How Big Tech is Culling Truth from Society
This is actually a quite interesting article from the Washington Examiner about the ways that big tech is stifling truth in society and the massive impacts that this is having on our nation and throughout the world.
In 2017, my colleague Dr. Robert Denton and I explained that the political public sphere of the United States was being substantially damaged by a circumstance best characterized as “epistemological poisoning.”
Epistemology is the manner by which individuals and/or society know that something is true. In the most mundane form for the everyday person, "googling it" is the manner for this discovery. The overwhelming power of the internet to answer questions brings with it the now ominous reality of the technology companies that are gatekeepers of that vast reservoir. Google, Facebook, and Twitter constitute a nearly insurmountable throttle of information that makes the determinations of daily life and important choices about politics both for people nationwide and an even larger set of sovereigns worldwide.
Recent revelations from Twitter expose rather clearly how for at least the past three or four years, managers of that internet company engaged in reactionary political calculations that in their most provocative lead, banned a U.S. president from communicating on their platform. That powerful decision is but one of thousands cascading down into a means of communication control that correctly bring to mind the types of symbolic control envisioned by George Orwell’s ominous warnings in 1984.
For all three of these major internet companies, the resounding reassurance is that because they are private companies, there is nothing anyone can or should do about their reactionary and increasingly narrow view of politics. For all of these companies, there must be a profound consideration of the civil rights bright line established in the First Amendment: “The Congress shall not abridge ... freedom of speech.”
Congressional authority as established in federal authorities such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other similar regulatory agencies extending from congressional authority cannot act to restrain or limit free speech. It appears increasingly probable that organizations such as the FBI and other federal agencies did advise to companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter in order to limit people's freedom of speech. These are civil rights violations, and they cannot go on unpunished without risking further movement of the U.S. away from a society predicated on free expression and one increasingly dedicated to propaganda and subversion of individual dissent.
Read the full article at the link below.
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LINK:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/big-tech-is-at-the-forefront-of-the-nations-epistemological-poisoning
