As we shared yesterday, the examples of Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube blocking factual information about Joe Biden’s corrupt financial engagements with foreign entities is an “all-in” election interference effort. In many ways this is an extinction level event for their business model if Joe Biden does not win the election.
These tech and social media companies are worth hundreds of billions and their future financial viability is now directly connected to the 2020 election. Shareholders and stakeholders will begin filing lawsuits as soon as the hammer of FCC, DOJ or legislative regulation drops to break up their previously permitted monopolies.
A Trump victory will destroy these entities; and the likelihood of a Trump victory increases in direct proportion to their efforts to advance censorship…. it is a very unique situation.
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It’s important to remember… there is a pre-existing DOJ antitrust lawsuit looming that underpins the current position of “Big Tech”; and factually in June of this year we previously shared: “As soon as the DOJ takes action Silicon Valley will hold an even larger self-interest in the 2020 election outcome; and they will respond accordingly.”
CTH has discussed the likelihood of DOJ action against Google previously. In June of this year AG Barr also mentioned in an interview with Senator Ted Cruz he was likely to have the final DOJ investigation on his desk for a decision within the next few months.
Immediately after Barr’s remarks Politico reported on some of the background DOJ activity which aligned with Bill Barr’s statements and our own research assembly.
WASHINGTON – Justice Department prosecutors expect to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google in the coming months focused on the company’s dominance in online advertising and search, two individuals familiar with the discussions said Friday.
DOJ lawyers and state antitrust officials met online Friday and discussed contours of the expected complaint, according to the people, who weren’t authorized to speak on the record because the investigation is ongoing.
[…] The suit is expected to involve allegations that the search giant has monopolized the advertising technology market. It is also expected to include allegations that Google has taken steps to extend its monopoly over search, such as through contracts with Apple and cellphone makers who use the Android operating system that require it be the default search engine.
The people cautioned that Attorney General William Barr, who did not attend the meeting, has yet to make a final decision on whether to sue, a judgment he could make in the coming weeks. The department would also need to decide what remedy it would seek, such as trying to break up the company or placing limits on its behavior. Whether the state attorneys general would also sign on to the DOJ complaint isn’t yet determined.
Prosecutors are still discussing whether to include other aspects of Google’s conduct related to search, the people said.
A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment. (read more)
Anyone who has spent time on the internet already knows Google manipulates the internet based on their self-defined ideology. In August of 2019 a Google employee and whistleblower came forward with documentary evidence explaining how they do it.
Zachary Vorhies went public with the information in order to help people better understand the scope and scale of Google’s manipulative intent. [Link to Documents]
Among those documents is a file called “news black list site for google now.” The document is a “black list,” which restricts certain websites from appearing on an Android Google product. Not surprisingly CTH is listed on the black list.
On May 28, 2020, after President Trump signed an executive order targeting on-line censorship, CTH wrote a twitter thread about it. There has to be a breaking point where the FCC or DOJ steps in to address these issues, if our constitutional republic is to survive.
[Read Executive Order Here] – In the periphery of this executive action there are indications, and a widespread expectation, the DOJ is close to filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google Inc and their affiliated companies. There is a possibility the controlling ideology of ‘big tech’ is about to merge with legal action by the DOJ.
The DOJ action has not yet happened, but there are signals it is close. There have been visible signals, subtle but visible, the DOJ was/is about to move on a massive (the biggest in history) antitrust lawsuit against Google and all affiliates.
The issue will not necessarily surface as most would think; via a bias based on conservative -vs- leftist ideology in content manipulation; though those underlying aspects are a part of the larger underpinning we will soon see surface.
Antitrust lawsuits, writ large, are based on “prices”, “costs”, and net “financial” distortions caused by corporations not competing based on open commerce. “Antitrust” in it’s structural form is based on costs and the manipulation of prices. Essentially, controlled commerce.
In the digital sphere the targeted firms have not opened themselves to liability based on ideology; but rather Google, all subsidiaries and alliances, have opened themselves to antitrust violations through the manipulation and control of financial benefit.
Demonitization of digital platform content providers, in combination with Google’s control of almost all ad revenue in the digital space, is what has opened the door for DOJ intervention based on antitrust laws…. But will they take action? That’s the question.
Antitrust intervention is warranted because the content being generated on these on-line, digital platforms, is being arbitrarily valued by the media company GoogleAds and not the free market. Devaluing certain content they are ideologically opposed to creates consumer distortions.
Underpinning that revenue control is the ideological nature of the control enforcer, in this example Google. However, for the purpose of antitrust lawsuits, that motive is irrelevant.
The methods, practices and purposeful control of value; through collusion of corporate interest specific to a planned and organized effort to control monetary benefit; is the part of their activity that is quantifiable, discoverable, easily provable, and ultimately unlawful.
The financial distortion of internet commerce is the crack in the Big Tech stranglehold that should afford the DOJ the opportunity to step in. Google (and all subsidiaries) will lose on the substance of their defense because ultimately their business practice has resulted in, and arguably they have engaged in, price fixing.
It will take time, but from an optimistic position if the DOJ take action eventually Google would be forced to settle a lawsuit. There could be a massive financial settlement in addition to a negotiated Consent Decree. Within the decree terms, we could even see a break-up.
Any antitrust action is only tangentially related to President Trump’s previous confrontation with Twitter and big tech social media based on ideological lines. However, it is easy to see how the two issues will merge. The monetary distortions are based on ideology.
As soon as the DOJ takes action Silicon Valley will hold an even larger self-interest in the 2020 election outcome; and they will respond accordingly.
This is definitely worth watching…
Fascistbook, Twatter and the rest are going to lose their platform!
They thought nothing of defaming PDJT!
Trump has been waving 230 at them for some time now. He tricked them into committing suicide.
Hopefully he makes good on his 230 threat bert.
Weird. I’m not forced to use any of those companies products. So….. let’s get the Government to force them to give us free stuff. Brilliant.
Nothing is free
Didn’t think //sarc was needed with my comment.
Honestly, I think /s tags are always the better choice. They leave no doubt of the intent of the post. Contrary to what some apparently believe, it does not detract from the humor.
CTH enjoys a very wide variety of readership and we are all from very disparate backgrounds with widely-varying perceptions on what may be offered as sarcasm versus serious commentary.
“Assuming” that readers, who don’t know the poster or who may not know all about the subject matter at hand, will always “get” a poster’s sarcasm is usually risky and as such is the least preferable choice.
Just MHO.
Thanks GB. Understood and approved.
These are America’s Oligarchs. CRUSH them and the son of a bit*h’s that supports them.
I mean to crush them so friggen bad that the can’t breath.
PS. I know they are sob’s because I have heard their mothers barking.
We knew this day would come. Won’t help!
The more you ban something, the more in demand it becomes. I am in awe at the PRESIDENT’S ability to make his enemies reveal themselves and their motives.?
They just can’t help themselves.
They can’t help themselves because Tyrants that run Monopolies think no one can touch them. How wrong they are.
The Streissand effect
There MUST be an expression for someone doing the equivalent of a runner mistakenly thinking he is in the endzone, and spiking the ball, when he is actually on the 30 yard line.
They have ALL done it; media, libtards, Uniparty, Globalists.
Just one example, I was talking to a lady recently, about bizarro world, and I said “post-parum abortions.
She said, yes,that’s MURDER!
I said, yes it is. But how is it murder, ten minutes AFTER the babies born, but NOT if it’s ten minutes BEFORE.
BY pushing for post-parum abortion, they actually undermine their ’cause’ is the point.
Pre-e-JACK-ulation for Jack Dorsey. Pre-e-JUCK-ulation for Zuckerberg. Pre-e-GOOG-ulation for Google!
Rent-free – 24/7. How can you not love that!
Nothing will happen. Trump just announced at the rally that he will take away their 230 and a quick ‘if they dont shape up’ followup. Why is everything up to him? Again, nothing will be done. UNLESS, folks, teddy cruz and linda graham are already writing their letters as we speak.
Come on pets aren’t you ever optimistic?
PDJT is going to win in a landslide. It’s appearing more and more doable.
PDJT 2020!
He won in 16 and we still have the tentacles of corruption among our inept RINOs. Who will do it, Barr, Durham, Wray? Being realistic doesnt have to be judged pessimistic. I prefer to start looking down the road because evetually democrats could take office again. Not even prayers will save you then.
I understand what you’re saying pets, but let’s see what next term brings.
Hopefully many cabinet officials will be replaced with more effective people.
The Deep Cesspool lied, cheated and stalled for the 4 years of Trump’s 1st Term. A landslide Victory, and I believe it is coming, will bring the blowtorch for the cockroaches.
NOT disclosing the Barr/Durham findings BEFORE the election is the most POLITICAL ACT OF ALL.
Petzmom, President Trump has learned much his first four years in office. The Swamp as he has found out, is much bigger than he initially anticipated. I strongly believe that President Trump will be reelected and by a landslide no less. Stay tuned to what happens a day or two after the election is over with. I believe the first swamp critter escorted out the door will be Chris Wray. Dr. Fouci will most likely be one of the lunatics on the federal payroll also escorted out the door. I also have a strong suspicion that the current director of the CIA will join the list of Former directors of the CIA. There may also be a shakeup with the Joint Chiefs as well.
Let us also hope that the republicans regain control of the House, and if so, they have the wisdom to elect Jim Jordan as the new Speaker of The House, Let us also pray that the republicans not only retain control of the Senate, but that their majority increases.
I’ve been closely watching what’s been going on around the country since the Floyd nightmare started. You would have to be blind not to see how disgusted many Americans are with the left, and that disgust continues to grow each day and there is no doubt, that many former democrats have left the party, becoming independents or registering as republicans.
I firmly believe that what Google and their affiliates, as well as Facebook and others are currently doing in regards to the heavy censoring going on right now, is helping to turn America’s citizens against them, and they will pay dearly for their communist like behavior. This is the United States of America. This is NOT the former U.S.S.R., China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, or any other communist controlled country that heavily censors their media. This behavior will NOT stand. America’s citizens are mad as hell and they aren’t going to take it anymore. The pushback has already started. It will continue to grow exponentially as time goes by. As a Japanese Admiral stated after Japan attacked our Naval assets at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, a sleeping giant has been awakened. Yes it has, only it’s not 1941, it’s 2020 and that sleeping giant is, We, The People, the patriots of the USA who will do whatever it takes to preserve and protect our God given rights as free men and women.
Very eloquent essay. Thank you!
Mr. T…excellent!!
One thing we do have going with us is the tech nuts don’t get out much and when they do they make sure their opinion is the only one that counts. This means they are living in an artificial environment with little basis in reality. Computer simulations will always, always reflect the desires of their programmers. That is human nature.
Please let this happen soon!!!
Whoa!
Laura Loomer hits the nail on the head,
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/laura-loomer-blasts-republican-party-leadership-hypocrites-talk-no-action-censorship/
I think we have Laura Loomer beat by about 4 years
Apparently some Republican Senators are listening…
Ted Cruz EXPLODES on Twitter For Censoring NY Post Article on Hunter Biden
Why does it seem like everything is up against Trump? Simple… very simple…
From Machiavelli’s The Prince:
“And let it be noted that there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to set up as a leader in the introduction of changes. For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only the lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new. This lukewarm temper arises partly from the fear of adversaries who have the laws on their side and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who will never admit the merit of anything new, until they have seen it proved by the event.”
In ’16, the battle started… in ’20 we are fully enjoined because we are benefiting from the change while the Deep State is now suffering from the change.
Anyone indicted? The platforms still censoring? Barr still bag-piping? Tired of empty rhetoric, strongly worded letters, useless subpoenas, and the ongoing dog and pony show. The only way to get these d-bags to take notice is to shut them down via the FCC, like Silk Road.
We are in the Twilight Zone…marinating in proof of obvious massive crimes of corruption and violence on a daily basis and the enforcement authorities are vacant-looking Stepford Wives chanting “we will get to the bottom of this”, “no one is above the law”, “white supremacy is our biggest threat” “the DOJ is close to action” “the DOJ has declined to prosecute”…
The problem is that the show never ends and we never wake up from the nightmare. We just go insane?
I would bet you $100.00 that the people at the FCC are in the demons back pockets.
Just like Punk(f)BI nothing will happen and in fact they will try to sue somebody on the Right.
There are two ways to stop this crap
1) Divine Intervention.
2) Hang!Hang! or Bang!Bang!, it’s their choice.
John…yes, we are soooooo very tired of these lying deceitful spawns. FCC needs to step up and do the job of ridding our country of these blood suckers, Ride on POTUS’ coat tail and he will show you how to be real men.
Nothing will ever be done. This could have been fixed years ago. Lockstep.
Yes, Crandew, but not a soul was interested in doing it. DJT always takes the bull by the horns and does what he has to do. Those who came before him were:
A: Nowhere near as smart as he is
and
B: Had any perceivable gonads.
and
C: No one worked as diligently as he does
I disagree, not lockstep
I’m wasn’t saying anything against DJT. He does need to put an end to all of this though. One executive order could breakup the media stranglehold in a day.
Crandew…on that statement I agree!!
Oh yes, I know you weren’t saying anything against DJT. I’m just trying to keep a positive attitude as it’s so easy to get discouraged. Our hopes continually get dashed when all we get are promises. Time for action.
Republican politicians making threats, are just more bagpipes playing in harmony with AG.
Winter is coming only if the good guys win.
I never thought I would see the day where censorship happened in this country. And the fact that most democrats seem okay with this tells you everything about them. They are truly the enemy within.
On the bright side, now that all my favorite internet news sources are being taken down, I will have much more time to clean house and repair those throw pillows my doggies chewed in 2019. And weeding my 1,000 self-rooted cuttings. 🙂
Zuckerberg and Dorsey hate free speech even more than Stalin and Hitler did.
Perhaps Zuckerberg, Dorsey etal are just Sock Puppets to Chairman Xi! Bone crushing Communism is a monopolist dream-come-true.
Soros is also very familiar with and approves of censorship.
“As soon as the DOJ takes action”
You made me giggle.
In the year 2525 ….
Russiagate will still be alive ….
Better expand on that one. There may be a few here not as “seasoned” as us.
If man is still alive….
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
Zager & Evans. Used to sing it in the rear window seat of the station wagon.
Years ago I told my friends that we needed to “adopt” the Soviet citizen model of behavior in that the “state knows everything about everyone!” which would mean players such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter and their “data collection” buds know all things about all people who use electronic devices that transmit signals.
Then again, Mr. Government Man/Woman/Transgendered/Undecided has had the NSA collecting everything a door to door vacuum cleaner salesman could only dream of achieving for many years.
Look at how the elected government leaders (Clinton, Obama, et al.) have abused this collection, this electronic power. Is it any wonder?
Is it any wonder…weaponry is not old fashioned?
Pope John Paul II was asked his thought about the internet. He replied it was neither good nor bad. The uses to which man put it would determine this. For some years, this question has nagged me not only about the ‘net but technology as well. (Please don’t respond be calling me a Luddite, as I think there are valid questions to be raised concerning tech and the uses to which it is put.)
Our tech has, of course, grown from being a fantastic “bean counter” to being an integral part of daily living. I do find this troubling.
There does seem to be a certain “spirit,” if you will, associated with tech. Not one inherent but stemming from its use. More and more I fine elements which suggest to me a false and malicious “idol”.
Where I going with this is the Bible passage which reads: “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.” (I Timothy 2:5). Is the mediating of Christ, one of truth and love, being usurped by our technology? This is what I wonder.
Humanity has not kept up with the maturation of technology.. In other words humanity as a whole is too immature to responsibly manage the technology we have that this point in time.
Or…the evil side of humanity has gotten AHEAD of technology through the indoctrination of school kids for decades. They have re-mapped our youth to be eternally immature and malleable.
This can be reversed only by re-establishing a solid mooring of values, integrity and enlightenment via our churches and schools.
As a matter of course, this raises the question of which is the standard to measure by, humanity or technology.
Humanity. You would give a 2 year old a loaded gun and expect the youth to use it responsibly. This is my ‘like’ of your comment.
s/b a ‘not’ between would and give.
Re: “is the mediating of Christ, one of truth and love, being usurped by our technology”?
Romans 8:35-39 comes to mind.
As it reads:
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Yes, I would say the Lord’s love is eternal. Yet, it does not prevent our facing trials, tribulations, and even false gods before us. These may have an impact which can cause doubt about such love, even to the point of wondering about its permanence.
In some ways, I see technology laying claim, either intentionally or indirectly, a power over our life not rightly so.
The only thing more surprising than Hunter Biden’s grifting not coming up at his Pop’s “town hall” tonight will be if it DOES!
Breaking them up isn’t going to cut it, there’ll just be more smaller devils. The problem stems from the education system, and that will take decades to turn around. The education system is what needs to be de-monopolized. Some of the themes entirely anti-american coming out of there is insane. The idea of school choice makes the left more crazy that Supreme court judge nominations.
So how do we make moneyon their demise? Short selling?
Ha! Good thinking!
I don’t expect anything from the Republicans. The silence along with no action is there for all to see. The UniParty” now deflect our attention to the tech villains. Squirrel. They should have been all over Sec 230 this earlier. Get the Un-redacted Sedition / Treason information to We the People by any means possible. We are thirsty for the proof from of all the corruption on all laptops…..servers, computers all the cell phones. Obviously unmasking is not a criminal offense since anyone in congress can do it.. …. Truths and transparency let the chips fall where they may. Onward Christian Soldiers.
Adam Housley twitter appears to be “something wrong – try again”.
The “wrong” is probably that they shut him down.
Rudy was smart to roll out news every day rather than all at once. Each time the stories get wiped out by Fakebook and Twatter will seal the deal to regulate these platforms and remove Sec 230.
Did they roll out the lesser stories knowing that Big Tech would move to squash? Then once the information was restricted and the resulting public outrage almost guaranteed a larger audience, will they will release the real story?
Yep, Rudy has said I believe that he has audio recordings of the Biden`s extorting the bribes, both of them if my memory serves but definitely Pops, it was garbled on the end of a segment as they cut away from him like a year ago, can`t remember what show, maybe Ingram`s but fox was the channel for sure.
Just a question of when he drops it, my bet is on the 25th, just over a week out, zero time to respond, maximum impact.
Every time you see a story like this censorship issue, it is one or two more people you need to recruit to get out on election day and vote for DJT. It is doomsday for these multi-billion dollar enterprises if he wins; they are doing everything possible to stop him and to flip the senate. We can stop them if we have enough voters.
Well it certainly sounds like Twitter, Facebook and You Tube are saying bring it on.
These big tech outfits know full well what they have done so they’ve chosen to fight the battle now before the election.
And you know it’s about time all this crap comes to a head. I just hope all the patriots will band together because to say this is a defining moment in our Republic is an absolute understatement.
Never ask God to do what we can do ourselves
DOJ take action? Not until you replace the clown running the show. He’s conflicted and overwhelmed, and his subordinates are running rings around him, just like Sessions. November 4th can’t come quickly enough. Tick tock.
We’ll you beat me to it. I was going to say “DOJ on it, oh nothing to worry about then. “
Yeah, but think about the thoughts swirling in that fat f#ck’s head. ” If I indict Bobby and Jimbo and Andy and Pete, what’s going to happen to their “GOLDEN PENSIONS? The thought of disrupting another government drone’s absolute right to a lavish pension and benefits would be enough to make any other government drone sit on his hands for sure. I feel his pain. NOT.
But this clown was picked by President Trump, so another bad pick by the President?
Yes. So he’s going to have to try again.
Let’s hope the next one is a lot better but some of these terrible staffing picks are stacking up.
Ah, no, all these picks are who can be approved by Mitch McConnell and his merry band of RINOS. Many Republicans refused to work for an outsider’s administration because they like the status quo. The Resistance is alive and well until President Trump’s 2 nd term.
Winter is coming just means another snow job.
Underrated comment.
Two words: Standard Oil
That’s all that is happening here to the ‘new media’ tech giants. And every greedy bastard that has a stake in these companies, including the US Government ie: cia, are rubbing their hands and laughing their asses off.
Token lawsuits is all your going to see, which will loose, just to cement in the public’s mind that justice has been appropriately served.
The business licences should be striped from these corporations, and google most of all, should be placed in the public sphere.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/latest-cache-emails-detail-how-hunter-biden-earned-millions-china-introductions
Update (1000ET): While Twitter suppresses this latest Hunter Biden expose, it’s trending topics section is allowing #EricTrumpsUkraineScandal in one of the top spots. The story is essentially a collection of previously reported comments that even the NYT has now acknowledged isn’t accurate.
Now is the winter of our discontent.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams
So many comments seem intent on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
“A Republic If You Can Keep It”
Every move that has been taking place before us is part of the pendulum swinging back in the direction of sanity. We have been on the absolute verge of losing the Republic. Sundance has pushed this idea consistently because it’s true! The tide is turning. Our President is the Peoples President and he’s doing all he can, in spite of tremendous head winds to save our Republic.
For those complaining that nothing is being done, you’re relying on one man, by your once-every-four-years vote to clean up this mess. A mess that has been decades in the making. He’s making progress, not at “Warp Speed” but at a pace I can guarantee is faster than you or I could if we were in his shoes. The swamp is deep, wide, viscous and dangerous and PDJT is essentially alone navigating his way through while eradicating the ancient demons that reside there. Not an easy task.
Relish in the fact that at this moment in time, huge, absolutely massive undercurrents are changing and turning in the direction of saving our Republic. Don’t dismiss them, scoff at them, deride them for not happening fast enough, hard enough, precise enough. Praise them for putting us on a path that you and I and everybody who’s so inclined can join to do whatever we can in our power to ensure the Republic is saved and secure for future generations.
Posted this earlier in the open thread, but it belongs here.
Starting today, YouTube announced it is vastly expanding its censorship program. MSM is misleadingly reporting the announcement as crack down on Qanon. YouTube has been cracking down on Qanon since January 2019. Having achieved success, they will now go after any and all “conspiracy theories that have been used to justify real-world violence” that target an “individual” or “protected group.”
YouTube’s policy statement is absurdly and intentionally vague, which enables them to justify going after anything they don’t like, while promoting everything they do like. YouTube will (literally) reward its friends and punish its enemies. They wrote themselves a blank check.
What is a “conspiracy?” YouTube decides.
When has a conspiracy been “used to justify violence?” YouTube decides.
Who are the “individuals” and “protected groups?” who will be kept safe? YouTube decides.
Which “authoritative voices” will be “raised?” YouTube decides.
Who are the “trusted creators” that will be “rewarded?” YouTube decides.
“Today, we are taking another step in our efforts to curb hate and harassment by removing more conspiracy theory content used to justify real-world violence. This builds on our work over the last several years to strengthen and evolve our policies and enforcement — work that has been organized around four pillars: removing violative content, reducing the spread of harmful misinformation, raising authoritative voices, and rewarding trusted creators.”
“Nearly two years ago, we took a major step to limit the reach of harmful misinformation by updating our recommendations system. This resulted in a 70% drop in views coming from our search and discovery systems. In fact, when we looked at QAnon content, we saw the number of views that come from non-subscribed recommendations to prominent Q-related channels dropped by over 80% since January 2019.”
Additionally, we’ve removed tens of thousands of QAnon-videos and terminated hundreds of channels under our existing policies, particularly those that explicitly threaten violence or deny the existence of major violent events. All of this work has been pivotal in curbing the reach of harmful conspiracies, but there’s even more we can do to address certain conspiracy theories that are used to justify real-world violence, like QAnon.
“Today we’re further expanding both our hate and harassment policies to prohibit content that targets an individual or group with conspiracy theories that have been used to justify real-world violence. One example would be content that threatens or harrasses someone by suggesting they are complicit in one of these harmful conspiracies, such as QAnon or Pizzagate. As always, context matters, so news coverage on these issues or content discussing them without targeting individuals or protected groups may stay up. We will begin enforcing this updated policy today, and will ramp up in the weeks to come.”
“Due to the evolving nature and shifting tactics of groups promoting these conspiracy theories, we’ll continue to adapt our policies to stay current and remain committed to taking the steps needed to live up to this responsibility.”
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/harmful-conspiracy-theories-youtube
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtube-bans-qanon-other-conspiracy-content-targets-individuals-n1243525
Why mention Barr about anything? That guy is meaningless.
As soon as the DOJ takes action……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Sure, Senator. Sure.
We’ve heard all of this before, about lots of other things.
Words…just words.
I see where the Republican Senator Cruz, Graham and Hawley are gonna subpoena both twitter and Facebook. I hope they drag them before every committee they can think of.
I’d wear Zuck and Jack out I’d be on their backside about something everyday.
And everyone of those Senators better take this seriously very seriously.
What I’ve noticed is, their position for these issues always go to “what do I get”, DOJ says you pay us.
Notice they do not want to open this to public law suits. Get woke go broke will never apply to them until we get our lawyers on them. This corrupt government protects criminals not prosecute them, it’s a cartel of criminals.
That’s the way it’s always been but after Trump gets back in again I’m hoping he’ll push em. There’s a whole mountain of stuff Trump knows about now that he didn’t know before.
Haha, This time Trump’s got this goat you just hold his head.
So another dog and pony show?
fortified…Like the idea of Senators Hawley and Cruz taking hold of this hideous situation but please let’s leave out the graham cracker do-nothing whiz kid. Enough with that loser!
Haha he ain’t gonna do anything they just letting him ride along,
Hasta la vista, baby.
If it’s in a few weeks who says Barr will have anything to do with it at all??? I’m assuming that after the President wins his second term both Barr, Wray and Haspel are gone immediately and replaced by people who believe in the rule of law, a faster process of accountability and no fear of a transgressors political connections…
Without the Turtle’s confirmation, anyone appointed loses their authority on 3 Jan 2021.
This is the GOP sounding much like Adam Schiff – offering much, delivering nothing.
GOP Senators are surrounded by people who know the intricacies of FB and Twitter – the GOP Senators know nothing – and yet, while being surrounded by these knowledgeable people they refuse to make use of their expertise.
Hence, the subpoena, the interview, and the resulting declaration of success from our GOP Senators will mean absolutely nothing.
Expect, as usual – the GOP’s uncooked nothingburger.
Clarence Thomas wants to reel in Section 230. Header from AXIOS interview so I will not post the link.
The point is the conversation is getting the attention of the “right” people.
I think that’s the big door for Conservative Lawfare to break the tech giants.
WIth a 5-3-1 SCOTUS set up, it’s very likely that the firewall that FB, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, Twitter, etc… will collapse.
Thomas just laid it out yesterday and this is the part that should really instill real fear. The Dems tend to think short term often times, they do things that come back to bite them… and their use of “lawfare” has laid out the path. With Trump having changed the judiciary, getting rid of so many Leftist activist judges, a simple lawsuit will open the door for trillions of dollars of damage towards these “publishers”.
They really have brought it onto themselves. Democrats just don’t know when to quit. They keep digging their grave deeper and deeper.
Tucker Carlson Going Off On Big Tech In 2018 “I would say break up the companies immediately and start putting people on trial.” “If you just throw the term ‘free market’ at a Conservative it’s like kryptonite to Superman.” #ThrowbackThursday
??? Not sure as to what version / definition of “free market” that Tucker was referring… but Conservatives absolutely prefer a truly free market.
We just have not had any such thing in this country for at least 100 years.
Cannot overstate the importance of this announcement
FCC Chairman @AjitPaiFCC
says he has the legal authority to interpret section 230 and intends to do so with an eye towards transparency from social media companies on now clearly revealed biased content moderation standards
I intend to move forward with an @FCC rulemaking to clarify the meaning of #Section230.
Read my full statement below.
https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1316819442886758400
Good if Trump wins… but ultimately it is Clarence Thomas and a 5-3-1 SCOTUS that will have the final saying.
The Social Media giants will be broken up and likely fined heavily. The second Barret gets in the court, sue those giants for publishing, censoring, interfering with the election etc… do it for damages of $2T dollars.. sue them in a Texas Federal District Court. Push it up the SCOTUS.
Take action when???
Function as a publisher & you are a publisher.
I thought this was established a year or so ago? You look at 2016 and can see they intend on continuing.
Barr is not doing bupkis on anything unless PDT is re-elected. Biden wins and the swamp will unleash the hounds of hell on him and generations of his family. As well as every one of us. I just hope to be selected for the re-education camp and not the termination option.
Fortunately, as usual,
President Trump has got this! Barr is not a fearless warrior. More likely the only swamp critter McConnell would allow him to nominate.
It would be easy to prosecute these crimes if our justice system operated as we all think it should,
But it doesn’t. This insidious criminal operation is bigger then we think. Maybe so well organized that there is no fear to go after our President. If someone were bright enough to see this in authority, I think there would need to be a massive amount of house cleaning before there were any chance of successfully bringing a case this big that looks like it goes all the way to the top of all three branches of Government. Comey said he felt “no prosecutor would bring this case”, and that was just for a small part of the bigger picture.
Donald Trump being elected to the office of the Presidency and these past nearly 4 years of finding and removing as many as they could operating inside the government has been a huge start. This election looks to become a D5 avalanche of Trump support. So large that it will remove many of these criminals from their positions of command and control. Also remove protections for many of the deep state resistance bureaucracy.
Many of the walls of protections are falling with all of this declassification. Get the information out to the people, remove through this election a lot of command and control positions and we have an open highway for treason and sedition cases to roll forward.
Vote for America and our Constitutional Republic.
‘Google, China create search engine that tracks, censors searches and links them to users’ phone numbers’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/google-china-create-search-engine-that-tracks-censors-searches-and-links-them-to-users-phone-numbers
“Several human rights groups criticized the move in an open letter, saying it would result in Google “directly contributing to … human rights violations.” The technology could also be used to increase China’s ability to manipulate information provided to the public, such as altering weather and air pollution data.
“As of Saturday morning, Google has not yet commented on the project or concerns it has brought up with human rights groups and activists. Recently, many conservative voices and social media users in the U.S. have complained that search engines are exhibiting bias toward liberal voices and media outlets in search results.”
I intend to move forward with an
@FCC
rulemaking to clarify the meaning of #Section230.
Read my full statement below.
I’m looking forward to the launch of Trump media in 2024.
Internet streaming TV/News
. Social Media/Video platform.
Come on POTUS. You know YOU CAN!
Shouldn’t FB & Twitter be responsible for the 1200 “shoppers” who hit the Magnificent Mile in Chicago last month using their platforms to plan and execute the “shopping” spree ?
Nothing is ever going to improve in this country as long as the Soros-Clinton Crime Cartel has a strangle hold on the FBI and DOJ
The Soros Syndicate.
The Clinton Crime Cartel.
Obama’s Outlaws
Bidens Bozos.
These companies may be based here but…….their actions show foreign influence.
Either batting for China or others they have determined, like Nike, pissing off half their US users will result in higher gains internationally.
Was going to comment on how Zuckerberg’s
brain could be rewired by lifting off his dome
of hair. Then, I looked over at Jack’s picture.
Anyone else notice that he has HORNS!??
tour guide…they are not of this planet…
Google, Facebook, and Twitter all wrote and developed programs to censor and control the narrative in China for the Chinese Communist Government for $big Bucks. They have been applying them here but forget that we are not Chinese. We have a gun behind every blade of grass.
The pending DOJ anti-trust action sounds more like it’s aimed at the financial model of the industry; specifically the way Google weighs search results and is rewarded accordingly by its advertising revenues.
What’s driving the story today is not about dollars and cents directly, but about denial of access as is related to Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act. Entities such as Facebook and Twitter are treated as platforms, not publishers; they are safe from lawsuits because of what might be posted on their sites. However, when they see something posted that they don’t like, they turn around and act like a publisher and deny the display of the article they don’t like.
They want to have their cake and eat it too.
If they are platforms then act like a platform, not a publisher, shut up and allow the posting of stories you don’t like. You have no say, you are a platform.
Zuckerberg: shut up; platforms should be seen and not heard; you have no say. Don’t wrap yourself in the sanctimonious cloak of community standards; that only applies to publishers, you’re a platform.
In simpler times you would be seen as the electronic equivalent of the bulletin board. You provide the bulletin board and are not responsible for what people post on your bulletin board, so quit ripping down those things you don’t like from your bulletin board.
Zuckerberg/Dorsey – shut up and tell all your worker bees to shut up. If you don’t like what the public posts on your bulletin board then you and your worker bees can quit and go join a monastery and let the public post what the public wants to post.
Rant ended.
Republicans are all talk and no action