Message from @SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck
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Why not Cyberpunk Russian Mafia Jojo?
Yeet
ITS HAPPENED, ITS SIGNED!!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/SteveBarclay/status/1162982495534616578?s=19
Leaked documents show that the Trump administration is drafting an executive order that, if upheld by the courts, could essentially end free speech on the Internet. The draft order would put the FTC and the FCC, headed by its notoriously corrupt chairman Ajit Pai, in charge of monitoring and policing online speech on social media platforms, online forums, and more.
It would give these bureaucratic government agencies unprecedented control over how Internet platforms moderate speech by allowing them to revoke the essential protections Congress laid out in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). CDA 230 is the basic law that makes it possible for online platforms to let users post our own content, and to make basic decisions about what types of content they as private entities want to host. Every meme, every social media post, every blog and user-created video on the Internet has been made possible by this crucial free speech protection.
In practice, this executive order would mean that whichever political party is in power could dictate what speech is allowed on the Internet. If the government doesn’t like the way a private company is moderating content, they can shut their entire website down. The administration claims it’s trying to stop private companies from silencing speech—but this plan would create terrifying new censorship powers for the government to do just that. And the White House isn’t alone in promoting this misguided idea, some top Democrats have also called for weakening CDA 230.
The draft order has already been resoundingly condemned by First Amendment and free speech experts from across the political spectrum. Regardless of your politics, regardless of how you feel about the president, this is a terrible idea that will have the exact opposite impact of its stated purpose of protecting free speech. Sign the petition to tell the White House: “Don’t break the Internet with an executive order that makes the FCC and FTC the speech police. Uphold the First Amendment and leave the free and open web alone.”
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I highly doubt any of what is claimed is even remotely true as Trump has been a big proponent of free speech and dismantling the censorious big tech social media companies that abuse their users while under the protection of US Law established by previous presidencies @(a fundamentally broken) outcast
if i where you i wouldn't buy everything leaked on the internet every time
it's just as easy to fake it as it is to expose it
the debate on censoring and free speech is one too long and complex to have on a discord like this
That doesn't mean your infodumps are true.
what i know is that it is in corporate interest to censor and that fftf is very credible. and no it doesnt but look at some of sargon's infodumps and people here suck that shit up lol
anyway enjoy that read or dont im gonna sleep
@(a fundamentally broken) outcast look at this pretentious little bitch "the debate on censoring and free speech is one too long and complex to have on a discord like this" you either think to highly of yourself or you really cant throw anything back. In either case you spewing whatever lunacy you read online without any forethought instead of actually showing your beliefs only shows how degraded society is nowadays lacking any trust in anything and only seeing fear and conspiracy around every corner.
@(a fundamentally broken) outcast Oh yeah, I saw shit about this fairly recently IIRC (I'm pretty sure it had to do with some senator who wanted to hold Social Media companies to account for censoring people based on political opinions)
@SideTracker he's referring to Ajit Pai presumably trying to regulate how Social Media companies censor shit AFAIK
@(a fundamentally broken) outcast
"what i know is that it is in corporate interest to censor"
>Yes, like how Twitter, Facebook, and YT are doing right now. I'm almost 100% sure that the plans for this shit are limited to Social Media companies (as Conservatives say they have unfairly been banned for lesser things than their Left-Wing counterparts have been banned for). While I can indeed see how this can go wrong, sites like Twitter and Facebook aren't really NOTABLE for being big on Free Speech (and indeed I posted a bunch of links on Twitter about this contentious issue* awhile back)
*the contentious issue being that of censorship on social-media based on political ideology
**(each of the sites below is rated as trustworthy or mostly-trustworthy by Newsguard, which I consider to be a trustworthy way of rating the trustworthiness of sites)**
And this whole censoring people for political opinions isn't even limited to a single side
it fucking TRANSCENDS POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
(it's just that conservatives are a fuck-ton more vocal about it, for some reason)
Hell, censorship isn't even the entirety of the fucked-up shit Social-Media sites do because of political ideology (and not violent political ideology, either)
they'll even SUPRESS conservative news, or restrict the accounts of conservatives
There's also multiple examples of Facebook kowtowing to governments because the feefees of the government have been hurt (BECAUSE GOD FORBID.....PEOPLE DENY THE HOLOCAUST OR BLASPHEME BY DRAWING MOHAMMED THE PEDOPHILE!)
**and that's just FACEBOOK**
https://www.milenio.com/internacional/latinoamerica/twitter-cancela-cuentas-dependencias-medios-venezuela (It's in Spanish, but it pretty much says that Twitter yeeted some people because the Venezuelan govt. got angry and threw a fucking fit about some political dissidents)
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/world/asia/twitter-agrees-to-block-blasphemous-tweets-in-pakistan.html
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/tuerkei-twitter-sperrt-regierungsfeindliche-konten-12903503.html (people were yeeted from Twitter in Turkey because they were pointing out corruption in the Turkish govt)
https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-censors-political-accounts-2014-5
https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-has-gone-from-bastion-of-free-speech-to-global-censor-2017-6
Twitter also censors people based on nonviolent political opinions (because god forbid there be some political opinions that hurt the feefees of fucking retarded boomers)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/twitter-censorship-will-only-empower-the-alt-right/507929/
https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/303295-how-facebook-twitter-are-systematically-silencing-conservative
https://quillette.com/2019/02/12/it-isnt-your-imagination-twitter-treats-conservatives-more-harshly-than-liberals/
https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/397047-big-techs-censorship-of-conservative-users-is-alive-and-well
https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/21/twitter-censorship-should-terrify-everyone/ (I'm not really a believer in what Jared Taylor professes, but he shouldn't be banned for anything short of incitement or things are are already illegal in US law--such as Child Pornography, ETC)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/social-media-content-censorship-conservatives-hardest-hit/
.....along with suppressing Conservatives via "shadow-banning" (though they say they're going to fix this, I'm going to be a tad skeptical of what they promise)
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbj7w3/twitter-appears-to-have-fixed-search-problems-that-lowered-visibility-of-gop-lawmakers
and since examples of Social-Media censoring Conservatives seem to be more extensive (due to Conservatives being more vocal about it IIRC), I'll see if I can list some examples of LIBERALS being censored on social-media for political ideology.
(I've found a single exampled of liberals being censored, but it's by the WSWS, and it's about Google, not a social-media company)--okay NOW I've found one.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/ktvu-local-news/artist-s-facebook-disabled-after-posting-maga-hat-collection-
(an artist got censored--for posting left-wing shit--BY THE ALGORITHIMS that have also banned a fuck-ton of right-wing shit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M13ar5TWOBw (censorship backfiring on leftists)
**And for the life of me, I can't seem to find more examples of censorship of left-wing people on Social-Media, even though I honest-to-god want to find examples of such occurrences**