The Social Media Giants Threaten Our Elections

RUSH: Now, we’ve all heard the stories about how Google and Facebook are censoring conservative content. Whole websites, whole blogospheres, individuals, and then an individual tweet. I had a friend who simply clicked on a link to the website the Gateway Pundit and Facebook sent them a warning saying that this is a dangerous site. You should monitor this site. We will be monitoring this site. You should restrict your usage of this website. Gateway Pundit. It’s a conservative blog and website that is no threat to Google or anybody. These companies are getting into the credit card business. That means they’re getting into banking.

The ChiCom government has told Google what it must censor if it wants to do business there. Google happily and readily agreed to tailor its search results to the demands of the ChiCom government. Why? Because I think they have a greater compatibility with the ChiCom government than they do with the Trump administration.

Now, the Google employee says that Google is gonna try to defeat Trump. Eric Schmidt, who was the CEO at the time when Obama was in the White House, met with Obama I don’t know how many times. Google practically had a satellite office in the West Wing, as they shared their technical expertise with the Obama administration and related campaign offices.

But here’s the danger, folks. I mean, cutting to the chase here. Google is acting, in the United States, in an identical way that they are acting in China. The difference is that Google is practicing the censorship in the United States; the ChiComs are demanding that they exhibit it in China, and they’re happily and readily agreeing to it.

It is possible — we may be on the verge of it now — what if Google or Facebook or any similar such social media operation, what if it ever reaches the point that it has the ability to manipulate or motivate or cause to take action with more power and influence than elected leaders do? What happens if a Google approved president is in the White House and a group protesting the Google approved president is seen with disfavor by the Google approved president and asks Google to do what they can to shut it down?

And what if Google can? What if Google can use its power social media-wise to marginalize and to make invisible any of the people protesting the Google approved president? On the other hand, let’s say we have a non-Google approved president or non-Facebook approved, like Trump, what happens when Google is able to, or Facebook, is able to mobilize, manipulate, marginalize, or cause to take action a greater number of people in the country than elected leaders can?

Well, I’ll tell you what’s gonna happen. The elected leaders will then kowtow to Google … This is a far greater potential problem than anything the Russians pose.

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