Posted on 04/20/2022 8:21:29 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
When the U.S. security state announces that Big Tech's centralized censorship power must be preserved, we should ask what this reveals about whom this regime serves.
A group of former intelligence and national security officials on Monday issued a jointly signed letter warning that pending legislative attempts to restrict or break up the power of Big Tech monopolies — Facebook, Google, and Amazon — would jeopardize national security because, they argue, their centralized censorship power is crucial to advancing U.S. foreign policy. The majority of this letter is devoted to repeatedly invoking the grave threat allegedly posed to the U.S. by Russia as illustrated by the invasion of Ukraine, and it repeatedly points to the dangers of Putin and the Kremlin to justify the need to preserve Big Tech's power in its maximalist form. Any attempts to restrict Big Tech's monopolistic power would therefore undermine the U.S. fight against Moscow.
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Geez. They are really slipping now, saying the quiet parts aloud. It is alarming to realize they might not even know how that statement sounds to people who pay attention.
“centralized censorship power is crucial”
It is alarming to realize they might not even know how that statement sounds to people who pay attention.
***What’s alarming is, they simply don’t care. The fix is in.
Agreed. It’s obvious.
The Deep State is flexing on us.
I think big corporations are needed to help with military
hardware and the like.
Google, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook...
Surely they jest.
It’s back to Russia, Russia, Russia....
I don’t care much for national security.
As an American, I care for FREEDOM.
Well, I’m not a supporter of Biden, nor do I think that Ukraine itself is of particular importance to US interests.
But the US does have a major interest in preventing a resurgence of Russian aggressiveness (and the accompanying nuclear threats).
Opposition to Russia’s war is broad enough that some people will try to co-opt it to push other political agendas. That’s what we’re seeing here.
In fact, strengthening big-tech censorship helps Putin: it divides the West, it ruins our PR advantage, and it creates suspicion about what our goals are.
Up is down, and black is white.
More gobbledygook from you
What part don’t you agree with?
1. Do you think we should maintain an isolationist foreign policy? (The background here is that there is obviously a case to be made for generally avoiding foreign entanglements.)
2. Do you think that Putin is a friend of liberty? (I don’t.)
Or,
3. Do you think that tech censorship is worthy of the US and that it will actually help in any way? (I don’t.)
Keep in mind that China is watching the West to see how we react.
Yes...that’s the saying aloud part that indicates that.
centralized censorship power is crucial to advancing U.S. foreign policy.
Big Tech Monopoly Power is Vital to National SecurityYea because we never had national security before we had "big tech monopoly power" < /sarcasm >.
Good. Glad to hear them admit busting up Big Tech would help to thwart their globalist ambitions.
Bust up Big Tech post haste. No, don’t merely slap some restrictions on them. Break them up into a million pieces. Start with Alphabet. They’re the worst. Then move on to Amazon. Then Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, and we can go from there.
I think you are the add to that,before we do any of that, ending United States aggressiveness also. While a lot of people may not want to acknowledge it we are where we are today because of the aggressive moves of the west towards Russia.
good article, thanks
These tyrants are a danger to our constitution.
Big Tech needs to be broken up or we’ll never regain our freedom of speech.
Big Tech Monopoly Power is Vital to National Security.
Hackers chuckle now downloading data for sale.
I see.
Awesome.
Big Tech + Big Govt + Big Media + Etc + Etc
“You must believe everything we tell you about Ukraine, Russia, etc. Do not question what you see or are told!”
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