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Related: What the Facebook insider wanted to impress upon me, however, was how Facebook’s partisan tilt is common knowledge inside the firm. He had the secret chats to prove it.
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The DOJ, along with a number of states have filed an antitrust suit against Google.
The federal suit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges Google violated the Sherman Act with its search monopoly. The DOJ is seeking to stop Google from engaging in the anticompetitive behavior that has resulted in “harmful effects,” and asks the court to “enter structural relief as needed to cure any anticompetitive harm” along with other potential remedies. On a press call Tuesday, Justice Department officials declined to detail what “structural relief” could mean in this case.
The document is here.
Speaking of Google…
Google Search: Happy Black Woman
Then Google Search: Happy Asian Woman
Then Google Search: Happy White Woman
I guarantee you will be surprised.
— Great Right Hope (@greatrighthope) October 20, 2020
“Don’t Throw Me In That Briar Patch, Br’er Twitter”
SO USA TODAY DIDN’T WANT TO RUN MY HUNTER BIDEN COLUMN THIS WEEK. My regular editor is on vacation, and I guess everyone else was afraid to touch it. — Glenn Reynolds
I wasn’t advising them — they tend not to ask me for my opinion — but I would have advised against such a blackout. There’s a longstanding Internet term called “the Streisand effect,” going back to when Barbara Streisand demanded that people stop sharing pictures of her beach house. Unsurprisingly, the result was a massive increase in the number of people posting pictures of her beach house. The Big Tech Blackout produced the same result: Now even people who didn’t care so much about Hunter Biden’s racket nonetheless became angry, and started talking about the story.
On the other hand, with friends like these…
“Don’t Throw Me In That Briar Patch, Br’er Twitter”
Twitter’s Orwellian decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop scandal published by the New York Post completely backfired – ‘nearly doubling’ its visibility, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and media intelligence firm Zignal Labs.
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2 hours: James O’Keefe in studio with Tim Pool.
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Dorsey, Zuckerberg and Co. have now taken an active role in deciding what information people should and should not have in these critical days leading up to the election.
Not everyone is thrilled.
Their attempts to cover up the Hunter Biden emails story last week backfired on them. They’re now getting all kinds of scrutiny. I wrote last Friday that the Senate Commerce Committee is going to have a hearing next week with Dorsey, Zuckerberg, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. They’re going to be exploring whether the protections granted tech companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act enable “big tech bad behavior.”
Many think Section 230 should no longer apply to Big Tech, including Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn…
Certain Republicans must now weigh the Big Cash they get from Big Tech against the certainty Big Tech will rig the next election against them.
You Blew It, @Jack
“Social media companies have a First Amendment right to free speech. But they do not have a First Amendment right to a special immunity denied to other media outlets, such as newspapers and broadcasters.”
I intend to move forward with an @FCC rulemaking to clarify the meaning of #Section230.
Read my full statement below. pic.twitter.com/LhUz5XMdSC
— Ajit Pai (@AjitPaiFCC) October 15, 2020
@Jack
BREAKING: Sen. @tedcruz says that the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Tuesday to subpoena Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and that he will testify next Friday. pic.twitter.com/SEZsAzbxFO
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 15, 2020
More at Zerohedge.
WAR
BREAKING: Twitter has locked the White House Press Secretary's Twitter account. pic.twitter.com/OxlXM1p7IX
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 14, 2020
More.
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Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley is demanding Facebook explain its preemptive censorship of a bombshell report from the New York Post contradicting Joe Biden’s repeated assertions that the former vice president never discussed his son’s potentially criminal overseas business conduct.
Twitter is now labeling the New York Post Story as “potentially harmful” and won’t let you tweet it or send it over dm pic.twitter.com/hq5o2FpOYr
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 14, 2020
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Now, when a business gains attention for reports of racist conduct, Yelp will place a new Business Accused of Racist Behavior Alert on their Yelp page to inform users, along with a link to a news article where they can learn more. https://t.co/1K2bJ46uM8
— Yelp (@Yelp) October 8, 2020
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What changed, precisely? Facebook, Twitter And TikTok Say Wishing Trump’s Death From COVID-19 Is Not Allowed
Because it’s not like wanting Trump dead has been regarded as disqualifying activity in the past.
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Dick Costolo is the former CEO of Twitter and on the current board of Patreon. He’s worth $300M.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
#RemoveRogan
This is my shocked face: Spotify Staffers Threaten Strike Unless ‘Hate-Filled’ Podcasts Removed
More at TimCast.
She Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
I think there’s a lot that we can do, but the social media companies themselves need to step up. We don’t have to regulate everything but if you can’t regulate yourselves, governments will. @s_guilbeault https://t.co/O7PvYsWPH1
— Catherine McKenna (@cathmckenna) September 22, 2020
Ricin, Eh?
Nobody saw it coming.
I mean nobody could, because Trump derangement is the trunk sewer main of Twitter.
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What It’s Like Getting Censored On Youtube
h/t kerry