« on: March 06, 2019, 10:28:16 AM »
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You gotta put your money where your mouth is.
Better yet, let’s put the Bill of Rights where our lips are being zipped tight.
Freedom of speech in Cyberspace—the central place for political and cultural debate—is what’s at stake.
Social media is the new town square and no longer a private affair.
[Clip: “Very importantly, my administration is also standing up for the free speech rights of all Americans, free speech rights. Look at social media, it’s a thing called free speech rights. You look at Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media giants, and I’ve made it clear that we as a country cannot tolerate political censorship, blacklisting, and rigged search results. And you know it can go the other way also.” Applause! Applause!]
Today’s One Way Street is tomorrow’s U-Turn.
The power of what we see and learn goes way beyond anything George Orwell could have ever unturned.
[Clip: “We will not let large corporations silence conservative voices, and it can, it can go the other way too someday. It can play little tricks with them. We’re not going to let them control what we can and cannot see, read, and learn from, we can’t do that. America is a free country, and we are always going to stay always a free country.”]
We’ve got a First Amendment for that.
Let’s use it to bust Big Tech.
Why should a chosen few—Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Greenblatt, Cohen—decide what views we can learn, hear, and see?
Especially from the SPLC.
[Clip: “Well Google is policing the content posted to YouTube and they’re using a thoroughly discredited left-wing group to do that. Google is creating a group of trusted flaggers who will help the company monitor alleged extremist content on the website. One of those trusted flaggers is not trusted at all. It’s the Southern Poverty Law Center. It’s not an expert on the South, or poverty, or the law.”]
And Big Tech crying, ‘We’re privately owned and can scrub whatever we disown and post whatever we condone,’ doesn’t get it anymore.
Ownership doesn’t always mean absolute dominion.
The more an owner—for his advantage—expands his property for use by the public the more his rights become circuмscribed by the constitutional claims of those who use it.
That was the ruling in the plaintiff’s favor in the Supreme Court case, “Marsh vs Alabama,” where a religious pamphleteer was denied by a company-owned town in Alabama to hand out tracts on the sidewalk.
Marsh won.
In this far-reaching precedent, the Supreme Court determined that a private corporation operating in a quasi-public government capacity is legally bound by constitutional constraints.
Her trespass arrest and conviction in a company town did ^indeed violate Marsh’s First Amendment rights despite her being on purported private property.
Big Tech reaches far beyond the borders of a privileged small private space.
[Clip:”Facebook constantly manipulates their users. They do it by the things they insert into the newsfeeds, and they do it by the types of hosts they allow their users to see.” “They can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be seeing, based on what your followers are presenting.” “It’s what Google and Facebook are doing on a regular basis by suppressing stories, by steering us towards other stories rather than the stories we’re actually seeking. That’s the real manipulation that’s going on.”]
No more.
Big Tech is joined at the hip to Big Gov, the Pentagon, and the National Security & Intel apparatus via intertwining contracts big and small.
All it takes is just one viable plaintiff cuffed by censorship who can establish standing and then push the process up to the Supreme Court.
Are you listening?
Bring your suit. The precedent is in place. The time is ripe and your claim is fair.
Don’t let a chosen few police Cyberspace the new public square.
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