Posted on 01/19/2020 1:54:28 PM PST by karpov
In an interview with the New York Times' editorial board, former Vice President Joe Biden made his most stringent call yet for cracking down on free speech on the internet.
After being asked by the Times about previous comments Biden has made regarding Facebook's refusal to remove negative ads targeting his campaign, the Democratic front-runner attacked both the social media platform and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
"I've never been a fan of Facebook," Biden says. "I've never been a big Zuckerberg fan, I think he's a real problem."
Biden and Facebook have been feuding for months, as Reason has previously covered. In an October letter to Facebook, Biden's campaign called on the social media site to reject political ads containing "previously debunked content"—like a Trump campaign ad linking Biden and his son, Hunter, to corruption in Ukraine. Shortly afterwards, Zuckerberg said the company's policies were "grounded in Facebook's fundamental belief in free expression, respect for the democratic process, and the belief that, in mature democracies with a free press, political speech is already arguably the most scrutinized speech there is."
That hasn't sat well with Biden. In a CNN town hall event in November, Biden said he would be willing to rewrite the rules for all online platforms in order to force social media companies to "be more socially conscious."
In this week's interview with the Times, Biden has gone a step further. Now he's calling for revoking Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996—a snippet of federal law that's generally regarded as the internet's First Amendment, since it protects online platforms from being legally liable for content produced and posted by third parties.
"Section 230 should be revoked, immediately should be revoked, number one. For Zuckerberg and other platforms," says Biden.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Like repeating what he and his family have been up to?
Sleepy Joe, stop saying things I agree with!
Under Section 230 they are not supposed to be able to censor for Content. The way they do conservatives constantly everywhere. Removing section 230 makes them liable for what gets published on their website. If they don’t want to 30 repealed, they need to quit censoring conservatives
Marxists are Marxists are Marxists and will always be Marxists!
Section 230 is not going to be flat out revoked without replacing it with some reworked version of itself.
It could be improved...although obviously Biden is not one of the ones to do it.
Everyday is like a competition to tell us why they are unfit to be a dogcatcher.
When was the Biden Ukraine connection debunked? For Dems I guess debunk us the same as deny.
previously debunked content”
Like the word for word admission of guilt in the video?
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I get it, these are private companies, these are their sites, their content, they can block and filter to their little socialists hearts' content. At least right now they claim to have some semblance of fairness. Do this and they will drop all pretense. Hmm, maybe that's not such a bad thing.
Even though it might be nice to see them have to remove their masks, I just can't see additional government controls and intrusion in our lives as a good thing. An additional thought. Not only would it encourage the leftist run sites to go ahead and block or impede even more conservative content, it would give various leftist groups a hammer to go after conservative content and sites (eg. FR) for promoting/allowing content they (the leftists) deem objectionable.
Agree with Joe...if these sites are going to be the arbiters of free speech then they make themselves responsible for the content on their sites. Alternatively they can align their terms with the first amendment and stop with the banning based on speech
.one of the supposed section 230 platforms have behaved as section 230 platforms.
They secretly want to be sanctioned.
Because then they could go ban happy on all the “haters” that dare disagree with them.
“.one”?
Really phone?
“None”
Here’s Why
How swamp family members got rich through corruption Schweizer book review; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3809389/posts
New York Post ^ | January 18, 2020 | Biden’$ Bundle$ Posted on 1/18/2020, 3:31:07 PM by karpov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3809208/posts
Court Filing: Hunter Biden earned $156M from Ukraine corruption
One America News ^ | 12/25/19 | OAN News Posted on 12/26/2019, 8:52:00 PM by Blood of Tyrants http://www.freerepublic.com.focus/f-news/3803694/posts Hunter Biden is facing new accusations of money laundering from Ukraine .
This is very good. FB has been a huge help to the rats. If Joe turns MZ against him it won’t end well for Joe.
Joe, so you and your corrupt friends can get away with crimes...like having your son who is a druggie get a job in an industry he doesn’t know anything about in a land he doesn’t know the language.
The Alinskiites hate ridicule when it's used against them.
They always thought ridicule was the most powerful weapon, but now that their pet issues are so ridiculous, they are most susceptible to ridicule.
Besides, the left can't meme!
Senile old pedophile joe the child molester.
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