My latest in PJ Media:
For perhaps the first time in her career, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has made a good public policy proposal, saying that Facebook should be broken up and noting correctly that “Zuckerberg himself said Facebook is ‘more like a government than a traditional company.’ They’ve bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, undermined our democracy, and tilted the playing field against everyone else.’” But now she has made clear that her problem with Facebook is not that it is behaving like a totalitarian state, demonizing and silencing those whom it hates, but that it is not authoritarian enough.
Facebook top dog Mark Zuckerburg said in the now-famous leaked audio from last July: “You have someone like Elizabeth Warren who thinks that the right answer is to break up the companies… If [Warren] gets elected president, then I would bet that we will have a legal challenge, and I would bet that we will win the legal challenge. And does that still suck for us? Yeah.”
Yeah. Especially since Warren is not backing off. “Facebook’s anti-competitive mergers,” Fauxcahontas tweeted Tuesday, “mean they face no real pressure to tackle disinformation.” What is disinformation, as far as Elizabeth Warren and her colleagues on the far-Left are concerned? Anything that dissents from their own agenda, and particularly anything that portrays in a positive light President Trump or anything he has done or attempted to do.
Warren and Facebook, as opposed as they are to each other recently, are both well aware that the Democrats went into 2016 carrying around all of the establishment media (with the partial exception of Fox News) in their pocket like so many nickels and dimes. They knew that they could count on the New York Times, the Washington Post, the TV networks, and the rest to provide relentlessly negative coverage of Trump and unremittingly positive presentations of Hillary Clinton. They knew that the major “news” outlets would do all they could to cover up Clinton’s manifest corruption and obviously off-putting personality.
Yet she still lost. She lost because Trump and his supporters took to social media to counter the media propaganda, and they prevailed. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the rest are determined not to let this happen again in 2020, and ever since their 2016 debacle have been working assiduously to ban, shadowban, deplatform, and otherwise silence all voices that dissent from the hard-Left agenda, however mildly. The only voices they’re going to allow you to hear in 2020 are their own. Dissenters will not be tolerated.
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