Congress has a legitimate role to play in overseeing tech giants, especially given its (valid) assessment that they wield classic monopoly power. But they're not doing anything about that: they're instead trying to co-opt that power to censor the internet for their own interests
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This whole hearing is nothing more than an attempt by members of Congress to badger, threaten and coerce FB, Twitter and Google to use their power to censor political speech, by banning the ideas and people Congressmembers regard as adversarial. Nothing more to it than that.
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When Congress or other state agencies use their power to threaten or coerce private actors to censor in accordance with their political will, the Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that this violates the First Amendment. It is effective state censorship:https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure-on-tech …
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Good to know Glenn is reading some Moldbug.
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Thank goodness we have a conservative supreme court that could do something about this should they ever succeed with this power grab. Right?
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If that’s you think that’s a bulwark enjoy
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I have listened and appreciate the work, excellent computer voice.
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I'm not mad, but I don't think I could imagine saying the sentence "Glenn Greenwald reads Mencius Moldbug" 6 years ago.
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Greenwald citing Moldbug, what the hell is going on
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