When the internet came along, we all rushed to this new, free frontier, and celebrated to bounty of creativity, profit and social interaction it afforded.
Google:- We are your government, and you have NO rights.
You will do as ordered, you will will speak as ordered and you will think as ordered … or you will be disappeared.
Google to tell website what they are allowed to contain;
https://www.lotuseaters.com/googles-silent-censorship-10-02-21
3 replies on “Google is your new government, and you have no rights”
I used to be all about the “it’s a private company so they can set any policies they want” viewpoint. That is, until I learned about Section 230. Because of those exceptions, the companies subject to them became, in effect, agents of the government. Therefore, their censorship is real, live, government censorship.
Section 230 must go.
Fifteen years ago tech companies were still tended libertarian. Then they got infiltrated by the woke and here we are. The 230 exception is clearly too broad, but how to limit it. If any forum like say billwhittle.com is liable for any comment made by any user then only mega corporations will be able to afford the policing needed to run a forum. If moderation beyond removing content that is not constitutionally protected (e.g. pornography or incitement to violence), what is the limit? Can billwhittle.com block genuine neo-Nazis? Of course this is a niche site while YouTube is effectively a monopoly. Anti-trust then? Different rules for monopolies?
This is an exceedingly, though unnecessarily, complex topic that goes back at least as far as the passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. I’m not prepared to deal with the whole matter at the moment.
The gist is that since long before 1895 there have been existing laws that cover the whole problem – libel & slander, fraud, negligence, etc. Today’s woke idiocy is claiming harm where there is none and by doing so actually causing harm, not receiving it. They should face consequences for that, just as anyone else who does actual harm with their words should. But they’re not, and the attitude of the people responsible for enforcing the above-mentioned laws, the official policies within which they must work, and the sheer weight of illegitimate and unjustifiable laws and legal precedents make it far too difficult for the wrongly accused to be vindicated.
Just one example: no one, whether an individual or a corporation, should end up in a situation where their best option is to pay out a settlement rather than win outright in court when they’re not guilty of whatever they’re accused of.