Posted on 05/03/2018 10:56:10 AM PDT by C19fan
The Heritage Foundation will defend Facebook’s legal right as a “private company” to censor content and will oppose attempts to regulate the tech giant, according to the think tank’s senior research fellow for technology, Klon Kitchen. In an interview with Breitbart News, Kitchen argued that as a private company, Facebook has the right to censor content at will, although he strongly cautioned the social network against a censorious approach.
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“The Internet is a Common space”
Facebook is not the internet.
“They are a utility”
How so?
“it does not have the right to regulate the political views of its customers”
Any restaurant has the right to deny any customer based on their expressed political views.
They are selling information about you that they obtain from a variety of sources—without your consent—and selling it to others—without your consent.
“Meanwhile, FB steals info, personal info not freely disclosed, and sells it to any and all. “
With the expressed agreement of every single on of their subscribers.
The proper solution is for the marketplace to provide avenues where others view are not censored. I’d dump Facebook in a minute for another viable platform.
“The difference is considering FB owns more than 50% of the market they are in, they are subject to Anti-Trust laws.
This is what keeps a company from buying up all their competitors.”
There are dozens of Social Media companies.
“This is why Intel couldn’t simply get rid of its competitors by buying them up.”
Intel has been buying other companies since their inception, and just completed a $16.8 billion acquisition of Altera.
The suggestion that Facebook is a monopoly is ludicrous on its face.
Everyone on Facebook has consented to all of the data gathering and data mining. They don't sell data of course, they mine it on behalf of their advertisers. Some of their third party app developers sold data, and Facebook looked the other way until a few years ago because they wanted the third party developers to bring in more users. But Facebook never "sold" data.
I do not give as much as I would like to, but I contribute what I can. Only a few hundred since I originally signed on, but hopefully more soon.
Exactly. If “conservatives” like the Heritage Foundation had their way, the telephone company could deny us the right to use their lines if we didn’t have politically correct phone conversations.
“If “conservatives” like the Heritage Foundation had their way, the telephone company could deny us the right to use their lines if we didn’t have politically correct phone conversations.”
Outrageously...
DUMB
What century are you in? One of your 2-3 wired carriers and 4-5 wireless carriers could certainly censor if they wanted to. Their customers would (1) leave (2) complain to state regulators, (3) complain to the FTC, (4) sue for class action, etc. Or just (1) leave because there's no reason to use such a stupid service.
Facebook isn't the only place to share cat pictures.
The evidence is in the money. What Zuckerberg is a Billionaire because of his charming personality?
No, he is rich because he created a niche that was gonna be created in short order. I do not begrudge him his Billions. Make more money
Do not however, use my portion of the airwaves in order to censor me.
Just don’t, and we can get along just fine.
Expressed agreement is like checking a box in order to move onto the next page.
Sorry, but that nonsense is going south, hopefully sooner than you might imagine.
Nobody reads that shit, and it will be done away with.
Effing Lawyers. Shakespeare had it right.
Too many people don’t understand the ramifications of regulations that would “ban censorship”.
That means oversight. Oversight means government involvement. Government involvement means censorship and persecution.
And that censorship and persecution won’t be against Leftists.
I know the neos grabbed hold of the Reagan and Bush administrations. When they went into hiding after the fustercluck that was the Iraq War did they hunker down at Heritage and takeover?
Are you one of those folks that sign contracts they don’t read?
Only the dumb do that.
“It is the 21st century. The Internet has developed into an intrinsic aspect of daily living. “
Agreed.
But Facebook is not the Internet.
NOT EVEN CLOSE.
Its a fancy-pants version of Free Republic with 2 billion subscribers.
And folks who complain that Facebook didn’t notify them what they would do with their data are no different from a subprime mortgagee complaining they didn’t know their interest rate was going to increase to 12% after 5 years.
Even though they signed the contract.
It’s the lib Heritage Foundation. What do you expect.
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