[ April 20, 2024 ]
Facebook is the public square. It is how we communicate. And yet here I am, again, in Facebook jail for 30 days (for the third time this year). The Facebook speech police should be insuring our first amendment rights, not crushing them. Never has so much power been in the hands of so few.
Related: Why I Am Suing Facebook
FTC Gets Jurisdiction for Possible Facebook Antitrust Probe
The Federal Trade Commission already has been investigating Facebook for privacy violations
Story continues below advertisementWall Street Journal, June 3, 2019:
WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission will lead any antitrust investigation into Facebook Inc. FB -8.72% under an arrangement that gives the Justice Department chief oversight of Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -7.05% Google, as the U.S. government gears up for scrutiny of the country’s major tech companies over competition concerns.
The FTC secured the rights to begin a potential investigation of Facebook and whether it has engaged in unlawful monopolistic practices as part of an agreement that allowed the Justice Department to take the reins in a Google probe, according to people familiar with the matter. The FTC and Justice Department share authority in enforcing U.S. antitrust law and at times must work out turf arrangements regarding which agency will handle what issues.
FTC already has spent more than a year investigating Facebook on privacy issues related to how it handles users’ data. That probe, however, doesn’t focus on antitrust questions on whether Facebook is stifling competition in the digital realm. The fact that the commission formally secured jurisdiction on those issues suggests it is considering even more rigorous scrutiny of the social media giant.
It isn’t known if the FTC has near-term plans to launch a formal antitrust investigation of Facebook. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the Justice Department is gearing up for an antitrust probe of Google.
The divvying up of Big Tech jurisdiction is part of how the government’s antitrust enforcers are going to explore cutting-edge issues related to how a handful of Silicon Valley giants are affecting the competitive landscape.
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60 Comments
4 years ago
“The Facebook speech police should be insuring our first amendment rights, not crushing them.”
– if socialist tyrants did not cause social chaos and oppression
– they would have nothing to do
– they are just hate machines on wheels
– Facebook = Hatebook
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
The current events in Austria give cause for a few fundamental considerations. Winston Churchill’s thesis that democracy is a bad form of government, but the best of those that have been tried so far, can be considered correct until proven otherwise. Nevertheless, it needs to be supplemented.
Even in states that explicitly define themselves as democratic, democratic institutions, regulations and procedures cover only a fraction of the political process. Beyond that, democracy is a backdrop, consisting of simulations, fictions and self-delusions, behind which decisions are made that the demos neither wants nor has legitimized.
Because what has happened in Austria? A successful government with a secure parliamentary majority was blown up from the outside. Secret service means were used for this purpose, although the background is not clear at the moment. But the message is clear: you can choose what you want. What the will of the voters means is not your competence!
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
The plot can no longer be subsumed under the term “post-democracy”. The British political scientist Colin Crouch understood this to mean the erosion of the parliamentary form of government as a consequence of the increasing complexity of modern societies through which lobby groups, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and multinational corporations gain influence. Politicians respond to the decline in influence, prestige, and problem-solving competence by resorting to public opinion, show business, and marketing tools.
According to Crouch, this is not democratic, because the citizen is descending into a passive and manipulated participant and is only occasionally involved in decisions. But it is also not undemocratic, “because the concern of politicians for their relationship with the citizens plays such a large role”. This describes a relatively soft practice in which the mandatory reference to the demos is reinterpreted but not removed.
Reality has long since ignored this description. For years, critics of different directions have complained that the representatives of liberal democracy tend to set their point of view absolutely and act totalitarian. In fact, their practice amounts to powerfully translating the One World idea into reality and transforming Europe into a province of the desired global regime (“global governance”).
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
European living environments are being transformed and standardised through migration, concessions to Islam, gender and climate campaigns. This policy is propagated as the only legitimate concretisation of democracy. The opponents are demonized as (right-wing) populists, enemies of democracy and Europe.
But populism means nothing more than asking: What follows from the decisions for us, for the people, for the demos? It means to take liberty and to try to avert foreseeable damage from oneself, to defend oneself, to practise democracy. So it is not just different points of view that collide here, but two models of democracy that are contrary to each other. This explains the total declaration of enemies by the powerful protagonists to their opponents. Here in Germany they form – in the formulation of Joachim Gauck – the “dark Germany”, which originates from brown primary reasons and has no right to exist.
This is also the context of the scandal surrounding Heinz-Christian Strache, the ex-vice chancellor and ex-chairman of the “right-wing populist” FPÖ, which has now been set in motion by the mediation of the German media and, for obvious reasons, is widely received in Germany.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
The video is embarrassing, it shows a guilty person ventilating unattractive thought games from which apparently no actions have emerged. Does anybody think that things are any different in the rounds of tricks between so-called democratic politicians, economic and media bosses? Hadn’t Chancellor Merkel managed to get politically disagreeable posts deleted in 2015 in an eavesdropping conversation with Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg?
The accusation that Strache wanted to abolish the critical and pluralistic media is absurd because they stubbornly refuse to prove their existence. Most political journalists work like bots, like automated programs that generate the same formulas at fixed intervals (Nazi – enemy of foreigners – right-wing extremist – Islam-hater – racist), without getting involved in interactions with reality. In the “Ibiza affair”, too, they have unanimously adopted the expected attitude instead of criticizing the perfidy of the production and the intrusion into a person’s personal rights and genital area.
The almost unanimous media choir finally formed the background against which Strache came across his stupid thoughts that had become public: The FPÖ-friendly reorientation of the tabloid Krone was intended to make the press landscape a little less one-sided and instead more critical and pluralistic. It was about the approximate equality of weapons in the media.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Parliamentary majorities and even ministerial offices are of little use in the long run if alternative parties do not also have a pre- or metapolitical, especially media environment. Government and parliament are only two centers of power among many. The informal power of media groups, lobbyists, NGOs, globalist networks, foundations and think tanks is hardly less. Only when counterweights have arisen in these areas can one compete seriously.
A Viennese lawyer apparently involved in the Strache video justified the intrigue as a “project motivated by civil society”. This is in line with the political-media trend. The “fight against right” permits vulgarities, breaches of trust and law, physical attacks and, in the end, murder and manslaughter. It is not argued, but the opponent – as it was called in Stasi German – is treated as a “hostile-negative force” and processed in a complex “operative process”.
He is observed, defamed, his activities sabotaged. The goal is his social isolation, demoralization, psychological and physical attrition, and ultimately his resigned withdrawal from political activities. Not only the victim is damaged, but also the human substance of the beadles and the moral standards of society.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
To draw such parallels between the Federal Republic and the GDR becomes more plausible from day to day. The novel “Magdalena” by civil rights activist Jürgen Fuchs, published in 1998, is not a literary masterpiece, but its documentary value is considerable. Fuchs, who was imprisoned in 1976/77 in Berlin’s Stasi prison Magdalenenstraße and then deported to the West, describes his Stasi file research in the former Gauck authority.
The administration was in the hands of West German civil servants; former Stasi employees gave them their expert knowledge. Fuchs saw himself as being hampered in his investigations. Every single photocopy had to be applied for, handles had to be cleaned, corridors had to be walked through. Fuchs called this the “administrative, official taming of a revolution” and asked: “Is it about the education of the Eastern population? The comprehensive allocation of registration numbers?”
One answer is given by the state alimony of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, headed by a former Stasi informant and entrusted by the Ministry of Justice with monitoring Internet communications. The low-qualified head of the Thuringian “Office for the Protection of the Constitution”, who is addicted to the subject, is also a member of the board of trustees and was appointed by politicians of the SED successor party.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
That’s why the staged scandal around Heinz-Christian Strache also seems frightening elsewhere in the West. Not only “populist” politicians have to reckon with Orwell’s “Big Brother” always standing next to them and listening to their thoughts. Already today 71 per cent of the interviewees in Germany are of the opinion that statements about immigration, about Muslims or Islam are dangerous. Moreover, more than half of the respondents do not like to speak publicly about topics such as the Nazi era and Jews. Right-wing extremism and the AfD are also reluctantly discussed in public.
The aggressiveness of the established people, which has reached the point of readiness to disintegrate, shows that they have no political arguments. Their European election campaign was completely empty. They can only mobilize in a makeshift way by cultivating the demonized “populist” enemy image. This holds great potential for further escalations.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Globalist Turk: “Breitbart News is a
crazy publication for crazy people”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cem_%C3%96zdemir
https://www.dw.com/en/breitbart-news-is-crazy-publication-for-crazy-people/av-44101070
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
(Translation of the article “The
standards are being corrupted.”)
https://jungefreiheit.de/debatte/kommentar/2019/die-massstaebe-werden-verdorben/
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Marc
– good points, that scandal reeks of malfeasance
– it was obliviously a set-up, a trap, designed to be weaponized politically
– as Westerners say, “I wasn’t there, I don’t know the people involved
– and I don’t know exactly what happened”
– but instead, this rush to judgment is more evidence of malfeasance
– people do not realize how easy it is to fake video evidence
– actors can replace the real individuals, and be made to look like them
– video is ALWAYS edited, because raw video is far too boring to watch
– audio is ALWAYS edited, and can be dubbed, chopped up
– and have voices done by actors who sound the same
– maybe the parties involved are guilty
– but not likely.
– and certainly a rush to judgment is not justice
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Thanks for your inspiring thoughts,
which you always “arrange clearly”!
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
It’s exactly what you say. Method “I know something about
you that you don’t know that I know it, and I do something
with you that you don’t even know how it happens to you.”
Perfidiousness, insidiousness, infamy are accepted now.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Ihre Beobachtung ist richtig. Kurtz ist ein junger Dummkopf und die Gegner wussten es.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
I find it very funny. When you talk in German,
it’s like a secret language that no one under-
stands. Or, everyone else has to translate it.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
OK – Keine Problem
– and it’s great to have German speakers on this website
– the war against tyranny is a worldwide problem
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
It’s just meant as a joke, Demo, but your thought could have
in fact a learning effect for people who only speak English. 🙂
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
You’re a funny guy, Demo! Spaniards
write question marks upside down and
start their sentences with them, strange.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Ah, siesta. Very nor-
mal to me. Love it. 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siesta
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Claro, definitivamente. Siento no ha-
ber visto tu respuesta graciosa hasta
ahora, no tengo una cuenta de Disqus.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
A challenge I’m all too happy to accept. Finally I learn so-
mething about my ancestors. Without you I would never
have been interested. I always need a concrete occasion.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Only the infantile young Kurtz panicking and breaking up his Coalition without really investigating the provenance of the video “revelation,”which were not even criminal acts under Austrian law as nothing came of the purported conversations. I think BREXIT is a better example of what you speak as it demonstrates how the will of the British people was sabotaged by May and her gang of Globalists who did all that is possible to stop Brexit.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
The U.S. is founded on the RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH and we should never compromise on it regardless of how other countries rationalize censorship or want tyranny in their countries.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
felix: all true
– for me, the key test is ‘The Black Book of Communism’ [Amazon]
– if the interlocutor has not read it, and will not discuss it
– then they are just socialist tyrants
– who must be excluded from power completely
– because they will NEVER support US democracy
4 years ago
Facebook or any other social media does
NOT HAVE THE RIGHT REDEFINE AMERICA’S FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
Free speech is about expressing one’s views even if it hurts childish, politically correct, toddlers posing as
adults. Liberals label the opposition as “hate speech” because they’re intolerant, tyrannical people. Liberals hate people who disagree with them. When debated liberals can’t defend their position because their stance is based on LIES and DISTORTIONS, so censorship is their solution..
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
FIRST we have to recognize the obvious fact that the Democrat Leftists in control of social media are not “liberal”…they are “intolerant, tyrannical people”… the antithesis of liberalism. They are being illiberal when they restrict free speech. We also have to stop referring to Democrats with the stand alone noun of “Progressives”…that’s a benign–“good”— sounding label. “Progressive” should always be used as a sinister adjective as in “progressive disease”—progressive communism, totalitarianism, etc. Leftists use words as weapons against conservatives (racist, xenophobe, misogynist, Islamophobe); conservatives have to start using labels (words) intelligently and not just regurgitate the labels that the Leftists prefer to use for themselves or to describe their policies. We are allowing Leftists to justify censorship of ideas they don’t like…by simply labeling it with the words “hate speech.” To criticize Islam and vicious behavior of Muslims in the name of their Allah is called “hate speech”…GAME OVER…no discussion, no debate.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267861/leftism-not-liberalism-dennis-prager
4 years ago
‘Ensuring’ not ‘insuring’
You insure your car or house.
But you ensure your rights or liberties.
4 years ago
The little boy Jew pushed a little too far. According to Eastwood – a man’s got to know his limitations. But Suckerberg is still a boy.
4 years ago
Look at the Islamic equity holdings in the Social Media Companies and Big Tech and you will understand why these organisations are destroying free speech and rationalising censorship
4 years ago
Reply to
Phillip Rosslee
Yes, the FB dhimmis are enforcing Sharia Blasphemy Law on behalf of their Islamic overseers.
4 years ago
Facebook should be sued for harassment of conservatives. We can only assume our presence on Facebook is having some effect but I doubt very many liberals and fascists see the light through our posts but we all just need some outlet to show contempt for evil and support for good. That’s why I’ve moved to Spreely (Spreely.com). I know by and large I am preaching to the choir but at least I get to speak freely about issues that trouble me. My gain is FB’s loss as I have populated over 20 pages with posts every day but that is ending as I migrate to a free site and not worry about Muslim overlords. If you go there look me up and friend-request me. A note to Pam: A big FB user like you could mean a big draw to Spreely if you migrate there. Just as Spreely might lack leftist/fascists opinions, Facebook will lose right/conservative opinions.
4 years ago
FB is soon to be in a death spiral from which it will be difficult to recover. They have announced the hiring of over 10,000 monitors to police content on their 2.3 billion users. Well, if they pay them, say, an average of $20K a year that’s $200 million and certainly affordable.I can imagine who they are hiring. I really do not know too many rational people, conservative or not, who want to pursue a career as a censor, but I suspect it would be a great career choice for one of a leftist, communist, dependent orientation, especially the product pouring out to the LibTard schools in California and throughout the world. These People wouldn’t know true hate speech if it spits in their face. They only know what disturbs them and that could be anything imaginable. This is going to create a huge problem and led to the breakup FB as competitors spring up to challenge their market dominance. Soon there will be a CNN version, Fox News version, Rush Limbaugh versions, Guardian version, and so on. The landscape will rapidly change and anyone with a few shares of FB is best advised to sell now before they are eaten alive by the market.
4 years ago
yes and Pamela claims it, I mean the truth
4 years ago
Nice pic, Pam. Message: “I
love doers, not blatherers.”
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
I am not an “activist”. The only thing I could do is gi-
ve Pam self-worth so she’ll become finally authentic.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
“You want to insult our heroine?”
I’m not an ideologist, I’m rather in-
terested in this woman. I want to
know how she lives and what dri-
ves her. But my interest is so flee-
ting, it may be forgotten tomorrow.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
I could use all my concentration on Pam, but
I just want to know so much that it doesn’t fit
in my head at all. I then begin to break down
what are probably complex “facts” into sober
truths. I instinctively grasp the verisimilitude.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Women want to know who they are through
men. Who could mirror that to them except
self-experienced” men? Pam’s so fanatical,
there’s no time for love. At least not much.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Pam consistently refuses to communicate in
the comment section. I can understand. Ne-
vertheless, she communicates, sends mes-
sages. And wisely, she’s reading this now…
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
What if Pam hired me? I would turn her entire
concept upside down. After that, she’s not who
she is now, but she’ll feel comfortable in her skin.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
After that her blog would read: “Pamela Geller has decided to
be happy. And that this is more important than anything else!”
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
False Jews will not be impressed by this, but
will continue their program of self-destruction.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
From this struggle between her and me a bestseller emerges:
“American-German Conflicts: Does Judaism still connect us?”
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Pam will tell me things I don’t like to hear, and I’ll
tell her what she detests. Then we will love each
other. So I will lead her back to the source of life.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
She’ll guard me like a gem &
never let a moment out of her
sight. I get hail of ideas for her.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Pam will complain: “But I can’t leave humanity uninformed about all the
misfortune!” I will comfort her: 1. you consider yourself exorbitant more
important than you are, 2. when you’re dead, the world continues to turn.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
…”and if you think it was the hardest de
cision of my life, no: it was the easiest!”
4 years ago
Pam Geller is pretty, with a great smile. Great reporting, too.
