Posted By: J2526
If it took off enough to be reliable as a shopping/review method, it would quickly be shut down and folks would be scrambling around like they are now.
As I recall, Facebook, Google, and many other Giant Companies came out openly in support of Fosta Sesta. After all, too much competition threatened their monopolistic positions and their ability to profit from every click.
They wanted to keep and expand their profits.
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If FB, Google, Amazon, Yelp, and the other major players suddenly find themselves at risk to go to jail as users are able to make the occasional punishable post, let's see what happens ... and what happens after that.
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In an effort to protect their Officers from the risk of going to jail, they are sanitizing their pages and removing anything potentially provocative. ("We wanted you to send the BP guys to jail, not us!") They are being actively complicit in the erosion of Free Speech.
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First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
------ Martin Niemöller
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(NOTE: Congressional inquiries about Facebook and the undisclosed abuse of personal information and information breaches is separate from FREE SPEECH and other issues.)