Posted on 05/23/2018 4:21:51 AM PDT by caww
Nigel Farage put Mark Zuckerberg on blast during the Facebook CEO’s testimony to the European Parliament, accusing him of “willful discrimination” against conservatives on the platform, and positing the creation of a “Social Media Bill of Rights” to protect free speech.
“Perhaps you’re horrified by this creation of yours and what it’s led to, I don’t know. But what is absolutely true is that since January of this year, you’ve changed your modus operandi, you’ve changed your algorithms, and it has led directly to a very substantial drop in views and engagements for those who have got right-of-center political opinions.”
“I am not talking here, Mr. Zuckerberg, about extremism. I am not talking about encouraging violence. I am not talking about hatred of anybody. I’m talking about people who have majority, mainstream opinions … and frankly, I feel, they are being wilfully discriminated against.”
“What interests me is who decides what is acceptable? Who are these people you referred to earlier, these third-party fact checkers, who are these people? Why is there no transparency in this process at all?”
“I’m not generally somebody who calls for legislation on the international stage, but I’m beginning to wonder whether we need a social media bill of rights to basically protect free speech. I’m asking you today, very, very clearly that would you accept today that Facebook is not a platform for all ideas that is operated impartially?”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Mark said he’s sorry. What more do you want. s/
Better link, the one you used will go stale.
what... no hoodie???
>>“I’m not generally somebody who calls for legislation on the international stage, but I’m beginning to wonder whether we need a social media bill of rights to basically protect free speech. I’m asking you today, very, very clearly that would you accept today that Facebook is not a platform for all ideas that is operated impartially?”
And so-called Net Neutrality was going to do NOTHING about that. It was only to protect the bandwith use of Facebook, Netflix, Youtube, et al.
Facebook and Youtube can ban and downthrottle and demonetize YOUR content all they want.
The EU/Obama types.
Zuck's one of them.
Zucky must have gone to acting school. Lip biting to feign sincerity. Haircut. Suit and tie. Looking down. What a phony fraud.
reported on fox news this am that FB will now require US SSAN furnished to prove US citizenship in order to buy political ads.
nothing mentioned about gummit requiring US SSAN as proof of US citizenship to VOTE.
Long overdue. Conservatives need to pound this issue continually.
Nigel Farage is like a parent scolding Mark Zuckerberg but Mark cannot understand Nigel due to his accent.....
Marks body language evidences he doesn’t want to hear...and he doesn’t. Whenever he answers he sounds like a digitalized computer!
Sounds like rules and regulations on these social media giants is going to happen sooner rather than later.
That’s exactly right.
Your right.thanks!
Will they make an exception to illegal aliens?
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