The International Lord of Hate (ILoH) does it again.
That would be bad enough, but then it got extra stupid! So while these evil media empires are pretending that they are unbiased and merely trying to “curate the truth”, they banned the White House Press Secretary! They stopped sitting US senators from sharing news articles. Then they banned the president’s reelection campaign nineteen days before an election!
If social media had banned Obama’s press secretary, and then stopped Diane Feinstein and Chuck Schumer from sharing articles from the New York Times, and then shut down the Obama campaign page nineteen days before his election against Mitt Romney, everyone would have lost their fucking minds. And rightfully so! Because that kind of blatant manipulation of information is evil.
If I put that into a thriller my editor would tell me it was too far fetched. Nobody would buy into such mustache twirling villainy, even if I was writing cyberpunk dystopia.
GEORGE ORWELL WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THIS WEEK’S PLOT IS TOO FAR FETCHED – Larry Correia
They deserve the “Julius Streicher” award.
If Trump wins and doesn’t have to deal with a Democrat dominated Congress, the first order of business should be to break up “big tech”.
Actually, the first order of business should be to change the definitions in the platform vs publisher space. Having seen the alternatives (ARPAnet and early internet, where social pressure was the only filtering, and current internet, where free speach isn’t a priority), IMO, ANY filtering by a platform should render them a publisher, with all the attendant potential liability. The second order of business should be to break up the firms (most notably, Google) that have made a practice of buying up anything new and innovative, thus preventing competing ideas from gaining independent footholds.
YMMV…