Social media and political censorship
Required to guide us to “healthier" viewing and reading habits
The Democrats want their pals that own social media to help them shape and control public narratives. This is political censorship. A slippery slope that could lead to one-party rule and tyranny.
Silicon Valley, and its associated industries (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, Amazon, etc.) control the Internet in the U.S. as well as retail commerce. These companies have de facto fused with the progressive political movement to stifle free expression deemed either unwelcome or antithetical to their shared ideological agendas.
Liberal groups like Public Knowledge which support the bill also openly discuss its real purpose, declaring that it will halt “the promotion of misinformation" and develop new avenues "to reduce the spread of misinformation.”
How is combatting "misinformation" content-neutral? The answer will be imposed by a new commission that can declare a site’s failure to take “appropriate” measures as constituting “unfair or deceptive acts or practices.” That would create a glacial chilling effect on these companies, which will err on the side of censorship.
Klobuchar seems to be making her own ‘Trust us, we’ve got this" pledge to fellow Democrats. The key term used in the Act is "algorithmic amplification." Klobuchar makes clear the intent to use algorithms to stop "pushing dangerous content."
Democrats in Congress have argued for years that these companies need to protect citizens from bad choices by using beneficent algorithms to guide us to “healthier" viewing and reading habits."
Tech Trojan Horse: How the Senate is poised to codify censorship of social media
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/596913-tech-trojan-horse-how-the-senate-is-poised-to-codify-censorship-of-social