Why isn't Big Tech afraid of a future Republican government regulating them to hell and back?

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  1. chris155au

    chris155au Well-Known Member

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    As in, a Republican President and a Republican controlled Congress. It seems insane to me that as they take action against Trump that they don't seem one bit afraid, even with the various regulatory moves and discussion which we've seen over the past couple of years. One of the possibilities is removing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which would seem to go too far because there's a good chance that the very instant that it is removed, the social media companies will have no choice but to shut down, which to be honest, maybe isn't the worst thing because social media is after all absolute TRASH! The slightly less aggressive alternative is to amend Section 230, so that social media companies do not have as much legal protection when they censor content which isn't actually all that bad - certainly nothing like someone encouraging people to go out and kill people, which I think we can all agree should be removed. I guess if social media companies saw a Amendment to Section 230 as the very worst regulatory action which could come from a future Republican controlled government, then they probably think that they could live with it, but that would be a hell of an assumption because an Amendment to Section 230 could be NOTHING compared to what Republicans might actually do.
     
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    Probably because they don't want to acquiesce to a wannabe fascist like Trump. You know, like the rest of America.
     
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    How will Trump be relevant to a future Republican controlled government?
     
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    That will be determined in the next week or so. How Republicans deal with this determines whether the party survives or not.

    At this moment, there is nothing that will bring back Trump into politics.
     
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    You surely mean at this moment there is nothing that will STOP Trump getting back into politics.
     
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    I thought republicans were against regulating?
     
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    As long as there are fools who still believe in him, then yes, he will continue to be a danger.
     
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    If true why don’t you just let the people decide? Why are democrats trying to prevent trump from running again if as you state, country doesn’t want him? They claim they want to save democracy but how does that work, by not allowing the american people to decide? That’s interesting, saving democracy by thwarting democratic process.
     
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    The American people DID decide and Trump LOST!
     
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    you dodged the question, why do they want to prevent trump from running in 2024? All that means is the people will get to decide, via democratic process. Are the democrats afraid of the democratic process?
     
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    Actually, I don't think there is any reason to deny a criminal to run for office. So, as long as jail time is out of the way, Trump could run again.
     
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    Did you just wake up from a coma? Look up the Insurrection of January 6, 2021.
     
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    More likely, Dems are afraid of any Republican running for office because of voter redistricting and suppression.
     
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    It won't be government regulation that likely undoes Big Tech, it will be crafty litigators who eventually figure out how to put the treble damages of private antitrust litigation to good $$ use, together with the hubris of the "unassailable" guilty parties. The gross collusion in plain view against Parler and what will result is the shape of things to come for big tech. Hope they have some lawyers without purple hair and problem glasses drafting diversity policies, they are gonna need them.
     
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    The Left always assumed that every time they come to power that the natural order has restored itself never to be disturbed again, when actually they are generally out of power in two years. And yes, if they had any brains they would have exactly the concerns you express.

    In truth they crossed the Rubicon when they went after Parlor. Until then there was still a long shot argument that perhaps Conservatives should simply start and operate their own platforms, but, with the series of moves to first ban Conservatives and then ban the platform they moved to when they left theirs, any pretense that this is anything other than an attempt to establish a full blown German Style Socialist Authoritarian National System of Censorship is fully exposed. They are engaging coordinated actions of censorship that will be dealt with using our antitrust laws that broke up the Oligarchs that arose in the Industrial Revolution.

    Pigs get fed.
    Hogs get slaughtered.

    These ignorant clowns had some splinter skills in tech that they used to make wildly successful social platforms, but they fancy themselves to be something much grander, somehow entitled to a vast grab of power over our lives that simply is not allowed in our Free System.

    Had they been satisfied with just being pigs, they could have lived grand lives of luxury that they probably could have passed to their grandchildren, lives of immense privilege that most will only dream of. But, they had to be hogs, so now they will be broken up as soon as the opportunity presents itself, which will start as soon as we retake the House, which will likely occur in just 94 weeks.
     
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    Republicans are dying. Literally. Republicans can't keep in office forever with their current strategy. They are going to lose power in the long term. Tech can play the long term, GOP can't.
     
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    Democrats are dying almost as quickly. The emergent Third Party will be a broad grassroots coalition. Did you think Nadler, Schumer, Pelosi, Schiff, et. al. had ANY broad appeal to people whatsoever? They don't. They should have begun the process of retiring and ushering in the new people years ago. Too late now, they are headed in the same direction as McConnell and Graham on the other side. Even Republicans have more fresh, less entrenched blood than the Democrats currently.

    Enjoy those two years of power, though. The Third Party approacheth.
     
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    I am guessing if there is a third party they will be a centralist party that will probably be supportive of big tech and business in general.
     
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    Possibly, I believe it will be a big corporate-hating party that boosts smaller options and small business.
     
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    Rein in abusive Big Tech:.

    First, investigate the Parler purge as an antitrust violation.
    Yes, these coordinating corporations of National Socialistic Censorship must be broken up, especially now that they have ganged up on Parlor, where the folks they were silencing moved to, to escape their National Socialist Censorship.

    The right of all Americans to converse on the social media platforms is a civil right. I can see the argument for saying "not on my platform" but, when you follow the folks you drove off and actively destroy the platform they were trying to erect for themselves, clearly you are nothing more than a bunch of crazed socialist censors that need to be dealt with in a manner that will remind you that you share this Great Nation with other people with the same civil rights that you enjoy, and no, you don't have a "civil right" to pursue and silence others!
    That's a powerful argument.
    OUCH! That's $2,200,734! A few thousand of those will get the attention of these Censoring Socialist bastards! Get them right in the old Censoring pocketbook, why, it's the American Way! We don't take the law into our own hands, WE TAKE THEM TO COURT! And sue their asses off! Censor away you censorious bastards, we will be lining up for our $2.2M paydays!

    Ted Cruz and the other Republicans for Liberty and Freedom, are you listening?

    Git 'er done!
     
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    Biden also wants to change Section 230, but for different reasons.
    I don't see how Facebook could continue, or even closely monitored forums like this one, if there is no protection for the companies.
    There's a lot of pressure to do something about Section 230 from both Democrats and Republicans. It will be interesting to see if Democrats take away 230 protections.
     
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    That would fall more in line with the America First Trump philosophy. Regardless of how you split it there is not going to be a party right of Trump. The republicans that do not support Trump like the never Trumpers and the Lincoln project are all moderates. They are fiscal conservatives and usually socially progressive. They will be the educated middle class suburbanites and Urban dwellers. I think this group will join with the moderates in the Democrat party and leave the Sanders crowd along with AOC and the crew on the far left. The 3 parties will be pretty even but my thinking is big tech and business will support the moderate party and not the 2 extremes. I think the Trumper party will be the rural, small town group. The center party will be suburbia and urbanites and the far left party will draw from cities and a bit from other areas.
     
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    Once the planes fly to the ME in the Biden Admin, lots of good honest left leaning folks, not Soros astroturf shills, are going to realize they have been had. Then they are going to realize that the people they've been fighting in the streets may actually be the good guys too. The gov-edu-union-contractor-grantee-trial lawyer-MSM Complex Aristocracy hopes that reaching across the aisle will never happen. It will though.
     
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    I think that would be more likely if it was a Hillary admin. It would take something fairly major to convince Biden to start a war. AOC and her crew would never allow it.

    I like your third party idea but my gut tells me it won't happen. Too many career politicians milking this system and they would squash any attempt. The only hope is the republican party is so fractured after Trump in ideology they cannot stand to support each other.
     
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    I don't think they want to give up their protection, but there is some indication that Facebook might would be open to some kind of government regulation/standard setting as far as content moderation so they are not constantly under the gun every time they attempt to clumsily figure out a set of policies themselves. It might also give them some competitive advantage as they employ 6 times the number of moderators already as Twitter has total employees.
     
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