Senate Committee Votes to Subpoena CEO's of Facebook, Google and Twitter

[Husky_Khan]

Senate Committee Votes to Subpoena Tech CEOs over Liability Protections | National Review

The subpoena requests testimony from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, and Google’s Sundar Pichai.

www.nationalreview.com

The Committee plans on holding the hearing (the date is far from set yet) in regards to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which is the law that protects tech companies from lawsuits over users’ posted content and allows the companies a large amount of leeway in moderating that content.

Tellingly, the Committee's Democratic head previously opposed the subpoena requests but eventually allowed the Committee Republicans to move forward with it since the subpoena will also cover data usage and privacy issues as well. Many Democratic lawmakers however expressed concerns over the timing of this hearing, stating it should take place after the election. Many Republican lawmakers of course are critical of Big Tech's censorship of Conservative and Right Wing content on their publishing platforms.

 

[Cherico]

Senate Committee Votes to Subpoena Tech CEOs over Liability Protections | National Review

The subpoena requests testimony from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, and Google’s Sundar Pichai.

www.nationalreview.com

The Committee plans on holding the hearing (the date is far from set yet) in regards to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which is the law that protects tech companies from lawsuits over users’ posted content and allows the companies a large amount of leeway in moderating that content.

Tellingly, the Committee's Democratic head previously opposed the subpoena requests but eventually allowed the Committee Republicans to move forward with it since the subpoena will also cover data usage and privacy issues as well. Many Democratic lawmakers however expressed concerns over the timing of this hearing, stating it should take place after the election. Many Republican lawmakers of course are critical of Big Tech's censorship of Conservative and Right Wing content on their publishing platforms.

your not allowed to hold big tech to task until after they help us cheat and win the election.

 

[Rocinante]

your not allowed to hold big tech to task until after they help us cheat and win the election.

Which they Are extremely fucking blatantly doing.

I saw someone mention that searching "proud boys" on google doesn't bring up their website.

Neither does literally "proud boys website"

 

[Duke Nukem]

Which they Are extremely fucking blatantly doing.

I saw someone mention that searching "proud boys" on google doesn't bring up their website.

Neither does literally "proud boys website"

> "Proud boys is a white supremacist group"

> leader is hispanic

 

[Rocinante]

> "Proud boys is a white supremacist group"

> leader is hispanic

And those top results are major, main stream entities. Outright, blatantly lying, while google blocks you from being able to find their website.

 

[Terthna]

your not allowed to hold big tech to task until after they help us cheat and win the election.

That's part of it, but there's something else I think I've figured out. Because if the Republicans did do as the Democrats asked, and postponed everything until after the election, they'd start arguing that a full year from the election is too close, then two years, then three; until they just start demanding that the Republicans sit on their hands til the end of time.

 

[Rocinante]

That's part of it, but there's something else I think I've figured out. Because if the Republicans did do as the Democrats asked, and postponed everything until after the election, they'd start arguing that a full year from the election is too close, then two years, then three; until they just start demanding that the Republicans sit on their hands til the end of time.

One of the better points Trump made in the debate was "I was elected in for four years, not three and a half."

No sensible president or politician is just going to decide not to govern just because an election is coming up soon.

It's a dumb ass attack to use against him. And it was dumb when republicans used it against Obama too.

It's just dumb.

You're right too. If they cave, it'll just be further out next time they start saying "wait until after elections!"

 

[Yinko]

Which they Are extremely fucking blatantly doing.

I saw someone mention that searching "proud boys" on google doesn't bring up their website.

Neither does literally "proud boys website"

In order to get their website to show up as the first result you have to type "officialproudboys" in quotes. So, at least that shows that Google hasn't completely deplatformed them, merely given them a -50,000 point bias.

 

[f1onagher]

You can practically hear the knives sharpening.

 

[Cherico]

You can practically hear the knives sharpening.

Honestly the left has done more damage to themselves in the last 4 months then the republican party as a whole has done in 30 years. Even if they win this election their going to be on incredibly shaky ground with a leader who has dementia and a woman in the wings who has less charisma then hilary Clinton. And if they lose their fucked hard too.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Bill Gates: 'I was naive at Microsoft,' didn't realize success would bring antitrust scrutiny

Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates told CNBC on Wednesday morning he had been naive about government scrutiny when he was running Microsoft. He said the chance of Big Tech antitrust regulation is "pretty high."

www.cnbc.com

Bill Gates is offering his thoughts on the current antitrust scrutiny being given to Big Tech companies today in the wake of the subpoenas.

He says he was naive and honestly IMHO he is right. Microsoft was brought under antitrust scrutiny from the government only two decadea ago for having the audacity of pairing Internet Explorer with Windows... Big Tech nowadays is far more monopolistic and pervasive and the issue of pairing a browaer with an operatomg system as being seen as monopolistic os rather laughable nowadays.

 

[CurtisLemay]

And they said 2020 was going to be a lousy year.

 

[Tiamat]

“Winter is coming,” as per Tom Cotton.

Sen. Tom Cotton to Big Tech: 'Winter is coming' | Fox Business Video

Tom Cotton on Hunter Biden report and Big Tech behavior

video.foxbusiness.com

 

[Tiamat]

Biden campaign ‘glad’ Twitter, Facebook censored Post’s Hunter Biden exposé

Biden campaign National Press Secretary Jamal Brown went so far as to claim that the gagging of one of America’s largest newspapers “made clear” that The Post’s reporting on…

nypost.com

Talk about tone deaf stupidity.

 

[Rocinante]

Biden campaign ‘glad’ Twitter, Facebook censored Post’s Hunter Biden exposé

Biden campaign National Press Secretary Jamal Brown went so far as to claim that the gagging of one of America’s largest newspapers “made clear” that The Post’s reporting on…

nypost.com

Talk about tone deaf stupidity.

This is why they're doing it.

If Biden wins they know they'll get off scott free. They know they're boned regardless if Trump wins, so they're going all in for Biden. That's their only hope. They're putting everything they've got into trying to get Biden to win, to protect their own asses.

 

[Cherico]

Biden campaign ‘glad’ Twitter, Facebook censored Post’s Hunter Biden exposé

Biden campaign National Press Secretary Jamal Brown went so far as to claim that the gagging of one of America’s largest newspapers “made clear” that The Post’s reporting on…

nypost.com

Talk about tone deaf stupidity.

wow.....

In a normal media environment new organizations would look at one of their own being censored and some one running for office gleefully celibrating that censorship and would then promptly freak the fuck out. For reasons of self presivation if nothing else.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Biden campaign ‘glad’ Twitter, Facebook censored Post’s Hunter Biden exposé

Biden campaign National Press Secretary Jamal Brown went so far as to claim that the gagging of one of America’s largest newspapers “made clear” that The Post’s reporting on…

nypost.com

Talk about tone deaf stupidity.

Well Biden denied having such a meeting on his official schedule so it's pretty clear this is a nothingburger.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Today in a rally,Trump said that if Big tech continues with what they are doing, they will have their Section 230 protections removed

 

[Von_Lohengram]

This is why they're doing it.

If Biden wins they know they'll get off scott free. They know they're boned regardless if Trump wins, so they're going all in for Biden. That's their only hope. They're putting everything they've got into trying to get Biden to win, to protect their own asses.

Today in a rally,Trump said that if Big tech continues with what they are doing, they will have their Section 230 protections removed

Well one thing is for sure: If the Republicans DO win this year and then after all that happened still can't be arsed to read the tech giants the riot act, then they'll utterly deserve to loose in 2024.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Twitter revises hacked materials policy after banning NY Post story

Twitter changed its policy on hacked materials Thursday night after widespread criticism over its handling of the New York Post’s controversial story about Hunter Biden.Going forward, posts with ha…

thehill.com

Twitter finally decided censoring news articles citing hacked material as oppoaed to direct links to hacked material is a good idea.