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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tuck...nsorship-trump
Twitter is now an independent nation-state with its own National Security Council, an inner agency constellation of foreign policy experts whose job it is to manage the world's affairs.
So Twitter's global Public Policy team is really the company's own NSC. They weighed in Tuesday, as security councils do, on the upcoming elections in Uganda. Here's what they said about those elections:
Now, marinate in that for a bit. Twitter is reminding the Ugandan people that censorship is immoral.
"Sorry, Ugandans, you're not allowed to silence other people's Twitter accounts, especially in the run-up to an election. You just can't do that. Now, we recognize you don't have a Bill of Rights or a centuries-old tradition of self-government out there in Uganda, so you might not have known this, as we do here. But to restate: Censoring voters' social media accounts is hugely harmful. Online censorship violates 'basic human rights.' In fact, it's an attack on democracy itself. Got that, Ugandans? Now we understand you're a primitive, developing nation, so we'll give you a pass this time, but don't forget it. Censorship bad! #OpenInternet"
Not only are they cruelly authoritarian and totally dishonest as well as limitlessly ambitious, but they are also -- and we didn't know this -- childishly stupid. They have no idea how they appear to others. They can't see themselves. They lack even a glimmer of the ironic self-awareness that is a prerequisite for wisdom. They are idiots. They don't even get their own jokes.
On the other hand, none of this is really very funny. It's terrifying. We don't need to convince you of that. You have seen the crackdown and the censorship all week long and you sense all of it is going to get worse. And you're right about that, it is going to get worse.
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Tucker Carlson bought up the above during his show and how incredibly on point he is. The larger point is Twitter and the rest of these companies operate under the premise that they yield country like powers. They can silence people, steer public discourse, and change policy to reflect whatever direction they see fit.
We need reform as it pertains to these social media companies - Section 230 is going to be pivotal.
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