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Free speech or censorship? Tech giants face off against Congress
The CEOs of three of the world’s biggest online platforms faced questions from US senators over how they police what we say online.
The CEOs of three of the world’s biggest online platforms faced questions from US senators over how they police what we say online.
Siddharth Mohanty
October 29, 2020 at 12:29 am
AWESOME. They managed to turn the internet into a political tool/weapon. Stopping the spread of misinformation is twitter/facebook/google’s #1 job. They should be free to execute it.
Alex Jenkins
October 29, 2020 at 12:38 am
And who exactly decides what’s “misinformation”, and what isn’t?
Gianfranco Calabretta
October 29, 2020 at 12:31 am
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Reber Jahwar
October 29, 2020 at 12:34 am
just republicans embarrassing themselves for couple hours! my goodness look at Ted ugly wife how he is screaming!
Mr. Mr.
October 29, 2020 at 12:36 am
Twitter or Facebook. Are you a platform or publisher. I say a publisher now.
Jeff High
October 29, 2020 at 12:38 am
A publisher makes the decision on what gets published like we are seeing with these tech companies now. A platform hosts content with a much more narrow censorship ability., like calls to violence. Section 230 was to make sure platforms are protected…not publishers.
roz805
October 29, 2020 at 12:38 am
Boo. Too bad Ted Cruz and the rest of his nasty friends never managed to raise THAT that level of outrage for the 545 kids separated from their parents.
Card & Code
October 29, 2020 at 12:41 am
First, 10 amendments don’t apply on Corporations.
Second, these are the people who created monopolies in the first place. For eg. A Law in California wants women on board for every public company.
Taxes and cost of living so high for the tech ecosystem that, it becomes impossible for someone to start a company. Stop the nonsense
Naim R
October 29, 2020 at 12:43 am
I like most of the people who are angry use these sites and apps. Use yahoo, Aol, or my space stop messing with these tech companies you don’t understand.
CaptainBearPants
October 29, 2020 at 12:55 am
There is no such thing as freedom of speech these days. All people do is try and micromanage everyone else’s life.
M.S.
October 29, 2020 at 12:56 am
Jack Dorsey looks like a homeless person. 😂😂😂
Alphonse Mourad
October 29, 2020 at 12:58 am
We’ve all heard the stories about Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms seizing accounts for inappropriate political activity. This is just another technology giant telling people what is and isn’t appropriate.
Renzo Riga
October 29, 2020 at 1:18 am
Hey Cnet …it’s not conservative speech it’s free speech…period….you’re part of the problem
Chilling Station
October 29, 2020 at 1:54 am
The once great Liberal country is turning into a socialist trash heap.
Jenelle Davis
October 29, 2020 at 2:06 am
CNET – you are bias.
Sitha Puth
October 29, 2020 at 2:24 am
CNET is part of the problem. … JUNK NEWS
bodzio4062
October 29, 2020 at 2:26 am
How do hou define free speach? Are you dumb On purpose or it is some kind of DNA infliction? Google and Facebook will be broken up and Twitter will go bust as all three will lose protection of 230 as they clearly became publishers. They will be screaming murder, but people at large will be celebrating. I predict that Dorsey, the newest incarnation of Ted Kaczynski, will be ousted by the Twitter board of directors as he clearly is destroying the company. Zuckerberg is the smartes of the bunch and will clean the house when faced with the company’s breakup threat.
Wimzi
October 29, 2020 at 3:08 am
dont use the therm zooming plz…. the rest is ok
Archie Garcia
October 29, 2020 at 3:08 am
I wanted to punch that guy in the beginning of this vid when I watched the interviews earlier
Gram
October 29, 2020 at 3:14 am
Democrat & Republicans should be allowed to post. It’s called freedom of speech!!! Anytime you block or delete it…it’s dirty politics!! Twitter & Facebook block everything they disagree with. If freedom of speech is not allowed we are no longer the USA. How sad!
Tech With Sean
October 29, 2020 at 4:51 am
Twitter and Facebook are businesses, not taxpayer funded utilities.
They don’t owe anyone a spot, and you use any website or software on the owners terms, realistically.
Hiram Diaz
October 29, 2020 at 7:09 am
@Tech With Sean Facebook and Twitter are both businesses built on managing platforms. They don’t owe anyone a spot but the moment they choose to moderate they are acting as a publishers, not platforms, and can be held accountable for both censorship and promoting false narratives.
C C
October 29, 2020 at 4:00 am
Idea: Delist Big Tech from western stock markets.
dmfool21
October 29, 2020 at 4:09 am
We want a level playing field. Conservative leaning views are crushed in Social Media. I’ve seen more 2A materials get blocked and banned because it doesn’t play well for progressive groups or anti-2A groups. I hope they lose the protections they have. They won’t last 5 years.
Hector G.
October 29, 2020 at 5:49 am
Don’t want your comment censored? Then, do not lie or incite hate. Simple!
Mojokuku
October 29, 2020 at 6:50 am
@Hector G. That’s not what’s actually happening though. People are getting banned and/or censored for nothing more than posting a video, picture, or comment while espousing the ‘wrong side’ of a controversial issue. Look at PragerU’s stuff. Tame by any standard. Yet their content gets removed and blocked simply because people don’t agree with their political and/or social views.
Social media doesn’t what you to even consider the point of view of conservatives. What you’re seeing is a battlefield and the people on both sides are waging a war for you mind. A world where people are free to share and debate their thoughts (conservative) or a world where everyone is force fed the same party line politics every time they turn on a TV, radio, or computer (democrat).
Hector G.
October 29, 2020 at 7:22 am
@Mojokuku first of all, PragerU is the worst kind of example. Yes, I think that lots of what they say its true and makes sense; but that is the problem. Not many people can tell the difference once PragerU squeezes some bs among the other things that are true, and those are the worse type of liars; they use the same type of techniques that terrorists use to get you to see things their way.
And no, it is not a war against conservatives as much as it is a war against misinformation; if conservatives do not want to be censored, then they should stop disseminating all this false information designed to undermine our democracy.
Mojokuku
October 29, 2020 at 9:22 am
@Hector G. PragerU is the perfect example. They have testified at hearings on this very issue. They cite historical and statistical fact but also have philosophical speeches to inspire free thought. Last they are extremely unpopular among leftists, which is probably the only ‘real reason’ why they are censored on social media.
ponder2006
October 29, 2020 at 4:18 am
FREE DORSEY! A bunch of coward good for nothing politicians.
Winston S
October 29, 2020 at 11:31 am
Hahahahaha what are you on about?
Hector G.
October 29, 2020 at 5:54 am
This is a bunch of bs from republicans because their lies are getting censored. Facebook has even deleted several Democratic accounts for posting political content; some people went as far as to run for office so that Facebook would allow them to post the content back on the platform, but here are the republican snowflakes crying and acting like victims once again.
OhIseeabee
October 29, 2020 at 2:14 pm
Your ignorance is the problem Hector. Blind faith is no way to choose a political position. At LEAST make an attempt to become educated. And after the country is reduced to throwing rocks and pointing laser pointers at the government troops, you’ll pretend you didn’t vote for Biden. So sad.
Hector G.
October 29, 2020 at 3:48 pm
@OhIseeabee you and your candidate are made for each other, always accusing others of your own faults, and stupidity.
AJ Gatchalian
October 29, 2020 at 6:36 am
We all know that twitter is very open minded…if you know what i mean hehe
Pixelboy
October 29, 2020 at 6:40 am
Internet is not a free platform and social media are not your soapbox.
Those are owned by people who allow you in their house sometimes for dubious reasons.
For the life of me I don’t understand why people don’t get this.
Winston S
October 29, 2020 at 11:33 am
Thanks brown shirt for your input.
Pixelboy
October 29, 2020 at 1:37 pm
@Winston S Thank you for adding nothing to the conversation or to existence.
Winston S
October 29, 2020 at 8:20 pm
@Pixelboy thank you for taking away from human existence and impacting negatively on other people.
Your ideas are bad and you should feel bad.
Pixelboy
October 31, 2020 at 9:43 am
@Winston S Still haven’t heard any useful argument. Right now you are still the most useless here..
Che Cook
October 29, 2020 at 7:36 am
Hate speech = Speaking out about anyone on the left.
TheWarshire
October 29, 2020 at 12:59 pm
Using clearly fake emails two weeks before the election to try and destroy a political rival, intelligence community pointing out it is fake, and a president who has publicly stated he would take any foriegn help to win.
Correct blocking action
Donny 5000
October 29, 2020 at 10:42 am
I hate social media
Sadiel Rodriguez
October 29, 2020 at 11:37 am
Define hate speech
Johnny Webb
October 29, 2020 at 7:42 pm
I’m offended: that’s basically all that is required for someone’s expression to be labelled as hate speech.
simon bolton
October 29, 2020 at 12:21 pm
what i believe politically is no business of google/alphabet/youtube, twitter or facebook/instagram/whatsapp. it is not the business of a corporation to dictate nor influence or suppress you’re democratic right to political freedom and political choice, thats the whole point of democracy, censoring content based on the corporations political bias explicitly (which shouldn’t even exist!) is unlawful under sovereign states that use a democratic electoral system. You have the right as a citizen to representation in governance irrespective of your political beliefs, that the whole point of a democracy!!! any effort to undermine these founding factors of democracy irrespective of political beliefs is unlawful, in any Democratic sovereign state.
simon bolton
October 29, 2020 at 12:28 pm
Any attempt to ‘moderate’ communications in a democratic sovereign state, would infact be unlawful as it places that corporation in a position of political collusion, which again is a federal offence.
Thelonius
October 29, 2020 at 12:30 pm
Definitely not a good look for big tech. The New York Post is probably not the most credible news source on the planet, but it’s the oldest newspaper in America. And as it turns out the hunter Biden laptop story is basically proven true. We know it’s his laptop and we know the emails are real because somebody in the conversation came out in affirmed their veracity. The materials obtained by the post were in no way shape or form, or by any definition of the word, hacked. Dude copied the hard drive of an abandoned laptop.
TheWarshire
October 29, 2020 at 1:03 pm
Multiple intelligence agents in office today point out the emails have all red flags of being false. Some even called them lazily done.
orangeoblivion
October 29, 2020 at 1:52 pm
Twitter has no power to silence any media. If some dishonest newspaper wants to spread their lies, they can post an article on their own website!
James Sean
October 29, 2020 at 4:19 pm
Good lord Ted Cruz…You’re like an ear infection that keeps leaking smelly fluid.
Mannu Dwivedi
October 29, 2020 at 5:41 pm
Ted Cruz just rip off Jack Dorsey one sided position and his monopoly to restrict free flow of people ideas & News Media Content
Rafael Fernandez
October 29, 2020 at 6:21 pm
Let’s use conservative logic here…”but the user has the choice to delete the app if they don’t agree with the policies”….(Ohhh as long as it benefits me)…next question..
bannajirocks
October 29, 2020 at 10:49 pm
Leftists sitting in Silicon Valley calling shots now ? That jack dorsey looks like a begger
Colleen Pierson
October 30, 2020 at 1:27 am
Shame on you. You are a traitor.
Rendezvous Bushcraft
October 30, 2020 at 3:06 am
Censorship, shut them all down cold, it’s a complete conspiracy to destroy America!!!
Tony O
October 30, 2020 at 3:08 am
After this Congress goes back on vacation. Why don’t they focus more time and energy on working on the stimulus!
Anthony O
October 30, 2020 at 3:08 am
After this Congress goes back on vacation. Why don’t they focus more time and energy on working on the stimulus!
Ch On
October 30, 2020 at 4:27 am
Gadgets have to be BY DEFAULT should not allowed to send data to google. Its up to the user if he allows id.
Playing Vines
October 30, 2020 at 4:58 am
Quality of questions asked are unchallenging nor they have any technical knowledge to really go in depth to decode the reality of operations nor they represent intrest and concern of people using these services…
HOT GIRLS TV
October 30, 2020 at 5:03 am
Hello everyone have a good day ✌️
Adi Vemireddy
October 31, 2020 at 9:35 pm
I’m offended by your speech so your speech is hate speech and you shall be censored.
Brenda Antonio
November 2, 2020 at 4:25 am
I wanted to punch that guy in the beginning of this vid when I watched the interviews earlier