{"id":1218646,"date":"2025-02-20T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218646"},"modified":"2025-02-20T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:20:25","slug":"ftc-investigates-tech-censorship-says-its-un-american-and-may-be-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218646","title":{"rendered":"FTC investigates \u201ctech censorship,\u201d says it\u2019s un-American and may be illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/news\/press-releases\/2025\/02\/federal-trade-commission-launches-inquiry-tech-censorship\">announced<\/a> a public inquiry into alleged censorship online, saying it wants &#8220;to better understand how technology platforms deny or degrade users&#8217; access to services based on the content of their speech or affiliations, and how this conduct may have violated the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tech firms should not be bullying their users,&#8221; said FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, who was chosen by President Trump to lead the commission. &#8220;This inquiry will help the FTC better understand how these firms may have violated the law by silencing and intimidating Americans for speaking their minds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The FTC announcement said that &#8220;censorship by technology platforms is not just un-American, it is potentially illegal.&#8221; Tech platforms&#8217; actions &#8220;may harm consumers, affect competition, may have resulted from a lack of competition, or may have been the product of anti-competitive conduct,&#8221; the FTC said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/ftc-investigates-tech-censorship-says-its-un-american-and-may-be-illegal\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/ftc-investigates-tech-censorship-says-its-un-american-and-may-be-illegal\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission today announced a public inquiry into alleged censorship online, saying it wants &#8220;to better understand how technology platforms deny or degrade users&#8217; access to services based on the content of their speech or affiliations, and how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218646\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}