights


5 posted on 04/28/2020 3:10:43 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

was just about to post this, when Tucker has it on his show today.

25 Apr: The Atlantic: Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal
In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong.
by Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School professor & Andrew Keane Woods, Professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law
Today, the platforms are proudly collaborating with one another, and following government guidance, to censor harmful information related to the coronavirus. And they are using their prodigious data-collection capacities, in coordination with federal and state governments, to improve contact tracing, quarantine enforcement, and other health measures. As Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg recently boasted, “The world has faced pandemics before, but this time we have a new superpower: the ability to gather and share data for good.”...

As surprising as it may sound, digital surveillance and speech control in the United States already show many similarities to what one finds in authoritarian states such as China...
In the great debate of the past two decades about freedom versus control of the network, China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong. Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet, and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society’s norms and values...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/what-covid-revealed-about-internet/610549/


6 posted on 04/28/2020 5:16:36 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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