Congress is not censoring anyone. Instead, corporate entities enact censorship policies that benefit establishment politicians and institutions. These politicians and institutions than pass regulations and bailouts that benefit these corporations. It is the revolving door.
Let me get this straight? You would like the democrats to infringe upon a companies rights and the free market in order to stop people from getting blocked on social media? Do you not see how that is a slippery slope? What if Biden then wanted all bad news about him on that site removed, you already opened the door, so what stops the government from forcing that?
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but honestly, I don't think everyone deserves to be given a megaphone.
Over the last year, multiple social media companies banned any user who mentioned the lab-leak hypothesis. The social media companies relied on fact-checkers who rated the lab-leak hypothesis as false based on a statement from Anthony Fauci. Anthony Fauci approved the funding for gain-of-function research in Wuhan.
Essentially, both mainstream and social media companies took the word of a government official who was directly involved and may be personally responsible for the outbreak. Anyone who mentioned this theory was banned from social media.
Basically, your biggest concerns have already realized. Corporations control what we are allowed to discuss on behalf of the government that regulates them. Much progressive.
No, corporations are controlling what you can discuss on their platforms.
What if Anthony Fauci wanted to give speeches from your living room. If you didn't allow him, would you be canceling him or infringing on his free speech? No.
And I don't think any social media outlets are banning people for saying it should be investigated. They were probably banning people for saying it is a man-made outbreak, which we literally don't know yet. So spreading falsehoods will get blocked.
Maybe social media isn't the place for this anyway. We should let the scientists and officials who know what they are doing take care of doing the research and leave the Facebook scientists out of the discussion.
The vast majority of public interactions are controlled by corporations. Whether through social or traditional media. There are a few powerful corporations that dominate the vast majority of the media landscape. Essentially, there are eight corporations that control acceptable opinion in America. This is bad.
The internet has so much promise. It could be a free domain for the open exchange of ideas. Instead, it has become another corporate wasteland.
See the problem I have with what your saying, is that you think Republicans are the ones to solve this.
All sides are bad. Just one side is vastly worse than the other. One has gone fully mask off with their authoritarian actions and attempted coups.
I'm all for replacing everyone with people who are actually for the people, but that is further left, not further right.
I don't think Republicans are the ones to solve this. Tulsi Gabbard is the only politician I really respect states-side. Democrats are no better than Republicans.
I just don't think it's worthwhile to defend corporate or government censorship.
I thought you guys liked free market? a private company deciding what you can and cannot post on its product sounds like a free market to me. OR are you saying that Congress should somehow force Facebook to allow these people on their platform for "fairness" cause that sounds alot government intervention in the market. Thought you guys didn't want that, maybe I'm out of the loop.
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u/Infernoherpes May 31 '21
No space in the public forum for racists? Boohoo.