archive.fo/5gD1g >For months, our Twitter-addicted and conspiracy-addled president has become increasingly convinced that just like the media, Silicon Valley tech companies he barely understands are out to get him. Claims that the largely West Coast-based tech world is secretly undermining the conservative movement have long been a right-wing bogeyman, but with Donald Trump leading the charge it’s been an open question whether he will use federal resources to crack down on them.
>Well, the answer is still maybe. According to Bloomberg, the White House has drafted an executive order that would command “federal antitrust and law enforcement agencies” to investigate companies including Google, Facebook, and others. If signed, the order would instruct antitrust officials to “thoroughly investigate whether any online platform has acted in violation of the antitrust laws,” as well as ask other agencies to come up with recommendations on how to “protect competition among online platforms and address online platform bias.”
>In order to maintain the pretense that this isn’t some kind of neo-witch-hunt designed for the sole purpose of punishing the president’s perceived enemies, the draft does not name any of the companies by name and contains an aside instructing investigators to respect the boundaries of law. It also frames Trump’s bullshit claims of anti-conservative bias as having something to do with anti-competition law. Bloomberg wrote:
>The draft order directs that any actions federal agencies take should be “consistent with other laws”—an apparent nod to concerns that it could threaten the traditional independence of U.S. law enforcement or conflict with the First Amendment, which protects political views from government regulation.
>“Because of their critical role in American society, it is essential that American citizens are protected from anticompetitive acts by dominant online platforms,” the order says. It adds that consumer harm — a key measure in antitrust investigations— could come “through the exercise of bias.”
>The order’s preliminary status is reflected in the text of the draft, which includes a note in red that the first section could be expanded “if necessary, to provide more detail on role of platforms and the importance of competition.”
>Again, there is ample evidence that this has absolutely nothing to do with genuine concern over whether companies like Google and Facebook have too much market power—which they do—and everything to do with a bad-faith effort to pressure them into using that power to benefit the president. There is no evidence that they are censoring conservative voices and lots to the contrary, which is why all the evidence Trump has offered up boils down to insinuation at best and more commonly outright lies and hoaxes.
>In other words, what Trump hopes to accomplish when he does things like tweet out doctored videos claiming Google blacklisted his speeches or claim Twitter is “SHADOW BANNING” Republicans create enough of a political headache for those companies that they cave and artificially boost pro-Trump content. The same would seem to go for siccing the regulatory hounds on them.
>For the moment, the order is still a draft, and it’s unclear how serious the proposal is or whether someone at the White House is just indulging the president’s power fantasies. According to the Washington Post, senior aides are already distancing themselves from the proposal and denying knowledge of its existence, with one lawyer calling it “entirely insane”:
Thomas Foster
>archive.fo/5gD1g I always make sure to visit the real site to give them more clicks. Thanks based user for letting me check if the website is left or right leaning so I can avoid giving the right money!
We need to regulate these companies, they are clearly biased towards liberal causes and spread misinformation. They also collect user data and basically spy on their users by collecting their web history to create an ad profile.
Justin Bennett
>regulate Nah. Fuck regulate. We need to seize these companies for being part of a criminal conspiracy and seize all their assets.
was this written before or after the release of the google tapes?
either way it didn't age well.
Brody Rogers
Apparently it was written 45 minutes ago
Adam Roberts
why is he cucking out by refusing to name the companies involved??? These organisations and their (((globalist))) and (((cultural marxist))) supporters are on a mission to silence anyone on online who openly question’s or criticises their agenda. Not only rhis, these same organisations have made it their mission to facilitate the removal of President Trump, now is not the time to cuck out.
David Cook
So he can go after ALL OF THEM.
Owen Anderson
Good point
Oliver Collins
It's articles like this that remind me that I'm a revolutionary, not an activist or politician. These people need to be totally defeated, with no chance of them popping up again like the destructive weeds they are.
whether or not they're censoring... the platforms themselves are harmful and need to be permanently shut down. Dopamine feedback loops. character assassination. it's ripping society apart.
Justin Thompson
Real time global consciousness does not need to be shut down. The people in charge have weaponized these platforms. They aren't inherently weapons.
The author of that article should have a bullet put through his head.
Easton Morris
Forget antitrust. These companies are operating a criminal conspiracy to overthrow the government, enslave civilization, normalize crimes against humanity, genocide the white race, and eventually cull the dysgenic chattel class to a tiny fraction of today's global population. The people who run these companies are complicit with people who have intended this outcome since before we were all born.
Kayden Watson
The executives are guilty of trying to algorithmically social engineer genocide.
Andrew Myers
>There is no evidence that they are censoring conservative voices lol
Jonathan Sullivan
I think it's an over-simplification of the problem to say these companies should be regulated because they have liberal bias and spread misinformation. They can be leftist scum if they want. They can spread misinformation if they want. It should be legal to be a moron. I don't want to claim that companies or people shouldn't be allowed to have certain political opinions or that they shouldn't be allowed to be wrong and believe in nonsense. What I do care about, what should be illegal, is when a company is biased and lies about it. That is the bigger issue. Not just being biased, but being biased and lying about it. Honesty is the key to everything. The real issue is that these websites are claiming to be neutral publishing platforms while operating as a stealth propaganda platform. It should be heavily penalized by the law and stigmatized by society.
>In order to maintain the pretense that this isn’t some kind of neo-witch-hunt designed for the sole purpose of punishing the president’s perceived enemies I bet you this idiot believes the Mueller investigation is legitimate.
Eli Russell
You have to make laws to prevent them from censoring speech. You have to protect free speech and an open market place of ideas.
It's not enough that social media companies not be censorious - they must be SEEN not to be censorious. A perception of censorship is as damaging as the censorship itself, because a perception of censorship reduces trust and credibility.
For this reason, even if there is no actual evidence that social media companies are censorious, it would still be worth investigating them - because I and many others certainly perceive them as censorious, and I would like my concerns addressed.
>"BUT THAT'S A STUPID STANDARD" It's the exact same standard as applied to the Courts, where it is not enough that justice is done but that justice must be seen to have been done, and the world would be better if we applied this standard more widely and more often. For example, asserting that it's not enough that politics not be corrupt but that politics must be seen not to be corrupt would put paid to any justification of lobbying.
Adam Cruz
Is there someone that considers themselves a journalist that uses BS in a headline? That is a sad commentary on our time.
Lincoln Butler
has anyone ever seen a Fox news headline in the home tab of the mobile version of Chrome? because I went out of my way to swipe away anything BBC, kotaku, the guardian etc but I'm yet to see a fox headline despite having them all over my search history. i think they're legit blacklisted
THIS. However, it demonstrates how frightened they are of their totalitarian dreams being un-done.
Lincoln Scott
PAYPAL
that is the first company to look at Paypal is the biggest culprit. When you get banned for "hate speech" on facebook, you have other sites to post your content
When you get banned from payapl - rip. It is a permanent ban and you simply can't do online trades anymore as paypal rules supreme
fix paypal asap
Paypal acts as a payment facilitator - therefore, it HAS to be treated like a bank, where ti cannot discriminate customers
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Sebastian Rodriguez
He should have you done this yesterday.
Carson Smith
Same thing when it comes to companies that host domain names. They have the power to shut down domains they don't like for hate speech.
These companies shouldn't get to discrminate
John Rivera
bump
Ethan Robinson
bump
Aaron Reyes
>BS claims of bias
"Journalists" don't even pretend to be fair anymore do they?
Landon Sanders
a localised Exterminatus is still required imo, i just hope it'll happen during my lifetime so i can whitness it!
As usual, the Trumpanzees are flinging shit and also as usual, it doesn't stick.....
It's only a violation of the First Amendment when the government takes away your free speech -- which is exactly what this dumpster fire of a cucked administration is trying to do by interfering with a private corporation.
WE need to unite together, all of us, before THEY complete the final stages of their A.I.
>Elon knows how bad it is
The average normie has no idea what the future holds IF WE DONT out aside our difference and men of righteousness unite and battle the NWO, illuminati, and technocrats. Many creeds and colors work for these people and we need to unite like some faggoty lord of the rings movie and put an end to the A.I. demigod
This is a warning from the future.
>if we do not unite against the satanic A.I Beast grid system
Cambridge Analytica is a company that helps target political outreach. They paid for the kind of access to data that Faceberg provided for free as an illegally unreported campaign contribution to the Obama Campaign, which access was essential to the ground game that campaign ran.
Aiden Young
Cambridge Analytica is connected to Black Cube, Mossad, and Israeli intelligence and that's going to make these tech firms part of a criminal conspiracy.
Carson King
Can I say basedboy now?
Jace Roberts
bump
Ryan Walker
bump
Sebastian Morales
1st amendment rights apply to public forums. The only reason social media sites aren't held libel for the shit people post is because they say they are a public forum.
Connor King
Ten bucks says it'll amount to nothing like most things Trump does.
William Cox
also they should have their monopoly broken up.
Aaron Rivera
google gets loads and loads and loads of federal funding which needs to be pulled immediatly if they refuse to play ball.
Christian Anderson
Any company with total monopoly over the market that has practically become a public utility its so important, must remain entirely apolitical and only remove people if they are breaking actual laws. (and the interpretation of those laws cannot be some wide, hyper interpretive definition)
Oliver Murphy
>may that lazy faggot never does anything
Zachary Long
keep screeching about how hes the greatest and all the things hes "going to do" tho
Bentley Gomez
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... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily harm, or harm to mental health, to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
>libshits are against antitrust investigations now
What a time to be alive. Communists are the only ones on the left who make any sense anymore
Jace Stewart
You dead nigger
Benjamin Carter
I'd say we're reactionaries but I get your point.
Charles Phillips
This writer isn’t very bright, a lot of these claims have already been proven true.
Aaron Hill
>Implying Jackson wasn't the best president ever
Nicholas Collins
Does Google control your media too?
Cameron Howard
>they must be SEEN not to be censorious If they were smart, that's exactly what they would do. But they are not smart. They are arrogant. You cannot be smart if you are arrogant.
Justin Butler
>hopefully soon he might end the fed >haha any day now she's going down >soon guys i promise >any day now guys >g-guys?
Nathaniel Smith
So they have everything to worry about
Lincoln Adams
Apparently these types are still reeling from getting blown the fuck out by It’s Always Sunny this week.
Julian Baker
PAYPAL needs Antitrust investigation too.
Ayden White
>conservative speakers, leaders, and church ladies get banned from social media and want an investigation into possible bias REEEEEEEE THIS IS BS! UNFOUNDED. CONSPIRACY. SECRETS. BOGEYMAN. THREATENING!
>a literal who makes an allegation from almost 40 years ago against a well liked person and soon to be Supreme Court Justice REEEEEEEEEE FBI FBI FBI! INVESTIGATE WOMAN HATER NOW!
Parker Cox
reminder that this is what calls liberals "onions" on Jow Forums.
Now I know what to show to people who deny there is a feminization of society
Isaiah Turner
reminder that soiboy was such a powerful word the kikes needed to add a filter to it and at the same time pushed a bullshit incel psy op across all of MSM. That's how scared the kikes are.
Easton Walker
Reminder that all leftists are the enemy of the American people
They want to see us all in chains, controlled by tech companies
