Posted on 07/20/2022 6:37:34 AM PDT by JV3MRC
Big Tech in recent years has consistently discriminated against conservatives and independent thinkers by censoring them online. This has affected everyone from the former president of the United States to everyday men and women.
When Big Tech companies censor someone, they don’t only block that one person. But they also block all of that person’s followers from new ideas and viewpoints.
This phenomenon is best thought of as “secondhand censorship.” Secondhand censorship is defined as the number of times that users on social media had information kept from them.
MRC Free Speech America tracked the effects of secondhand censorship using our one-of-a-kind CensorTrack database. Across seven Big Tech platforms – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and Spotify – MRC Free Speech America logged a grand total of 144,301,713 times that users on social media had information kept from them in the first quarter of 2022 alone.
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You have to wonder how it is that these ubiquitous tech platforms are not subject to public accommodation laws?
I am even now waiting out my 14th Twitter suspension. The last two are for asking Democrats whether they want to send us righties to Gulags or just exterminate us. Seemed like a good question given their rhetoric.
We all know who the real potential domestic terrorists are.
Big Tech’s Thought-Policing
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Power corrupts.
I’ll tell you the REAL impact of all this misapplication of our rights of free speech against GOVERNMENT censorship.
As often happens, when private individuals or private business do what the Right doesn’t like, the Right, instead of marshaling their forces in the open competition of the free market to raise up companies friendly to freedom and America like what Trump has done with Truth Social, they just whine and complain mightily implying or demanding federal government should get involved. But the federal government is the GREATEST THREAT to our freedoms.
The Constitution protects the free speech of individuals and private business. That means they can say or not say whatever they want and private business can allow or forbid whatever they want as to the federal government.
As Reagan once said in opposing government blocking communist speech once upon a time, that freedom can withstand and outlast the lies of communism and tyranny. Likewise, freedom can withstand and outlast the lies and deceits of Big Tech mainly by standing opposed with the truth and raising up spokesmen, loudspeakers, and industry that allows freedom of speech.
The worst thing the Right can do here is invite the federal government to regulate the freedoms of Americas. The mostly unconstitutional and totalitarian federal government is our arch enemy and greatest threat to our freedoms and well being. We need MUCH LESS GOVERNMENT, not more.
Patriots can compete successfully with Big Tech. Big Tech cannot put you in jail. But the feds can shut you down, put you in jail, and kill you very easily.
I also suspect that the Left, guised often in the Right’s clothing, have a lot to do with this whining and sniveling about Big Tech’s allowances and prohibitions because the Left would LOVE nothing more than to give the feds MORE unconstitutional power to regulate the speech and freedoms of Americans.
Wake up America-loving Patriots!
What really happens is what ‘happened’ to Hillary during her Presidential campaigning. She believed her own hype, that she had massive support .
Typical stupid Liberal thinking.... “If I bully the opposition into silence, then I have no opposition.”
It's why she thought (still thinks) enough people wanted her as President, to get her into the WH.
The problem is that Big Tech and Big Government are partners.
And Big Tech can put you in jail by indirect means. They simply need to ask their allies in Government to change laws and enforce them selectively against opponents. Obedient minions in government will do what their bosses tell them to do, which is all too commonly what a corporate lobbyist asks them to do.
Large corporations effectively wield just as much power as governments and must be restrained by rule-of-law for the same reason that governments must be restrained by rule-of-law.
And that "rule-of-law" thing? It seems to be fading away these days.
Also, by censoring opposition, they've made themselves content publishers instead of content carriers and need to have their Section 230 liability protections completely removed. They need to be slapped hard because they're not above the law, no matter how much money they throw at candidates and causes.
Big Tech is the new trusts with very high barriers to entry (which include the marketing costs necessary to establish a brand—which takes years).
They need to be broken up into a million pieces.
We need another Teddy Roosevelt to get it done.
Right. Part of of the $3 trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal government that America Patriots MUST DESTOY. The last thing we need to do is give this corrupt federal government MORE unconstitutional power.
The answer is just what Trump did with Truth Social. COMPETE in the free market with these jackals. But please, NOT more government, LESS government.
The Sherman anti-trust legislation was passed in 1890.
Enforcing it as it is written is not exactly “rolling back our liberties”.
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Oh, the Left would love to that. They are drooling at the chance. That is actually their plan in all of this. And the unwary on the Right take it in hook, line, and sinker. Meanwhile say goodbye to more of your freedoms.
Every unconstitutional act of the feds including anti-trust activities rolls back your liberties.
Enforcing law that has been on the books for one hundred and thirty years is just common sense.
Corrupt public officials refuse to do it.
We would have much more liberty if Big Tech went away.
The Indian tech workers with H1B visas do not have any predisposition towards constitutional principles. They have moved to the top of the companies now. They run things. They didn’t learn about freedom and liberty in their public schools. They have lived in a caste system which would not benefit from any kind of economic mobility.
If you want to re-argue the 1890 legislation fine.
Big monopolies of the time (steel, oil, tobacco and others) crushed competition and used corrupt public officials as their enforcement arm.
You are confusing kleptocracy with capitalism—the same mistake the left makes.
Jim is right on target. Don’t ask the government at any level to help you.
People tried to warn us about Homeland Security before it/they became big government.
The Constitution protects the free speech of individuals and private business. That means they can say or not say whatever they want and private business can allow or forbid whatever they want as to the federal government.
As Reagan once said in opposing government blocking communist speech once upon a time, that freedom can withstand and outlast the lies of communism and tyranny. Likewise, freedom can withstand and outlast the lies and deceits of Big Tech mainly by standing opposed with the truth and raising up spokesmen, loudspeakers, and industry that allows freedom of speech.
The worst thing the Right can do here is invite the federal government to regulate the freedoms of Americas. The mostly unconstitutional and totalitarian federal government is our arch enemy and greatest threat to our freedoms and well being. We need MUCH LESS GOVERNMENT, not more.
Patriots can compete successfully with Big Tech. Big Tech cannot put you in jail. But the feds can shut you down, put you in jail, and kill you very easily.
6 posted on 7/20/2022, 7:11:32 AM by Jim W N
Your confusion is about what is constitutional and what is not and you support the feds in their unconstitutional acts to your own hurt. Unconstitutional precedent is destructive no matter how far back you go.
Sorry to say, but you are like one of Stalin’s “useful idiots.”
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