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The overreach by big tech has been ramping up since the 2016 election and most markedly in the run up to the midterms and subsequently. Neither Congress nor Trump has done anything to counter this trend. Trump now wants to do something, because his own Twat has been attacked with Ministry of Truth unfact checking. But what about his supporters who have been deplatformed, shadowbanned, and demonetized for years. Too little, too late, with five months remaining until E Day.
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Withdrawal of “carrier” legal liability under S 230 of the Communications Decency Act should have been overtly threatened and then actioned aeons ago.
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Big tech entities are not “private companies.” Most of them are, to some extent, spin outs of technology from DARPA or some other deep government programs - as such, the tech originally benefited substantially from public money. Some have also benefited from investments by entities such as In-Q-Tel, which is again a form of quasi-public subsidy. It is arguable, based on existing precedent, that many, (if not all), Big Tech entities could be regarded, for the purposes of the First Amendment, quasi-agencies of the US Government.
But we have a useless Congress and, frankly, a pathetic Executive; and so America circles the drain of this Bolshevik insurgency.
Those who expect rabbits to be pulled out of hats should visit a magic show.