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Whitehouse Congress Petition Protect Free Speech in the Digital Public Square
Whitehouse.gov ^ | 8/28/2018 | W.C.

Posted on 08/28/2018 2:06:58 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/protect-free-speech-digital-public-square-0

WE THE PEOPLE ASK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CALL ON CONGRESS TO ACT ON AN ISSUE: Protect Free Speech in the Digital Public Square

Created by W.C. on August 28, 2018

4,984 SIGNED 100,000 GOAL

The internet is the modern public square. It is where political campaigns are fought and won, where journalism is created and distributed, and where grassroots movements are born. Yet, the free and open internet has become a controlled, censored space, monopolized by a few unaccountable corporations.

By banning users from their platforms, those corporations can effectively remove politically unwelcome Americans from the public square. That is repugnant to our shared values of free speech and freedom of the press.

The President should request that Congress pass legislation prohibiting social media platforms from banning users for First Amendment-protected speech. The power to block lawful content should be in the hands of individual users – not Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey.

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THE WHITE HOUSE MAY SEND ME EMAILS ABOUT THIS AND OTHER ISSUES. BY SIGNING THIS PETITION YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF PARTICIPATION AND PRIVACY POLICY. How Petitions Work Create a Petition Call on the White House to take action on the issue that matters to you.

Gather Signatures Share your petition with others, build a community for the change you want to make.

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KEYWORDS: 1a; censorship; firstamendment; internetsocialism; petition; socialism; trump
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To: Lazamataz

This seems like stepping on a rake, as in not a good idea.


41 posted on 08/29/2018 6:44:55 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: MarchonDC09122009

The solution is pretty easy. If these monopolistic social media platforms engage in one-sided policing, their indemnity for content posted by users is removed.

Hit them in the wallet.


42 posted on 08/29/2018 6:48:50 AM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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To: mewzilla

Definitionally incorrect. Both government and private enterprise censor. However, the government does so illegally, according to the first amendment.


43 posted on 08/29/2018 6:51:34 AM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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To: BraveMan
This seems like stepping on a rake, as in not a good idea.

Odd comment.

Okay, so you don't want to. No worries.

44 posted on 08/29/2018 6:59:47 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: Lazamataz

I usually don’t.....

Today done and done


45 posted on 08/29/2018 7:21:52 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Lazamataz

Laz, you are the best.


46 posted on 08/29/2018 7:43:50 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Nifster

Thanks bro!


47 posted on 08/29/2018 7:45:11 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
Laz, you are the best.

Meh. I'll do, until The Best finally gets here. :)

48 posted on 08/29/2018 7:46:07 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Requiring them to *NOT CENSOR* is not a regulation.

Requiring ANYTHING is most certainly a regulation (font size notwithstanding).

49 posted on 08/29/2018 8:22:19 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: DiogenesLamp
The power to control communications

That power has been and remains with information consumers, who have freely chosen to make heavy use of certain company's offerings.

50 posted on 08/29/2018 8:24:10 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Eleutheria5
The biggest cartel is the government. If you don’t like facebook, you don’t have to be on facebook. If you don’t like twitter, you can leave twitter. But if the government is in your face, you have to financially support it, and you cannot argue with a policeman, even if he’s abusing his power.

THIS!

It's what statists of the left and right refuse to acknowledge and do their best to obfuscate.

51 posted on 08/29/2018 8:27:02 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Drew68
Personally, I think it would be great if Jim let DUers post over here.

Should the government REQUIRE Jim to do so? That's where this petition points.

52 posted on 08/29/2018 8:28:53 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree
Should the government REQUIRE Jim to do so? That's where this petition points.

Free Republic is a forum, not a platform. Apples and oranges. Twitter banning users engaged in perfectly legal speech would be more akin to those old switchboard operators disconnecting phone calls because they didn't approve of the conversations.

53 posted on 08/29/2018 9:31:57 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: MarchonDC09122009

bump to the top


54 posted on 08/29/2018 9:44:35 AM PDT by GOPJ (ANYONE asking YOU to be violent is an FBI undercover cop or thug from the SPLC - YOU are warned...)
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To: GOPJ; Jim Robinson; All; admin

Thanks to everyone who’s signed the petition it’s gone from 5k to 18k in the first day since posted on Whitehouse.gov.
100,000 signatures are needed asap!

Jim and Mods just this one time for awareness sake, can you Please keep this big tech anti-censorship post at the top of Frontpage News?

Lets prove that Conservatives value free speech more than the left values shutting us down.
Thank you


55 posted on 08/29/2018 10:11:45 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Lazamataz

I did anyway; not the first bad idea I’ve followed.

My concern is the effect something like this will have on sites like Free Republic.


56 posted on 08/29/2018 10:40:37 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: BraveMan

Glad you did it, and this will merely make the big boys behave.


57 posted on 08/29/2018 10:45:12 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: BraveMan; All

FR is a forum and NOT a social MEDIA platform.

Fakebook, Google, Twitter are All SOCIAL MEDIA Platforms.

Anti-trust legal precident has already been set, internationally at least.

Google has been successfully fined BILLIONS for rigging their search engine.

https://www.wired.com/story/dont-expect-big-changes-from-europes-record-google-fine/


58 posted on 08/29/2018 11:41:36 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Drew68
Free Republic is a forum, not a platform. There's a significant difference between the two, including that platforms are afforded protections under the DMCA that other websites are not.

I don't see how FR doesn't fall under (c):

"The four safe harbors [from DMCA] provided by Congress, in the following subsections of Section 512, {FN72: 17 U.S.C. §512} are:

"(a) Transitory digital network communications
(b) System caching
(c) Information residing on systems or networks at the direction of users
(d) Information location tools" - http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise33.html

What are the other alleged "significant differences" you claim?

59 posted on 08/29/2018 2:08:35 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Lazamataz

I did it.


60 posted on 08/29/2018 4:01:38 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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