Posted on 09/13/2018 8:41:45 AM PDT by bitt
And that's a crime now? I don't think the election interfence is as bad as the fake news, and the fake news won't publish my rebuttal interfering with my speech.
Just to be sure I understand these new rules.
If I develop and build a new application and I or the government decides it’s a social media site I give up my right to decide what can be posted there?
Is that about it?
Ya think?
Nice rant. Here here!
Do you know what is worse than fake news? Deliberate omission of facts that the public needs to know to avoid making bad decisions.
How many stories do you see about the horrors of *SOCIALIST* Venezuela? How many stories do you see about the Horrors of Abortion? How many stories do you see about the vast incidence of disease among Homosexuals, or the 50% suicide rate of Trans-sexuals?
Did the story about how the army faked the female Ranger "Passing" the Ranger course get on any of the news channels? Do they ever cover the truth about the made up bullsh*t of the Global Warming scam?
Do they talk about Muslim murders and terrorism? Do they ever mention the Democrat affiliations of mass shooters?
The public is being literally starved of correct information, and the "news" services are culpable in promulgating a false and wrong perspective of world and national events.
I say this all the time. They do far more damage by refusing to cover certain stories than they do by making up fake ones.
“deal.qith”
No coincidences.
That would be an interesting question to pose to a corporation.
“Are you big enough to be a government?”
If it is a communications system that serves over a million people, then yes, you need to be *FORCED* to allow all non illegal content.
Freedom of speech must be allowed in any place large parts of the public congregate. If you don't want to abide by that simple rule, then you must not be allowed access to the public.
Don't like it? Stay out of the communications business!
Thank you. It’s from the heart. :)
“Are you big enough to be a government?”
Some of these are bigger than most governments. They are *WAY* bigger than our government of 1776, or 1787. H3ll, they're bigger than our government in 1900.
They are too powerful, and that power needs to be broken up.
Do you think Jim would agree with this regarding the communications system that is FR?
you’re trying to deflect. nobody develops a public forum for people to say only what the admin agrees with. these account shutdowns are only being done to effect a political outcome, not for safety. this is a political correctness scam to turn America communist.
So what?
If they paid to develop the forum they can limit it to Qanon discussions as far as I’m concerned.
Do you want to decide how much regulation they get based on the political bent of the site?
Seriously?
I think that if he had over a million accounts, he probably would.
But you know something? If an organization wants to be explicitly a left wing or right wing organization, and they make certain that their users/customers are aware that they were explicitly created as a home for left or right wing politics, then that's one thing, but to masquerade as a "neutral" or "objective" organization with no political ax to grind, and then deliberately embark on censorship of one group of political opinions, well that's another.
What we have with Facebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube, and all the other MegaCorps that pretend they are unbiased, is a deliberate effort to deceive the public, and we should not tolerate it.
“I don’t care if you think the first amendment only applies to governments.”
Hey...it is not just “what I think” the 1st amendment applies to.
It is actually what the damn amendment ACTUALLY says....it says THE GOVERNMENT.
Everyone, yourself included, can get their panties in a wad over this...and I don’t like what twitter and others are up to politically....but if the leftists were telling the government to stop Jim Robinson from throwing liberals and leftist trolls off of freerepublic the same “conservatives” would be taking the exact same stance I am taking with this reddit crap.
Like Levin says...when it comes to judges and the constitution there is no conservatives vs liberals.
You either believe the constitution means what it says and says what it means....or you don’t believe in the document that has held our Republic together for thes 230+ years.
The answer is to become educated including getting around censorship. Many people are stupid and turn on the boob tube and listen to the propaganda. That's not a government failure. In fact the government would like more of that. The failure is by the people who are immoral and lazy. The country needs a spritual reawakening otherwise we will not survive (see my tagline from one of DJT's speeches).
The troll looks like Elrond form Lord of the Rings. Or is it Hugo Weaving?
I was wondering what he was up to lately.
I can no longer recall how many people want to invoke Free Republic when we are actually discussing billion user mass communications Mega-Corporations, but I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, you try to make all your problems into nails. Childish move dude.
The difference between Free Republic and YouTube is the difference between a lightning bug and lightning.
You either believe the constitution means what it says and says what it means....or you don’t believe in the document that has held our Republic together for thes 230+ years.
No, i'm not going to let you pull the "*I'm on the side of the Constitution!"* bullsh*t on me. Your beliefs, if allowed to hold sway, will destroy the constitution by prohibiting freedom of speech. You need to take a lesson from Abraham Lincoln about this penny wise and dollar foolish nonsense.
I did understand however, that my oath to preserve the constitution to the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government -- that nation -- of which that constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the constitution? By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit the wreck of government, country, and Constitution all together.
The problem here is not with you or I, the problem here is with the greater masses of people who will not do this. They stampede the ignorant and get them to make foolish choices for the nation.
Many people are stupid and turn on the boob tube and listen to the propaganda.
Exactly, and how do you get them to stop this? How do you get them to be more sensible? You don't. They will listen to whomever is available, and they will not listen to those whom are not.
That's not a government failure. In fact the government would like more of that. The failure is by the people who are immoral and lazy. The country needs a spritual reawakening otherwise we will not survive (see my tagline from one of DJT's speeches).
If God shall decide to intervene, I shall be thrilled, but if he does not, I still wish to work towards a solution to what I see as our descent into socialist totalitarianism.
We must go to where the people are to enlighten them to the things they ought to know before voting. If we are prevented from going to where the people are, we will not be able to inform them, and they will listen to that snake-pit of liberals telling them what to think and believe.
And they will steer the country into a horror, as they almost did with Hillary.
I believe the survival of the nation depends on gaining equal access to all crowds wherever they gather. We must have access to all public commons or the public will be deliberately misinformed.
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