Posted on 03/26/2021 5:52:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Yeay!!!
Just in time for the Trump / Lindell Social media platform!!!
Sounds like Chairwoman Jan Schakowsky didn’t receive a donation from the big tech companies yet and not happy about it.
My problem is the Rethuglicans complaining about free speech while continuing to use the platforms that are censoring them.
Build a platform, spend money on infrastructure so you can't be "deplatformed" and use that platform exclusively.
If I built a platform, I would have the right to kick you off if you were being an asshole. That would be my right. Free Speech does not require me to give you a microphone and a podium.
2. Yes. They are a monopoly and should be broken up. On that, we agree.
3. That being said, it's not my platform. I choose not to use social media. At all. That is my choice to keep from funding more of those who despise me. If you are concerned about getting censored, buy some politicians and build your own platform.
You are still trying to put your words into my mouth. I don't want any sort of regulation, but since our society has gone "one flew over the cuckoo nest", I can laugh with glee as leftist propaganda agents get their own book of rules forced down their own throats.
No. False thinking. When it's a billion users big, it is no longer the sole property of anyone, it is a defacto public resource.
Anything that is used by millions of people to communicate with other members of the public is a public resource, and must be regarded as a public resource, regardless of how it was began and who created it.
No. Comparing a billion user mass communications infrastructure of now critical importance to a "press" is a f***ing lie.
My position is simple. If you are a massive communications system, and you restrict freedom of speech, you need to be destroyed by any means possible.
If you deny the rights of the public, you must be denied access to the public. You should not be allowed to have members of the public use your communications infrastructure.
The public has rights that "private" companies cannot take away.
At what scale is Constitutionally protected “press” no longer Constitutionally protected “press”?
The answer is in the absurdity of the question, to wit “when is X not X?”.
You are literally, right now, looking at a “press” capable of instantly delivering content worldwide to billions of potential readers. Nothing is stopping you but your own resolvable ignorance. Nobody is censoring your content published on your own press. Nobody is stopping a willing audience. Getting that audience to request your content, well, that’s your problem.
Alex Jones was the “canary in the coal mine”, first to get kicked off the major presses.
Yet here he is, easily accessible: https://www.infowars.com/show/the-alex-jones-show/
What’s the problem?
“That being said, it’s not my platform. I choose not to use social media. At all.”
Yet here you are typing away! (And redirecting the thread!)
“That is my choice to keep from funding more of those who despise me. If you are concerned about getting censored, buy some politicians and build your own platform.”
There...You put words in my mouth and despise me with your post. How much respect do you have for sponsor of this site when you use the language you used in post 23?
It's not a press. It's a telephone system.
Since when did the telephone company have a right to control what the public said to each other?
It's not a press. It does not write columns meant for publication. It controls what other people say to each other. It is a telephone system, not a newspaper.
It is also a deadly threat to freedom if it is allowed to control public speech.
An audience of millions compared to an audience of thousands. Did the public ask for this? Or did someone impose this on the public against their will?
And again, on that I agree with you. Bust them up. Failure to trust bust Silicon Valley was a major fail for the Trump administration as it would have done the country a great service.
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