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Heritage Foundation Defends Facebook’s ‘Right’ to Censor, Will Oppose Regulation
Breitbart ^ | May 3, 2018 | Allum Bokhari

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: breitbart; breitbartnews; facebook; fascistbook; klonkitchen; markzuckerberg; zuckerberg
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To: heights

“The Internet is a Common space”

Facebook is not the internet.


41 posted on 05/03/2018 12:09:22 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Radix

“They are a utility”

How so?


42 posted on 05/03/2018 12:10:04 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: heights

“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.


43 posted on 05/03/2018 12:11:40 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: palmer

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.


44 posted on 05/03/2018 12:12:42 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Radix

“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.


45 posted on 05/03/2018 12:14:39 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: C19fan

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.


46 posted on 05/03/2018 12:15:12 PM PDT by upsdriver
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To: Zathras

“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.


47 posted on 05/03/2018 12:18:58 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: cgbg
and selling it to others--without your consent.

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.

48 posted on 05/03/2018 12:20:22 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Osage Orange

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.


49 posted on 05/03/2018 12:34:52 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: C19fan

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.


50 posted on 05/03/2018 12:36:22 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

“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


51 posted on 05/03/2018 12:39:25 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
the telephone company could deny us the right to use their lines

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.

52 posted on 05/03/2018 12:41:50 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Mariner
It is the 21st century. The Internet has developed into an intrinsic aspect of daily living. It was inevitable that outlets would develop that consolidate Internet potential and establish a common ground.

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.

53 posted on 05/03/2018 12:43:39 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: GingisK
"These two matters are the same. Simple uniformity in these matters is the only workable solution."

I agree with what you said but unfortunately we are way past the point of having any workable solutions. Still, it is nice to take a step back once in awhile and think about what might have been..
54 posted on 05/03/2018 12:44:00 PM PDT by Garth Tater (End the Fed. Return to Constitutional governance.)
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To: Mariner

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.


55 posted on 05/03/2018 12:46:33 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: VanDeKoik

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.


56 posted on 05/03/2018 12:51:02 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: C19fan
Looks like the Heritage Foundation has moved from paleo- to neo-conservatism.

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?

57 posted on 05/03/2018 12:57:16 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Radix

Are you one of those folks that sign contracts they don’t read?

Only the dumb do that.


58 posted on 05/03/2018 1:02:56 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Radix

“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.


59 posted on 05/03/2018 1:08:14 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: C19fan

It’s the lib Heritage Foundation. What do you expect.


60 posted on 05/03/2018 1:09:51 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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