mwdegutis Loc: Illinois

We recently told you that Senator Chris Murphy (Big Brother-Connecticut) was subtly threatening Big Technology into functioning as de facto information gatekeepers of the world.



Now he's been joined by Senator Ron Wyden (Big Brother-Oregon) who is not just implying there will be consequences for Big Tech that doesn't crack down on contrarian thought, he's crafting legislation to punish them if they don't.

In an interview with Redcode, Wyden said any Big Tech platforms that go against "common decency" should face "consequences."

"What I'm gonna be trying to do in my legislation is to really lay out what the consequences are when somebody who is a bad actor, somebody who really doesn't meet the decency principles that reflect our values, if that bad actor blows by the bounds of common decency, I think you gotta have a way to make sure that stuff is taken down," he added.

Of course, "decency" is a subjective notion, and this sounds like another excuse to suppress unpopular or contrarian but sound ideas, also known as "conspiracy theories"; you know, positions like the Federal Reserve is destroying the U.S. economy, 9/11 was a false f**g, there is no such thing as man-caused c*****e c****e, Barack Obama's birth certificate was a f**e, the Deep State exists, Russians didn't hack the DNC and there's no Russian collusion.

Once government through its Big Tech arm takes control of the internet we can be assured we'll only get f**e news.

— Jay Baker

pafret Loc: Northeast

Shouldn't be any more difficult than defining Pornography; we all know what a sterling job the Supreme Court did on that one.

https://youtu.be/qo6lPifGnGA -- anything goes