The “Repeal Section 230” Narrative is Being Pushed by Silicon Valley, Don’t Fall For It

News.Gab.com ^ | October 16, 2020 | Andrew Torba

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Big Tech giants want to be regulated.

Yes, you read that right.

Big Tech knows that if online speech is regulated by the federal government, either directly or indirectly via regulation of tech companies, they can and will weaponize it against The People and stifle competition.

Big Tech oligarchs have tried everything to destroy Gab.com and stop our industry-leading free speech software from reaching the masses.

They banned us from both app stores, yet we still continued to grow.

Then they banned us from hosting providers, so we built our own.

Then they banned us from Paypal, Stripe, Coinbase, Square, and more. So we educated our community on free speech money and the great people on Gab started mailing us physical checks to keep the site online.

Then they blacklisted my family from Visa in a Chinese Communist Party social credit score-style form of tyranny.

Despite being banned by 25+ service providers including domain registrars, hosting platforms, app stores, email services, ecommerce services, and more: Gab has survived and continues to thrive.

Gab exists outside of the establishment’s control. They don’t like this, at all. Their monopoly on the free flow of information is coming to an end because Gab is inevitable.

When all else failed, Big Tech and the establishment have set their sights on using Big Government to crush Gab and other alternative technology startups by destroying Section 230 and lobbying for regulation of speech on the internet.

Regulation will solidify Big Tech’s already overpowered and abusive market monopolies.

What folks need to understand is that Section 230 does not protect the speech of Big Tech companies. When Big Tech “fact checks” user content they are acting as a publisher and Section 230 immunity does not apply. As such, they can be held accountable for that speech.

Section 230 doesn’t apply to Big Tech’s editorializing. The First Amendment does. Section 230 only applies to content that users post on their platforms. It provides no protections for Big Tech’s own speech. They can and should be punished for the false information they are giving the public by weaponizing this editorialization of user content

In the case of the Coronavirus, Big Tech has been using the WHO as an “authority” on health related matters instead of official health guidelines from the President of the United States. This is a matter of national security and public health.

The same goes for editorializing election-related content. By “fact checking” one candidate and not another Big Tech is giving an in-kind campaign contribution of enormous and immeasurable monetary value to the Biden campaign. Big Tech should be investigated by the FEC for these in-kind campaign contributions to the Biden campaign. The RNC has filed a report on it, so let’s hope the FEC takes action.

Big Tech had record stock market performance under the Trump administration and how are they repaying him?

By helping the Democrats spread the Russian hoax narrative. By “fact checking” him and not Joe Biden. By censoring links to news stories about Biden.

The President can and should trust bust the Big Tech monopolies, in particular Apple and Google’s duopoly on mobile app distribution along with Facebook and Google’s duopoly on online advertising and search. The only big reason he hasn’t is because Big Tech stocks make up a significant portion of the stock market growth he likes to tout.

If the market needs to take a hit in order to destroy a domestic threat to freedom and the flow of information online then so be it. We do not worship the stock market in America, we worship almighty God. Your 401k gains aren’t worth the future of the Republic, sorry.

My point is: don’t fall for the Section 230 narrative. It’s a distraction. There are plenty of other things that can be done to stop Big Tech tyranny.

The President vastly underestimates how much influence he has online. Antitrust, FEC investigations, and more aside: if the President were to promote free speech technology platforms like Gab, the Big Tech panopticon would collapse on itself and fast.

I just hope the President realizes this before it’s too late.

I fear that his time on Big Tech platforms is quickly running out.

God bless,

Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com October 16, 2020 Jesus is King

[TBP]

OK, I’ll say it: Q is a Democrat operative (or operatives, as I’ve heard there may be up to 4 people), and QAnon is a lefty operation to discredit conservatives.

[Zhang Fei]

[OK, I’ll say it: Q is a Democrat operative (or operatives, as I’ve heard there may be up to 4 people), and QAnon is a lefty operation to discredit conservatives.]

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While that is possible, there are a number of right wingers who are a little intense, to put it mildly. No different from any other movement, of course - the left has its equivalent. Only with the left, they’re the majority of the Democrat caucus in Congress, the media and Silicon Valley, while Alex Jones is a talk radio host.

[otness_e]

I sure hope you’re right, because I fear we’ll be more like Venezuela or Cuba by the time 2024 comes about, meaning we won’t have any free elections by that point. As far as I’m concerned, the time to stop Biden is NOW.

[otness_e]

I’m definitely sure he’s a lot smarter than he looks, especially given 2016 and how he really made strides to make America great again after four years of Obama (maybe also the mismanagement of Iraq under Bush, though that’s a gray area). But he’s going to need a LOT more than his intellect if he’s to stop Biden, since I fear that if he gets the nomination, this WILL be our last free election, no hope for a 2024 election. It happened in Cuba, Venezuela, and every Socialist country that elected Socialists, provided they didn’t take over by force beforehand, I fear the same ultimately would happen here in America (it’s nothing short of a miracle that America DIDN’T turn out like France).

[otness_e]

Like I said, let’s hope he’s up to it, ESPECIALLY if we even have a 2024 election at all. I fear that if Trump doesn’t get in, we WILL end up a Chinese proxy state. Heck, we’ve even got Chinese soldiers right up near the Canadian border only requesting orders to march through.

[TBP]

Forget Section 230. Follow the lead of Poland. They’re passing a law fining social media companies $2.2 million each time they ban lawful speech.

Then prohibit social media companies and search engines from surveilling and tracking their customers and prohibit them from owning more than one platform (such as Facebook owning Instagram.)

[Zhang Fei]

[Forget Section 230. Follow the lead of Poland. They’re passing a law fining social media companies $2.2 million each time they ban lawful speech.

Then prohibit social media companies and search engines from surveilling and tracking their customers and prohibit them from owning more than one platform (such as Facebook owning Instagram.)]

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I think the social media companies are being foolhardy. Democrats won’t always be in the majority. When the hammer comes down, it could be epic. AT&T was completely dismantled, and it had no real political impact on elections. Once the GOP wins back the White House, Facebook could end up being 50 different companies. Zuckerberg is playing with matches in a grain silo.