Kelly Loeffler Introduces Bill to Stop 'Un-American' Big Tech Censorship of Free Speech

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[–]BitterRedditRefugee 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Free Speech never existed on the internet, internet platforms were free to remove whatever speech they don't want to have promoted on their platform, read the terms of service.

[–]AcceleratedWallops 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Eh, it used to be different. There were tons of forums running phpbb or whatever all over the internet, with decent userbases and varieties of topics. But then google took away the ability to scope search results to forums. And started ranking them lower.

Subreddits, while a genius idea, have pretty much eaten the userbases of whatever forums existed for that topic. Some other communities moved to discord.

And yes, those independent forums still do exist. But they are harder to find and far less used. And the users that are there tend to be fringe in some way (cough alt-right cough).

My point is, it's gotten too consolidated. Too many users in too few places, with too much corporate control. It used to be the only real worry was net neutrality, because the only threat of censorship was from the ISP. But now it's more than just Comcast threatening the internet.

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How about she goes out and says it? "Chinese Big Tech Censorship"

The Chinese Communist connection goes deep into the media and big tech. Not only do they control companies like Google and Microsoft through promises of opening up business to them, but they often directly own shares in American companies.

I made a graphic that displays just how deep it goes. From TikTok to Snapchat, from Reddit to Discord, from Fortnite to Valorant (spyware). If you just want to get to the text, here's a list of sources I used to make it.

China owns us. Communism controls America — from social media, to big business, to the halls of Congress. The CCP reigns supreme, not the American People. The only way to save our Nation from Communism is to cut off its tentacles and purge from our society the collaborators who sold us to the enemy.

Chinese Communist-owned shares must be seized, and foreign investment from the PRC and its allies must be entirely banned. We must also ban collaboration, treating it as treason. Trade with China must be limited, and we must work to move manufacturing back home and relocate that which we cannot re-shore to India.

We're at war. America is at war with Communism — and we're losing. It's time we start to fight back.