Quote (Thor123422 @ Oct 21 2020 03:54pm)
Google is the best so 90% of the searches are on google.
That's just being better.
One of the things I find hilarious about this is the right is clambering to break up the tech giants but at the same time are appointing big business friendly judges like Barrett. Do you guys think conservatives are going to break these companies up? Fuck no. Modern conservatism in America is big business and fuck everybody else.
google is a completely different issue than others like FB/twitter, which there are also issues. i don't want these companies "broken-up". although i would not be sad at all to see their stock plummit.
i would advocate not using FB or twitter because of their practices, there are alternatives
"AND" everyone has a choice to leave the platform. problem solved, seriously, you're right here 100%.
the issue with both FB/twitter is that they use 47 U.S. Code § 230 to prevent lawsuits. these protections are designed to give platforms the ability to remove "offensive" materials
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230Quote
47 U.S. Code § 230 - Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material
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(c)Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material
(1)Treatment of publisher or speaker
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
(2)Civil liability No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
(A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
(B)any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).[1]
FB/Twitter is hiding under section 230. they have broken the boundaries of being a "platform", and moved into "publisher" territory. removing things from the platforms based on political view-point, has theoretically removed the liability "protections" in section 230, that these companies use against lawsuits. especially as section 230 is written like this...
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(3)The Internet and other interactive computer services offer a forum for a true diversity of political discourse, unique opportunities for cultural development, and myriad avenues for intellectual activity.
i'll follow this with just 1 example. NYPost
Alphabet Inc. (google)... is a different issue than FB/twitter. it's "not only" over 90% of american searches, that is just one branch of a very large tree.
the DoJ is comparing them to AT&T, Microsoft and Standard Oil.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-monopolist-google-violating-antitrust-lawsQuote
“As with its historic antitrust actions against AT&T in 1974 and Microsoft in 1998, the Department is again enforcing the Sherman Act to restore the role of competition and open the door to the next wave of innovation—this time in vital digital markets,” said Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen.
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The antitrust laws protect our free market economy and forbid monopolists from engaging in anticompetitive practices. They also empower the Department of Justice to bring cases like this one to remedy violations and restore competition, as it has done for over a century in notable cases involving monopolists over other critical industries undergirding the American economy like Standard Oil and the AT&T telephone monopoly. Decades ago the Department’s case against Microsoft recognized that the antitrust laws forbid anticompetitive agreements by high-technology monopolists to require preinstalled default status, to shut off distribution channels to rivals, and to make software undeletable. The Complaint alleges that Google is using similar agreements itself to maintain and extend its own dominance.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statement-attorney-general-announcement-civil-antitrust-lawsuit-filed-against-google