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GOP to Silicon Valley: Promote the far right or else

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    I feel the title is a bit sensational (and the Daily Beast is definitely a left-leaning publication), but I think it is worrying that the GOP now wants to attempt to force "neutrality" on Silicon...

    I feel the title is a bit sensational (and the Daily Beast is definitely a left-leaning publication), but I think it is worrying that the GOP now wants to attempt to force "neutrality" on Silicon Valley. I think that if the GOP really wants to prove how much better they are, they should build conservative or neutral alternatives to Facebook, Google, etc and let the free markets decide who is better.

    “One of the versions would be to require that they publish the algorithms. Another one would be to go back to that section in the code that gives them that protection [and] tweak that so that they become publicly liable and then let the lawyers fix it,”

    Given how advanced AI is getting, there might not even be code that could be published since it would be customized for each person and how much training goes into these systems.

    “When I talk to leftists, they really just, some of them just do not have, even though they’ve got a lot of cognitive ability, they’re wired so differently that they can’t rationally put themselves in the mind-set of a conservative,” King lectured just off the House floor. “So, therefore, their reasoning ability just doesn’t have the circuits to make an objective judgement.”

    Without any context, I can't really comment on if the "leftists" are actually able to see things from a conservative point of view or if they are and he's just being an ass/unreasonable. But in any case, he comes off as a condescending ass himself by saying liberals can't make an "objective judgement."

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