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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1087919)	9/13/2018 4:51:42 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577168

What I want is freedom of speech to be protected. Technology has moved ahead of the protections for free speech. I know you don't like Trump and that's ok. I don't really like him at all, but I do like some of his policies. Freedom of speech is not about Trump. It's about making sure that political speech is unfettered. It used to be people got all their news through the main stream media. That is no longer the case. With Gen X, the Millennials and Post Millennials, they get all their information mostly from the web. Google and Facebook dominate the dissemination of political news especially. Therefore, they are in a position where they can greatly influence what you see and election outcomes. Google and Facebook are demonstrably liberally biased. I know you think that is ok, because you hate Trump. So let's do a thought experiment here and change the topic of what is getting censored. You used to be against the liberal's climate change bias. What if you could prove that Google and Facebook actively censored conservative opinions on climate change and gave priority viewership to climate change science that advocated for action to curb pollution and invest in renewable energy? What if you saw censorship of scientists who denied climate change and poked holes in climate change science? Would you still support the impunity with which Google and Facebook pick and choose what you and the voting public get to see? My point is a simple one. Google and Facebook are great companies and they changed the game on how we get our news. Fine. Now they need to uphold our Constitutional freedoms, one of which is Freedom of Speech. If they don't, then basically we will all be a product of propaganda and no better in our ability to choose our leaders than the German people were in choosing Hitler. Propaganda wins if we don't enable freedom of speech across all important distribution mechanisms. If you don't get this, then we have a bigger problem than I thought.