Should We Regulate Google Now That We Know Their Agenda?

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   RJ Schwartzposted 5 years ago

   An 85-page internal briefing, titled “The Good Censor,” was leaked to the media - it's writers admit that Google and other tech platforms now “control the majority of online conversations” and have undertaken a “shift towards censorship” in response to unwelcome political events around the world.  The briefing associates Google’s new role as the guarantor of “civility” with the categories of “editor” and “publisher.” This is significant, given that Google, YouTube, and other tech giants publicly claim they are not publishers but rather neutral platforms — a categorization that grants them special legal immunities under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
   
   If you want to read the actual report, it can be found here - https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/ … -civility/
   
   
   

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      lovetherainposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      probably

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      promisemposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Interesting that it has no author and that only Breitbart, world famous for propaganda, has the only copy of this alleged briefing.
      
      That said, it's filled with evil liberal comments such as "How can Google reassure the world that it protects users from harmful content while still supporting free speech?"
      
      To answer your question, no, we shouldn't bow to Breitbart and start strangling tech companies because, in the words of this very briefing, they are concerned about "despotism, hate, violence and harassment' from the likes of Alex Jones appearing on their websites.
      
      "It is possible to have an open and inclusive internet while simultaneously limiting political oppression and despotism, hate, violence and harassment?" - the alleged briefing

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         RJ Schwartzposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         Just because it was reported on a site you don't seem to agree with, doesn't make it invalid.  How many times have other news organizations posted scoops on the web?  Should they be considered invalid too?  If Breitbart was so much propaganda why is it ranked as the 51st top site in America?  MSNBC is 654th.
         
         Although we have different opinions on the subject, no one is asking you to bow to Breitbart (those are your words), but thanks for clarifying your position on the topic - you are fine with big tech censoring and controlling content...got it.  Do you also disagree with the First Amendment?  Do you hold the opinion that freedom of speech should be regulated to fit the definitions of one group or another?  Why shouldn't Alex Jones be able to publish his opinion on-line?  No one is making you or anyone else read it, so why should it matter?  Who decides which voices get heard and which are silenced?  Sounds like something a communist nation would do, but that's just my opinion; one which I am still free to express....for now.

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            PrettyPantherposted 5 years agoin reply to this

            "Why shouldn't Alex Jones be able to publish his opinion on-line? "
            
            He still publishes his opinion online on his website, but businesses like Google and Facebook have chosen not to allow his material on their sites.

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      Don Wposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Strange how, in some quarters, government regulation is fine when businesses are perceived to be engaging in so-called censorship (against people on the right of the political spectrum). But it's not okay when it comes to protecting the quality of the air we breathe, the water we drink etc (have you seen the dismantling of the EPA and all the other federal agencies). How odd.
      
      Personally, I welcome social media companies cracking down on people who engage in hate speech.

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   PrettyPantherposted 5 years ago

   Why don't you exercise your free market muscles and simply stop using Google products?

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      GA Andersonposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      I think you nailed it PrettyPanther.
      
      GA

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   Ed Fisherposted 5 years ago

   I haven't read a liberal in these forums who isn't ecstatic that liberals control social media , the news media ,  the paper media , Google?   It's just one more ideological censuring by ownership !
   
   If they think they are winning by indoctrination , censuring ,  bias and owning all media that is 90 +% biased against Trump and the right , let them take all media down with them as they die their ideological death .
   
   THe phoenix will arise without it's American Pravda socialism .

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