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> Nancy Pelosi initiates plan to control what people
> post on social media
> Published in Blog on January 28, 2020 by
> Convention Of States
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> Remember last year when Speaker of the House Nancy
> Pelosi suggested that federal politicians should
> decide what people post on social media?
>
> If you missed it, Pelosi suggested that freedom of
> expression for social media companies is a "gift"
> and a "privilege" that can be rescinded if tech
> companies don't move in the direction she wants.
>
> That campaign hasn't gone far, but Pelosi hasn't
> given up. In a press conference earlier this
> month, she slammed Facebook for "misleading the
> American people."
>
> Per The Verge:
>
> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped into Facebook on
> Thursday during her weekly press briefing and
> accused the social media company of
> “schmoozing” the Trump administration out of
> tougher regulation.
>
> “They have been very irresponsible,” Pelosi
> said about the social media giant. “I think
> their behavior is shameful.”
>
> She continued: “Facebook’s business model is
> strictly to make money. They don’t care about
> the impact on children. They don’t care about
> the impact on truth. They don’t care about where
> this is all coming from, and they have said that
> even if they know it is not true, they will print
> it.”
>
> The first step to controlling social media is to
> discredit these companies in the minds of the
> American people. It looks like that's exactly what
> Pelosi plans to do.
>
> Big tech is far from blameless, but Pelosi's
> agenda begs the question: if Facebook can't decide
> what appears on its platform, who can?
>
> Pelosi and federal officials would suggest that
> they are more trustworthy than the companies in
> Silicon Valley. The American people can trust
> politicians to dictate what does and doesn't go
> viral because they have our best interests at
> heart.
>
> Right?
>
> Wrong. Federal politicians are, if anything, less
> trustworthy than big tech companies, and it's time
> their big-government campaigns come to an end.
>
> Politicians like Pelosi will never stop trying to
> accrue power, but we can place real,
> constitutional limitations around their efforts
> with an Article V Convention of States.
>
> A Convention of States is called and controlled by
> the states and has the power to propose
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> money on a narrow window of topics. Such
> amendments would restrict federal jurisdiction and
> put the American people back in charge of their
> own lives -- and social media accounts.
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