Facebook, twitter, YouTube, Google we are coming for you. You cannot hide behind protections that were put in place in the infancy of the internet.
Does anyone, right or left, want Big Tech to be arbiters of the information that is available online.?
The continual list of pages, sites and blogs that are disenfranchised are no longer an infrequent event. Every day we find out who was victimized by Twitter, Facebook, Google.
The terminations, blocking, flagging is resulting in the distortion of information that is not allegedly appropriate for publication. Which is rich because the whole reason they got Section 230 protections against legal challenges was to allow all forms of free speech on their platforms.
The time has passed when the platforms needed protection and now must be constrained with regulations, or the revocation of Section 230 so that access becomes available to all and heavy-handed interruption of the flow of information can be litigated. Big Tech will be forced to take their thumb off the scale.
The massive size of Big Tech has given them the hubris to exercise their own recipes of what they will and will not allow on their platforms. Section 230 would be required if they permitted universal access and the submission of extreme posts, except for subversive, violence provoking and outright calls for violence. Since they have become selective as to what is allowed, they have eschewed the protection of
and should be dispossessed of the barrier to civil litigation.
The more they continue the censorship the more they are emboldened to a point where the disenfranchisement of entire groups and individuals with hundred and thousands of members and followers are done without even the merest pretense. No apologies, no reason, no comment just the removal.
Such draconian tactics must come to an end if only to prevent our devolving in an Orwellian 1984 world.
Hey Joe while you are signing Executive Orders do you think repealing Section 230 should be on your schedule.
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