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Apparently Trump Refuses To Allow The Government To Do Anything At All Until The Open Internet Is Destroyed

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Apparently Trump Refuses To Allow The Government To Do Anything At All Until The Open Internet Is Destroyed

Section 230 protects working Americans more than it protects “big tech.” It protects us posting on social media. It protects us forwarding emails. It protects us when we retweet nonsense. It makes the open internet possible, and enables the next generation of competitors to “big tech” to exist. Lindsey Graham’s weird grandstanding about this is nonsense. Taking away 230 wouldn’t rein in big tech, it would lock in big tech. They have large legal teams and can handle the disruption. This is why Facebook already supports major 230 reform. Zuckerberg knows that it would harm upstart competitors way more than Facebook.

More About Section 230:

Communications Decency Act – Section 230

Is Trump protecting Big Tech from competition or does he really want more censorship?!

Section 230 Is the Internet’s First Amendment. Now Both Republicans and Democrats Want To Take It Away.

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Section 230 Is the Internet’s First Amendment. Now Both Republicans and Democrats Want To Take It Away.

Will the New U.S. Trade Rep Be Hobbled by Lobbyists?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Will the New U.S. Trade Rep Be Hobbled by Lobbyists?

Tai could represent a new era in Democratic trade policy, replacing both “free trade” scams on one flank, and the incoherent economic nationalism of Donald Trump on the other, with careful, substantive policy that serves America’s economic interest.

But the way these things work, Tai is at risk of having corporate types imposed just below her, in the key deputy USTR slots. There is a revolving door between USTR and powerful corporations, notably Big Tech companies, which have much to gain or lose from trade deals. As I’ve written, the next round of trade deals will resolve significant questions about e-commerce, privacy, the use of algorithms, and much more.

Related:

Joe Biden’s US trade chief pick ‘unmatched’ on China issues, would not be soft on Beijing

[Clete] Willems said she would “share Lighthizer’s hawkishness on China and has a tonne of direct background on China’s industrial policy from her days at USTR”, adding that “having someone who can directly converse with China in their own language is going to command respect”.

Total Shutdown of Dissent is U.S. Censorship’s Endgame, by Rainer Shea

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Whenever I hear about an instance of imperialist online censorship, or a short-term plan by a ruling class technocrat to further the erosion of free speech, I wonder: what’s the endgame of this? How far do these oligarchs plan to take their campaign to control the flow of information and suppress dissent?

Total Shutdown of Dissent is U.S. Censorship’s Endgame, by Rainer Shea