Bipartisan group seeks $43 million to fund replacement for scandal-plagued Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake facilities. //end headline wrapper ?>Lincoln Hills School and Copper Lake School. Photo from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is asking its colleagues to co-sponsor legislation to fully fund a new $42 million juvenile prison in Milwaukee County to replace the scandal-plagued Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake facilities in Irma.
The Legislature voted in 2018 to close Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake by July 1 of this year and transfer its residents either to a new Type 1 facility, which houses serious juvenile offenders, or to secure residential care centers that would be built in different areas of the state.
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Wisconsin GOP bill goes after social media âSilicon Valley elitesâ
Freshman state senator Julian Bradley (R-Franklin) is joining former President Donald Trump in his crusade against private social media companies, AKA âSilicon Valley elites.â On Monday, he unveiled a bill taking on âBig Techâ with six-figure fines for allegedly censoring and stifling âthe free exchange of ideas.â
âFree expression is one of the most vital components of our democratic republic,â tweeted Bradley. âThatâs why Iâm authoring a bill to hold Big Tech social media companies accountable.â
Sen. Julian Bradley (R-Franklin)
The Senate Republican Twitter account ominously retweeted this adding, âBig Tech & their allies know if they can control speech, they can control ideas. If they can control ideas, they can control elections. If they can control elections, they can control you.â
Calvin Callahan (R-Tomahawk) began circulating a memo seeking cosponsors for their bill that accuses Facebook, Twitter and other companies of trying to silence conservative speech, in particular, and preventing “robust political discussions.”
“…as these platforms become more involved with political discussion, Big Tech has too often used its power to censor and stifle the free exchange of ideas, even booting users off their sites for legitimate political discourse,” reads the memo. “As a result, people all across the political spectrum have seen social media throttle and cancel legitimate free speech actions.”
The bill would force the social media companies to share their algorithms and notify a user if they censor or remove content, or ban a user. The bill carves out exceptions for content that is obscene or constitutes a “credible threat.”
In the wake of former President Donald Trump being banned or indefinitely suspended from major social-media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, a Wisconsin state senator has proposed a bill that would impose fines of up to $250,000 for platforms that prevent elected officials from using them.
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State Sen. Julian Bradley s bill would require social-media companies to allow users to opt out of the algorithms the platforms use to decide what tweets/posts are more likely to be shown to others and which are more likely to go unseen. Users that opt out would then be able to view posts and content sequentially or chronologically.
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