House lawmakers release anti-monopoly agenda for “a stronger online economy”

Re:House lawmakers release anti-monopoly agenda for “a stron... by throwkeep on Sunday June 13, 2021 @01:18PM (#27494316)

I'm a liberal and it's clear that big tech is suppressing dissenting voices. It's not targeted at conservatives specifically, but it captures them in larger number because tech and corporate media is mostly liberal and progressive. As such, conservative is by default a dissenting voice.

Edit: See the lab leak hypothesis where big tech was suppressing and even banning people last year for questioning the approved narrative. And here's an example just yesterday with old school progressives being silenced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27493994

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Re:House lawmakers release anti-monopoly agenda for “a stron... by verall on Sunday June 13, 2021 @01:42PM (#27494526)

> Managing director of Thiel Capital

> posted a paper describing Geometric Unity online and went on Joe Rogan’s immensely popular podcast to discuss it

What makes someone an old school progressive, in your opinion?

I'm having trouble finding anything progressive about this person. His crackpot "theory of everything" has apparently been around since about 2013.

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Re:House lawmakers release anti-monopoly agenda for “a stron... by COGlory on Sunday June 13, 2021 @04:29PM (#27496109)

What's wrong with having a theory? When did science start to mean scientism?

The guy is clearly very bright. Perhaps you missed where he talked about the same theory with nobel laureate Roger Penrose.

Just because he might not be right about an extremely complex and hard to follow idea doesn't mean he shouldn't be studying it, discussing it, and engaging about it.

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Re:House lawmakers release anti-monopoly agenda for “a stron... by throwkeep on Sunday June 13, 2021 @04:07PM (#27495894)

> What makes someone an old school progressive, in your opinion?

Those who were known as progressives prior to about 5 years ago. Eric and his brother Bret were self described progressives for decades.

> I'm having trouble finding anything progressive about this person.

Listen to his podcast The Portal to see. That he works with Thiel simply means that he is able to work with people who have different opinions. Guilt by association is lazy, as is dismissing a theory as crackpot, especially from a serious intellectual with the credentials (eg Harvard) to back it up.

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Re:House lawmakers release anti-monopoly agenda for “a stron... by azinman2 on Sunday June 13, 2021 @01:22PM (#27494350)

https://medium.com/cybersecurity-for-democracy/far-right-new...

Where is the evidence? Because by in large, the use and effectiveness of these platforms in study after study goes the other way.

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Re:House lawmakers release anti-monopoly agenda for “a stron... by jeffbee on Sunday June 13, 2021 @01:22PM (#27494348)

Please give us a specific example of "big tech suppressing dissenting voices". I can certainly see how you could lay that charge on the Hearst Corporation, for example, but I have a hard time seeing how it applies to companies who will record and disseminate your writings, photos, and videos worldwide without charge and almost without regard to the content thereof.

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Re:House lawmakers release anti-monopoly agenda for “a stron... by SamiPerttu on Sunday June 13, 2021 @02:22PM (#27494933)

Google Admits to Censoring the World Socialist Web Site

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/04/goog-n04.html

Facebook Purges Left-Wing Pages and Individuals

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/23/pers-j23.html

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Re:House lawmakers release anti-monopoly agenda for “a stron... by jeffbee on Sunday June 13, 2021 @02:30PM (#27495007)

Google returns that site as the #1 result for "world socialist", and "world socialist web site" and the Facebook accounts that were supposedly "purged" are all online, for example https://www.facebook.com/iyssesdsu. So, again, please provide specific examples of accounts that were suppressed for dissension, and apparently also I need to ask you to think critically about whether and how such suppression was achieved.

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