Posted on 07/28/2021 2:15:51 PM PDT by Signalman
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced legislation Wednesday to combat the censorship campaign orchestrated by colluding Big Tech companies and governments all over the world, including the Biden Administration.
“Americans should know when governments – especially their own – request or pressure internet companies to censor legal speech,” Rubio said.
Rubio explained in a FOX News article Wednesday that the bill, the PRESERVE Online Speech Act, would “require technology companies to disclose any U.S. or foreign government requests or recommendations regarding content moderation” within seven days of the request.
It would also force the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to submit an annual report to Congress covering all government censorship requests and resulting actions from that year. Non-compliant firms will receive a daily fine of $50,000 that will be directed to the FCC to provide rural broadband access.
The legislation comes nearly two weeks after White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki openly admitted that the Biden administration is conspiring with Big Tech oligarchs to suppress dissent on social media platforms.
“We already know that Big Tech companies pick and choose which viewpoints are allowed on their platforms, and now the Biden administration expressed their willingness to help them censor the American people,” said Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), one of the bill’s cosponsors.
Indeed, it is obvious by who and what tech companies choose to censor that their “disinformation campaigns” are ideological vendettas against conservatives.
“Transparency is critical,” wrote Rubio, “but it alone will not change the poisonous role that Big Tech and social media corporations are playing in our national politics.”
For this reason, Rubio said he has also introduced the DISCOURSE Act, “which would strip Section 230 protections from large tech companies that drop the pretense of neutrality by censoring specific viewpoints or creating and developing content, including through algorithmic amplification.”
“We need to step up to the plate to stop Silicon Valley-Democrat collusion before it’s too late,” said Rubio.
Wouldn’t it be better if it were illegal for our government to engage in such censorship at all?!
“We need to step up to the plate to stop Silicon Valley-Democrat collusion before it’s too late,” said Rubio.
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Too late dumbass, we have already had our first Venezuelan election.
The rest won’t really matter.
Exactly how can it even be constitutional for the government to request prior restraint censorship?
It would be great if this would happen. But it won’t. Big Tech runs the governments now. They have their standing general orders from the Obama regime. Just like Obama didn’t need to order IRS goons to take out conservative enemies, they don’t need to be told who or what to censor. They just anyone interfering with the progressive marxist dogma.
Rubio is just chasing his tail. You can chase down Deep State operations all day long. You won’t find what you’re looking for.
Better for him if he pushed for a breakup of these anti free speech monopolies.
Man alive! There is nothing more aggressive than a Republican when they know they don’t have the power to pass a bill. Sure would be nice if they ever decided to do this kind of thing when they actually held both houses, the White House and had a working majority in the supreme court.
Good. But it won’t go anywhere.
Oh what a typical response from the RINO. Hey new law folks... if you kill someone, the new law requires you tell the cops about it ASAP.
Censorship by these tech firms is an illegal payment-in-kind political contribution.
Just get rid of section 230 in its entirety.
Let the chips fall where they may.
It would kill both Facebook and Twitter and their like.
Good riddance.
Broken clock, but, sadly, just as effective.
True
Pointless since it would never pass the House.
Little Rubio thinks he’s running for President.
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