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Who is proposing a propagandic censorship machine? The example, as stupid as it was, was intended to highlight bias and ask the question of how big tech can be
by outoftheabyss 8y ago
Who is proposing a propagandic censorship machine? The example, as stupid as it was, was intended to highlight bias and ask the question of how big tech can be trusted to act without ideological or personal preference when it comes to censoring speech, deciding what apps are permissible, who can earn on their platforms etc. I don’t hear anyone who is championing regulation suggesting that the solution to censorship on the likes of google is more censorship only this time enforced by the government
- komali2 8y agoNobody explicitly, obviously. However, the head of the Republican party has expressed frustration multiple times that the press is "allowed to say whatever it wants." This sentiment has carried over into the "drag tech companies in front of the Senate" debacle, and my read of the questions being asked of, for example, Zuckerberg, were that they were being asked to try to demonstrate that not only do internet companies "have bias," but that they should be regulated, perhaps made to be more "fair" to the Republican party. I believe such regulation could easily transform or be compared to my Google searches being blocked in China because they "violate the political harmony of the people's republic." You may fairly say that I am engaging in slippery slope, but I take freedom of speech and thought very seriously, and so any attacks on it to any degree are terribly inflated in my mind.