I just got woke. Anti trust the slime and take away their section 230 immunity. Dorsey of Twitter is the worst of the lot.
No! When your #1 job is to get re-elected, you don’t want to irritate the power of Twitter and FB.
They will cower and hope they get to keep a place at the public trough.
Where have they been?
We’ve been aware of it for years.
Just wondering if Twitter’s down time yesterday was uploading new algorithms to stop anything negative about Biden being loaded automically.
It won’t matter what laws are in place or how many fines they pay. They will always find ways around the system. If laws mattered we would have thousands hanging from lamp posts.
Oh, we’re aware.
We’re just baffled how fight it without violating the villain’s Constitutions rights or creating legislation that will inevitably be used against us.
I think most Conservatives recognize Big Tech for the threat that it is. They are illegal monopolies which with government assistance thanks to section 230 of the 1996 decency act, have been allowed to become the richest most powerful corporations in the history of the world.
I think even most libertarians understand that:
A) they would never have gotten to where they are without government assistance and
B)the claim that somebody should just go build their own Google/Facebook is a disingenuous one. They are giant rich monopolies. There’s no way a start up can compete.
If one even tries to compete - like Gab - the established players collude to destroy them (like getting Gab tossed off of the Microsoft service it was using). By the way....collusion and anticompetitive practices as well as their massive market share are the hallmarks of monopolies.
The problem IMO are Republican politicians like Mumbai Mike Lee who have been bought by Big Tech. A lot of the think tanks like Heritage and Cato have also been bought. We need to break up Big Tech. It may be necessary to make common cause with those on the Left like Bernie or Pocahontas who are also suspicious of Big Tech. They will fight like hell to keep their monopolies and they have a lot of money.
That will in large part depend on whether the Think-Tank Republicans are still willing to die on the hill of “free market uber alles”.