Facebook, twitter, YouTube, Google Search, and Amazon Books accepted a vast quantity of secret, backdoor censorship “requests” from the US government, mostly during Biden’s administration. Facebook had a private web portal for requests and bragged about handling millions of requests per year. Private emails with Mark Zuckerberg lament that they have been processing requests that are very clear free speech, and are not even misinformation, such as statements of opinion. Facebook in particular, closed this portal before Trump took office. Reddit is not named in this document but I am personally certain they took similar requests.
Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
You realize you’re citing the absolute most insane fascists right now, right? What you’re saying is likely true, but that document is about the furthest possible thing from a credible source.
just because there are insane people doing insane things that break the law doesn’t mean anything. they can blur the lines all they want but at the end of the day banning or silencing people on a privately owned platform does not violate constitutional rights.
and if Reddit is silencing voices based on requests from the federal government, that still amounts to Reddit executing their rights as a private platform. they have the right to refuse the request based on the constitutional crisis.
it only becomes a violation of your rights when you can prove the government attacked your right to free speech. anything less is just hearsay.
Facebook, twitter, YouTube, Google Search, and Amazon Books accepted a vast quantity of secret, backdoor censorship “requests” from the US government, mostly during Biden’s administration. Facebook had a private web portal for requests and bragged about handling millions of requests per year. Private emails with Mark Zuckerberg lament that they have been processing requests that are very clear free speech, and are not even misinformation, such as statements of opinion. Facebook in particular, closed this portal before Trump took office. Reddit is not named in this document but I am personally certain they took similar requests.
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Biden-WH-Censorship-Report-final.pdf
You realize you’re citing the absolute most insane fascists right now, right? What you’re saying is likely true, but that document is about the furthest possible thing from a credible source.
your point being?
just because there are insane people doing insane things that break the law doesn’t mean anything. they can blur the lines all they want but at the end of the day banning or silencing people on a privately owned platform does not violate constitutional rights.
and if Reddit is silencing voices based on requests from the federal government, that still amounts to Reddit executing their rights as a private platform. they have the right to refuse the request based on the constitutional crisis.
it only becomes a violation of your rights when you can prove the government attacked your right to free speech. anything less is just hearsay.