Former Facebook insider Alex Stamos suggested conservative outlets One America News and Newsmax be de-platformed for airing concerns about election integrity.
“We have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences,” Stamos, the former chief security officer of Facebook, told CNN last week.
“There are people on YouTube, for example, that have a larger audience than daytime CNN, and they are extremely radical and pushing extremely radical views,” he said.
In the same way that Twitter and Facebook removed President Donald Trump from their platforms, these companies need to ban the conservative outlets pushing Trump’s views, Stamos argued.
He then said Internet and cable companies should join the effort and block them from the airwaves for good.
“It is up to the Facebooks and YouTubes, in particular, to think about whether or not they want to be effectively cable networks for disinformation,” Stamos claimed.
“And then we’re gonna have to figure out the OANN and Newsmax problem that these companies have freedom of speech, but I’m not sure we need Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and such to be bringing them into tens of millions of homes,” he continued.
Former Facebook insider Alex Stamos tells @brianstelter: “We have to turn down the capability of these Conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences… There are people on YouTube for example that have a larger audience than daytime CNN.” pic.twitter.com/gP0XtnjhCQ
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 17, 2021
“This is allowing people to seek out information if they really want to but not pushing it into their faces, I think, is where we’re going to have to go here,” Stamos added.
Conservatives pointed out that Stamos’s solution is exactly where Big Tech’s censorship is headed.
Control, suppress, censor conservatives. What’s next re-education camps? https://t.co/FQ8LjlMhTr
— Mercedes Schlapp (@mercedesschlapp) January 17, 2021
The left’s pivot from blaming Republicans for “othering” minorities to publicly calling for the “othering” of anyone who doesn’t toe the groupthink line — well, it’s stunning. https://t.co/F4i0gzrqTd
— Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) January 17, 2021
