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Is Free-Speech Becoming Extinct? Google Under Fire for Censoring Christian, Pro-Life Content"Since it has the power to censor the internet, Google should be regulated like the public utility it is to make sure it doesn't further distort the free flow of information. To the rest of us, that needs to happen immediately. Too bad it's come to this. A lot of us trusted Google not to be evil. Silly us." -Tucker Carlson
Perhaps more significantly, together they hold a near-monopoly on the flow of information and news, and as such are able to manipulate public discourse and limit free, unimpeded inquiry. The Silicon Valley tech giants' very liberal corporate cultures have recently shown themselves to be illiberal. Far from welcoming free discussion in-house among their employees, those with differing or dissenting political and/or cultural views have been swiftly cast out. Need for regulation to protect freedom David Chavern, the president and CEO of the News Media Alliance, said in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, "[A] threat to America's news industry looms mostly unnoticed: Google and Facebook's duopolistic dominance of online advertising, which could do far more damage to the free press than anything the president posts on Twitter." Jonathan Taplin, author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, warns that the tech giants "now determine the future of the music, film, television, publishing and news industries." "If you think this is a problem only for musicians, or journalists, you are wrong," Taplin said. "With the reallocation of money to monopoly platforms comes a shift in power. Google, Facebook and Amazon now enjoy political power on par with Big Oil and Big Pharma, which makes finding solutions to this problem even more difficult." Google 'controls reality' Carlson continued, "Until they were sued for it in 2008, Google refused to allow anti-abortion advertisements on its platforms even though they freely allowed pro-abortion ones. On the flip side, Google often blacklist certain sites from hosting ads which denies them revenue. Recently, Google-owned YouTube has introduced procedures to cut off revenue to, quote, 'offensive content.' What's offensive? Who decides?..." Click here to continue reading.
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