Posted on 09/19/2024 6:54:48 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Republican FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak published a statement on Thursday expressing concern with Big Tech facilitating content harmful to children, but also warning that the Biden-Harris FTC could take actions that result in the censorship of Americans’ online speech.
“How social media companies view and treat users increasingly shapes civic discourse and determines the extent of Americans’ freedoms to participate in the modern public square,” Holyoak said.
In 2020, during the Trump administration, the FTC issued orders to nine tech companies — Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, WhatsApp, Snap, Discord, Reddit, Twitter, and Amazon — seeking to examine their data practices and how they operate.
Some of the key findings in the FTC report include revelations that “Companies’ deletion practices varied and may not reflect what consumers expect.” That is, while some companies claim to delete data, they don’t actually follow through with it.
Users might assume that “deletion” means a social media platform has permanently erased their data, but companies have instead been found to “de-identify” data, meaning the data was made anonymous. However, the data could potentially be subject to “re-identification,” the report points out.
...companies have commonly used automated systems (or increasingly AI) to drive users’ experiences on social media, and that their revenues have relied heavily on advertising, which means that consumers are likely paying for zero-price services with their data and information.
“I am concerned that such suggestions and recommendations may further limit free speech online, even where the intent is not directly to suppress free speech”
“Some of the report’s analysis and recommendations may lead to more censorship or inadvertent suppression of certain content. Other federal officials have shown no qualms about directly pressuring social media companies to suppress content online.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
"Other federal officials" -- i.e., Biden, Harris, Mayorkis, Garland, Obama, et al.
Will Republican FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak's published statement ever be reported the MSM?
Commissioner Holyoak should call out Newsom by name!
Ya think?
Wish Pres Trump woudl get real vocal about this and warn people on the fence that they too will be at risk under commies like kamalalalama- She is a very real danger to our liberties- and it needs to be vocalized not for the benefit of the right, but the independents and fence sitters- and even for benefit of democrats who are gettign fed up with how corrupt their party is becoming-
We are not talking simple ‘radical liberals’ here- We are talking abotu liberals that are so bad that they espouse communistic policies aimed at destroying our nations and our freedoms! That needs to be a key issue- The far left of the democrat party are morphing into blatant communists- and our nation used to be very cautious about communists, but now meh, not so much apparently- but they are every bit as dangerous to our liberties today as they ever were-
Absolutely agree that BOTH Trump and Vance need to mount their horses and begin screaming “The commies are coming! The commies are coming!” but articulate clearly why they will be the end of the Republic.
As much as I like Trump, he seems incapable of doing that. Vance is a lot more articulate but needs a platform to speak.
Excellent- The Commies are coming the Commies are coming should be the rallying cry by Pres Trump in his opening remarks at rallies- because it’s absolutely the truth
Unfortunately, half our amoeba-brain population thinks “communism” means “Oh BOY! Free stuff!”
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