America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Saturday, June 5, 2021
UK AND EU LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION INTO JOE BIDEN CRONY NEO-FASCIST MARK ZUCKERBERG
Rubio: 'Five Companies in America Now Have the Power to...Silence Anyone'
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says the nation's five largest social media companies -- Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple -- are the new "gatekeepers of the public square in American politics."
"We've never been here before," Rubio told Fox News's Sean Hannity Thursday night.
Five companies in America now have the power to basically wipe anybody out and silence anyone.
You know, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, you know, they all get together, and they decide -- Apple -- they get together and decide, we're going to wipe somebody out, you're done. There's nowhere for you to communicate. You can't even get web services, and you can't communicate to the outside world your views.
More than that, they now have put themselves in a position of determining what news can be re-reported. We remember those articles about Hunter Biden, and they quashed "The New York Post" stories. They wouldn't let it be spread.
And now for the first time, we've seen them have to go back and remove a ban on stories about the origins of the COVID-19 virus because they've proven to be untrue. This is the danger here is, you have a bunch of unelected, unaccountable, anonymous people deciding what we're allowed to say to one another and what we're allowed to share.
That's a very dangerous moment. They have assumed basically governmental type powers without being accountable to anyone.
One year ago, Rubio joined Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and other Republicans in introducing a bill that would allow Americans to sue Big Tech companies for acting in bad faith by selectively censoring political speech and hiding content created by their competitors.
The Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act would prohibit Big Tech companies from receiving Section 230 immunity unless they update their terms of service to operate under a clear good faith standard and pay a $5,000 fine if they violate those terms.
“Recent actions by Big Tech call into question the legal immunities that social media companies enjoy under Section 230 and whether these firms live up to their obligations,” Rubio said at the time, in June 2020.
“It is time to take a fresh look at the statute and clarify the vague standard of ‘good faith’ for which technology companies receive legal protections. That is exactly what this bill does. While Section 230 serves an important purpose, it should not protect unrelated activities such as censorship and political activism.”
UK and EU Antitrust Authorities Launch Facebook Investigation
The European Commission and Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority have both launched investigations focused on Facebook Marketplace to determine if Mark Zuckerberg’s company uses data from advertisers to compete with them.
NBC News reports that the European Union and the United Kingdom have both launched antitrust investigations into Facebook’s use of advertising data in its online sales marketplace, which could result in Facebook being forced to change its business model as well as face fines.
The European Commission and Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority are reportedly investigating whether Facebook users data from advertisers to compete with them. The European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has battled with Facebook over antitrust issues multiple times in the past.
Vestager has fined tech firms like Google $9.7 billion over antitrust issues and is currently investigating Amazon and Apple. Vestager reportedly plans to focus on Facebook’s collection of data from the near 7 million companies that advertise on the platform.
“We will look in detail at whether this data gives Facebook an undue competitive advantage in particular on the online classified ads sector, where people buy and sell goods every day, and where Facebook also competes with companies from which it collects data,” she said. Vestager added: “In today’s digital economy, data should not be used in ways that distort competition.”
Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority also announced an investigation into whether Facebook is abusing its dominant position in social media or digital advertising through its collection and use of data. Facebook stated that it plans to fully cooperate with both the EU and the UK investigation to “demonstrate that they are without merit.”
Facebook said its “marketplace and dating offer people more choices, both products operate in highly competitive environment with many large incumbents.”
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolanor contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com
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