Thursday, November 19, 2020

OPINION_ Big Tech’s free speech suppression is dangerous information warfare: Devine

NEW YORK POST

OPINION

Big Tech’s free speech suppression is dangerous information warfare: Devine

By
Miranda Devine
November 18, 2020 | 10:13pm


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It may just have been the fact that they were beamed in virtually to the hearing room, but our billionaire Big Tech overlords looked more cyborg than human when they testified before a Senate committee Tuesday.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, 43, in funereal black, with a castaway beard and nose ring, stood stiffly in front of an austere shelf of white bowls and empty bottles and talked about “humans” versus “algorithms.”

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, 36, was freckly and clean-shaven, but came across as equally robotic. He wore a white shirt, blue jacket and striped tie against a bland backdrop of silk drapes and a potted plant.

Both spoke in a slow monotone.

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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2020/11/18/big-techs-free-speech-suppression-is-dangerous-information-warfare-devine/

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The devil is in the definition. For some people, every word out of Trump’s mouth is “hate speech” that they have tried to stamp out for four years. Twitter’s suppression of the president’s tweets was the culmination of those efforts.

The pandemic offered another opportunity to stomp on American liberties. Twitter’s and Facebook’s “civic integrity” policies were extended to suppress the speech of lockdown critics.

Make no mistake, this is information warfare. It has given a Big Tech elite, whether human or algorithmic, unchecked power over our elections.


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