Editor,
Democrats now want government to create a “Reality Czar” to police “untruths” on the internet. Does this sound to anyone like the state media in Russia shutting down the speech of Aleksei Navalny? It’s the job of our courts to determine what is free speech, not Google, Facebook and Twitter. Companies shouldn’t censor political speech with edited news feeds, biased page rankings, etc.
The Democrats’ chokehold over speech is Amazon, Microsoft and Google’s virtual monopoly on cloud services that cooperate in censoring Republican sites. One answer is for Republican investors to start their own cloud service for a market of 76 million Republican customers. Another is that in return for liability protection under section 230, social media companies should be restricted from censoring free political speech allowed under the Constitution and Supreme Court rulings. They should be the first to encourage free speech and the more the better.
Ed Kahl
Woodside
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(7) comments
Just curious. Has Blue Lives Matter had anything to say about the assault on police at the Capitol on January 6th?
Hello, Cindy
I'm sure police officers in DC and everywhere else will have a lot to say once Nancy Pelosi explains why former Capitol police chief Steve Sund's request for more security personnel... sent two days before the riot... was denied. Then, maybe she could give us more details about why House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving resigned the day after the Jan. 6 riot. Remember, Steve Sund and Paul Irving worked for the Speaker.
While we're waiting for Nancy's response... Cindy, maybe you could shed some light on those developments?
Just curious, has Black Lives Matter had anything to say about the assault of unarmed citizens in the streets of America in 2020?
Just curious. Is there one iota of equivalence in the BLM marches and the assault on our Capital and democracy by the 1/6 insurrectionists?
Actually, Rel, the BLM marches were worse than the Antifa-led assault on the Capitol, especially financially. Thanks for asking.
Terence,
I guess you might be technically correct about the BLM marches being worse than the Antifa led assault, as you call it, because there was no Antifa assault, therefore any other march would be worse.
Rel
It appears the summer of violence was sparked by left wingers and the riot in DC was sparked by right wingers. Beyond the fact both series of events were the result of vandalism and violence at the hands of extremists... no equivalence. A couple of key differences emerge when you look at the scope of the violence. The left extremist inspired summer of violence cost 20 lives and about 2 billion dollars... the highest total for civil unrest in US history. Still waiting for the Democratic Party's leadership to condemn last summer's violence... they had plenty to say about the DC riot.
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