President Joe Biden wants to suppress speech that discourages Americans from being vaccinated against COVID-19. Because the First Amendment doesn’t allow him to do that, he is asking Facebook and other social-media giants to do it for him.

Or at least, that’s the way White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who calls the Biden administration’s demands for speech restrictions “our asks,” describes the situation. But given the federal government’s power to make life difficult for Facebook and other firms, the line between a request and a command is hazy, and so is the line between private content moderation and government censorship.

The background to this dispute includes an antitrust suit against Facebook that was dismissed last month but may be refiled by the Federal Trade Commission. It also includes Biden’s opposition to a federal law that shields online platforms from liability for content posted by users, which he thinks “should be revoked,” a woefully misguided idea that nevertheless has bipartisan support.

source (WARNING: HTTPS LEAK. LOTS OF 3RD PARTY TRACKERS 147 of them): https://nypost.com/2021/07/20/bidens-attempt-to-rope-big-tech-into-censorship-is-downright-sinister/

They already do this through the fusion centers, so what's the point of doing it overtly?

The government can shut down all these tech companies in two ways at any time using 47 USC 230, blackmailing the DNS providers to remove them from the internet, or suing them using the DOJ under 47 USC 202, nullifying 47 USC 230, and totally destroying their business by removing the mechanisms they use against competitors, to control markets, and to manufacture popularity through communications obstruction of detractors.

Facebook and Twitter are basic bitch sites that haven't innovated at all, but rely on 47 USC 230 and tech cartel to make their basic services relevant.

If you remove 47 USC 230 and all their communication rivals aren't deplatformed by google, apple, hosting companies, and advertisement cartels, then Facebook and Twitter don't have anymore advantages and are revealed to be just generic uninnovative companies occupying a space they can't actually compete in.

If the USA gov doesn't remove 47 USC 230, all communication is just going to move to self hosting through encrypted darknet schemes. Then intelligence and law enforcement are going to be cut out of the information loop. It's actually really stupid to keep 47 USC 230, since in addition to manufacturing political consent for fucking dumb schemes, it cripples internet markets and sets a global standard of top down control which Chinese companies are far better positioned to exploit than the USA.

Most likely, the whole point of this stunt is to try to convince Americans that government doesn't already control the big tech companies.

But that's going to be very hard to believe when something like 1/3 of Americans have had their communications obstructed on big tech for challenging claims made by government and people already know about the fusion centers coordinating censorship of political dissenters and people exposing government protected rackets.

These people involved with these schemes have names, addresses, and families.

And good people don't work for bad people or bad organizations.

These employees are still bad people after their organizations have been toppled.

And an apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

After Twitter and Facebook fall, the USA government falls, what are you going to do with all these bad bloodlines?

Are you going to let them live here to set up another scheme?

What are you going to do with all the Facebook and Twitter employees that thought obstructing America's communications to fabricate political support for an illegimate regime was okay?

What are you going to do with their kids and grandkids that have a similar propensity?

Are they just going to walk away like they didn't play a role in undermining Western democratic processes and fabricate the illusion of public approval for their own genocide?

Do they get to live here like their family didn't support with their labor genociding all the White people for $30 an hour?

Are you going to believe them when they say they "didn't know"? Do you even care if they knew when someone stupid enough to not know would pose a danger to your community as long as they live?