Some Libertarians are excusing this behavior by claiming those content providers are private property, and they can decide for themselves what they provide a platform for.
I fully understand the argument. However...
That position is, at best, naive, and at worst, willfully ignorant.
It has become abundantly clear: Content providers are not really private companies any longer.
1) They get a huge government subsidy in the form of "artificial personhood".
2) All of the major platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube are subscribers to the "services" of a spook-run "non-government organization" called the "Atlantic Council".
3) Most of the spooks "advising" the oligarchs as to who to deplatform and what to censor are Obama-era players.
4) Dragging Zuck before congress wasn't meant to elicit information. It was a horse's head in the beds of the content oligarchs.
5) All of the content providers claim to be platforms and thus not liable for their content -- in public. However, in court, they claim the opposite. Content carriers need to decide if they are publishers or platforms, and duck the hell out of gaming the system.
6) There have been multiple instances of spookish government bureaucrats visiting the C suites of all of the tech titans. Of course the records of what these spooks say to the execs is not made public, but here's a guess: "My, Mr Chairman, that's a beautiful twelve year old daughter you have there. It would be a shame if someone from our office visited her tonight."
7) The takedown of Backpage.com and the bankrupting of its principals in order to prevent them from hiring sufficient legal counsel was another horse's head.
No. The oligarchic providers have been captured by Leviathan. They are now functioning as management arms of the police state. Almost all of the internet content providers are now deeply compromised.No corporation should be regulating political speech; and certainly no corporation -- which gets the government subsidy of artificial personhood -- should attempt to meddle in American elections in this manner.
It isn't the Russians who are interfering in our elections.
It's tech oligarchs, the mainstream media, and the military-industrial-spook complex.
The fix for this is to reduce government employment at all levels by 99% across-the-board, and shut down government agencies -- including the national-security-spy-state complex.
Hopefully the few thousand remaining government bureaucrats will be able to concentrate on activities that actually protect the individual rights of Americans. rather than violating them.
The elimination of corporate personhood and requiring businesses to bear the full cost and responsibility for their own actions that violate individual rights is also required.
Vote Libertarian.
Additional reading:
1. Your taxpayer dollars are funding the Atlantic Council -- the organization "advising" Facebook on which viewpoints to censor.
2. Facebook submits various content to an Atlantic Council lab that "detects" unacceptable opinions.
3. More to come!
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Written by Marc Montoni <AMCAmbassador@gmail.com>, November, 2019. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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