As strongly as I believe in letting the free marketplace work things out, this marketplace is hardly open to competition, for the most part. Yes, there are options for Google, and I use duckduckgo all the time. If a website won’t let me in unless I agree to being bombarded with their ads, I go elsewhere. However, email for the blog I write is tied to Google, and there is not an option for that. I do not have and will resist ever having a Facebook account, a decision firmed up because of the company’s continuing policy of censoring at whim and because of their cavalier attitude toward security and privacy issues.
The Freezing Senior
5 years ago
Quite A Hypocritic Question …
The way AMAC blog moderator CENSORS posts for his/her/their own political agenda, don’t you think.
Now dig this – GBA/MAGA/TRUMP2020 – Deus Vult !
Brian B
5 years ago
Big Tech routinely relegates conservative speech to “restrictive mode.” My pro-life congressman recently made a speech before the House on abortion, but I couldn’t watch it on YouTube unless I changed the filter on my phone. Pro-life speech is placed in the same “restrictive” category as pornography. Discussions that oppose abortion, even congressional debate, are censored by Google/YouTube. Their obvious intent is to completely suppress any conservative speech via manipulative censorship. The liberal political activists at Facebook, Twitter, Google/YouTube have purposefully established filtering algorithms in an effort to silence dissent. Their object is to remove conservative values from public conversation and debate. Big Tech has become an enemy of democracy. This can’t continue if we expect the rising generation to know the truth. Thank God we finally have a President who will stand in defense of free and honest public discourse. MAGA
BobA
5 years ago
I responded to let the free market work things out because I feel company’s like google who are so left leaning and censor conservative thinking and comment will eventually fall. It’s well known that google restricts conservative media sites while no prominent liberal site receives the same treatment. Eventually the free market will change this behaviour.
Mike
5 years ago
Although I disagree with a lot of what I see on social media I have found that regulations equal censorship. Sometimes it’s good to see these outrages posts it helps you solidify your beliefs and in some ways it works against those who choose to try and sway people with lies. Remember regulations don’t stop at social media next it’s guns then how much money you can make in a free market. Regulations may have good intentions but it’s the regulators who can not be trusted.
D Marceau
5 years ago
FCC regulates TV, Radio on what they can say & show & have ratings,why not the internet. Could maybe be where we as users could pick our ratings We want to see just like movies. I’m not one for government regulations but YES the internet & places like FB need some GUIDE LINES
Mark Jebe
5 years ago
The answer isn’t regulation, it’s regulation that gave them their power. The answer is deregulation.
Congress made Google and Facebook exempt from liability for content. Page, Brin and Zuckerberg convinced Congress they shouldn’t be held liable for damages caused by content their customers post. They are simply platforms that exercise no editorial power, unlike newspapers and magazines and television and radio.
And as soon as Congress ensured we can’t sue them, Google and Facebook immediately began funneling readers toward the content they liked while shadow banning or deleting and/or demonetizing content they didn’t like, exercising the editorial power they said they didn’t have. Once Google and Facebook started playing favorites with content they should have lost their exemption from liability.
The way to fix this is to remove that exemption, allowing people to sue them for the false and libelous and dangerous content. They’d either immediately stop playing editorial favorites, or they’d face millions of lawsuits from shadow banned and demonetized content providers–as they should.
Kimberly Good
5 years ago
Facebook has the power to define hate speech to include white nationalism and the left considers President Trump and his supporters as white nationalists. They are controlling the narrative and society is allowing them to silence anyone who disagrees with the far left.
Fish
5 years ago
One thing is certain, Facebook In Google do bring out the worst in people. If we’re going to regulate them, we also need to regulate print and broadcast media as they commit the same offenses.
Carla
5 years ago
The FACT that these entities have been caught selling our information and data to Communists and other countries is unsettling and to me almost as bad as treason.It is no business of China or Russia who anyone is on FB or doing searches for mundane things on Google or your children doing HOMEWORK!!!!It is a invasion of a new form.
Deanna Losen
5 years ago
With respect to Facebook and Google regulation. My position is that if your company is on the stock exchange, you are now a part of the public domain and should be accountable to the public.
Bryan
5 years ago
No conservatives or republicans here.
We are a constitutional republic. That also means that we are for free trade “AND” being independent, self reliant, and responsible we choose our products wisely and allow the market forces to clean up bad actors.
Big tech is not the problem, it’s lazy consumers. Save us big government, save us. Hypocrites!
Charles
5 years ago
Over the past several presidential administrations, there has been massive de-regulation that hurts people more than they recognize or admit. The country is no longer the democracy that made it great, but blindly and indifferently accepts greed, centralization of wealth to very few, embraces lobbying and boardroom control of ALL of our governments, and the laws of supply & demand no longer apply. Add to that the emplacement of insiders into every agency, board, & commission and people no longer have a voice. So, yes I vote emphatically that the country needs to revisit 19th century trust-busting, as well as take other steps that have drained our wealth & resources.
Stephen Russell
5 years ago
Yes esp for data security & privacy alone & TOO much power, break up & make Information Utilities like phone companies.
Regulate where needed.
Or nothing changes
Vaughn C. Button
5 years ago
All that’s needed is COMPETITION
Crystal Martin
5 years ago
Regulations invite government interference, intrusion, and over-reaching regulations yjat diminish oir Constitution.
Tom M
5 years ago
I do not trust Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, and even Amazon, and many others. I do not like the way they collect information as if your privacy doesn’t matter. I us ad-blockers and hate being swamped with pro-mos constantly. I am anti-marketing for the very reason that everyone wants your dollars and your info. If I am in the market for an item, I’d rather do my own research and not be pushed into something I don’t need. The sad fact is that the Internet couldn’t survive without constant and targeted advertising. Over the last 20 years, the big players have completely taken over the Internet. There is little competition outside of the previous mentioned companies. I try as much as possible to avoid these companies and their products. Perhaps free markets can settle the issues, but the government is always interfering. And I trust government least of all.
Daniel
5 years ago
Our children and Grandkids have to much access the porn and other non Christian believes which is what is destroying our county along with the invasion of the muslin and other non believers into our country
Sam
5 years ago
I hoped they all go out of business!
Steve
5 years ago
The problem with government regulation is no one oversees the unelected regulators.
Michael Cross
5 years ago
Yes, they do need some regulation. BUT NOT BY THE GOVERNMENT.
Michael Cross
5 years ago
Yes! But not by the Government.
TomB
5 years ago
You can live without Facebook and Twitter. The folks who are concerned, about their privacy and treatment of their data, should “speak loudly” and consider dropping their membership (you can always go back). Then free market forces would be the influence. Regulation by any government entity or agency is a “foot in the door” and that rarely turns out well. Our home has no Twitter, no Facebook, and we search with DuckDuckGo that, unlike Google, respects our privacy. P.S. Our Government has been trying to regulate the internet for a long time, don’t give them a chance.
Bryan
5 years ago
The average person has family, close, distant and ignored and only 5 close friends if they are that lucky. Quit trying to impress the billions out there that only want to criticize or laugh at you.
Get you news from reliable sources and participate in those comment sections.
Create your own mailing lists. The resources are available, get off social media and start enjoying life.
There is no excuse, screw Facebook, quit being lazy and leave the government out of it. Isn’t that why your here in the first place? Get off the couch and get a life and quit being hypocrites!
Dan F
5 years ago
Don’t make the same mistake again,that Judge Green made in 1983.When he broke up the Bell System.He has said over the years it was the worst decision he ever made on a case.
Richard
5 years ago
We have way too much government intrusion on our lives and businesses today. Let the market place sift and winnow the chaff out!
ROBERT
5 years ago
Yes. Do it!!!
Skeptic Al
5 years ago
Global monopolies control of mass media platforms of every sort are a serious growing threat to national security…. Like having a secret agent and a propaganda politburo minister in every house…
Glenn
5 years ago
There are some start ups for conservative people. Brighteon.com and USA.Life. These are chat and news sites that don’t don’t tail you or censor conservative comments. You might want to look into them. You never heard of them because they are just getting started and they are alternative media to Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Bryan
5 years ago
Welcome to the forum for hypocrites
Carol Hopkins
5 years ago
Google and Facebook are ultra liberal in their world view and are CENSORING many articles and videos I like. The latest being re vaccines. If you write anything the least bit negative about vaccines, they kick you off. Same for truth about “news.” They and YouTube don’t like truth in news. Just lame propaganda, like the old Soviet Union.
American Believer
5 years ago
Once the giants began taking sides on issues they lost their right to remain independent. Originally they were conceived as PLATFORMS for the general population to voice their personal attitudes about any issue they had a passion for. Now they’ve become political forums that limit free speech based upon their personal agendas (or those of advertisers that pay them). Thus, they either revert to unbiased platforms or suffer the control of the swamp, which has its own agenda.
Marilyn harrison
5 years ago
The tech companies need to be taken down. I very much resent being locked out of Facebook for my written content, They have NO write to Dictate what I have on my mind
Bryan
5 years ago
I’m totally against big government, but, but, but, I gotta have my Facebook and Twitter.
Play in the lefts sandbox and get sand thrown in your face.
Janet
5 years ago
Had to vote not sure. I do think we need to have less government, not more, but letting a small group of people make censorship decisions and use data to manipulate public opinion is wrong, too.
Kenneth J. Wicker
5 years ago
Like anything with great influence, needs to be totally unbiased. Sadly not always the case.
American citizen
5 years ago
If the right controls the government, they would have no access to what google or Facebook were doing. If the left controls the government then both google & Facebook would assist in anyway that they could profit from.
Toni
5 years ago
Why aren’t there any conservative tech companies like Facebook or Google?
Silas Longshot
5 years ago
If they were truly ‘hands off’ with their treatment of everyone there would be no problem. But they can’t resist the ‘power’ of silencing the opinions of those they disagree with politically. The MSM, leftist azzholes to the core, merely yawn when the oppression of conservative speech by these insanely rich leftists is exposed, but with the usual double standards, they would be raising hell if some conservative controlled mega-business even dared think of suppressing foul leftist ranting. They already hate any successful conservative valued corporation, such as Chick-Fil-A who they paint as a ‘hate organization’ because of Christian values, without the slightest proof of anything towards the LGBTXYZ deviants from anyone at Chick-Fil-A. The government has broken up many large ‘monopolies’ before, like the AT&T phone company and other versions of the same. And they were not suppressing anyone’s rights to free speech.
Shape up or break up, your choice facebook, youtube, etc.
Joe W
5 years ago
I don’t get upset with the advertising. What I hate is the censorship and intrusion into your life. No one connected to the internet owns the software they are using. Windows updates by itself and installs whatever it wants to. Websites strip information from you computer without your express permission. Why does it take 30 pages of legal mumbo-jumbo to explain your privacy rights? Ever actually read one of those things you have to agree to before anything will work? The computer giants are headed the same was at the print media did. He who controls the flow of information controls history. And now…. it can all be done in an instant. Censor you and change history.
Bryan
5 years ago
Take 3 left leaning big tech companies and split them and guess what? You are responsible for creating 6 left leaning big tech companies. Congratulations!
Free market solutions are the only thing that works.
This is a site for conservatives, please, in the future keep your comments posted on Facebook.
Billy Linsley
5 years ago
I do not trust Facebook and Google. I trust our Federal Government even less. Let the free market work.
Lowly Worm
5 years ago
Everything else is regulated, why not them too? I dont use Google anymore and have stopped using Facebook too. Im sick of all the spying they do.
Robert J Stitt Sr
5 years ago
You needed at least one more option, they should be lightly regulated with an overseer to keep them on the straight and narrow. Some of these things they r being accused of are kind of ridiculous. What company does not advertise to the people who is most likely to buy their product.
Max
5 years ago
I to was thinking Yes we should regulate. If they are in the publc domain then they should follow all rules and regulations in that regard. Then the other half of me says let the free market decide I see other entrepreneurs stepping up and creating their own social media sites like MeWe and Spreely.com which allow uncensored speech, granted some you will not like but you have the option to hide those posts. So there are free market options. However, Facebook has a pay option whch would throw it into a different catagory.
Oscar Burress
5 years ago
We the people are the ones that need to regulate these monopolies by not using them. Maybe just maybe they will wake up.
Guy Smith
5 years ago
Facebook needs to be monitored and regulated from violation of freedom of speech of conservatives currently being descrimated against under the biased control of Zuckerberg and his facist tactics of controlling comments on Facebook.
Martin
5 years ago
We have the freedom to not view or utilize such evil left leaning sites and applications, that’s why I still have a flip phone! They are dead to me.
Mike D
5 years ago
The real issues are prejudice against conservative views and the giving of technological aid to China but refusing to do business with the US government (while not illegal it undermines the security of our country). These are left wing liberal minded companies which appear to e an extension of the marcist, socialist, communist radical Democrat Party and mostt news media outlets. Regulate them in that opinions are posted without bias. Find companies and train techs to help the government effectively elevate the level of technology as Trump promised. There is nothing wrong with free enterprise bur where do you draw the line and take a stand when it comes to our freedom of speech and national security.
As strongly as I believe in letting the free marketplace work things out, this marketplace is hardly open to competition, for the most part. Yes, there are options for Google, and I use duckduckgo all the time. If a website won’t let me in unless I agree to being bombarded with their ads, I go elsewhere. However, email for the blog I write is tied to Google, and there is not an option for that. I do not have and will resist ever having a Facebook account, a decision firmed up because of the company’s continuing policy of censoring at whim and because of their cavalier attitude toward security and privacy issues.
Quite A Hypocritic Question …
The way AMAC blog moderator CENSORS posts for his/her/their own political agenda, don’t you think.
Now dig this – GBA/MAGA/TRUMP2020 – Deus Vult !
Big Tech routinely relegates conservative speech to “restrictive mode.” My pro-life congressman recently made a speech before the House on abortion, but I couldn’t watch it on YouTube unless I changed the filter on my phone. Pro-life speech is placed in the same “restrictive” category as pornography. Discussions that oppose abortion, even congressional debate, are censored by Google/YouTube. Their obvious intent is to completely suppress any conservative speech via manipulative censorship. The liberal political activists at Facebook, Twitter, Google/YouTube have purposefully established filtering algorithms in an effort to silence dissent. Their object is to remove conservative values from public conversation and debate. Big Tech has become an enemy of democracy. This can’t continue if we expect the rising generation to know the truth. Thank God we finally have a President who will stand in defense of free and honest public discourse. MAGA
I responded to let the free market work things out because I feel company’s like google who are so left leaning and censor conservative thinking and comment will eventually fall. It’s well known that google restricts conservative media sites while no prominent liberal site receives the same treatment. Eventually the free market will change this behaviour.
Although I disagree with a lot of what I see on social media I have found that regulations equal censorship. Sometimes it’s good to see these outrages posts it helps you solidify your beliefs and in some ways it works against those who choose to try and sway people with lies. Remember regulations don’t stop at social media next it’s guns then how much money you can make in a free market. Regulations may have good intentions but it’s the regulators who can not be trusted.
FCC regulates TV, Radio on what they can say & show & have ratings,why not the internet. Could maybe be where we as users could pick our ratings We want to see just like movies. I’m not one for government regulations but YES the internet & places like FB need some GUIDE LINES
The answer isn’t regulation, it’s regulation that gave them their power. The answer is deregulation.
Congress made Google and Facebook exempt from liability for content. Page, Brin and Zuckerberg convinced Congress they shouldn’t be held liable for damages caused by content their customers post. They are simply platforms that exercise no editorial power, unlike newspapers and magazines and television and radio.
And as soon as Congress ensured we can’t sue them, Google and Facebook immediately began funneling readers toward the content they liked while shadow banning or deleting and/or demonetizing content they didn’t like, exercising the editorial power they said they didn’t have. Once Google and Facebook started playing favorites with content they should have lost their exemption from liability.
The way to fix this is to remove that exemption, allowing people to sue them for the false and libelous and dangerous content. They’d either immediately stop playing editorial favorites, or they’d face millions of lawsuits from shadow banned and demonetized content providers–as they should.
Facebook has the power to define hate speech to include white nationalism and the left considers President Trump and his supporters as white nationalists. They are controlling the narrative and society is allowing them to silence anyone who disagrees with the far left.
One thing is certain, Facebook In Google do bring out the worst in people. If we’re going to regulate them, we also need to regulate print and broadcast media as they commit the same offenses.
The FACT that these entities have been caught selling our information and data to Communists and other countries is unsettling and to me almost as bad as treason.It is no business of China or Russia who anyone is on FB or doing searches for mundane things on Google or your children doing HOMEWORK!!!!It is a invasion of a new form.
With respect to Facebook and Google regulation. My position is that if your company is on the stock exchange, you are now a part of the public domain and should be accountable to the public.
No conservatives or republicans here.
We are a constitutional republic. That also means that we are for free trade “AND” being independent, self reliant, and responsible we choose our products wisely and allow the market forces to clean up bad actors.
Big tech is not the problem, it’s lazy consumers. Save us big government, save us. Hypocrites!
Over the past several presidential administrations, there has been massive de-regulation that hurts people more than they recognize or admit. The country is no longer the democracy that made it great, but blindly and indifferently accepts greed, centralization of wealth to very few, embraces lobbying and boardroom control of ALL of our governments, and the laws of supply & demand no longer apply. Add to that the emplacement of insiders into every agency, board, & commission and people no longer have a voice. So, yes I vote emphatically that the country needs to revisit 19th century trust-busting, as well as take other steps that have drained our wealth & resources.
Yes esp for data security & privacy alone & TOO much power, break up & make Information Utilities like phone companies.
Regulate where needed.
Or nothing changes
All that’s needed is COMPETITION
Regulations invite government interference, intrusion, and over-reaching regulations yjat diminish oir Constitution.
I do not trust Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, and even Amazon, and many others. I do not like the way they collect information as if your privacy doesn’t matter. I us ad-blockers and hate being swamped with pro-mos constantly. I am anti-marketing for the very reason that everyone wants your dollars and your info. If I am in the market for an item, I’d rather do my own research and not be pushed into something I don’t need. The sad fact is that the Internet couldn’t survive without constant and targeted advertising. Over the last 20 years, the big players have completely taken over the Internet. There is little competition outside of the previous mentioned companies. I try as much as possible to avoid these companies and their products. Perhaps free markets can settle the issues, but the government is always interfering. And I trust government least of all.
Our children and Grandkids have to much access the porn and other non Christian believes which is what is destroying our county along with the invasion of the muslin and other non believers into our country
I hoped they all go out of business!
The problem with government regulation is no one oversees the unelected regulators.
Yes, they do need some regulation. BUT NOT BY THE GOVERNMENT.
Yes! But not by the Government.
You can live without Facebook and Twitter. The folks who are concerned, about their privacy and treatment of their data, should “speak loudly” and consider dropping their membership (you can always go back). Then free market forces would be the influence. Regulation by any government entity or agency is a “foot in the door” and that rarely turns out well. Our home has no Twitter, no Facebook, and we search with DuckDuckGo that, unlike Google, respects our privacy. P.S. Our Government has been trying to regulate the internet for a long time, don’t give them a chance.
The average person has family, close, distant and ignored and only 5 close friends if they are that lucky. Quit trying to impress the billions out there that only want to criticize or laugh at you.
Get you news from reliable sources and participate in those comment sections.
Create your own mailing lists. The resources are available, get off social media and start enjoying life.
There is no excuse, screw Facebook, quit being lazy and leave the government out of it. Isn’t that why your here in the first place? Get off the couch and get a life and quit being hypocrites!
Don’t make the same mistake again,that Judge Green made in 1983.When he broke up the Bell System.He has said over the years it was the worst decision he ever made on a case.
We have way too much government intrusion on our lives and businesses today. Let the market place sift and winnow the chaff out!
Yes. Do it!!!
Global monopolies control of mass media platforms of every sort are a serious growing threat to national security…. Like having a secret agent and a propaganda politburo minister in every house…
There are some start ups for conservative people. Brighteon.com and USA.Life. These are chat and news sites that don’t don’t tail you or censor conservative comments. You might want to look into them. You never heard of them because they are just getting started and they are alternative media to Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Welcome to the forum for hypocrites
Google and Facebook are ultra liberal in their world view and are CENSORING many articles and videos I like. The latest being re vaccines. If you write anything the least bit negative about vaccines, they kick you off. Same for truth about “news.” They and YouTube don’t like truth in news. Just lame propaganda, like the old Soviet Union.
Once the giants began taking sides on issues they lost their right to remain independent. Originally they were conceived as PLATFORMS for the general population to voice their personal attitudes about any issue they had a passion for. Now they’ve become political forums that limit free speech based upon their personal agendas (or those of advertisers that pay them). Thus, they either revert to unbiased platforms or suffer the control of the swamp, which has its own agenda.
The tech companies need to be taken down. I very much resent being locked out of Facebook for my written content, They have NO write to Dictate what I have on my mind
I’m totally against big government, but, but, but, I gotta have my Facebook and Twitter.
Play in the lefts sandbox and get sand thrown in your face.
Had to vote not sure. I do think we need to have less government, not more, but letting a small group of people make censorship decisions and use data to manipulate public opinion is wrong, too.
Like anything with great influence, needs to be totally unbiased. Sadly not always the case.
If the right controls the government, they would have no access to what google or Facebook were doing. If the left controls the government then both google & Facebook would assist in anyway that they could profit from.
Why aren’t there any conservative tech companies like Facebook or Google?
If they were truly ‘hands off’ with their treatment of everyone there would be no problem. But they can’t resist the ‘power’ of silencing the opinions of those they disagree with politically. The MSM, leftist azzholes to the core, merely yawn when the oppression of conservative speech by these insanely rich leftists is exposed, but with the usual double standards, they would be raising hell if some conservative controlled mega-business even dared think of suppressing foul leftist ranting. They already hate any successful conservative valued corporation, such as Chick-Fil-A who they paint as a ‘hate organization’ because of Christian values, without the slightest proof of anything towards the LGBTXYZ deviants from anyone at Chick-Fil-A. The government has broken up many large ‘monopolies’ before, like the AT&T phone company and other versions of the same. And they were not suppressing anyone’s rights to free speech.
Shape up or break up, your choice facebook, youtube, etc.
I don’t get upset with the advertising. What I hate is the censorship and intrusion into your life. No one connected to the internet owns the software they are using. Windows updates by itself and installs whatever it wants to. Websites strip information from you computer without your express permission. Why does it take 30 pages of legal mumbo-jumbo to explain your privacy rights? Ever actually read one of those things you have to agree to before anything will work? The computer giants are headed the same was at the print media did. He who controls the flow of information controls history. And now…. it can all be done in an instant. Censor you and change history.
Take 3 left leaning big tech companies and split them and guess what? You are responsible for creating 6 left leaning big tech companies. Congratulations!
Free market solutions are the only thing that works.
This is a site for conservatives, please, in the future keep your comments posted on Facebook.
I do not trust Facebook and Google. I trust our Federal Government even less. Let the free market work.
Everything else is regulated, why not them too? I dont use Google anymore and have stopped using Facebook too. Im sick of all the spying they do.
You needed at least one more option, they should be lightly regulated with an overseer to keep them on the straight and narrow. Some of these things they r being accused of are kind of ridiculous. What company does not advertise to the people who is most likely to buy their product.
I to was thinking Yes we should regulate. If they are in the publc domain then they should follow all rules and regulations in that regard. Then the other half of me says let the free market decide I see other entrepreneurs stepping up and creating their own social media sites like MeWe and Spreely.com which allow uncensored speech, granted some you will not like but you have the option to hide those posts. So there are free market options. However, Facebook has a pay option whch would throw it into a different catagory.
We the people are the ones that need to regulate these monopolies by not using them. Maybe just maybe they will wake up.
Facebook needs to be monitored and regulated from violation of freedom of speech of conservatives currently being descrimated against under the biased control of Zuckerberg and his facist tactics of controlling comments on Facebook.
We have the freedom to not view or utilize such evil left leaning sites and applications, that’s why I still have a flip phone! They are dead to me.
The real issues are prejudice against conservative views and the giving of technological aid to China but refusing to do business with the US government (while not illegal it undermines the security of our country). These are left wing liberal minded companies which appear to e an extension of the marcist, socialist, communist radical Democrat Party and mostt news media outlets. Regulate them in that opinions are posted without bias. Find companies and train techs to help the government effectively elevate the level of technology as Trump promised. There is nothing wrong with free enterprise bur where do you draw the line and take a stand when it comes to our freedom of speech and national security.
Couldn’t have said it better Brian B.