{"id":51003,"date":"2020-02-07T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51003"},"modified":"2020-02-07T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:22:17","slug":"blacklist-valley-how-big-tech-reshapes-politics-by-censoring-conservative-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51003","title":{"rendered":"Blacklist Valley: How Big Tech reshapes politics by censoring conservative ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blacklist-valley\">Blacklist Valley: How Big Tech reshapes politics by censoring conservative ideas<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediadc.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/c6c0466\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2290x1322+0+0\/resize\/2290x1322!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmediadc.brightspotcdn.com%2Ff5%2Ff7%2Fe25a38e348efb41358c3743d8cd5%2Ffea.BigTech.jpg\" alt=\"FEA.BigTech.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For better or worse, social media is the new public square. Of adults, 68% use Facebook, 73% use YouTube, and a quarter use Twitter. The numbers are much higher for adults under 50. Two-thirds of adults and roughly 4 in 5 under 50 use social media to consume news. Three-quarters of Facebook users are on the site every day, and Twitter users have a disproportionate influence on the media because so many journalists are on the service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The size and scale of social media companies exploded primarily because they presented themselves as open platforms \u2014 blank slates. Google, Facebook, and Twitter all characterized their products as engines for social improvement. \u201cWe think of Twitter as the global town hall,\u201d said former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. \u201cWe are the free speech wing of the free speech party.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Costolo was Twitter\u2019s chief executive from 2010 until 2015 and the immediate predecessor of current CEO Jack Dorsey. Twitter\u2019s general manager in the United Kingdom, Andy Yang, likewise described Twitter as the \u201cfree speech wing of the free speech party\u201d in March 2012. Google became a multibillion-dollar company by offering a portal for free, unrestricted information to anyone with access to the internet; famously, its original motto was \u201cDon\u2019t be evil.\u201d An internal Facebook memo circulated in June 2016 stated that at Facebook, \u201cwe believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The public has given these three tech companies (and others) enormous power to select the information we read, share, and discuss with our neighbors and friends. We\u2019ve gotten so accustomed to the role they play in our lives that we fail to notice that Big Tech is sifting through the available information and narrowing, and prioritizing, our choices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blacklist Valley: How Big Tech reshapes politics by censoring conservative ideas For better or worse, social media is the new public square. Of adults, 68% use Facebook, 73% use YouTube, and a quarter use Twitter. The numbers are much higher for adults under 50. Two-thirds of adults and roughly 4 in 5 under 50 use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,512,28975,18049,1169,22026],"class_list":["post-51003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-media","tag-personal-information","tag-peter-hasson","tag-social-media","tag-washington-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51004,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51003\/revisions\/51004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}