Thursday, October 29, 2020

Revealing attitudes, biases and untruths of the BigTech oligopoly

"[Wednesday's] hearings on the oligopoly that big technology has become, revealed the bias that tech CEO’s have for dissenting political opinions. When questioned by Senators, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey admitted that calls for violence from the Ayatollah were not against Twitter’s terms of service but the NY Posts reporting on Hunter Biden was. Dorsey also said the NY Post was able to tweet from their account, this statement is not supported by fact." ~ MLS, 10/28/20
After watching these BigTech moguls testify Wednesday before the Senate Commerce Committee in a hearing on social media censorship and Section 230 privileges, a few things occurred: It wasn't just the witnessing of their emboldened denial of any wrong doing in the censorship of free speech by 'moderators' and 'fact checkers' employed across their public platforms that rubs wrong. It's even more apparent that these so-called 'leaders' of Silicon Valley, aside from their enormous wealth, are near emotionless, narcissistic elitists who seemingly elevate themselves above our common liberties to skirt our common free speech ideals. 

The most egregious performance came from the most offensive as of late, and Sen. Cruz could take no more of Twitter's censorship and election interference...
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas slammed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for his company’s censorship of the New York Post and the bombshell Hunter Biden story published two weeks ago.

“Mr. Dorsey, who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the American people are allowed to hear?” Cruz asked. “Why do you persist in behaving as a Democratic super PAC, silencing views to the contrary of your political views?”
Related links: WATCH: Ted Cruz SCORCHES Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey over NY Post Hunter Biden censorship
Tech CEOs Struggle To Name Any High Profile Liberals Censored By Their Platforms

Later, Dorsey straight-up LIED to Sen. Blackburn about censoring President Trump's tweets!
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey lied to Congress on Tuesday during a Senate hearing focused on Big Tech’s content moderation policies when he claimed that his social media company has never censored President Donald Trump.

“Just to be clear, we have not censored the president,” Dorsey said in response to Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. “We have not taken the tweets down that you’re referencing. We have added context with a label and we do the same for leaders around the world.”

FYI, a new study clearly shows that Twitter has censored the president 64 times, "labeling, fact-checking, and removing Trump’s tweets and the tweets from his campaign accounts," while leaving Biden untouched, and is "far and away the biggest offender" out of all the social media platforms.

Both Dorsey and Zuckerberg also had to admit that this liberal media misdirection of "Russian disinformation" is bogus as well...
Both Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg testified today before the Senate that they had no reason to believe that Hunter Biden's laptop, source of multiple New York Post stories that were censored on their platforms, stemmed from a Russian disinformation plot.


During the hearings on Wednesday, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) dug into the reasoning behind Twitter and Facebook's suppression of the New York Post's reporting on alleged influence peddling by Hunter Biden. Wicker asked them to clarify comments made to Sen. Johnson, asking if it was correct to say that they had "no information indicating that the New York Post story has a Russian source."


It was alleged after the fact, by many media outlets, that the laptop the Post obtained from a repair shop in Delaware, where it was left by Hunter Biden for repair and then abandoned, was part of a Russian disinformation plot. Stories stating that the laptop and the allegations were derived from Russian sources intent on destroying the American democratic process did not appear to be suppressed or censored by social media platforms.

The New York Post is still locked out of its Twitter account, pending their deletion of six tweet containing links to the stories they published on the Bidens. Dorsey said this morning, before the Senate, that the Post could delete those posts and repost the exact same thing, and that second round of tweets would go through.
Related links: Twitter, Facebook Confess There Is No Evidence Of Russian Disinformation Behind Hunter Biden Story
Watch the Moment Tech Tyrants Get EXPOSED in Front of U.S. Senate

Unsurprisingly, by the end of the hearing, the Tech tyrants not only disbelieve they've allowed for wrong-doing throughout their companies, but they actually look at U.S. Senators and want the public at large to believe that they have no influence in American elections through their obvious censorship of conservatives, while bankrolling liberal causes and politicians...


Meanwhile, you had Dem bulbs between every GOP Senator requesting MORE CENSORSHIP! /facepalm
Democrats have finally gotten their wish with Big Tech censorship, so in today’s hearing Senator Ed Markey pushed even harder, accusing Big Tech of not censoring ENOUGH:
So what can be done to curtail these monopolies when they're clearly violating free speech and abusing their privileges granted? Many are looking towards Section 230...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order curtailing Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act on May 28, which directly challenged a law that protects tech giants like Twitter from being held liable for the content their users post and how they moderate it.

The law, passed in 1996, was designed to prevent internet companies from being treated as publishers and was done in part to allow the internet to flourish. ...

Section 230 protections also allow social media platforms to moderate their content by removing posts that violate the services’ own standards, so long as they are acting in “good faith.”

More than two decades later, critics of the law say it has been interpreted in the courts well beyond its original intent and has handed private tech companies the keys to the modern day version of the public square. Politicians on both sides of the aisle agree Big Tech has immense power that needs to be reigned in and regulated while some want to repeal Section 230 altogether. ...

While democrats and republicans alike agree that Big Tech needs more regulation, their reasons differ.
Yeah, one wants to allow the free-flow of ideas, while the other wants more clampdown to call 'fair'. I think I still prefer House GOP Leader McCarthy's simple answer to shut down BigTech's censorship (via Bongino)...

"I can't get over how genius this idea is! Congress, I hope you are taking notes."


There's that, and there's looking for alternatives. Bing, Parler, Rumble...everybody's still searching for Facebook alternatives. And then the ultimate option is to jump ship and live off-grid altogether. But before we get that drastic, perhaps we can find answers following the upcoming election, pending a positive outcome.

Related links: The Most Dangerous Disease in the World
Posted by an ebb and flow at 8:00 PM