Brother Nathanael - First Amendment Can Bust Big Tech
Aired: 2019-03-04
Duration: 04:45


=== Free Speech Rights Matter (04:35) ===

[00:00:01]  You gotta put your money where your mouth is.
[00:00:04]  Better yet, let's put the Bill of Rights where our lips are being zipped tight.
[00:00:10]  Freedom of speech in cyberspace, the central place for political and cultural debate is what's at stake.
[00:00:18]  Social media is the new town square and no longer a private affair.
[00:00:25]  Very importantly, my administration is also standing up For the free speech rights of all Americans.
[00:00:35]  Free speech rights.
[00:00:37]  Look at social media.
[00:00:39]  It's a thing called free speech rights.
[00:00:42]  You look at Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media giants.
[00:00:49]  And I've made it clear that we, as a country, cannot tolerate political censorship, blacklisting, and rigged search results.
[00:01:00]  And you know it can go the other way also.
[00:01:04]  Today's one-way street is tomorrow's U-turn.
[00:01:07]  The power of what we see and learn goes way beyond anything George Orwell could have ever unturned.
[00:01:16]  We will not let large corporations silence conservative voices.
[00:01:22]  And it can. It can go the other way, too, someday.
[00:01:26]  It can play little tricks with them.
[00:01:29]  We're not going to let them control what we can and cannot see, read, and learn from.
[00:01:37]  We can't do that. America is a free country.
[00:01:43]  And we are going to stay always a free country.
[00:01:47]  We've got a First Amendment for that.
[00:01:50]  Let's use it to bust big tech.
[00:01:53]  Why should a chosen few, Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Greenblatt, Cohen, decide what views we can learn here and see?
[00:02:04]  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.
[00:02:15]  Google is creating a group of trusted flaggers who will help the company monitor alleged extremist content on the website.
[00:02:22]  One of those trusted flaggers is not trusted at all.
[00:02:25]  It's the Southern Poverty Law Center.
[00:02:26]  It's not an expert on the South or poverty or the law.
[00:02:29]  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.
[00:02:39]  Ownership doesn't always mean absolute dominion.
[00:02:43]  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.
[00:02:56]  That was the ruling in the plaintiff's favor in the Supreme Court case, Marsh v.
[00:03:02]  Alabama, where a religious pamphleteer was denied by a company-owned town in Alabama to hand out tracks on the sidewalk.
[00:03:11]  Marsh won.
[00:03:13]  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.
[00:03:25]  Her trespass, arrest, and conviction in a company town did indeed violate Marsh's First Amendment rights despite her being on purported private property.
[00:03:36]  Big tech reaches far beyond the borders of a privileged small private space.
[00:03:46]  Facebook constantly manipulates their users.
[00:03:48]  They do it by the things that they insert into the news feeds.
[00:03:51]  They do it by the types of hosts they allow their users to see.
[00:03:54]  They can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be seeing, based on what your followers are presenting.
[00:04:01]  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.
[00:04:11]  That's the real manipulation that's going on.
[00:04:14]  No more.
[00:04:16]  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.

=== The Time Is Ripe (00:23) ===

[00:04:27]  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.
[00:04:38]  Are you listening? Bring your suit.
[00:04:41]  The precedent is in place.
[00:04:43]  The time is ripe and your claim is fair.