Posted on 04/30/2020 6:15:13 AM PDT by artichokegrower
COVID-19 has emboldened American tech platforms to emerge from their defensive crouch. Before the pandemic, they were targets of public outrage over life under their dominion. Today, the platforms are proudly collaborating with one another, and following government guidance, to censor harmful information related to the coronavirus.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
“We Have Assumed Control!”
Unreal. This is from a journalist? Then they need to explain why a virtual free public space should be regulated, regarding free speech, any differently than a physical free public space. Constitution should apply to both.
If places like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube want to provide free public access to their virtual space then Constitutional free speech should apply. Otherwise, make it a paid for private system.
That happened on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009.
This is just the cleanup.
Or the tech giants will feel the Hammer that felled Ma Bell and there will be a change in favor of the consumer on the same order as when AT&T was broken up.
We seriously need a revolution in this country. Communists like those at The Atlantic need to meet the fate of Julius Strichter and other propagandists who were judged at Nuremberg.
We’ve been seeing more and more that the media has been at the fore of the organized attacks on The First Amendment and free speech. We’ve seen more and more opinion writers, like the NY Slime’s Thomas Friedman, and now this Atlantic piece, that actually praise the actions of the Chinese Communist Party.
I believe that the reason for this is a combination of a lack of education, the decision to ignore the horrific human rights violations by the CCP, greed with the belief that as long as they toe the totalitarian, leftist line, that President Trump is an anomaly, as is the belief in liberty and that the Constitution actually means something, and that things will be getting “back to normal” in 2021. Finally, they believe that as long as they toe the line, that their jobs are safe, that they’ll be the last to be “eaten by the alligators.” It also helps that it helps make them feel superior to the “unwashed masses.”
It really shouldn’t be surprising. History and civics really haven’t been taught in the public primary and secondary school systems, and to be certain that totalitarian ideals are enshrined, the curricula are devised by, and the vast majority of schools and university are run by the supporters of totalitarianism.
The things that are being taught (more importantly, the things OMITTED) are shocking. There are high school students whose only knowledge of American History is based around slavery, and how the United States of America was the only country where slavery was legal. I met two of them, when I was helping a friend’s children with their math homework. It quickly changed to a civics lesson. They had heard of The Constitution, but had no idea what it was for or what was in it.
There’s no doubt that far too many in the media are more than willing to do away with the Constitution and the concepts of freedom of speech and the freedom to protest the government, as long as their jobs are safe.
Mark
Yep. But like I said - in real life they failed at control. (The studio wanted 3 minute songs, RUSH gave them 21+ minutes.)
Although I wonder about the rest of the masses. Everyone following the media’s talking points. “Hey guys - look at me - I’m Donald Trump! I spray Lysol down my throat to get rid of the virus!”
Useful idiots have never needed to be paid before. Not when singing the praises of Stalin’s Soviet Union, not today covering for the ChiComs.
Oh look. More ChiCom propaganda coming out of left-leaning publications. Surprise, surprise.
That piece lost me when it claimed the Virus came from the Wet Markets of Wuhan, it came from the Wuhan lab where it was manufactured.
The authors are law school professors.
I read this article a few days ago (author Goldsmith only), and today’s is updated with two authors. I don’t know what the update changes are, if any.
I do not read this as approval of these developing internet practices, but as a realistic revelation of what is happening. In fact they say this has been going on for a long time, is progressing, and will not stop.
It affirmed what I have been seeing and thinking, but they are aware of much more and spell it out.
As I keep saying, these ARE the people that HUAC, the House UN-American Activities Committee, was correctly and wisely trying to prevent from ever having influence in this country.
That should also be extended to books, newspapers, magazines, broadcast communications, movies and TV shows, music, public speech, etc., right? A lot of bad stuff can go down when people start thinking and expressing themselves.
Yeah on the wet market. I first thought they accepted it as fact, but now think they use that phrase as a marker for the time and public acceptance of that virus cause, sarcastic maybe.
Then I found this: “...The Department of Homeland Security now requires visa applicants to submit their social-media accounts for review. “
Never knew this. So, is FR a social media? Accounts from here would make their hair curl.
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume.
we live in a pluralistic society, so who’s “norms and values” is the government supposed to protect? This sentence is just a word salad trying to justify fascism.
“I was banned from two sites I’d been a member of for over a decade, not for violating the rules, but for saying things about this virus that “might cause people to act irresponsibly.”
A Freeper friend of mine was permanently blocked because he argued too vehemently (or effectively) for ending the lockdown and was told by the mod gods that “We don’t wish people dead out at FR.”
"These and similar developments are the private functional equivalent of China’s social-credit ratings, which critics in the West so fervently decry. The U.S. government, too, makes important decisions based on privately collected pools of data. The Department of Homeland Security now requires visa applicants to submit their social-media accounts for review. And courts regularly rely on algorithms to determine a defendant’s flight risk, recidivism risk, and more." [emphasis added]The government wants to disarm us after 243 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!I note that this is for foreigners wanting visas to enter the USA.
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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I would encourage this guy to keep talking. I would give him the broadest possible platform, and say nothing to discourage him.
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