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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1147544)	7/10/2019 3:40:27 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576600

I'm not looking for government control. On the contrary, I'm looking for government to prohibit arbitrary and scurrilous censorship by social media companies who manage the digital political public square. Social media has provided ample evidence with their actions that they are incapable of providing their users data privacy and incapable of checking their own biases to provide for freedom of speech, especially in politics, where their algorithms and screening policies and processes are riddled with inherent bias against conservatives. In England, they long ago realized that a free, fair, and unbiased news was critical to maintaining a free and fair democracy. So they created the BBC. I'm not sure that's the solution for us. However, Google, Facebook, and Twitter in their current biased capacity are warping, distorting, and meddling in our democracy with far more power and scope than any possible meddling from Russia or China. And yet, the Democrats spend all our oxygen blathering about Russian meddling, which has all the power of a gnat biting an elephants ass. So how about we start focusing on the real meddlers and figuring out how to safeguard our democracy and our freedom of speech. The status quo is not acceptable, because it is already leading directly to totalitarianism. If you are satisfied with that, then you are part of the problem.