Big tech in US deciding who is allowed to speak: Analyst
Big tech in the United States is the one to decide who can speak on social media, says a political commentator.
“Big social media corporations have been banding together to decide who will be allowed to speak and who will not. And of course, since these companies are headquartered in the US, generally it goes along with those who are friendly to US foreign policy, get the preferred treatment,” Helen Buyniski told Press TV, whose page was briefly removed by Facebook with no explanation.
Facebook, however, reversed the decision hours later in response to an appeal filed by Press TV.
She further suggested that Big tech is growing beyond the supposed checks and balanced supposedly put in place by the government.
“If the social media companies are flexing their muscles, they're proving that they are actually stronger than the governments that are supposed to keep them in check. And the governments are basically realizing that there's nothing that they can do, because they handed over all of this power to these companies, basically privatizing their intelligence gathering sources.”
The RT journalist also explained how Twitter’s ban on US President Donald Trump exposes the depth of fascism at work in US government and institutions.
“It’s a very interesting situation we have unfolding here, because never in the history of at least in the United States have we had companies that are more powerful than governments, we've had companies and governments working together as social media did for quite a long time, which I mean, having an authoritarian state run by corporations and government working hand in hand, that is kind of the definition of fascism, but nobody likes to talk about that.”
Over the past years, Facebook — along with YouTube, Twitter and Google — have repeatedly targeted Press TV among other media outlets of Iran and the countries critical of the West and the Israeli regime’s occupation of Palestine.
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