Posted on 06/27/2020 9:40:41 PM PDT by Drastic
On Fridays Hugh Hewitt Show, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) predicted that if large social media platforms continue to pick and choose, do exactly what theyre doing, where they go after conservative sites, and dont change their ways and act in a more politically neutral manner, theyre going to lose their immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, Its just a matter of time.
Host Hugh Hewitt asked, Do you believe these large social media platforms ought to have the protections of Section 230, that they ought to be treated as bulletin boards as opposed to publishers? Because I no longer do.
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The country will be under global Marxist rule before that happens, unfortunately.
FR is a social media site...
They have heard this before with no follow through. They will double down. The goal is to completely silence Trump, Conservatives, and Republicans on the internet. With many conservatives going to Parler, Microsoft or Google, or Facebook will buy out Parler and censor it hard.
He supported Trump unreservedly in the general election.
“With many conservatives going to Parler, Microsoft or Google, or Facebook will buy out Parler and censor it hard.”
It looks like they are going to start attacking through the DNS system by getting registrars to close accounts. This is the system that turns “freerepublic.com” into an IP address. They attacked Gab.com and vdare.com this way. So far, they have been able to find alternative registrars, but it is not guaranteed that can continue:
https://vdare.com/articles/vdare-com-is-not-dead-yet?scroll_to_paragraph=1
All conservative media needs to formulate continuity plans because I think this is going to start to snowball. Also, get a good vpn provider, learn how to use Tor, and get a shortwave radio.
Do not bargain or negotiate with the big techs. Just remove the 230 protection, period. If they agree to change, they will only change to the extent that they can continue what they are doing—only on a lessor scale, but always on a scale that meets their purposes. If these idiots were performing their game plan for the benefit of conservatives/Republicans instead of liberals/Democrats then they would already have lost their 230 umbrella because the Democrats would have seen to it. Why do Republicans always seem to need a case of Viagra in order to do what needs to be done?
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