Friday, October 16, 2020

Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line Far More Dangerous Than What They Censor

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Senate Republicans Calls On Twitter, Facebook Bosses To Testify After Censorship Over NY Post’s Biden Story  . . . "Republican Sens. Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham and Josh Hawley on Thursday called on the heads of Twitter and Facebook to testify, and said a subpoena was in the works, as critics claimed the social media platforms have been censoring reporting critical of Democrats." . . .

Behind the social-media blackout of Biden family corruption   "Hunter Biden is now the subject of multiple stories involving serious corruption. Whether he committed any crimes is a question for prosecutors and the courts. Whether he was paid handsomely for his family’s political clout is a question for voters.

"You wouldn’t know that from ABC’s pathetic town hall with his father Joe Biden on Thursday night. They spoke with him for 90 minutes and didn’t ask a single question about the shocking emails published by the New York Post. That’s either journalistic malpractice or public-relations work. After all, the emails raise profound questions that the candidate needs to answer. They appear to show his son, Hunter, repeatedly using his last name to fill his pockets." . . .

Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line Far More Dangerous Than What They Censor  "Just weeks before the election, the tech giants unite to block access to incriminating reporting about their preferred candidate."
In his New York Times op-ed last October, the left-wing expert on monopoly power Matt Stoller described Facebook and Google as “global monopolies sitting astride public discourse,” and recounted how bipartisan policy and legal changes designed to whittle away antitrust protections have bestowed the two tech giants with “a radical centralization of power over the flow of information.” And he warns that this unprecedented consolidation of control over our discourse is close to triggering “the collapse of journalism and democracy.”


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