Posted on 03/09/2020 6:59:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
Google and its subsidiary, YouTube, are state actors. The attorneys for PragerU and others could not prove that because they are not familiar with the industry, especially its technical side. The Obama Administration has delegated to Google (together with Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and Netflix) "powers traditionally exclusively reserved to the State" and “traditionally associated with sovereignty” (Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co., 419 US 345 - Supreme Court 1974). Then, those actors usurped more powers.
The smoking gun can be found in the FCC Obamanet orders of 2010 and 2015. The 2015 Obamanet Order, officially called Open Internet Order, has explicitly obligated all internet users to pay a tax to Google and YouTube in their ISP and wireless data fees. The Order even mentions Google and YouTube by name. The tax incurs tens of billions of dollars per year. More specifically, the Order said that by paying ISP fees (including mobile wireless), each user also pays for the services that ISP gives to platforms and content providers like YouTube, even if the user doesn’t use them.
As discussed further below, we make clear that broadband Internet access service encompasses this service to edge providers. (p. 10)
Platforms and content providers are misleadingly called “edge providers” here. Thus, every ISP customer in the US is obligated to pay for the traffic generated by Google, Netflix, Facebook, and Twitter, even if he used none of them! The Order even references the main beneficiaries by name!
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There is absolutely no doubt that the internet giants use their power to promote the democrat party. None whatsoever.
Just as TV and movie producers create their works specifically to promote an agenda, rather than to entertain.
What!?
You don’t say!
I get the point, but it is not well made and nor well supplied with factual legal evidence. I agree with the premise but do not think their way of making the argument will win the day.
Should come under the same standards as any power provider with no private entity bias allowed. The question is how to make that happen.
No one questions that big tech companies are far left biased. It’s a well known and well proven fact. Reddit included.
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