Good day all. The 2020 election showed people many things. One of the things it showed was that the companies collectively known as “Big Tech” were not hesitant to abuse their reach to suppress information that made President Trump look good and Joe Biden look bad.
This led to hundreds of GOP candidates being blocked, suspended or booted off the platforms. There were posts that were removed or hidden by their “Fact Checkers” as not accurate that later turned out to be both accurate and factual. Many Republican candidates started saying that platforms such as Twitler and Faceplant were providing “In Kind” donations to the Democrat Party. Now Governor DeSantis of Florida has ordered state officials to look into potential election interference by Big Tech. Here are the details from The Hill:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has instructed Secretary of State Laurel Lee to investigate Facebook for “alleged election interference.”
The investigation follows The Wall Street Journal’s explosive report entitled The Facebook Files, which said that, among multiple other accusations, some VIP users were exempt from the social media giant’s policies during the 2020 election under a program called “cross check.” According to the Journal’s report, millions of those users — mostly celebrities, journalists and politicians — were not subject to Facebook’s usual standards of behavior.
Let’s go a little deeper here shall we? Those people who were “Exempt” all tended to be on the hard left wing and were pushing hard for the Progressive Liberal Democratic Communazis and their Marxist policies.
“It’s no secret that Big Tech censors have long enforced their own rules inconsistently,” DeSantis said in a press release. “If this new report is true, Facebook has violated Florida law to put its thumb on the scale of numerous state and local races. Floridians deserve to know how much this corporate titan has influenced our elections.”
DeSantis’s release said that, if the Journal’s reporting proves to be accurate, Facebook created “a privileged class of speakers and has empowered them to manipulate our elections with impunity.”
“We do not know where exactly this alleged electioneering occurred, and the scope is known only to Facebook,” DeSantis’s press secretary Christina Pushaw said in an email to The Hill. “That’s why Governor DeSantis ordered this investigation. If Facebook’s double standards amounted to interference in state and local races in Florida, then Floridians deserve to know the extent of it.”
It isn’t that the citizens of Florida deserve to know if Big Tech actively interfered in the election, supporting one side and suppressing the other, it’s what, if any laws were broken and who authorized the activities.
“Floridians deserve to have faith that their elections are free from Big Tech interference, and corporations like Facebook deserve to be held accountable for actions that erode the legitimacy of our institutions,” DeSantis, who has long accused tech giants of anti-conservative bias, added in his statement.
One of the targets of both parties ire is Mark Zuckerberg. Granted it’s the Republican Party that would like his head on a platter, but some of the activities of Faceplant have also “Triggered” the house and senate members of the Communazis party. Others, like Alexandria Occasional-Cortex, are communists and want the state to take over and run corporations like Faceplant, Goolag, Twitler, Amasnot and Crapple.
In a statement to The Hill, Facebook spokesperson Drew Pusateri defended the “cross check” program, while saying that the company has made efforts to improve the system.
Oh this should be entertaining.
“The cross check system was designed for an important reason: to create an additional step so we can accurately enforce policies on content that could require more understanding,” Pusateri said. “This could include activists raising awareness of instances of violence or journalists reporting from conflict zones. Facebook itself identified the issues with cross check and has been working to address them. We’ve made investments, built a dedicated team, and have been redesigning cross check to improve how the system operates.”
How about making that exact same statement while under oath? I seriously doubt you would, especially if they start prosecuting people for the lies they tell. It seems that every time corporations like Faceplant and Twitler make a statement like this, something else pops up that makes the statement “is now inoperative.”
There is now serious discussions on hitting some of the Big Tech companies with antitrust suits and forcing them to be broken up. While I would like to see Big Tech brought to heel, I’m not sure that is the way to go. It might be that following the path Governor DeSantis is laying out may be the way to go, first slamming them with multi-billion dollar judgments and then going after everyone who made the decisions. Seeing people like Zuckerberg, Bezos, Dorsey and Pichai hauled off in handcuffs might be the way to go. We shall see what happens.
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