New Law Would End Social Media Censorship, Big Tech Is Outraged
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🗓️ 19 June 2019
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
New Law Would End Social Media Censorship, Leaves Big Tech Is Outraged. Josh Hawley, a republican, has proposed a new law that would remove section 230 protections from big tech giants under certain circumstances.
Naturally many of these companies are outraged and demand to have it both ways. They want to have the right to control who gets to say what but also not be liable for speech that violates certain laws of presents civil liability.
Many of the people at these tech companies hold social justice and far left views which creates a fear of political bias down the root of their rules. Conservatives do not agree with most of the policies these companies have while progressives tend to feel the companies need to enforce stricter rules. As we recently saw with the Project Veritas Pinterest story social media bias is very real and has serious political consequences.
If this new law comes into place these companies will lose liability protection unless they submit to an audit and prove that they are politically neutral. In any event big tech regulation is coming and its moving faster everyday.
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| 0:00.0 | From CNBC, a senator is introducing a bill that would blow up the business models for |
| 0:04.8 | Facebook, YouTube, and other tech giants, and that is a terrible headlonger, because |
| 0:08.2 | it is absolutely not what is happening. |
| 0:11.3 | We can see for some reason there are many people in media who want to run to the defense |
| 0:16.6 | of these big tech companies. |
| 0:18.4 | Don't ask me why. |
| 0:19.8 | In my opinion, they're out of control stealing our private data, doing really bad things |
| 0:24.7 | behind closed doors, all for profit. |
| 0:27.3 | It's causing massive damage to public discourse, yet time and time again. |
| 0:31.8 | We see people in media rushing to their defense, even though the New York Times has complained |
| 0:37.6 | that Google has destroyed local journalism and has made billions off of their backs. |
| 0:42.3 | The story we have today, Senator Josh Hawley is introducing legislation that will put |
| 0:47.1 | restrictions on Section 230 protections. |
| 0:50.3 | For those that aren't familiar, Section 230 essentially provides immunity to an online |
| 0:56.5 | platform from liability based on what someone says on their site. |
| 1:00.6 | Though it is really complicated, it basically works like this. |
| 1:05.8 | If I own, say, the Wall Street Journal, and I publish something on the front page, you |
| 1:11.5 | can sue the Wall Street Journal for that. |
| 1:14.2 | They've chosen to make a statement. |
| 1:16.0 | However, in their comments section, they're not responsible. |
| 1:19.4 | So when it comes to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc., you can't sue YouTube because I say |
| 1:24.0 | something. |
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