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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1139701)6/14/2019 2:46:49 PM
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No one wants to give our government the control over social media. However, we all know that social media is the modern digital public square where political speech must be protected. The tech companies have proven remarkably biased and terrible protectors of free political speech. Therefore, the government must step in to guarantee the 1st amendment rights of the people, just exactly as they do elsewhere. This isn't government control, rather, it is the primary function of government to guarantee the people our rights. Otherwise, if the government is unable to perform this function, then we have zero need of this government.

One thing I can guarantee you is this. We have now a 1984 style surveillance nation, which is inimical not just to free speech, but to freedom in general. We leave things as is at our most extreme peril. Even the Democrats are now waking up to the fact that the tech companies are abusive oligopolies that no longer serve the best interests of the people. They went from slogans like "do no evil" to mass surveillance capitalists and working on efforts like "Project Dragonfly" to help China implement their technocratic totalitarianism through their censorship and social credit system.

You may be ok with totalitarianism and lack of free speech, but I and most Americans are not. Corporate freedom from government regulation is worthless if the people are enslaved by lack of the freedom of speech and overbearing surveillance of all their online activities.
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