These bozos at the FCC are just discovering this?
So is Google BTW.

'FCC Commissioner: Why Is Facebook Censoring Accurate Information About
Kamala Harris?'

<https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4272375/posts>

<https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/10/21/fcc-commissioner-why-is-facebook-censoring-accurate-information-about-kamala-harris-n2646479>

'Vice President Kamala Harris is shamelessly trying to run away from her
'Border Czar' responsibilities, often with the assistance of a compliant
'news' media, but that wasn't the only major job with which she's been
tasked in the Biden-Harris administration. The president also tapped
her to help lead and oversee a number of expensive 'green' and
infrastructure initiatives. On a costly plan to install new electric
vehicle chargers (Harris is suddenly pretending she has nothing to do
with EV mandates she has supported and co-sponsored), Politico described
its 'progress' in late 2023: "Congress at the urging of the Biden
administration agreed in 2021 to spend $7.5 billion to build tens of
thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the country, aiming to
appease anxious drivers while tackling climate change. Two years later,
the program has yet to install a single charger." This past summer, the
results were still embarrassing: "Just seven electric-vehicle charging
stations have begun operating with funding from a $5-billion US
government program created in 2021, marking “pathetic” progress, a
Democratic senator said on Wednesday."

That serves as a backdrop to a related matter on which Harris was
explicitly placed in charge. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr summarized
the issue in a recent Wall Street Journal op/ed, explaining how a
much-ballyhooed rural broadband project has utterly failed thus far, on
Harris' watch:

Kamala Harris lamented recently that “in America, it takes too long and
it costs too much to build.” She’s right. But she failed to mention that
those costly delays are a feature, not a bug, of her progressive
policies. Consider Ms. Harris’s record. In 2021 she agreed to lead the
administration’s $42 billion plan for expanding high-speed internet to
millions of Americans. That year, she tweeted that “we can bring
broadband to rural America today.” Today, nearly three years after
Congress passed the infrastructure bill that created the program, not
one home or business has been connected through it. The Biden-Harris
administration recently confirmed that construction projects won’t begin
until next year at the earliest, and in many cases not until 2026.

Instead of focusing on delivering broadband to unserved areas, the
administration has used the program to advance a wish list of political
goals. It has adopted regulations that include diversity, equity and
inclusion requirements, climate-change rules, price controls,
preferences for union labor, and schemes that favor government-run
networks. The administration has been handing out wins to favored
political groups rather than delivering results. Other factors have kept
Ms. Harris’s high-speed program in the slow lane. Testifying before a
congressional oversight committee, one state government official
described “a chaotic implementation environment” marked by “dysfunction”
and “delays.” The administration, she said, “has provided either no
guidance, guidance given too late, or guidance changing midstream.”

Recommended

We Know What Fani Willis' Lover Told Congress
Mia Cathell
This is, of course, a poor reflection on the Biden-Harris
administration, an indictment of her leadership, and another example of
why bloated government programs are so often wasteful and useless. It
also begs the question of what, if anything, Harris has done well as
Vice President. But what makes this all worse is Commissioner Carr's
subsequent allegation that Facebook is censoring his accurate WSJ piece
as 'misinformation:'

Facebook is now censoring the fact that VP Harris has failed to connect
even one person to the Internet despite leading the Administration’s $42
billion infrastructure plan for 1,000+ days. Facebook is labeling this
“false information,” not because anyone has been connected—no one
has—but because the government has been spending money while not
connecting anyone. Worse? The fact checker’s only sources are
Biden-Harris officials. I thought Zuckerberg promised Congress that it
had stopped censoring posts at the behest of the Biden-Harris
Administration...Here’s what VP Harris and Facebook don’t want you to
know: VP Harris has been leading the Administration’s $42 billion
program to expand Internet access to millions of Americans for 1,070
days. Zero people have been connected. Zero shovels worth of dirt have
even been turned.

A social media giant is suppressing accurate information, furnished by a
government official--deciding it's "false," based on the say-so of
other, favored government officials. That is unacceptable and
disturbing, but it can't be seen as terribly surprising at this point.
But for those who purport to care about democracy dying in darkness, and
'misinformation,' and transparency, how can this sort of thing be
justified or defended? Or is it an ends-justify-the-means gambit that
throttles or blocks unhelpful information (even if there's a dispute
about whether it's fully correct, or at least disputed, or lacking
context) right before an election? As for other elements of Harris'
record and worldview, this was revealing:

A number of people have pointed out this juxtaposition:

I'll leave you with some of the other interesting choices Harris and her
surrogates are making entering the final stretch of this high-stakes
campaign:'

On 2024-10-21, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
> These bozos at the FCC are just discovering this?
> So is Google BTW.
>
> 'FCC Commissioner: Why Is Facebook Censoring Accurate Information About
> Kamala Harris?'
>
><https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4272375/posts>
>
><https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/10/21/fcc-commissioner-why-is-facebook-censoring-accurate-information-about-kamala-harris-n2646479>
>
>
>
> 'Vice President Kamala Harris is shamelessly trying to run away from her
> 'Border Czar' responsibilities, often with the assistance of a compliant
> 'news' media, but that wasn't the only major job with which she's been
> tasked in the Biden-Harris administration. The president also tapped
> her to help lead and oversee a number of expensive 'green' and
> infrastructure initiatives. On a costly plan to install new electric
> vehicle chargers (Harris is suddenly pretending she has nothing to do
> with EV mandates she has supported and co-sponsored), Politico described
> its 'progress' in late 2023: "Congress at the urging of the Biden
> administration agreed in 2021 to spend $7.5 billion to build tens of
> thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the country, aiming to
> appease anxious drivers while tackling climate change. Two years later,
> the program has yet to install a single charger." This past summer, the
> results were still embarrassing: "Just seven electric-vehicle charging
> stations have begun operating with funding from a $5-billion US
> government program created in 2021, marking “pathetic” progress, a
> Democratic senator said on Wednesday."
>
> That serves as a backdrop to a related matter on which Harris was
> explicitly placed in charge. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr summarized
> the issue in a recent Wall Street Journal op/ed, explaining how a
> much-ballyhooed rural broadband project has utterly failed thus far, on
> Harris' watch:
>
> Kamala Harris lamented recently that “in America, it takes too long and
> it costs too much to build.” She’s right. But she failed to mention that
> those costly delays are a feature, not a bug, of her progressive
> policies. Consider Ms. Harris’s record. In 2021 she agreed to lead the
> administration’s $42 billion plan for expanding high-speed internet to
> millions of Americans. That year, she tweeted that “we can bring
> broadband to rural America today.” Today, nearly three years after
> Congress passed the infrastructure bill that created the program, not
> one home or business has been connected through it. The Biden-Harris
> administration recently confirmed that construction projects won’t begin
> until next year at the earliest, and in many cases not until 2026.
>
> Instead of focusing on delivering broadband to unserved areas, the
> administration has used the program to advance a wish list of political
> goals. It has adopted regulations that include diversity, equity and
> inclusion requirements, climate-change rules, price controls,
> preferences for union labor, and schemes that favor government-run
> networks. The administration has been handing out wins to favored
> political groups rather than delivering results. Other factors have kept
> Ms. Harris’s high-speed program in the slow lane. Testifying before a
> congressional oversight committee, one state government official
> described “a chaotic implementation environment” marked by “dysfunction”
> and “delays.” The administration, she said, “has provided either no
> guidance, guidance given too late, or guidance changing midstream.”
>
> Recommended
>
> We Know What Fani Willis' Lover Told Congress
> Mia Cathell
> This is, of course, a poor reflection on the Biden-Harris
> administration, an indictment of her leadership, and another example of
> why bloated government programs are so often wasteful and useless. It
> also begs the question of what, if anything, Harris has done well as
> Vice President. But what makes this all worse is Commissioner Carr's
> subsequent allegation that Facebook is censoring his accurate WSJ piece
> as 'misinformation:'
>
>
> Facebook is now censoring the fact that VP Harris has failed to connect
> even one person to the Internet despite leading the Administration’s $42
> billion infrastructure plan for 1,000+ days. Facebook is labeling this
> “false information,” not because anyone has been connected—no one
> has—but because the government has been spending money while not
> connecting anyone. Worse? The fact checker’s only sources are
> Biden-Harris officials. I thought Zuckerberg promised Congress that it
> had stopped censoring posts at the behest of the Biden-Harris
> Administration...Here’s what VP Harris and Facebook don’t want you to
> know: VP Harris has been leading the Administration’s $42 billion
> program to expand Internet access to millions of Americans for 1,070
> days. Zero people have been connected. Zero shovels worth of dirt have
> even been turned.
>
> A social media giant is suppressing accurate information, furnished by a
> government official--deciding it's "false," based on the say-so of
> other, favored government officials. That is unacceptable and
> disturbing, but it can't be seen as terribly surprising at this point.
> But for those who purport to care about democracy dying in darkness, and
> 'misinformation,' and transparency, how can this sort of thing be
> justified or defended? Or is it an ends-justify-the-means gambit that
> throttles or blocks unhelpful information (even if there's a dispute
> about whether it's fully correct, or at least disputed, or lacking
> context) right before an election? As for other elements of Harris'
> record and worldview, this was revealing:
>
>
>
> A number of people have pointed out this juxtaposition:
>
>
>
> I'll leave you with some of the other interesting choices Harris and her
> surrogates are making entering the final stretch of this high-stakes
> campaign:'

Facebook as a public company is entitled to enact processes that the shareholders
agree upon.
If they want to censor, that's up to them.

However they should no longer be protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

--
pothead

See Kamala Harris best interview ever.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6363352689112
She really knocks this one out of the park.
Don't you agree?

pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
> On 2024-10-21, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> These bozos at the FCC are just discovering this?
>> So is Google BTW.
>>
>> 'FCC Commissioner: Why Is Facebook Censoring Accurate Information About
>> Kamala Harris?'
>>
>> <https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4272375/posts>
>>
>> <https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/10/21/fcc-commissioner-why-is-facebook-censoring-accurate-information-about-kamala-harris-n2646479>
>>
>>
>>
>> 'Vice President Kamala Harris is shamelessly trying to run away from her
>> 'Border Czar' responsibilities, often with the assistance of a compliant
>> 'news' media, but that wasn't the only major job with which she's been
>> tasked in the Biden-Harris administration. The president also tapped
>> her to help lead and oversee a number of expensive 'green' and
>> infrastructure initiatives. On a costly plan to install new electric
>> vehicle chargers (Harris is suddenly pretending she has nothing to do
>> with EV mandates she has supported and co-sponsored), Politico described
>> its 'progress' in late 2023: "Congress at the urging of the Biden
>> administration agreed in 2021 to spend $7.5 billion to build tens of
>> thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the country, aiming to
>> appease anxious drivers while tackling climate change. Two years later,
>> the program has yet to install a single charger." This past summer, the
>> results were still embarrassing: "Just seven electric-vehicle charging
>> stations have begun operating with funding from a $5-billion US
>> government program created in 2021, marking “pathetic” progress, a
>> Democratic senator said on Wednesday."
>>
>> That serves as a backdrop to a related matter on which Harris was
>> explicitly placed in charge. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr summarized
>> the issue in a recent Wall Street Journal op/ed, explaining how a
>> much-ballyhooed rural broadband project has utterly failed thus far, on
>> Harris' watch:
>>
>> Kamala Harris lamented recently that “in America, it takes too long and
>> it costs too much to build.” She’s right. But she failed to mention that
>> those costly delays are a feature, not a bug, of her progressive
>> policies. Consider Ms. Harris’s record. In 2021 she agreed to lead the
>> administration’s $42 billion plan for expanding high-speed internet to
>> millions of Americans. That year, she tweeted that “we can bring
>> broadband to rural America today.” Today, nearly three years after
>> Congress passed the infrastructure bill that created the program, not
>> one home or business has been connected through it. The Biden-Harris
>> administration recently confirmed that construction projects won’t begin
>> until next year at the earliest, and in many cases not until 2026.
>>
>> Instead of focusing on delivering broadband to unserved areas, the
>> administration has used the program to advance a wish list of political
>> goals. It has adopted regulations that include diversity, equity and
>> inclusion requirements, climate-change rules, price controls,
>> preferences for union labor, and schemes that favor government-run
>> networks. The administration has been handing out wins to favored
>> political groups rather than delivering results. Other factors have kept
>> Ms. Harris’s high-speed program in the slow lane. Testifying before a
>> congressional oversight committee, one state government official
>> described “a chaotic implementation environment” marked by “dysfunction”
>> and “delays.” The administration, she said, “has provided either no
>> guidance, guidance given too late, or guidance changing midstream.”
>>
>> Recommended
>>
>> We Know What Fani Willis' Lover Told Congress
>> Mia Cathell
>> This is, of course, a poor reflection on the Biden-Harris
>> administration, an indictment of her leadership, and another example of
>> why bloated government programs are so often wasteful and useless. It
>> also begs the question of what, if anything, Harris has done well as
>> Vice President. But what makes this all worse is Commissioner Carr's
>> subsequent allegation that Facebook is censoring his accurate WSJ piece
>> as 'misinformation:'
>>
>>
>> Facebook is now censoring the fact that VP Harris has failed to connect
>> even one person to the Internet despite leading the Administration’s $42
>> billion infrastructure plan for 1,000+ days. Facebook is labeling this
>> “false information,” not because anyone has been connected—no one
>> has—but because the government has been spending money while not
>> connecting anyone. Worse? The fact checker’s only sources are
>> Biden-Harris officials. I thought Zuckerberg promised Congress that it
>> had stopped censoring posts at the behest of the Biden-Harris
>> Administration...Here’s what VP Harris and Facebook don’t want you to
>> know: VP Harris has been leading the Administration’s $42 billion
>> program to expand Internet access to millions of Americans for 1,070
>> days. Zero people have been connected. Zero shovels worth of dirt have
>> even been turned.
>>
>> A social media giant is suppressing accurate information, furnished by a
>> government official--deciding it's "false," based on the say-so of
>> other, favored government officials. That is unacceptable and
>> disturbing, but it can't be seen as terribly surprising at this point.
>> But for those who purport to care about democracy dying in darkness, and
>> 'misinformation,' and transparency, how can this sort of thing be
>> justified or defended? Or is it an ends-justify-the-means gambit that
>> throttles or blocks unhelpful information (even if there's a dispute
>> about whether it's fully correct, or at least disputed, or lacking
>> context) right before an election? As for other elements of Harris'
>> record and worldview, this was revealing:
>>
>>
>>
>> A number of people have pointed out this juxtaposition:
>>
>>
>>
>> I'll leave you with some of the other interesting choices Harris and her
>> surrogates are making entering the final stretch of this high-stakes
>> campaign:'
>
> Facebook as a public company is entitled to enact processes that the shareholders
> agree upon.

It is obvious to me
> If they want to censor, that's up to them.
>
> However they should no longer be protected by Section 230 of the
> Communications Decency Act.
>
>

But how to change the law, if is possible two rich guys like Elon and
Zuckerberg pay for the votes to keep themselves immune.