Posted on 12/24/2020 10:36:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump on Christmas Eve repeated his concerns over Big Tech censorship a day after he vetoed a defense-spending bill over Congress’s failure to remove liability protections for Silicon Valley’s social media companies.
“Twitter is going wild with their flags, trying hard to suppress even the truth. Just shows how dangerous they are, purposely stifling free speech. Very dangerous for our Country. Does Congress know that this is how Communism starts?” Trump said in a Twitter post on Thursday night.
“Cancel Culture at its worst. End Section 230!” he said.
Trump and his administration have repeatedly underscored the risks of unbalanced policing of user content on social media platforms, claiming that the companies are engaging in conduct that limits conservative viewpoints and stifles free speech. The president and the Justice Department have urged Congress to roll back legal protections under Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act for companies that have engaged in censoring or political conduct.
Section 230 largely exempts online platforms from liability for content posted by their users, although they can be held liable for content that violates anti-sex trafficking or intellectual property laws.
The law allows companies to block or screen content “in good faith” if they consider it “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable.” The protections, however, weren’t intended to apply to services that act more like publishers than online platforms, outgoing Attorney General William Barr said in a speech in May.
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a difficult issue but I think PDJT has a good point here... at least we can certainly see how dangerous Facebuck and Tweeter have become with their (slanted) political censorship. if a first amendment type correction cannot be fashioned, then applying our anti=trust laws would certainly help break up their powerful constriction over our news content ..let a thousand media blossom! our republic’s founders lived in a time when every citizen could publish the news...nowadays this is primarily feasible with internet technology...but as a practical expedient a very small handful of major corporations control our access to the internet, this is very dangerous as we can already see
It’s newer than the communism in the east during the early 1900s, but it’s been a transition in process for at least 50 years (see import interests behind Nixon). It’s a hybrid communist, fascist plutocracy: something more similar to authoritarian fascism but ruled by global plutocrats. It’s yet another push towards extremely centralized rule.
They’re the latest control freaks, and they want to manage everything down to minute details of once private lives of subjects. Some of the most influential constituents of the coasts like it, because ports are centers of activity and influence in evil empires.
Gangs can either strangle or enrich inland populations from those coastal locations, as they see it. Such trends and plans historically tend to run into problems from various directions, though. Pride...
The funny thing is they think they are in the party until they are told the party is over for you, ask pol pot, hitler, stalin, mao, che, castro, maduro useful idiots help the cause until they become useless and the goal has been achieved
Of course they know that this is one of the essential steps in emplacing communism. They are and have always been commies and took this right from the playbook. That is their endgame. Their goal. And, when everyone else is a peasant/plebe/prole (take your pick) they will be the elitists in charge — that is the goal of all communist takeovers.
Progressive=DemoSocialist=Socialist=Communist. Changing names means little, except to those who don’t keep track. Remember, the elements of the GreenNewDeal came right from the website of the American Communist Party. Ditto for BLM.
I think that with a few exceptions, the answer is “absolutely not.”
It also starts with Biden taking office. I urge President Trump to stop tweeting and take action. Time is passing.
‘Does Congress Know That This Is How Communism Starts?’
I honestly think most of them don’t and if by chance they do, most of them consider their job as a moneymaking opportunity milking the system for all it’s worth.
Communism is a lie peddled by the global oligarchy.
They have no intention of giving up their stuff.
They just want ALL the stuff so their Bolshevik minions can redistribute equal misery.
Most people are too ignorant to realize what’s going on and fall for it hook line and sinker and play right along with it not realizing they are being used as pawns in a great scheme. By he time they wake up it will be too late.
They have no intention of giving up their stuff.
They just want ALL the stuff so their Bolshevik minions can redistribute equal misery.
Greed and ego are mighty powerful driving forces. Once you get a little taste, before long you want it all.
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