Break Them Up

9 Replies to “Break Them Up”

1. You keep saying that, and I keep saying that won’t work, not while the same people who control Ma Google and Ma Facebook are in a position to control the Baby Googles and Facebooks.

   Expropriate them both, without compensation, and replace their top brass with people less inclined to make a mockery of the right of civilized men to speak the truth.

   1. Right, so we can trust governments to run companies so they promote free speech? Talk about a direct road to authoritarianism!

2. Stuart Varney had a great guest on this morning, Vivek Wadhwa, a Harvard Fellow …

   https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/5852373009001/?#sp=show-clips

   He suggested that the Tech Firms could be sued for selling a defective product … oh, say, like a Ford Pinto with exploding gas tank. Twitter, Fackebook, and Google are selling DEFECTIVE platforms that limit and restrict Constitutionally guaranteed Speech.

3. The answer is simple, if they are exercising editorial control, they are publishers, and liable for everything that is published on them. There is no way they can approve every post, they will either go bankrupt on blue hair dye as an employee perk, or be sued into bankruptcy as people purposely post things just to create a liability for the tech platforms.

   1. You’ve at least hit on a legally sound and conceptually sane response, but the problem with it – as I’ve mentioned before – is that the legal precept of stare precis means the blast radius of such a decision is infinitely wide. Remember when Kate and Kathy had to post a public apology to Richard Warman? Now imagine that boot stomping on every blogger’s face, forever. Say goodbye to NME666 and “A Canadian”/”Canadian Friend”; allowing them to post here creates too much liability for a dog breeder and airbrush artist from Saskatchewan to afford. Big Social Media will be fine, because they can afford lawyers and settlements. It will be the individual conservative, libertarian and individualist bloggers who will suffer. Every forum will close. Every blog will disable comments. The only place you’ll be able to discuss things online will be, ironically, Big Social Media, who will censor even more vigorously because now they have the excuse that they’re legally mandated to.

      Some day soi-disant conservatives will remember that the government is a bigger threat to their liberties than any private corporation.

      (The linked article lost me in the first paragraph when the author referred to Big Social Media as “the Internet” and “a public square”. Something something centrally distributed talking points something something)

4. We are entering a dangerous time for democracy when both the MSM and the big high tech social media platforms are colluding to restrict speech other then that which passes their ideological test.

5. Don’t try to control them. Set fair rules and then fine them billions. If that doesn’t work do it over again in 6 months. Shareholders will fix the problem.

6. In Ministry of Truth we trust?

7. sigh . . . . . .
   ah unca Miltie, aka Milton Friedman and the omniscient ‘market’ wither art thou?
   https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/hypocrite
   from the link:
   “hypocrite
   A hypocrite preaches one thing, and does another. You’re a hypocrite if you criticize other people for wearing fur, but pull out your big mink jacket as soon as it gets cold.
   The word hypocrite is rooted in the Greek word hypokrites, which means “stage actor, pretender, dissembler.” So think of a hypocrite as a person who pretends to be a certain way, but really acts and believes the total opposite.”

   so SDA hypocrite, howcum youse is a BIIIIG fan of president Deregulation aka ronnie raygun, *at the same time* demand the
   REG-U-LA-TIONS necessary to carry out this plan? hmmmm?