Posted on 08/18/2018 6:28:23 AM PDT by JonPreston
Thanks for that post.
What a great statement from the President!
No, you completely misunderstood my post. I keep Facebook for family and friend interactions. I don’t have anybody from the liberal left as friends. I use Twitter and Instagram for political posts. Nobody silences me. Some of my Facebook friends do have friends that are liberals. When they post political things I do get involved with those. All of my Facebook friends and family are Trump supporters so there is nobody to argue with there.
Some of my friends that allow liberals on their FB pages have been reported and ended up in FB jail. One was in FB jail for sharing religious postings. Some of them have started removing liberals from their friend lists to avoid all of that.
Facebook is my private spot to talk to real friends and family.
Twitter and Instagram are where I go to engage politically with conservatives and smack down liberals. I take my fights with liberals there because I don’t use either one to keep up with family. If I get put in FB jail it limits my ability to talk to friends and family that live out of state.
Sometimes you have to pick your platforms to fight the fight. I prefer to keep my FB liberal and politics free. I take those to Twitter and Instagram.
Trump sums it in a few tweets.
Yeah, Alex Jones is probably an idiot but the free speech thing means we need to tolerate idiots.
If we start shutting people down, and especially if we do it with an ideological bias, then the cure is worse than the disease, and we suffer the unintended consequences of betraying our ideals.
Trump is amazing because he gets conservatism at the gut level and he communicates it at the gut level. He is almost totally unencumbered by abstraction.
sums it UP
At least one time.
Yet. Here's an opinion that says it could be: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/9/title-vii-solution-social-media-censorship/
The left:
We hate you. Therefore you are guilty of inciting hate. Therefore we can ban you.
Oh... you hate us, TOO? Well, then you are guilty of hate. Therefore we can ban you.
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Perfect
FR is privately owned and operated. The companies in discussion are public and regulated. Big difference. You know that.
This: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3680213/posts
They are publicly traded, not public property.
You know the difference.
FR has no more of a claim to being a private company than they do using the excuses people are citing against these companies. They both use the same internet, both allow you to sign up for free, but one can kick people off but the other one cant?
Social media companies rent eyeballs to advertisers which provide the revenue. Investors should be told of any policies that reduce eyeballs as that could impact revenue and thus earnings.
“Social media companies rent eyeballs to advertisers which provide the revenue. Investors should be told of any policies that reduce eyeballs as that could impact revenue and thus earnings. “
Sure. But they still are not public property subject to the dictates of the mob.
If people want to change the corporate brass’s attitude, then they need to buy enough shares to outvote everyone else.
Instruct AG Sessions, if you can wake him up, to Enforce out Anti Trust Laws!!!
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/antitrust-laws
The Sherman Act outlaws “every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade,” and any “monopolization, attempted monopolization, or conspiracy or combination to monopolize.” Long ago, the Supreme Court decided that the Sherman Act does not prohibit every restraint of trade, only those that are unreasonable. For instance, in some sense, an agreement between two individuals to form a partnership restrains trade, but may not do so unreasonably, and thus may be lawful under the antitrust laws. On the other hand, certain acts are considered so harmful to competition that they are almost always illegal. These include plain arrangements among competing individuals or businesses to fix prices, divide markets, or rig bids. These acts are “per se” violations of the Sherman Act; in other words, no defense or justification is allowed.
The penalties for violating the Sherman Act can be severe. Although most enforcement actions are civil, the Sherman Act is also a criminal law, and individuals and businesses that violate it may be prosecuted by the Department of Justice. Criminal prosecutions are typically limited to intentional and clear violations such as when competitors fix prices or rig bids. The Sherman Act imposes criminal penalties of up to $100 million for a corporation and $1 million for an individual, along with up to 10 years in prison. Under federal law, the maximum fine may be increased to twice the amount the conspirators gained from the illegal acts or twice the money lost by the victims of the crime, if either of those amounts is over $100 million.
The Federal Trade Commission Act bans “unfair methods of competition” and “unfair or deceptive acts or practices.” The Supreme Court has said that all violations of the Sherman Act also violate the FTC Act. Thus, although the FTC does not technically enforce the Sherman Act, it can bring cases under the FTC Act against the same kinds of activities that violate the Sherman Act. The FTC Act also reaches other practices that harm competition, but that may not fit neatly into categories of conduct formally prohibited by the Sherman Act. Only the FTC brings cases under the FTC Act.
#40. Wonderful information, thanks.
To all the pearl clutching Think Tankers chiming in, simply Google the ways in which local, state and federal government uses the socials and then present a case for Republican exclusion.
Outside of POTUS Reagan, POTUS Trump is the only guy we ever had that actually fights for US.
To think, a (former?) Liberal from New York is hated by the Leftists more than Conservative (reformed Democrat) POTUS Reagan.
Crazy World we live in.
I go back some and DJT, by far and away, is fighting harder against this leftist onslaught than all the other conservative politicians put together. Reagan was wonderful, but America wasn’t on the precipice in 1980 as it is today.
I disagree.
Their Section 320 exemption can be pulled which would regulate them like media companies and subject them to far more liability. It was one thing when they did not censor content and thus had no editorial control. Right now they are exhibiting that they do have editorial control and should therefore be liable for what is written or shown on their platforms.
And of course the DOJ can bring anti trust actions against several of them as illegal monopolies.
And let’s not forget, the courts can rule they are the equivalent of the town square and thus cannot ban anybody who does not engage in clearly illegal speech.....just like the 9th circuit ruled a privately owned shopping mall on private property could not bar a group of protestors from coming onto their property to protest.
There’s nothing tyrannical about any of that.
Absolutely my privilege. It is driving me crazy that this whole thing goes much deeper and no one is trying to drive home the real talking points that have teeth to rectify this abuse from these companies.
There is no difference between the accusations of National Security because of Russia influencing our elections and a Saudi Prince allowing it to happen and back stabbing our president through using Twitter. False advertisement by claiming unbiased content when you sign up and very extremely fraudulent false claims about protecting your privacy. Stock market policy and law violations... Etc.
It is time to push these REAL targets home on a National level and stop talking around them. Starting with the fact that Microsoft is allowing them to do this with their browser and OS without your knowledge or permission while claiming “privacy and security” updates. BS... They are updating the new subroutines for these social networks so that they can spy on you even when you are not using or logged into their services.
This is why almost every web developer or computer expert is using an optional OS like Linux or other. They see the processes happen as I do...
It’s outright criminal... And THIS criminality the government has every right to investigate and act on.
wrong.
FR is privately owned.
The ones in question here are all publicly traded on a stock exchange which is/are FEDERALLY regulated.
This means they are subject to Federal regulation on an infinite number of items.
FR is private property. And this is Jim’s house... per se.
Some may not want to admit this crucial difference, but all the wise guys in the tech scam gone public, are about to find out how real it is... EVERY publicly traded tech company is subject. Musk will likely be the very next.
ROFL...
have a nice day.
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