Unlike Kennedy, Cruz isn't asking questions. He's just listing conservative groups mad at Google and Facebook. Working the refs.
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Now Cruz is asking whether these are neutral platforms or not. Good question. Of course they are all like 'yes we are and also not'.
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Facebook's GC says that Facebook is a platform of "all ideas" except hate speech and also other things that are bad and also he's incoherent
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"We have strict policies against things that we allowed to happen yesterday that our PR people told us we should solemnly condemn."
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Patrick Leahy calls these companies "Johnny Come Lately" to the problem who should have spent some of their profits on this earlier.
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Leahy now bringing up the Rohingya catastrophe in Myanmar and how Facebook is contributing to it. Good question.
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FB: "We see our platform as bringing greater visibility into human rights..." around the world. They really have no answers.
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Are bots from Russia free speech?
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No, they're spam. Social media companies let them go to inflate user numbers. That's the point to be made. Ignorant politicians won't, tho.
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Except the whole part where they are private companies
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