Posted on 10/18/2019 5:19:24 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Elizabeth Warren Proves She Can’t Be Trusted on Big Tech
It’s all about censoring President Trump and conservatives.
Fri Oct 18, 2019
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Facebook boasts 2.37 billion active users and controls 85% of social traffic. There’s every reason to fear it and a growing bipartisan consensus about the need to tackle it and Google with anti-trust laws.
But lefties and conservatives want very different things from Facebook.
Nothing shows that better than Senator Elizabeth Warren’s pressure campaign to get Facebook to censor President Trump’s campaign ads. Warren’s latest stunt is an ad accusing Facebook of helping “elect Donald Trump once” and CEO Mark Zuckerberg of giving Trump “free rein to lie on his platform.”
Warren claims to fear Facebook and yet she also wants to put it in charge of presidential campaign ads.
Anti-trust actions are pursued against companies that have too much power. But Warren is really arguing that Facebook doesn’t have enough power and isn’t exercising the power that it has.
Does Warren really want to break up Facebook or to use the threat of a breakup to turn it into an even bigger monster? The socialist senator’s accusation that the dot com giant helped elect Trump goes to the heart of the lefty grievance against Facebook. Their problem with Facebook is that it’s too open. It didn’t censor Trump in 2016 and now it’s failing to censor him in the 2020 election campaign.
Conservatives however believe that Facebook is too closed, that it censors too much already.
Let’s take Senator Warren at her word. The radical socialist politician isn’t out to empower Facebook. And she isn’t hectoring Zuckerberg because she wants him to be the arbiter of our national politics. Instead she’s going after her true goal of putting the government in charge of politics on Facebook.
Warren’s big tech breakup proposal would cost Facebook plenty of money by breaking off Instagram and WhatsApp into separate companies, but seemingly have little impact on its core platform. But by transforming the company into what she describes as one of a handful of “platform utilities”, it could be regulated on levels having nothing to do with the business or privacy issues that are the official pretext.
And Warren has made it clear what her regulatory priorities on Facebook really are: banning conservatives. In her big tech breakup plan, she insists that, “we must ensure that Russia — or any other foreign power — can’t use Facebook or any other form of social media to influence our elections.”
The Russia Facebook hoax has been disproven countless times, but its central claim, that conservative messaging on social media was really a Russian conspiracy, is an argument for treating the political opposition as a foreign intelligence threat. Warren’s insistence that Facebook censor Trump sheds the foreign policy conspiracy layer to directly demand that even conservative presidential candidates should be silenced. Disinformation, a term once used to demand action against foreign state actors on social media, has been retooled to impose a new kind of ‘Fairness Doctrine’ on American political ads.
Facebook doesn’t want to be in that position. And Warren isn’t about to leave it to Facebook.
Senator Warren fails to explain how her plan for Facebook would achieve anything useful. Her post claims, bizarrely, that, “Facebook would face real pressure from Instagram and WhatsApp to improve the user experience and protect our privacy.” That sentence suggests she doesn’t understand anything about how the internet works. But Warren isn’t really that stupid. The sentence is meaningless boilerplate nonsense because her real agenda for Facebook can’t actually be spelled out just yet.
To spot it, follow her grievances with Facebook over the Russian conspiracy and Trump’s ads.
And that’s why Senator Warren can’t be trusted. While some conservatives are eager to find allies anywhere they can, radical socialist totalitarians make extremely unstable and dangerous allies.
Conservatives have been pursuing anti-trust action against big tech monopolies because of the growing risk that their censorship of conservatives could eliminate conservatives from the internet. But there’s no quicker way to achieve that than to put Facebook under the umbrella of a regulatory organization with a broad enough mission that it can encompass setting standards for political discourse on social media. That’s always been the inherent risk with regulating big tech, instead of breaking it up.
The push to regulate big internet companies as utilities, instead of just breaking them up, risks turning them over to Warren and her political allies who would be happy to eliminate conservatives entirely.
Senator Warren’s ad blasts proves that the socialist politician can’t be trusted on breaking up big tech.
Warren has tried to copy the tone of some of President Trump’s signature policies, from trade policies to big tech breakups, but even when the tools are similar, her desired outcome is drastically different.
The fundamental difference between leftists and conservatives is that the former believe in eliminating that which usurps the rights of individuals while the latter fight to destroy that which usurps the power of government. This same duality also holds up in the debate over breaking up big tech monopolies.
Conservatives turned against big tech companies because they usurp the rights of individuals to express their views while leftists are going after big tech because they believe that companies like Facebook are holding powers that rightly belong to government. That’s what Warren’s ad censorship call is all about.
Senator Warren doesn’t think that Facebook has too much power. She just thinks that all that power is in the wrong hands.
And that is the fundamental problem with an internet environment in which one company can control 80% or more of search or social traffic. The very existence of this much centralized power in one place is an irresistible temptation to the ultimate source of centralized political power: the government.
It’s also why Google and Facebook need to be broken up. Not just because they’re too big. But because they’re so big and powerful that they can’t be allowed to fall into President Elizabeth Warren’s hands.
The People’s Republic of China has shown us the terrifying reality of government control over the internet. In the last four years, that totalitarian system appears to have become a model for lefties seeking to consolidate control over the internet in order to fight “disinformation” and foreign conspiracies. The implementation of that model has triggered a power struggle over social media.
Facebook is at the heart of that struggle.
Social media is democracy in its purest form. It’s meant to be driven by the interests of its users, not the dictates of politicians. That’s why Senator Warren and other lefties have blamed social media for Trump’s victory. It’s why they can’t be allowed to destroy it.
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“Elizabeth Warren Proves She Can’t Be Trusted on Big Tech - Greenfield..”
She can’t even figure out the tech of a TV controller.
Of course. Leftists see that power and influence and want to control it, use it for their own purposes. For example, censoring and oppressing their opponents. They're acting true to their fascist/controlling nature.
Conservatives OTOH want just the opposite. Seeing the power and influence they respect that in a free market, free society entities are able to achieve these kinds of successes. However, they want to ensure that power and influence *is not* used against any one group or entity.
Look at that face. Does anyone look at Elizabeth Warren and her squinching hag face and think President? Maybe of Norway. She has no charisma.
Elizabeth Warren Proves She Can’t Be Trusted
Could have stopped there. She proved that years ago.
“The fundamental difference between leftists and conservatives is that the former believe in eliminating that which usurps the rights of individuals while the latter fight to destroy that which usurps the power of government.”
I think Mr. Greenfield got former and latter reversed.
Why would anyone trust someone whose entire life is a lie and who lies about every, single thing?
Why would anyone even listen to a single word spoken by such a creature?
Elizabeth Warren is a liar. That is what Elizabeth does.
That is all Elizabeth does.
Trust away.
Just take a step back and look at this woman and imagine,if you can,her being President. She’s the absolute definition of a dingbat. Her jestures,tone of voice,expressions and worst of all the policies and plans for the direction of our country that she espouses. I can’t imagine a majority of Americans would vote for her but Hillary got the popular vote in 2016. I feel that if she happens to be nominated and is then able to be focused on, most people will see her in the light of day and not like her. If she happens to be the nominee Trump has to crush her and ridicule her without being afraid of being “anti woman”.
It is amazing to me how many people run for the position of president who are not leaders in any way, shape or form.
Trump is a leader. There is no one else like him. That’s how rare an actual leader is.
I honestly don’t think that this country can even support presidential elections every four years with a new president every 8 years.
America is not producing leaders, nor is it producing people that can recognize actual leadership.
AT this point, I would honestly be just fine with Trump being president until he dies naturally, because there is no one to replace him. He’s not replaceable.
"In any collaboration between two men (or groups) who hold different basic principles, it is the more evil or irrational one who wins." -- Ayn Rand
There are an awful lot of scary looking demonrat women but that picture should frighten the most hardcore among her supporters. THAT added to the voice would send zombies away screaming!
“”If she happens to be the nominee Trump has to crush her and ridicule her without being afraid of being “anti woman””
I would be surprised if that notion (being afraid) ever entered his mind. We can count on him to pulverize her if necessary and it will be necessary if she’s the nominee. Just that picture alone shows that she needs to be locked up...she’s just plain scary! They could make Halloween masks of her and that would be ghoulish enough.
Trump Jr comes to mind ...
Maybe.
But he is not his dad.
No one is. Trump is a giant.
Since she lies about everything she can’t be trusted about anything.
Lyin’ Liz.
Trump is cracking the egg of corruption that as kept evil people in government for 75 years.
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