Should There Be Some Limit on Freedom of Speech?

[Mac-7]

It was the framers intent that government have no power to dictate what newspapers publish.

Neither do I

I want to break up FaceBook the way TDR broke up Standard Oil

So we have a new dictator?

a wannabe

but not quite there yet

 

[Oddball]

It was the framers intent that government have no power to dictate what newspapers publish.

Fascistbook and Twaffler are claiming that they're "platforms" (i.e. an open public square) not "publishers" (i.e. newspapers).

You're not so thick as to not know the difference....So why are you playing dumb?

 

[dblack]

Fascistbook and Twaffler are claiming that they're "platforms" (i.e. an open public square) not "publishers" (i.e. newspapers).

You're not so thick as to not know the difference....So why are you playing dumb?

LOL - love it when you whip out the same tired statist arguments that Dems do when they're trying to justify a power grab.

"public square" - good one!

 

[Oddball]

LOL - love it when you whip out the same tired statist arguments that Dems do when they're trying to justify a power grab.

"public square" - good one!

Gotta love when apologists for big corporate monopolizers deflect from the main point....Antisocial media companies are acting as publishers, not platforms.....Now they're colluding with The State to control the flow of information, and fake glibertarian sellouts like you don't GAF.

 

[dblack]

Gotta love when apologists for big corporate monopolizers deflect from the main point....Antisocial media companies are acting as publishers, not platforms.....Now they're colluding with The State to control the flow of information, and fake glibertarian sellouts like you don't GAF.

Ahhh.. the 'fake' libertarian horseshit... I'm surprised you can still spell "libertarian". Big daddy government will save you from mean ole Facebook. Just whine louder.

 

[Oddball]

Ahhh.. the 'fake' libertarian horseshit... I'm surprised you can still spell "libertarian". Big daddy government will save you from mean ole Facebook. Just whine louder.

I'm not the apologist for monopolists, Corky....Fakes gonna fake.

 

[dblack]

I'm not the apologist for monopolists, Corky....Fakes gonna fake.

"Monopoly" - another good one. Bernie would be proud.

 

[Oddball]

"Monopoly" - another good one. Bernie would be proud.

The monopolies are defacto, as the principles in question -Google included- control nearly all the traffic.....They only enjoy the protections they have through gubmint action (i.e. Section 230), which is almost always the source of monopolies, and you damn well know it....Or maybe you're playng stupid again.

BTW, Standard Oil didn't control 100% of the petroleum market when they declared a monopoly and were broken up.

 

[dblack]

The monopolies are defacto, as the principles in question -Google included- control nearly all the traffic.....They only enjoy the protections they have through gubmint action (i.e. Section 230), which is almost always the source of monopolies, and you damn well know it....Or maybe you're playng stupid again.

BTW, Standard Oil didn't control 100% of the petroleum market when they declared a monopoly and were broken up.

When statists start yammering about monopolies, it pretty much always translates to: "They have a lot power. And we want it!"

Facebook is in no way, "defacto" or otherwise, a monopoly. But they do have a lot of power to influence people - and ambitious politicians, in both parties, really, really want that power for themselves.

 

[Captain Caveman]

I am not in the least bit ignorant of the way Tommy Robinson has been treated as a warning to all you sheeple to look the other way when Pakistani men rape your children. You claim to have free speech, but he was arrested for expressing his, then tried and thrown in the gulag all within hours in a prearranged plot to intimidate any who might otherwise oppose the rape of your children by these foreign invaders.

Yes, you are ignorant.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Misinformation during a pandemic seems serious to me.

The so-called “pandemic” was, itself, almost entirely based on misinformation, on grotesque exaggerations and outright lies about what, in reality, was nothing more than a routine flu outbreak. On the use of fearmongering and misinformation by corrupt politicians to seize and abuse power over us to which they have no legitimate claim.

What you want to suppress as “misinformation” is those of us calling out this abusive hoax for what it truly is. This makes you complicit in the hoax and the accompanying abuse, as guilty as those directly responsible for it.

When we finally throw this hoax off, take our freedoms back, and start holding accountable those who imposed this bullshit on us, we will not forget willing accessories such as yourself.

You should be very worried. You chose the wrong side, and the consequences will come back to bite you.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Yes, you are ignorant.

Not on the least, but of repeating stupid words over and over makes you feel better about yourself, boy child, then go for it.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

I've always, always been a rabid defender and advocate of freedom of expression. Not just Freedom of Speech as defined by the Constitution, but as broad a definition as possible.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Yep.

So your position is that the phone company should be able to disconnect your line if they don't like what you are saying on it or who you are making calls to? You do realize that there is no true competition for phone companies in the USA? All the "competition" uses the phone company's cables, and often its electronics as well to get to their customers. That's a really stupid position to take. Either a carrier is absolutely neutral or it isn't. ATT tried to refuse to carry porn telephone lines back in the eighties and the courts ruled that they had to provide service as they were a neutral carrier. Why should Facebook and others like it be any different? There is already a existing remedy for people spreading lies. You sue them for libel in the courts. If you prove your case they have to stop and often make you rich in the process.

 

[Mac1958]

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[Asclepias]

So your position is that the phone company should be able to disconnect your line if they don't like what you are saying on it or who you are making calls to? You do realize that there is no trial competitor for phone companies in the USA? All the "competition" uses the phone company's cables, and often its electronics as well to get to their customers. That's a really stupid position to take. Either a carrier is absolutely neutral or it isn't. ATT tried to refuse to carry porn telephone lines back in the eighties and the courts ruled that they had to provide service as they were a neutral carrier. Why should Facebook and others like it be any different?

"So your position is that the phone company should be able to disconnect your line if they don't like what you are saying on it or who you are making calls to?"

How did you get that out of what I said? Are you retarded or just slow?

 

[surada]

It's immaterial if it's "dangerous".

Are you even American? I don't argue these things with non-Americans. They typically cannot even wrap their heads around it.

And don't bother to lie. I will look back and discover it.

Yeah. I'm an American..My family has been here since the 1600s.

It is relevant to give dangerous medical advice.. You aren't very bright. Don't bother to post to me again.

 

[surada]

"So your position is that the phone company should be able to disconnect your line if they don't like what you are saying on it or who you are making calls to?"

How did you get that out of what I said? Are you retarded or just slow?

Maybe retarded.. Yeah, my money is on retarded.

 

[SweetSue92]

Yeah. I'm an American..My family has been here since the 1600s.

It is relevant to give dangerous medical advice.. You aren't very bright. Don't bother to post to me again.

Then you should move. You don't even like nor endorse our FIRST amendment. Really, go. Move.

PS

My ancestors fought for the Patriots in the Revolutionary War and the Union in the Civil War.

Probably your ancestors were Tories.

 

[Dr Grump]

A fascit fucktard like you invoking Reagan is as pathetic as you can get.


Fascitbook joining the feds to decide for everyone else what is "misinformation" or not is straight out of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.....In Murica, it's known as "prior restraint" and ruled by USSC as defacto censorship.

Total horseshit. You live in a world where you want anybody to lie constantly, which in turn has a negative impact on millions of people. Start at the truth. It will set you free. The lying sack of shit **** Trump, can start his own fucking social media platform. Why doesn't he? Because only his Kool-Aid, acolyte, sycophantic dweebs who can't think for themselves would follow him. That's why. And he wouldn't be able to moneterise it - after all, moolah is his God.