President Trump continues to do the shit that worthless “conservative” pussies in Congress refuse to do, and this time it’s using an executive action to hold corrupt leftist anti-American companies, Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple responsible for taking away the free speech of conservatives, and taking steps to prevent them from continuing to attack conservatives ahead of the 2020 election.
President Trump Signs Executive Order To Stop Corrupt Leftist Companies From Censoring Conservative Free Speech
The Judiciary Committee’s hearing with the CEO’s of corrupt, leftist-America-hating companies Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple was a completely worthless waste of fucking time – unless some of the testimony could be used to file perjury charges against the corrupt cock suckers.
“On Monday, the Department of Commerce, as directed by President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship, filed a petition to clarify the scope of Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. The petition requests that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) clarify that Section 230 does not permit social media companies that alter or editorialize users’ speech to escape civil liability. The petition also requests that the FCC clarify when an online platform curates content in “good faith,” and requests transparency requirements on their moderation practices, similar to requirements imposed on broadband service providers under Title I of the Communications Act. President Trump will continue to fight back against unfair, un-American, and politically biased censorship of Americans online.” – White House Statement
“It has long been the policy of the United States to foster a robust marketplace of ideas on the Internet and the free flow of information around the world. President Trump is committed to protecting the rights of all Americans to express their views and not face unjustified restrictions or selective censorship from a handful of powerful companies.” – Commerce Department Press Release
No company, especially closet America-hating companies like Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple, should not have any special protections against being held accountable for their corrupt and criminal actions.
Also, all of these companies, and many more like them, need to be forced to pay their fair fucking share of taxes, as most of these companies are ripping off America by paying little to no tax at all on their huge fucking profits.
Wednesday’s House “grilling” of tech CEOs didn’t feature quite as much posturing as the sitdown with Attorney General William Barr the day before, but it was almost as much a waste of time.
The Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee was ostensibly questioning the heads of Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon on concerns the tech giants have become too big and too powerful, but members frequently cut the witnesses off before they had a chance to get in more than a few words in response.
“Reclaiming my time!” Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said in shooshing Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg after “asking” him whether he illegally acquired Instagram with the intent of crushing a competitor.
The Obama-era Federal Trade Commission approved that sale in 2012. Ot was simply a cheap stunt for multiple members to complain now, when it’s clear nothing will reverse it.
Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline used his opening statement to intone, “These platforms enjoy the power to pick winners and losers, shake down small businesses, and enrich themselves while choking off competitors.”
Sounds a lot like Congress, actually.
Other members went off on truly head-thumping tangents: One Republican wanted to know why his campaign e-mails were going into his father’s spam folder; a Democrat pressed Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on the sale of knockoff products on the site.
None of it did a lick of good. Even with serious topics, such as social-media companies’ censorship standards, the format of each member getting just five minutes a round to ask questions and get them answered left no room for anything but spin.
“We do not want to become the arbiters of truth,” Zuckerberg declared. Yet they have — and that’s only part of the incredible power these companies have acquired.
Far too much power, in most people’s minds. Yet the members of Congress, through their technological ignorance and insistence on speechifying, can’t seem to ask the right questions, let alone offer answers.
So the tech moguls ran circles around the pols, even as they continue to amass more power and put their fingers on the scales of of modern discussion.
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