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Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich. (Photo: Twitter) A former member of Congress is issuing a warning that social media censorship cannot be allowed to continue, or else the ideas of freedom of expression and freedom of speech will be lost.
“We must not accept the new intolerance of corporate progressives,” Pete Hoekstra said in a commentary at the Gatestone Institute. “It is time to stand up to the social media titans of our age, the new robber barons, and put a stop to their aggressive attempts to control the marketplace of ideas.”
He is a former representative in Congress from Michigan. He served as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. More recently he was U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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It is social media that has become the “dominant form of communication in our society,” he wrote.
“Sixty-eight percent of U.S. adults identify themselves as Facebook users. Statistics show that people on average spend 2.5 hours per day on social networks and messaging. Also, 49 percent ‘of consumers depend on influencer recommendations on social media,'” he said.
“Social media boosters claim that this success shows that Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other platforms are fulfilling their promise to help build an interconnected world of free expression and solidarity in diversity of thought. But is this true?”
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He said in the world of political discourse, social media should be a new marketplace where “differing ideas and policy options could be promoted and debated freely.”
But that’s not what’s happened. Social media companies from Twitter and Facebook to Google and others routinely censor ideas with which they disagree. Many times the censorship is political in nature, in that the companies simply don’t want any discussion over certain issues to be allowed.”Rather than developing into a new marketplace of open competition among ideas and ideologies, the social media space has narrowed. Thought regulation, and even censorship, whether overt or hidden, has become commonplace. Too often, only ‘correct’ opinion and the approved version of ‘truth’ have been allowed. The arbiters of online speech — faceless […]
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