OPINION: Silicon Valley, America’s De Facto Censor
Posted on AllSides May 30th, 2019
From The Right
OPINION
Left-wing activists aren’t going to stop with social-media networks, or with nibbling at the soft right-wing fringe of discourse.
Silicon Valley’s behemoth companies are incapable of steering through the cross-pressures pushing them to censor more. These pressures come from social activists working on them through threatened boycotts, it comes from activists among their own employees and on their boards. These pressures come from centrist and liberal-leaning governments, which increasingly blame social media companies for their electoral failures. And surely these pressures also come from corporations who want to buy advertising...
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