Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet - Can you spell desperate? Posted: Aug 8th, 2018 - 9:21 am
A leaked memo circulating among Senate Democrats contains a host of bonkers authoritarian proposals for regulating digital platforms, purportedly as a way to get tough on Russian bots and fake news. To save American trust in "our institutions, democracy, free press, and markets," it suggests, we need unprecedented and undemocratic government intervention into online press and markets, including "comprehensive (GDPR-like) data protection legislation" of the sort enacted in the E.U.
Yes, I do believe this is what fascism looks like. More at link...
https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/31/democrats-tech-policy-plans-leaked
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