‘Let’s Pretend We’re Outraged’ – Opinion

As we observed at its outset, the Big Government China Virus shutdown of the US economy was going to be exceedingly awful for small business – but very, VERY good for Big Business.

And so it has been….

Big Tech indulges in a Shopping Spree to Brush Off Antitrust Scrutiny

With a $560 Billion War Chest, Big Tech Goes on Pandemic Mergers & Acquisitions Spree Despite Political Backlash

Big Tech Spends Big on Lobbying and Buying up Competition in 2021

But of course: As Big Tech was buying many thousands of companies – in the largest consolidation of market power in human history? They were also buying ever more control of Big Government – and all of Big Government’s D.C. attendants.

Big Tech, Big Cash: Washington’s New Power Players

Big Tech Gets Involved in Lobbying

What amount of money does Big Tech give to think tanks?

Shocker: It’s lots.

These Conservative Groups Accept Big Tech Cash?

Shocker: It’s lots.

Big Tech Regulation: What’s the problem?

Asked – and answered….

Big Tech Continues to Use Its Lobbying Strength Despite Being Under Fire from Congress

But Big Tech doesn’t face “Congressional scrutiny” – Big Tech faces Congressional scrutiny THEATER.  Congressmen and Senators pound tables, issue press releases, make remarkably un-scintillating TV and radio appearances, hold hearings – and even occasionally file legislation.

But, it’s all a really bad high school musical.  There is nothing substantive that ever happens. It never passes any laws. And that’s because D.C.’s alleged representatives of We the People – actually represent Big Tech.

Tulsi Gabrield explains How Big Tech Controls Congress

Dobbs: Big Tech ‘Owns Our Congress’

On 2020, nearly every lawmaker who oversees privacy and antitrust issues received big tech money

Oh: And, of course, D.C.’s denizens cash more than just campaign checks. They certainly knew who would benefit from their unconstitutional pandemic lockdowns – and they got in very early on their Big Tech (and Big Pharma) gravy train they were driving.

Congress Invests Big in Pharmaceutical, Tech Stocks – April 27, 2020

So, D.C. never actually does anything Big Tech doesn’t want. And because most Big Tech companies make most of their money by mass-collecting our digital data – and then mass-monetizing it….

Why Can’t Congress Pass Federal Data Privacy Legislation?

Why Congress Can’t Seem to Fix This 30-Year-Old Law Governing Your Electronic Data

Asked – and answered.

The idiotic and continued existence of Section 233, of 1996 Communications Decency Act, (CDA) is explained by all of the above. Even more idiotic – when you consider most of the CDA not related to Section 230 was immediately dumped by the Supreme Court in 1997.

Why does Section 230 – the ONLY Internet law on the books – still exist, you ask?

Why did Big Tech become so big? Massive Government Cronyism – Like Section 230

How Congress is Never Going To Fix the Legal Shield that Big Tech Loves

You may be wondering what Section 230 is.:

“(I)nternet companies – everything from social media platforms to online retailers to news sites – are generally not liable if a user posts something illegal.”

What has been the greatest example of Big Government cronyism throughout the history government cronyism

“Speaking of unfair…behold Section 230.  This gives Big Tech companies an all-encompassing amnesty against libel and slander as well as intellectual property lawsuits that result from third party actions.

“This is anti-Fourteenth Amendment un-equal protection before the law – that no one else in the history of the country has ever received.

“If I owned a small neighborhood bar, I would have to purchase liability insurance to protect me should one third-party patron punch another third-party patron in my place.  Or I would have to go to court and convince a judge or jury that it took place in my place – but not because of my place.

“Why do the biggest and richest companies in the history of Planet Earth get government-imposed blanket third-party-action immunity?”

Practically speaking, Section 23 was not necessary.

“If I unlawfully posted a full movie on YouTube? The movie house would contact YouTube – and YouTube would pull the movie. And then the movie house would never, never sue YouTube – because YouTube pulled the film.

“And if the movie house did sue, their idiotic case would be quickly dismissed by 99.9 percent of existing judges. Because most people with an IQ above nine know that YouTube isn’t responsible for third-party actions – so long as they reverse the offending third-party actions.

“So, there is ZERO actual need for Section 230.”

So, the giant lie that Section 230 created “the Internet as we know it” – told for very many years by very many Big Tech mouthpieces – is a giant lie….:

Section 230 is what created the Internet we know today. Don’t Mess With It

The Fight Over Section 230 – And the Internet As We Know It

Everything About Section 230: A Rule that Made the Modern Internet Possible

Section 230: The ‘Most Important Law in Tech’

So very much bogus-ness.…:

“(T)rillions of dollars of Internet commerce will continue to take place without Section 230.

“And there are all sorts of things we should change as we know them. Take government schools as an example.

“Section 230 did create the Internet COMMENT SECTION as we know it. Which is the Internet’s sewer. And social media is nothing more than glorified comment sections.”

Were we really where the internet comment sections would take us?:

“‘But social media…will go away without Section 230.’

“If social media requires this much cronyism to even exist – and they have become TRILLION DOLLAR COMPANIES with the cronyism – then they should definitely go away.

“Big Tech social media isn’t a free market success story. This is an example of government cronyism.

“Or are all Big Tech-Section 230 defenders – libertarians and conservatives included – now for government cronyism? Do we all now also support fake energy wind and solar subsides – without which fake energy would all go away?

“So it would seem.”

This is the kind of anti-reality, absolute ridiculous, anti-reality fealty D.C. offers for sale.

And Big Tech has been buying huge….