Posted on 09/06/2017 9:03:28 AM PDT by Mafe
Perhaps it is too much West Coast air, or perhaps because the vast wealth of their owners keeps them insulated from the working class, but with few exceptions (such as Pay Pal founder Peter Theil), tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon all share a left-leaning, Kumbaya-like corporate culture; one that will protect itself with all the vengeful vigor of any social justice warrior on a college campus.
This corporate culture war has pushed many conservatives to view these companies and their enormous clout as a threat in the market place and in politics. This is, of course, much the same as they see groups like MoveOn.org, or politicians like Rep. Nancy Pelosi; and such sentiments are hardly unjustified. Private companies, not politicians or special interest groups, for example, were the leading force in the amending of California’s original religious liberty bill; and conservatives have long been disproportionately targeted on social media with bans for “objectionable” content that site administrators claim to be “hate speech.”
Fear and skepticism of the power of these companies appeared to reach a peak last month when Google fired a senior software engineer for politely questioning the company’s gender initiatives in an internal memo. Adding fuel to the fire, the company then seemingly forced the firing of a respected scholar at the New America Foundation, of which Google is a major benefactor, because his research shed a critical light on the concentration of power by American tech giants. For many on the Right, as Popeye says, “that’s all they can stands, and they can’t stands no more.”
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People like Barr are living under the fiction that Facebook, Amazon and especially Google aren’t de facto monopolies at this point.
Frankly I think this article is a day late and a dollar short. This is a debate we SHOULD have had in the 90’s.
Google, Facebook, et. al. basically control the internet. Most political speech is occurring on the internet. Hence those companies control political speech.
The Founding Fathers would have taken steps to bring them to heel, just as they took steps to secure the privacy and security of the US Mail.
You have to remember that Barr also fell for that Borat act.
Corporate HR departments are basically in ideological lockstep with Antifa. Corporate America is not the antithesis to the Left.
I am sympathetic to Barr’s argument, but time is of the essence and we are already out of time. Action must be taken to end censorship of right wing speech and firings of right wing people from large corporations. Action is needed now. Conservatives who have a fetish for strict lassez-faire capitalism have had decades to do something about the increasing climate of politically correct repression and have failed to do anything at all.
If strong progress is not made on this front by the end of 2017, I favor government action to regulate the large internet companies like public utilities.
The biggest single failure of conservatives in the last 100 years was allowing a small number of private companies, almost all of which were owned and operated by left wing subversives, to own the almost the entire film, radio and TV broadcasting industry for something like 75 years until deregulation put these airwaves in the hands of large conglomerates during the 90’s. That was the main factor in the leftward slide in our culture that started in the 1920’s.
Corporate HR departments are basically run by affirmative action hires and Millenial females who attended some of the most Liberal colleges and universities in America.
Can you shop, search or.... social medias somewhere else?
Yes? Well then they are not monopolies.
The state isn’t here to force people to not utilize what they are too ignorant to avoid.
You will have to nail them on real anti-competitive acts, not because they are political morons.
Don’t use them.
Volia! Your speech is no longer controlled.
I don’t think you understand how much of the internet
Google actually controls behind the scenes.
Well they will have to use those properties to stifle competition in order for them to run afoul of the law.
It is why Apple didnt have to sell off their iPod business despite controlling 80-90% of the MP3 player market years ago.
This is one area where I break with the President on strategy. With out of control federal government getting it's tenticles into everything the last thing I want to see is big corporate CEOs meeting with the president. These CEOs are not beholden to the American people whatsoever so them having a direct access to the President will only work to make the situation worse not better.
Can you shop, search or.... social medias somewhere else?
Yes? Well then they are not monopolies.
I don’t think you understand how much of the internet
Google actually controls behind the scenes.
What the last thing the government “fixed”?
I like to post this list for the future switch over:
Ministry of Truth -> Free Protected Speech
Google -> DuckDuckGo
Chrome -> Brave, Pale Moon
Gmail -> ProtonMail
Facebook -> Minds
Twitter -> Gab.Ai
YouTube -> Bitchute, Vid.Me
Patreon -> Hatreon, Paypal
Reddit -> Steemit
The ones on the left are all in on demonetizing, deplatforming, and censoring anyone they don’t agree with. The ones on the right are just starting but will eventually replace the ones on the left when their SJW CEOs double down. SJW CEOs destroy companies over stupid and silly things. Weaponizing your company to accomplish what you could not achieve through voting is definitely not recommended business practices for longevity.
Good list
I trained myself to reflexively use DuckDuckGo and the Brave browser (which is really great) and occasionally Startpage if necessary.
Don’t ever see Google, Yahoo, Bing or any of the other Cultural Marxist propaganda sites.
Keeps my blood pressure in line.
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