Jan 6 committee subpoenas Meta, Google, Reddit etc. after 'inadequate responses'
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#2The implication from the committee is that these companies should have monitored and suppressed/censored their users harder? Is the committee looking for a scapegoat or something?
Re: Jan 6 committee subpoenas Meta, Google, Reddit etc. after 'inadequate responses'
#3The implication from the committee is that these companies should have monitored and suppressed/censored their users harder? Is the committee looking for a scapegoat or something?
Well, I mean ofcourse. They are just "restoring" the democracy
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#4Man, the democrats are really trying to hand republicans every election for the next decade.
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#5Re: Jan 6 committee subpoenas Meta, Google, Reddit etc. after 'inadequate responses'
#6The implication from the committee is that these companies should have monitored and suppressed/censored their users harder? Is the committee looking for a scapegoat or something?
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#7This kind of pressure on companies to censor seems like an end around on the first amendment. It technically is not the government censoring or mandating censorship, but it uses the threat of government power and the power to irritate and harass for companies that don't toe the line. Unfortunately, I can only see this getting worse. For example, if the Republicans come to power in 2022, I can see them having a committee hold hearings on the "riots" of 2020 and subpoenaing all these companies about how their platform was used to organize the protests/riots. Soon, companies will just censor any attempt to organize a protest online.
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#8The implication from the committee is that these companies should have monitored and suppressed/censored their users harder? Is the committee looking for a scapegoat or something?
Is it? What I got from the quotations the article chose to use was “we don’t have enough info and we think you have not told us everything we need to know to about what happened”.
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#9We have a First Amendment... but if you run a platform that does not even use the First Amendment, you'll get subpoenaed and harassed.
In theory, I ran a platform that protected everything the First Amendment did, and protected nothing that the Amendment did not protect, I should be legally in the clear.
But I'm not going to attempt such a thing - because it's clear Congress would do the ultimate shakedown.
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