Alternatives To State-run Social Media: >>>/prepare/20 | archive.fo
web.archive.org
Google executives have argued that free speech would have “disastrous practical consequences” for society, in a stunning court document filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
informationliberation.com
The court case centers around Google’s censorship of conservative website PragerU.
PragerU has taken Google to court, arguing their first amendment rights were being stifled by the Tech giant.
Natural News reports: archive.fo
In their statement, Google makes it clear they do not want to be held to the standard of the First Amendment.
Google refuses to change for its users; Google refuses to guarantee users an equal platform for freedom of speech.
Google is not a neutral platform, so search results are engineered to highlight the viewpoints that matter most to Google executives and their cult culture. Rich and influential people, emboldened by their special interests, practically lobby Google to push their agendas while suppressing any dissent or competition on the web. While some ideologies are popularized by Google, others are pushed to the shadows, de-monetized and mocked.
The anti-American behemoth refuses to enforce the First Amendment across their services because this “would undermine important content regulation.”
Google stated, “If they are bound by the same First Amendment rules that apply to the government, YouTube and other service providers would lose much of their ability to protect their users against offensive or objectionable content — including pornography, hate speech, personal attacks, and terrorist propaganda.”
Google should still remain in control over its own content regulation, but the United States should appoint a third party commission to review Google’s actions when complaints of political, business, and ideological censorship are brought forth.
With so much power over information and with mounting complaints of censorship coming against Google, it is imperative that a judicial review committee hold Google accountable when they are violating the free speech rights of people on the internet.
According to their legal statement, Google still believes their company can discriminate on the basis of political viewpoints, because they “can’t be forced to change.”
What Google does not understand is that, with the proper legal oversight, their monopoly can be forced to operate more fairly, without engaging in anti-competitive practices that benefit their own agendas and the goals of their highly influential friends.
People and organizations that are censored by Google deserve the right to bring forth their case and have their voice be heard.
archive.fo
newspunch.com
There has been one previous thread about this article.
