Regulate Google, Facebook Like Utilities

[American_Jihad]

Oh my, that's using libtart actions against libtart companies...

Interesting: Bannon Allegedly Seeking To Regulate Google, Facebook Like Utilities
Natural monopolies.
7.28.2017

News

Michael Horn

Reports indicate that White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is taking a critical view of media giants Google and Facebook as natural monopolies that should be regulated like utilities or the airwaves, which is why there exists the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), since the airwaves belong to the public.

The Intercept reports that Bannon views Google and Facebook as tech companies in command of such a vital resource for everyday life, similar to electricity or water, that they should come under more regulation.

From Breitbart:

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Interesting: Bannon Allegedly Seeking To Regulate Google, Facebook Like Utilities

 

[ScienceRocks]

You dont' like anything that disagrees with you fucking fascist ass...And you think you're any different then the muslims?

I'd like to regulate you to mars.

 

[American_Jihad]

FACEBOOK EMPLOYEE ACCUSESSOAP DISPENSER OF RACISM
August 22, 2017

Daniel Greenfield

"The machines are revolting. And they're racist."

After all the people have been accused of racism, it's time to accuse inanimate objects of racism. The singularity is coming. Soon the machines will take over. And it will be crucial for social justice to make them own their privilege.

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Machines might be able to replace many professions. But they'll never be able to replace social justice crybullies.

Facebook Employee Accuses Soap Dispenser of Racism

 

[Muhammed]

FACEBOOK EMPLOYEE ACCUSESSOAP DISPENSER OF RACISM
August 22, 2017

Daniel Greenfield

"The machines are revolting. And they're racist."

After all the people have been accused of racism, it's time to accuse inanimate objects of racism. The singularity is coming. Soon the machines will take over. And it will be crucial for social justice to make them own their privilege.

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Machines might be able to replace many professions. But they'll never be able to replace social justice crybullies.

Facebook Employee Accuses Soap Dispenser of Racism

I bet that soap dispenser voted for Trump.

 

[BulletProof]

Google and Facebook are large enough to be getting government-like powers, and they've grown into natural monopolies. And, it's arguable that they are indispensable, like utilities.

I don't want the government regulating them. But, I do want the government to either break them up pr change the laws that protect them from competition, such as software patents.

Google receives, I estimate, ten patents each and every day of the year. Each of these are government-granted monopolies.

 

[American_Jihad]

SHOULD ANTI-TRUST LAWS BE USED TO BREAK UP THE SOCIAL MEDIA GIANTS?
Google, Facebook and the rest wield more power than most governments.
September 1, 2017

Robert Spencer

The secular Left and the proponents of Islamic blasphemy laws have a new issue on which they are making common cause: the quest to destroy the freedom of speech, the cornerstone of our democracy. After Charlottesville, the Left sees its chance to crush all dissent, and given its alliance with Islamic supremacists, this means the implementation in the West of prohibitions on criticism of Islam, including counterterror analysis of the motivating ideology of jihad terrorists. This anti-free speech initiative, if it succeeds, will destroy free society, which cannot exist if one is unable to speak out against the tyrant.

The Left is trying to use Charlottesville as its Reichstag Fire moment to try to crush all dissent. CNN gave the Southern Poverty Law Center’s spurious “hate group” list wide play, and an effort has begun to deny all platforms to those “hate groups,” without any regard for the fact that the SPLC includes legitimate organizations that dissent from the Leftist agenda (including the David Horowitz Freedom Center and Jihad Watch) on the list along with the KKK and neo-Nazis, in an attempt to defame and destroy the legitimate groups.

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Meanwhile, Facebook’s Vice President Joel Kaplan traveled to Pakistan in July to assure the Pakistani government that it would remove “anti-Islam” material. That endeavor had already started before Kaplan’s trip. In mid-February, traffic to Jihad Watch from Facebook dropped suddenly by 90% and has never recovered. We do not post any hateful or provocative material and neither incite nor approve of violence, but Facebook is acting as judge, jury and executioner in all this. There is no appeal and no recourse.

A high-placed source in the tech industry told me: “Countries like Pakistan basically tell Facebook and Google that they either comply or the government will arrest all their employees in the country and make it illegal to use their produce. So, FB and Google are faced with either leaving the country or complying. Google famously refused to comply with the Chinese government’s censorship policies and withdrew from China at great cost to Google. Facebook is obviously less principled. By the way, this is a growing phenomenon with more and more countries moving to censor US tech companies (plus there’s been a recent vigorous campaign from the left demanding censorship in the US). They won’t cave to domestic pressures, because it makes no business sense. They will cave to foreign pressure in foreign countries, because it makes business sense.”

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So what is to be done? In other industries the government has used anti-trust laws when free markets are threatened. Here the free marketplace of ideas is threatened. Should the anti-trust laws be invoked to break up Google and Facebook?

Should Anti-trust Laws Be Used to Break Up the Social Media Giants?

 

[BulletProof]

Republicans are NOT friends of the Free Market. Republicans are friends of Capitalism. Monopolies are capitalistic, but not a free market. So, the Republicans have less than no interest in addressing the monopolistic power of Google and Facebook.

Google can make or break the success of your business or webpage by how they rank you. No one company should have so much power in choosing the winners and losers of so many others.

 

[impuretrash]

Republicans are NOT friends of the Free Market. Republicans are friends of Capitalism. Monopolies are capitalistic, but not a free market. So, the Republicans have less than no interest in addressing the monopolistic power of Google and Facebook.

Google can make or break the success of your business or webpage by how they rank you. No one company should have so much power in choosing the winners and losers of so many others.

LOL, as if the democrats are any better. I don't see any of them speaking out against google and youtube's illiberal censorship practices. Of course they wouldn't because it's not left wing opinions being censored. Not that I'm sticking up for the republicans because fuck them too.