Just The News: Former Facebook executive Kara Frederick, now a technology policy research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, has released a new report on ways policymakers can prevent Big Tech from working “hand-in-glove” with governments to police free speech on their platforms.
Frederick “helped create and lead Facebook’s Global Security Counterterrorism Analysis Program,” according to her official biography.
Frederick said the recommendations in the report, Combating Big Tech’s Totalitarianism: A Road Map, “give policymakers at all levels of government a roadmap on how to end Big Tech’s pernicious influence as we know it and its ability to work hand-in-glove with governments to police speech.”
The recommendations include:
- “enforcement of antitrust law and reform or modernize antitrust laws where necessary”;
- removing section 230 “liability protection if tech companies censor based on views protected by the Constitution (with clearly outlined exceptions) or favoring or disfavoring speech based on viewpoint”;
- permitting American citizens to “hold tech companies accountable for inconsistent application of policies via the judicial system.”
Dream on. Politicians are running the show…right into their pocket where they keep the cash.
Give government at all levels a roadmap to counter big tec? Up is down. Black is white.
How dumb does she think people are?
The only thing that will stop big tech censorship is for everybody to just dump all social media. All else is futile.
What Deplorable, Anonymous, and especially OldCoot said.
Makes about as much sense as expecting Congress to pass a law term-limiting themselves, or line-item veto.
Do these people listen to themselves?????
Ummm… If it is not obvious to anyone that Big Tech is “policing speech” at the behest of the Deep State they are without hope. Both are members of “the club.”
Speaking of social media…
Twitter has been wiped from the internet!!!???
Bwahahahaha!
Censor this, blows bigly raspberry.
@Anonymous February 11, 2022 at 10:43 am
> How dumb does she think people are?
Former head of Facebook’s Global Security Counterterrorism Analysis Program? Now technology policy research fellow at the Heritage Foundation?
She’s, literally, never met anyone, she’d think stupid.
@OldCoot February 11, 2022 at 11:10 am
> The only thing that will stop big tech censorship is for everybody to just dump all social media. All else is futile.
And “dump the DMV” by not getting a license. And “dump the IRS” by not sending in a tax form. And “dump treason to The Bill of Rights” by carrying your gun of color in public.
Organs of The State. Created by The State. Doing The State’s business.
@ Ferd Berfle FEBRUARY 11, 2022 AT 12:13 PM
Do these people listen to themselves?????
They may listen to themselves, but they certainly don’t listen to anyone that actually uses their brain for something other than a space filler. These are people that decry corporate profits while castigating us for not getting a shot of a “free” vaccine. It does no good to point out to them that Phizer made 55 billion providing that “free” vaccine that may in some circumstances mitigate the effects of covid providing you continue to get the booster shots designed to continue boosting Phizer’s profits.