Big Tech Is Meddling with Free Speech… and Elections
Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 5 months ago to Technology
"Big Tech monsters like Google and Facebook have become nothing less than incubators for far-left liberal ideologies and are doing everything they can to eradicate conservative ideas and their proponents from the internet.
Without any sort of public mandate beyond its own ideological predisposition, the Big Tech leviathan is silencing the silent majority. A leaked internal Google brief with the Orwellian title “The Good Censor” proves this point by laying out the search giant’s plan for controlling the internet.
Google begins the report by echoing the liberal contention that free speech is a “social, economic, and political weapon,” calling it a “utopian” idea that’s no longer practical because internet users are “behaving badly.”"
Without any sort of public mandate beyond its own ideological predisposition, the Big Tech leviathan is silencing the silent majority. A leaked internal Google brief with the Orwellian title “The Good Censor” proves this point by laying out the search giant’s plan for controlling the internet.
Google begins the report by echoing the liberal contention that free speech is a “social, economic, and political weapon,” calling it a “utopian” idea that’s no longer practical because internet users are “behaving badly.”"
The only threat to free speech, by definition, is from the government and anyone who thinks tech companies should be regulated or punished for having wrong opinions.
While I disagree with your posting, I have not prevented others from reading your views.
I have not censored your opinions by suppressing them.
Anyone that has power to censor can violate your freedom of speech. The Gulch owner may disagree with your post but they don't censor you for posting it.
Google and Facebook are suppressing the opinions of those who disagree with them by claiming that those opinions violate the terms of use. Google and Facebook are not using the same terms to judge opinions that agree with the views of the Google and Facebook even though they are just as much in violation of the terms of use. Google and Facebook are lying about the TOU violations to censor people they disagree with just because they disagree. That is unethical and violates freedom of speech.
It does if it's on your property and that's not called suppressing anyone's free speech.
"I have not censored your opinions by suppressing them."
And you never could. Only the government can suppress speech.
"Google and Facebook are suppressing the opinions of those who disagree with them by claiming that those opinions violate the terms of use."
That's not an example of suppressing speech. That IS free speech. That is also property rights, freedom of association and individual rights in general.
Tech companies have every right to do this and those who don't see this are the real threat to free speech.
To match the new left ideology, they should be censoring every identity group fairly and equally and never stop until they finish.
I do not agree that "this is a free country." That hasn't been true for 105 years.
The owners are not being honest about their censorship actions. They claim they are acting without bias. They are biased and dishonest. If they were conservatives the media would be trying to destroy them. But because they are elite statists it's fine for them to censor anyone who disagrees with them. They are lying scum hiding the truth of their actions because the truth would chase away millions of customers and crush their stock prices.
Their agreement with users probably precludes any class action. Outrage by conservative users causing a mass exodus to other services is the obvious answer, but most conservatives have friends and relatives who will keep using the services- which means that most conservatives will not leave and cut off their contacts to relatives. (As usual, I am not in the majority - I refuse to use any such services at present, but if my business needed the exposure I might accept the liars bias to increase my sales.) Could a lawsuit on freedom for speech grounds be feasible? I don't know.
If you want state power to stop it, it is like the baker being forced to accept a contract. There may be a way, to invoke a common carrier rule. Such a rule would not apply to a small bakery business, but certainly would to those mega-corps.
Their agreement with users probably precludes...
I would welcome any expert opinion on this. It does seem that terms of a contract are being broken, an implied contract?
https://www.scribd.com/document/39052...
And a backup,
https://vdare.com/filemanager_source/...
“From elections and political propaganda, trolls and gendered bigotry, to hate speech and religious extremism, debates about who can and should be heard on the internet rage like never before. As governments struggle to apply existing legislation to the Wild West online, users are asking if the openness of the internet should be celebrated after all.
Bots and troll farms lash out at free thought and controversial opinion, while faceless users attack each other without empathy. Free speech becomes a social, economic and political weapon. Automated technologies lack the sophistication to adjudicate effectively. In response, people think twice before airing their thoughts aloud, while critique is buried under avalanches of automated rebuttals, vitriolic attacks and nonsensical rhetoric. As the tech firms struggle to deal with the issues, the public and governments grow increasingly impatient.
Yet, amongst all this negativity, seeds of political harmony, gender and racial equality, and tolerance are sown on the internet. Is it possible to have an open and inclusive internet while simultaneously limiting political oppression and
despotism, hate, violence and harassment? Who should be responsible for censoring ‘unwanted’ conversation, anyway? Governments? Users? Google?”
“The internet was also founded on utopian principles of free speech...”
Sundar Pichai and many look alikes run Google.
I saw an article the other day with photos and it seems like there is no white employee at Google.
Anyone wondered why there are so many non-white CEOs leading tech companies or banks? Nothing wrong with them but it is doubtful they were the most talented and fit for the job.
Microsoft is run by an Indian. Coca-Cola had an Indian CEO as well.