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Hochul: Social Media Company CEOs ‘Need to Be Held Accountable’ for Hate Speech on Platforms
Breitbart ^ | 05/15/2022 | Pam Key

Posted on 05/15/2022 5:30:43 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that social media company chief executives should be held accountable if hate speech is not monitored and removed on their platforms.

Discussing the investigation into the mass shooting in a Buffalo grocery store, Hochul said, “I want to know what people knew and when they knew it and calling upon law enforcement as well as our social media platforms. The CEOs of those companies need to be held accountable and assure all of us that they’re taking every step humanly possible to be able to monitor this information. How these depraved ideas are fermenting on social media – it’s spreading like a virus now. The white supremacy manifestos – the white supremacy concepts of replacement theory where they’re concerned and now taking to the streets in places like Charlottesville and others, motivated by this idea that immigrants and Jews and blacks are going to replace whites. And that is spreading through social media platforms that need to be monitored and shut down the second these words are espoused out there in these platforms.”

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KEYWORDS: hochul; platforms; socialmedia; speech
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I have a better idea. How about you just shut up?
1 posted on 05/15/2022 5:30:43 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

>motivated by this idea that immigrants and Jews and blacks are going to replace whites

That’s not the right’s argument. Our argument is that illegal immigrants should not be brought in without any limitations to replace the citizen’s political will.


2 posted on 05/15/2022 5:33:25 PM PDT by struggle
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This woman is lying.


3 posted on 05/15/2022 5:33:34 PM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fools like this are why I own firearms


4 posted on 05/15/2022 5:33:57 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I got a better idea, remove Hochul from the New York Governorship.


5 posted on 05/15/2022 5:34:12 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Apparently, law enforcement knew about this nut.

He had previously said he wanted to shoot up a school.

And they let him off without any charges or even putting a “red flag” on him to keep him from buying guns.


6 posted on 05/15/2022 5:36:04 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Shut-up, whiny old bat. Hate speech to Hochul is whatever is said that disagrees with how a democrat thinks.


7 posted on 05/15/2022 5:37:07 PM PDT by Bellagio
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And, there is the crux of the issue. Who gets to decide what is ‘hate speech’? Who gets to decide what must be quashed?


8 posted on 05/15/2022 5:38:58 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

free speech, look it up.

And if you feel you have to do this, start with the hateful left!


9 posted on 05/15/2022 5:42:20 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She reminds me of Halfwhitmer. When I see their picture, all I can see is someone who looks demon possessed.


10 posted on 05/15/2022 5:43:22 PM PDT by antidemoncrat ( adn)
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social media company chief executives should be held accountable if hate speech is not monitored and removed on their platforms

She has a point… let’s just build on it. Shouldn’t Governors be held accountable for not solving the conditions which lead up to such crimes?

11 posted on 05/15/2022 5:43:48 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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Who gets to decide what is ‘hate speech’? Who gets to decide what must be quashed?

Minister of Truth Nina Jankowicz

12 posted on 05/15/2022 5:45:37 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That sounds like hate speech, Hochul.


13 posted on 05/15/2022 5:45:51 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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And they let him off without any charges or even putting a “red flag” on him to keep him from buying guns.

He had to be allowed to kill for the left to push their political ends of disarming the populous. Arresting someone for threatening to kill doesn't increase government's power over us.

14 posted on 05/15/2022 5:47:59 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That lady is a freak. She should also hire someone to do her makeup .


15 posted on 05/15/2022 5:48:20 PM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sounds like a good idea since itis the lefties who are the ones who hate the most.


16 posted on 05/15/2022 5:48:43 PM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hochul is the defacto CEO of the entire State on New York and should be held to account for anything that is said or written by anyone in that State.


17 posted on 05/15/2022 5:49:55 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The hate is all from the left


18 posted on 05/15/2022 5:51:20 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: airborne

Just like Cruz @ Parkland FL.


19 posted on 05/15/2022 5:54:49 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: KarlInOhio

I seems to me I’ve heard this scenario many times before.

Authorities had someone who was clearly in a violent state of mind and made threats to society.

So they bring them in, talk with them and then let them go.

Wind ‘em up and watch ‘em go.


20 posted on 05/15/2022 5:58:15 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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