J.D. Vance: Facebook-FBI Censorship Collusion Undermines ‘Free Enterprise’ Defense of Big Tech

J.D. Vance, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat from Ohio, said on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that Facebook co-founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent admission of his company’s digital censorship of news and information related to Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 presidential election contradicts the framing of Big Tech companies as operating within a free market.

This is profound. One of Big Tech's biggest defenses against attacks on its censorship has been that each of the companies is nothing but a private enterprise and, hence, entitled to full First Amendment protections. However, if it turns out that they are operating as government agents, the whole First Amendment argument evaporates. Many of the articles by Sundance that have been published on this site show that Twitter has an unsustainable business model, but for heavy, secret government subsidization. Now we have Facebook also falling into s similar category. It shows that the whole mess is nothing but a neofascist invention and fully subject to First Amendment challenge because of its violation of free speech.

“...Mark Zuckerberg’s recent admission of his company’s digital censorship of news and information related to Hunter Biden’s laptop...”

Remember, it’s not just Zuckerberg. Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter all censored this story simultaneously in a coordinated operation. So they are all censoring speech at the behest of the federal government, in a clear 1st Amendment violation, and also, they are all coordinating and engaging in anti-competitive business practices as well. Zuckerberg is just the only one to admit it. Perhaps he sees which way the wind is blowing.

The federal government has been regulating and manipulating the traditional press and media since the 70's. Operation Mockingbird placed government assets inside every national and local news media outlet.

Enter the internet and social media and why would anyone not anticipate the same? From a fed think perspective an unregulated and uncontrollable source of public dialog and commentary is a danger to the state. The state always chooses its own interests over that of the public and individual. That's not going to change until something breaks them. They see Trump as the wrecking ball to their power and wealth. They show it in every word and deed.

Government has stuck their nose into every aspect of life, may that be a family, education, health care, what service and goods are available, how a business operates... and yes even the flow of information.

The US is no longer a free market, nor is their individual liberty, private enterprise... The US is a “social democracy” and a “technocracy” where the federal government is the nations biggest employer, >44% of the GDP is government at various levels, and 51,000 pages with 3,000 various legal violations that carry a fine or incarceration with them define how everything is done. Private Americans don’t decide anything - government beurocrats decide what a school lunch consists of, marriage is, what country you are permitted to travel too, what medical insurance will cover, how so-called private corporations hire new employees...

Today’s winners and losers economically are those with the government connections, i.e. Disney changing copyright laws single handedly (Mickey Mouse), Buffet getting to rail the oil South vs a pipeline, big pharma making billions in mandates (has been happening for years before covid: schools were the mechanism of the past), agra subsidies for corporations worth billions, green subsidies for Musk and many others making billions, big tech colluding with government...

How do you think Google came to be the giant it is today? Hahah

When government decides you have a great platform and gives you huge money infusions in the early days (as long as you let them plug in), it makes it easy to pull away from the competition like Altavista that simply could not caugh up the cash to buy hardware like Google could.

Most the big winners in the US today are because of government, may that be Bezos, Gates (he used the law in an inappropriate way- which now some conservatives are realizing is an issue)... The era of entrepreneurs, where creativity, hard work and prudent risk taking makes the winner is long over.

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