DOJ Unveils Proposed Legislation To Rein In Speech-Policing By Corrupt Tech Monopolies

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The DOJ must take action against these social media tech giants. The chokehold that the uniformly leftist corporate media managers at social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google have on our means of communication must be broken.

The DOJ is employing the very same legal argument we employed in our social media free speech lawsuit filed in 2016, more on that here.

DOJ Unveils Proposed Legislation To Rein In Speech-Policing By Corrupt Tech Monopolies

The Department of Justice introduced draft legislation to Congress Wednesday outlining specific reforms requested by the agency in compliance with President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship, which curtails big tech liability protections under Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.

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The proposed reforms stem primarily from the department’s recommendations in June which were developed and released in response to the president’s directive in May seeking to roll back protections that provide blanket immunity to online platforms hosting third-party content.

The Justice Department is taking specific aim at websites’ content moderation to ensure an open forum in the 21st century digital public square. Currently, online platforms have been able to weaponize government protections initially implemented to encourage stripping down obscene content to selectively censor unwelcome narratives, i.e., conservative viewpoints.

Google for example, attempted to de-platform The Federalist earlier this year over content in the website’s comments sections, despite the tech companies own comments sections on YouTube being notorious for hosting some of the most nefarious material on the internet. In turn, the department is calling on Congress to pass its legislation, clarifying existing language of the 1996 law that the agency says will “shield arbitrary content moderation decisions with more concrete language that gives greater guidance to platforms, users, and courts” to curb unfair censorship.

The federal law enforcement agency is also seeking the passage of several amendments aimed at addressing illicit online activity while keeping protections for “Good Samaritans” in place by explicitly stripping protections from platforms who continue to keep illegal content on their websites despite repeated pleas from victims.

“For too long Section 230 has provided a shield for online platforms to operate with impunity,” Attorney General William Barr said in a statement. “Ensuring that the internet is a safe, but also vibrant, open and competitive environment is vitally important to America. We therefore urge Congress to make these necessary reforms to Section 230 and begin to hold online platforms accountable both when they unlawfully censor speech and when they knowingly facilitate criminal activity online.”

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

“The DOJ is employing the very same legal argument we employed.”
– Good, it’s about time that the DOJ started reading the Geller Report. They can learn something.

Fount
Fount
3 years ago

The President needs to sign an executive order that stated emphatically that these tech fascists cannot interfere in the election in any way. If they censor ANY speech they will be shut off.

Then, follow through. Turn them off.

TD
TD
3 years ago

Another reason why I support Trump taking Tik Tok from the Chinese and giving it to a Pro-Trump company Oracle.

Tik Tok could be turned into a rival platform against Youtube/Google/Facebook.
It’s suppose to be the next houshold name social media company.

Larry Ellison’s first customer was the CIA.
He named his company after “Project Oracle”, a CIA project.
CIA and intel comms could purge Tik Tok of Chinese malmare.

Larry’s daughter produced the movie “Zero Dark Thirty”. which is about the woman who found OSAMA BIN LADEN.

Larry Ellison HATES Google/Youtube.

He also HATES Bill Gates.

WileyPost
WileyPost
3 years ago

I hope this is not just politi-talk and they actually DO SOMETHING. They should be held accountable in the strictest sense.

kgolfinghawaii
kgolfinghawaii
3 years ago

You know the demoncrat scumbags will do nothing with this. They are the complete beneficiaries of this one side garbage.

Dustin John
Dustin John
3 years ago

Shadow banning by these tech companies is the 21st century version of Nazi book burning

DVader
DVader
3 years ago

Unless you’re prepared to regulate them as a public utility, you’re wasting your time. They’ll just claim freedom of speech under CITIZEN’s UNITED.

Nighthawk
Nighthawk
3 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhr7nsKSQEI&ab_channel=Dr.ShivaAyyadurai
Voter supression is speech censorship. Gov. Baker was a democrat who declared as a Republican so he wouldn’t have to face a slew of Democrats in the primary.

dingo
dingo
3 years ago

Remove Graham,
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