> Google employees were caught on video admitting that Google interferes in the election <
Google is a private company. So their employees have every right to slant their company towards the Democrats. Just as Free Republic has every right to slant this site towards Trump.
And as I noted before, the 1A free speech argument doesn’t apply. The 1A was meant to protect you from government censorship, not from private party censorship.
But here’s what might apply. Google is so big that it might be considered a monopoly. I happen to believe that’s true. Break ‘em up on that basis.
I agree with you 100%.
OR, why is it that not one group of conservatives havent bought into the idea of creating their own search engines and webs?
Free Republic does not have protection under under Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1996. Google does. Your comparison is stupid and uninformed.
I absolutely agree with breaking them up, but also consider that just about every potential voter uses them today unlike Freep, the reach Google/Facebook/Twitter has is immense and quite frankly I think it is Google, Facebook and Twitter and not education nor the MSM that has driven so many young adults towards this insane violence against the US today.
The media and education have been leftist long before Google/FB or Twitter ever existed. Why didn’t they riot and freak out on this scale when GW was elected? Because they weren’t fed the level of BS they are being fed today and that BS comes primarily from Google, Facebook and Twitter. The problem with breaking them up though is they got every member of Congress in their back pocket
Nice try Google, Facebook, apple are all publicly traded company’s buy stock and get a say. Instead of wanting uncle sugar to fix it for you.. stand up and fight
“Google is a private company.”
No. It. Isn’t.
I don’t know why FReepers keep repeating this falsehood.
Google is a PUBLIC company. Big difference.
A publicly traded company (i.e. offers shares for sale to the public) cannot, under federal law, contribute to, or try to influence, federal elections:
https://transition.fec.gov/pages/brochures/fecfeca.shtml#Contribution_Limits
This is regulated under 52 U.S. Code 30118.
Here are more specific details and definitions...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/30118
Note the definitions of “contributions” and “expenditures”. For this section and section 79l(h) of title 15, these include “any services, or anything of value”.
These social media companies are engaging in organized crime, criminal racketeering, criminal fraud, and money laundering. Allowing employees to use their company-paid time to engage in federal election activities is criminal. Management who knowingly permit this should be criminally charged. Using these resources illegally also means the CEO and other executives are willfully neglecting their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders and knowingly putting these investments at risk. They should go to prison for a long time.
NONE of these things apply to a privately held company such as Free Republic.