“So when the social media companies start deplatforming conservatives, and engines like Google start up with antics like listing the GOP’s ideology as “Nazism,” we need to respond to their exercise of their power with the exercise of our own power – via our elected representatives. A GOP bill requiring social media platforms to explicitly and clearly explain their content policies, to disclose to banned people their exact violation, to provide a rapid, meaningful appeal process, and to provide for lawsuits (with fee awards to prevailing plaintiffs) to remedy violations is just the first step toward a regulatory solution.
The Fredocons will whine that this is not a conservative solution. Oh. Well, “
And you just watch as that comes back and bites us in the ass someday.
Once you have their bias in writing, then what? Oh yeah, just smug satisfaction, and you are still censored.
In the end, no amount of mental gymnastics can require any social media platform to platform whomever outside of their final say, like it or not.
This is a matter of not being a lazy whiner, and looking for the state to “fix” a website. All Google has to do is string together a word salad of legal jargon, and they are free and clear anyway.
What he can do is take the money you gladly invest in Google, and get together with other conservatives and fund the creation of a new platform.
Unless he is saying we are too stupid or broke to do this?
1) It won't turn a profit. Corporations will blackball it and not put their ads on it. Yes you'll get the same type of creepy ads that Rush Limbaugh gets like gold investment schemes and dodgy vitamins, but you won't get ads from the beer companies, the automobile manufacturers, the food companies, etc.
2) It won't change minds. Even if you can get some billionaire to fund the money-losing effort, it'll basically be an echo chamber where conservatives go to video one another rather than text one another as on FR.
All of this has been discussed ad nauseum by YouTubers who are trying everything they can to branch away from YouTube but finding that YouTube must still be an important part of where they present their messages.