Big tech political thread

[KUTradition]

Never thought I'd say this but, I actually feel bad for Zuckerberg and his people, as well as the other social media big wigs. They are clearly caught in the middle of a power struggle. The tech guys invented powerful tools on the internet. And the intelligence community and establishment media want to sink their claws in them and use their platforms to manipulate the people. (It worked) and if the tech guys don't comply, they threatened them

Here's rfkj breaking down some of the illegal things our government did to use big tech against us to censor information and control the narrative

https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/18288 ... pHVrA&s=19

it was the contrails, donchaknow

[Sparko]

Since X is actually censoring actual news. Unprompted. I know Randy will apologize and show himself out

[jfish26]

Since X is actually censoring actual news. Unprompted. I know Randy will apologize and show himself out

If one adopts the rubes' expansive definition of "censorship," then one must necessarily agree that promoting favored information is "censorship" just as much as is suppressing unfavored information.

[randylahey]

Zuckerberg is apparently trying to fix his mistakes. He is now a self proclaimed "libertarian ideologist" and has even gone as far as to hire a republican strategist to repair his relationship with right wing media. He's openly confessed he was pressured by the intelligence agencies to censor right wing views

[KUTradition]

here’s a novel idea: don’t get your news from social media

[jfish26]

here’s a novel idea: don’t get your news from social media

The best (?) part is how randall here, well, let's edit for clarity as to one specific point:

Zuckerberg is apparently trying to fix his mistakes. He [...] has even gone as far as to hire a republican strategist to repair his relationship with right wing media.

I certainly now understand, better, what these "mistakes" are.

[twocoach]

Never thought I'd say this but, I actually feel bad for Zuckerberg and his people, as well as the other social media big wigs. They are clearly caught in the middle of a power struggle. The tech guys invented powerful tools on the internet. And the intelligence community and establishment media want to sink their claws in them and use their platforms to manipulate the people. (It worked) and if the tech guys don't comply, they threatened them

Here's rfkj breaking down some of the illegal things our government did to use big tech against us to censor information and control the narrative

You're close but your prejudice is preventing you from getting all the way there. The intelligence community doesn't want to control people. They want to control what information criminals and bad acting foreign agents, including governments, are able to flow through to regular American citizens and they want a portal into those platforms to monitor the information that flows through them in real time so that they can investigate quicker.

Law enforcement and the intelligence networks out there have always been a bit hamstrung by having to not blatantly trample on people's rights to privacy. The GOP was smart enough to take advantage of 9/11 to get the Patriot Act passed, which gave intelligence groups unprecedented access to our phone, text and internet data that we previously had buffered from them in the name of our civil rights.

[twocoach]

Never thought I'd say this but, I actually feel bad for Zuckerberg and his people, as well as the other social media big wigs. They are clearly caught in the middle of a power struggle. The tech guys invented powerful tools on the internet. And the intelligence community and establishment media want to sink their claws in them and use their platforms to manipulate the people. (It worked) and if the tech guys don't comply, they threatened them

Here's rfkj breaking down some of the illegal things our government did to use big tech against us to censor information and control the narrative

The is RFK Jr. making claims with no supporting evidence. If he provides supporting evidence then I'd read it. I doubt he pulled that "37 hours" number out of his ass.

[pdub]

In my opinion, Obama did a lot of things right but one of the major things he did wrong was not fighting for Americans right to privacy in the interest of cybersecurity -- instead, he amplified the powers that the government has to spy on their citizens.

Nah fam.

[jfish26]

[Sparko]

Must pass the Musk smell test to be free speech. His scent is on everything over there

[jfish26]

[jfish26]

Mr. Free Speech Absolutism here is showing it’s about party, not principle.

Kerry isn’t saying anything here that Elon should find objectionable - in fact Elon should recognize that Kerry’s statement is very much pro-free-speech.

But because this is about party not principles for Elon, he made an incorrect conclusion about the message because he dislikes the messenger.

[Overlander]

Funny. Elon runs a company that has never turned a profit…and could not exist without massive subsidies.