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To: Reily; Singermom

“Agree with Huckabee.
These sites are are common carriers.”

Neither you or Huckabee know much about this subject.

The common carriers are mostly the same common carriers as telephone service. They are the internet backbone providers and service providers that all the bits ride on.

They do not look at the bits and are oblivious to their content and meaning.

Twitter and Facebook are just two of 10’s of thousands of different platforms that everyone has access to by virtue of the “common carriers”.

Everyone that has access to them, also has access to all the others.


96 posted on 05/27/2020 5:27:15 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Actually I do know, I just used the term common carrier in the old fashion POTS sense to avoid getting too technical. The old POTS system didn’t care much what you said or what your politics were they just carried your electrons so whatever said was said. Consider the modern telephone service - the cell service. These “social media” services have evolved to where they’re just a more entertaining version of your cell service. Currently they certainly share customer data with the cell services and soon will be one in the same. Given that, they have no business implementing any form of censorship. They shouldn’t care what words, pictures ideas are said & used just Granddaddy POTS didn’t. They’re there to push photons or electrons and nothing more.


114 posted on 05/27/2020 5:45:47 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Mariner

OK so how do you keep them from deciding who says what? I don’t want to be censored. Phone co does not censor what I say. What’s the answer.


180 posted on 05/27/2020 6:38:06 PM PDT by Singermom
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