March 4, 2019 - Brother Nathanael
04:45
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| You gotta put your money where your mouth is. | |
| Better yet, let's put the Bill of Rights where our lips are being zipped tight. | |
| Freedom of speech in cyberspace, the central place for political and cultural debate is what's at stake. | |
| Social media is the new town square and no longer a private affair. | |
| Very importantly, my administration is also standing up For the free speech rights of all Americans. | |
| Free speech rights. | |
| Look at social media. | |
| It's a thing called free speech rights. | |
| You look at Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media giants. | |
| And I've made it clear that we, as a country, cannot tolerate political censorship, blacklisting, and rigged search results. | |
| And you know it can go the other way also. | |
| Today's one-way street is tomorrow's U-turn. | |
| The power of what we see and learn goes way beyond anything George Orwell could have ever unturned. | |
| We will not let large corporations silence conservative voices. | |
| And it can. It can go the other way, too, someday. | |
| It can play little tricks with them. | |
| We're not going to let them control what we can and cannot see, read, and learn from. | |
| We can't do that. America is a free country. | |
| And we are going to stay always a free country. | |
| We've got a First Amendment for that. | |
| Let's use it to bust big tech. | |
| Why should a chosen few, Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Greenblatt, Cohen, decide what views we can learn here and see? | |
| Especially from the SPLC. Well, Google is policing the content posted to YouTube, and they're using a thoroughly discredited left-wing group to do that. | |
| Google is creating a group of trusted flaggers who will help the company monitor alleged extremist content on the website. | |
| One of those trusted flaggers is not trusted at all. | |
| It's the Southern Poverty Law Center. | |
| It's not an expert on the South or poverty or the law. | |
| And big tech crying, oh, we're privately owned and can scrub whatever we disown and post whatever we condone, doesn't get it anymore. | |
| Ownership doesn't always mean absolute dominion. | |
| The more an owner, for his advantage, expands his property for use by the public, the more his rights become circumscribed by the constitutional claims of those who use it. | |
| That was the ruling in the plaintiff's favor in the Supreme Court case, Marsh v. | |
| Alabama, where a religious pamphleteer was denied by a company-owned town in Alabama to hand out tracks on the sidewalk. | |
| Marsh won. | |
| In this far-reaching precedent, the Supreme Court determined that a private corporation operating in a quasi-public government capacity is legally bound by constitutional constraints. | |
| Her trespass, arrest, and conviction in a company town did indeed violate Marsh's First Amendment rights despite her being on purported private property. | |
| Big tech reaches far beyond the borders of a privileged small private space. | |
| Facebook constantly manipulates their users. | |
| They do it by the things that they insert into the news feeds. | |
| They do it by the types of hosts they allow their users to see. | |
| They can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be seeing, based on what your followers are presenting. | |
| It's what Google and Facebook are doing on a regular basis, by suppressing stories, by steering us towards other stories rather than the stories we're actually seeking. | |
| That's the real manipulation that's going on. | |
| No more. | |
| Big Tech is joined at the hip to Big Gov, the Pentagon, and the national security and intel apparatus via intertwining contracts, big and small. | |
| All it takes is just one viable plaintiff, cuffed by censorship, who can establish standing and then push the process up to the Supreme Court. | |
| Are you listening? Bring your suit. | |
| The precedent is in place. | |
| The time is ripe and your claim is fair. |
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