Progressive Minnesota Sen. Al Franken has major doubts that tech companies can adequately police social media, and believes that the ever-flawless federal government and bureaucrat regulators might need to provide oversight:
Sen. Al Franken is calling for 'vigorous oversight' of Facebook, Google, and Twitter https://t.co/67N9n1xfqU pic.twitter.com/94UVWiNbba
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) November 9, 2017
Suffice to say there weren’t a lot of fans of Franken’s Orwellian designs on government control over social media and free speech:
Liberals: Donald Trump is a fascist.
Also liberals: Give the federal government total control to restrict the 1st & 2nd Amendment. Kthxbai.
— Jonathan "ABC & CBS Love Pedos" Goldstein (@TeamAmericaMOFO) November 9, 2017
Ironic and hypocritical? Could be just a little! And doggone it, people don’t like it:
Just your friendly neighborhood Democrat, trying to institute Orwellian control over your thoughts and actions. https://t.co/6axFFmdPsz
— Seanathon (@BetterBuckleUp) November 9, 2017
Fuck you. https://t.co/n0BbPfVuGG
— ? Thankful Ginger ? (@mchastain81) November 9, 2017
Yes, let's give the government free reign to look at what we say and search for online. What could go wrong there? https://t.co/IrctCZQx3u
— Jim Bevan (@JimB_85) November 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/405sean/status/928737728279273477
Gov't control over our media tech is way to go…1984, animal farm
— Peter Klinge Jr (@peterklinge) November 9, 2017
God, so tired of this socialist Stuart Smalley pic.twitter.com/gRKxiQ3sSE
— Marek Zee (@MarekZee) November 9, 2017
It's just a little government #censorship, what's the worst that could happen? https://t.co/jNpkI1EX45
— Christmas Kyle Style Podcast (@KStylePodcast) November 9, 2017
Breaking:
Wannabe Fascists wanna fascist. https://t.co/IOoUW1foLp— Matthew Dempster (@dempstermd) November 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/TempletonTJones/status/928723399286894592
No way around it: These people want to control the flow of information in this country. https://t.co/Q9kY2wOcI0
— Zach Weissmueller (@TheAbridgedZach) November 9, 2017
How about just getting them to obey existing laws & the US Constitution first? https://t.co/3pcWr4KuQI
— Mary Magdalen (@Gr8LakesCzarina) November 9, 2017
Yep, that's the answer. https://t.co/nurN8bickE
— BT (@back_ttys) November 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/keithfhamilton/status/928723470074163203
Oversight only over things he does not agree with.
— Softballdad (@Fman30) November 9, 2017
Will all this social media criticism of Sen. Franken’s desire to oversee social media strengthen his resolve? It’s certainly not likely to make him less interested in “oversight.”
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