K9Buck
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There are many reasons that law was passed. But the ONLY reason Trump wants it repealed is because they've called him on his bullshit.You mean like Fox News?These companies are supposed to just providing a platform. If they are taking sides, and they are, then they are responsible for their content and should be liable for it.
That they mislead people and fuck up people's lives, and indeed suppress political speech for partisan purposes, COUNTER to their stated purpose or their responsibilities to their share holders,
Makes regulating them a valid issue.
If this argument were raised outside the context of political retribution, I might have more patience with it. But it's not. It's purely Trump "going after" social media companies that won't do his bidding. We should never tolerate that kind of government.
Your rationalization for supporting censorship is noted.
Note whatever you like. I totally support censorship, as long it's not mandated by the state. Twitter and FB's main mistake was in making exceptions for him in the first place. They should have banned him like any other troll and wiped their hands of the whole thing. Instead they placated him, and his followers, because they like all the traffic. For that reason, I don't feel particularly sorry for them being in the crosshairs. But I don't want to see the state dictating to media. Period.
FUnny how so many of the super rich are actually hard core lefties, and use their power to advance the lefty agenda.
It is almost like the class warfare rhetoric of the Left is, like so much of what that have to say, complete bs.
i bet if it were RIGHT LEANING tech companies censoring huge portions of the information that people get, your opinion would be very different.
Don't you realize that if we give government power over social media, the Democrats will run hog wild with it???
The dems have never waited for us to run wild. They did not need anything from us to use Big Tech, or to politicize the media, or to use violent mobs in the streets.
The issue is real. That dealing with it will be hard, or even not possible, does not mean that the issue is not real.
Businesses, big and small, have a right to their political biases - just like people. They have a right to pick and choose who they cater to and who they snub. They have a right to disagree with the government, and to say so. Despite the claims of socialists and Trump Republicans, they are not "owned" by the state. They are not "public utilities".
The issue here is that FB and Twitter have defied the President and you want to punish them for it. Government shouldn't work that way. A free society doesn't work that way.
So then why does Twitter, Facebook and YouTube receive government immunity from lawsuits?
You're not a serious, honest, objective person.
Ad homs aside - do you deny my claim? Would trump be "going after" social media companies if they supported him? You know goddamned well he wouldn't. But go ahead, shuffle your feet and whimper through some excuses.
No, but that doesn't change the fact that tech giants receive government protection not afforded to 99.99% of organizations. Don't tell me that you don't support the fascist marriage of monolithic government and worldwide conglomerates. They love guys like you.