In Silicon Valley, the right sounds a surprising battle cry: Regulate tech giants

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-silicon-valley-the-right-sounds-a-surprising-battle-cry-regulate-tech-giants/2017/08/24/818a6518-8832-11e7-961d-2f373b3977ee_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_hp-card-business%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.8cacdfd470a9


By Elizabeth Dwoskin and Hamza Shaban at the Washington Post

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In response to the protests, a striking number of technology companies, from Facebook to PayPal to Google to GoDaddy and even OkCupid — blocked or shut down service to alt-right and white supremacist accounts.

The move reflected a stunning turnabout for the tech industry, which has long been reluctant to police their platforms in this way, even as most have policies prohibiting hate speech.

Conservatives were already fuming from events two weeks earlier, when James Damore, a Google engineer, was fired by the search giant after publishing a long memo in a corporate chat room in which he protested the company's diversity policies and promoted negative stereotypes about women.

The calls for more federal oversight of tech giants have made their way to Washington.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said in recent weeks that he was worried about “large tech companies putting their thumb on the scales and skewing political and public discourse.”



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1. I thought republicans were claiming they want nothing to do with hate groups... BUSTED

Right wing extremist groups are obviously an important part of the GOP rodeo otherwise why would they be against banning hate groups.

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2. So "..putting their thumb on the scales and skewing political and public discourse" Like FOX???

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3. Yup. Tying themselves in knots.

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4. But rules don't apply to them.

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5. "Follow what I say, not what I do". GOP are so hypocritical.

[Angry Dragon]

6. fuck Ted Cruz

oil companies
big money donors
Wall Street
Big Banks
Hedge Funds
NRA

if you are so concerned Ted then get the big money out of politics