Posted on 06/08/2019 8:39:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As I wrote earlier today, National Review columnist David French is involved in a major clash with nationalist populist opinion leaders like Raheem Kassam and Will Chamberlain (both of Human Events). In my article, I focused on their disagreements over style... there are also serious issues on which they differ with each other, however. One of those issues is hot in the news: should the government be involved in the battle against YouTube's obvious liberal bias?
The subject was trending because YouTube recently launched a major purge of YouTubers it deemed "offensive." First and most prominent among them? Comedian Steven Crowder of Louder with Crowder fame.
In response to his demonetization (and that of others), nationalist populists argued that the government should become involved. As Will Chamberlain explained at Human Events:
Here at Human Events, though, we’re not afraid to wield government power. And the Civil Rights era contains some lessons on how to deal with aristocratic bullying campaigns... In 2019, our blue-checked aristocrats are trying to wield their power to keep the new “untouchables” off of social media platforms...
If we make platform access a civil right, Carlos Maza and his fellow aristocrats can whine and bleat all they want about how a conservative has been mean to them. None of it will matter. Companies won’t indulge them, because indulging them would be against the law. This is more than a way to protect conservative speech; it’s a way to free social media platforms from aristocratic influence.
Establishment conservatives -- led, of course, by David French -- disagree:
Bump
I suggest actively looking for the alternatives and using them.
The GOP didn’t do anything about PBS, NPR and other government funded organizations despite their left-wing biasses. I don’t think left-wing social media sites have much to worry about (IMO).
PLATFORM VS PUBLISHER
PUBLISHER - then they can be liable for what someone on their site says about someone else. They SAY they’re not a publisher, yet they edit, block and ban like crazy just as a publisher would, yet they have no liability for things on their site.
PLATFORM - Anything goes, so they have zero liability and cannot edit at all, can’t ban. Yet they do in fact ban and block.
They want it both ways; zero liability as a pure platform, all while acting as de-facto publisher. Oh, and political lobbyist.
If they regulate YouTube, what’s the criteria for measuring “liberal bias”? Google and Facebook are at least as bad, if not worse, so just how do you plan to measure it on those platforms? I’m done using Google and have switched to DuckDuckGo and, to me anyway, it’s every bit as good as Google and they don’t track you or skew the results. If conservatives don’t like one app, find an alternative.
Ask Dennis Prager and what he is going through about this.
I thought they did already?
Why don't the Right take their own advice: Compete! Get out there, learn to code, go attend the Stanfords and Berkeleys, and compete against these tech giants.
Facebook, Google, and YouTube are not the pioneers of their respective craft. You actually had Yahoo GeoCities, which arguably was the first social media platform of the Internet. Classmates.com was another one. Yahoo itself was a powerhouse and could have bought Google for literally pennies on the dollar but refused.
So don't hate the players, hate the game. The people running these tech giants are geniuses. The fact that they are liberal is a sidebar issue. It's the equivalent of liberals complaining about their posts being pulled here on FR.
Paraphrasing headlline: We need more government involvement to combat liberalism.
Hmmm ...
No... we need a competitive alternate.
(French is a Democrat because he's OK with a Democrat being appointed as a judge to the Federal courts)
If you get the government involved, the “cure” will be worse than the “disease”.
He was also okay with Hillary winning the presidency, but I’m not ready to look to the government for help against YT yet.
Compete! Get out there, learn to code, go attend the Stanfords and Berkeleys, and compete against these tech giants.
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You’re a day late and a dollar short. By the time that happens the left will control it all.
Regulate them like utilities.
No discriminatory provision of service for anything other than “clearly illegal” speech.
That leftists have transitioned from old media to new media is not much news.
When Conservative media has a success, it is infiltrated by leftists and taken over when the originator dies. Consider what is happening to Fox.
The left owns the Universities and the Journalist schools. Most of them are funded by taxpayer dollars.
The left has no qualms about using power to further its agenda. It has no morals or ethics.
Any opposition to Google, Facebook, and Amazon is ruthlessly purchased and assimilated.
A significant part of this is the desire to stamp out any ideological opposition.
Google is in bed with the Chinese government as well.
The government has an obligation to ensure a marketplace where competition can occur. When dealing with multinational organizations with access to government power and government contracts, oversight seems warranted.
Lick on the ads and don’t buy anything and YouTube will get the message
>> We Need the Government to Fight Back Against YouTube’s Liberal Bias
BS.
Only the lazy, cowards, & hypocrites support the move to attack YouTube via the strong arm of govt.
Despite the enormous liberties we all share, the continuous march towards socialism has been a bewildering experience. Now I know why — most are dependent assholes that ultimately want the govt to dictate fairness.
Don’t be dependent asshole.
1. Anti-trust laws, if applicable.
2. Breaking down the tort liability exemption for “social media platforms” if they control “public” content.
That’s it, folks. If you don’t like YouTube, then come up with something better. That’s the American way.
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