Posted on 06/04/2021 4:40:14 PM PDT by blam
In twenty-first-century America, millions of Americans—Christians and social conservatives especially—are finding that the nation’s most influential institutions appear to be implacably hostile toward them.
These institutions include universities, public schools, the news media, and government bureaucracies. Moreover, corporate America has increasingly embraced a posture of hostility toward groups considered to be “right wing” or conservative.
Recent examples are numerous, to say the least. Major League Baseball, for instance, recently moved its all-star game out of the state of Georgia with the explicit purpose of punishing voters and policymakers who supported policies MLB didn’t like. These “objectionable” policies were mostly supported by conservatives. Meanwhile, YouTube—owned by Google—bans content creators who express opinions Google’s employees and leaders disagree with. These opinions are usually ones we would consider to be “conservative” or at least “anti-Leftist.” Twitter and Facebook employ a similar bias when actively intervening to ban users and opinions deemed unacceptable by corporate personnel.
In other words, corporate power is being used to wage ideological battles far beyond the usual issues of minimizing the firm’s tax burden or avoiding regulatory compliance costs. Corporate America has chosen a side in the culture war.
This evolution from market entrepreneur to exploitive plutocrat illustrates a problem with the interventionist state in a mixed economy: economic power tends to be converted into political power. Moreover, so long as consumers continue to pour resources into powerful firms through the marketplace, these firms’ exploitation of competitors, taxpayers, and ideological adversaries is likely to continue.
Market Democracy: How Firms Get Rich in the Marketplace
Ludwig von Mises understood that in a market economy, the firms that are most successful are those that succeed in the “democracy” of the marketplace. Mises describes this “consumers’ democracy” in Socialism:
When we call a capitalist society a consumers’ democracy...
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FB is a means for people to communicate with others exactly as the phone was when it was developed.
No one was ever banned from using the phone for their discussions on the phone.
FaceBook is totalitarian in cahoots with the Democrat totalitarian party.
Facebook Fascists.
They can all GTH.
I am not “on Facebook.”
When I see the religious groups say “see us on Facebook” and the various groups representing all sorts of ideas of all kinds say “we are on Facebook” and I often run into a search for information which is stopped with a page inserted “You must be signed onto Facebook to continue” it shows how it is impossible to say we can boycott it.
It is the public square as much as Twitter. Except for nailing a handbill to a tree outside there is only a tiny space for anyone to reach people with information and opinions.
-——A Luddite.
I’ve not ever been on Facebook, ever!
The US Gubmint has successfully outsourced the 1st Amendment to FakeBook. FakeBook has done what the US Gubmint legally can’t do - that is - silence a former President and most of his supporters. FakeBook is providing the National Democrat Socialist Workers Party $billions in in-kind political donations for suppressing Trump in the run-up to the midterms.
Great. So two of us in 330 million I guess.
FB just banned a man who has half the country behind him, and their stock went up today.
It’s possible to get around the constitutional capitation proportionality limitation by setting higher wealth tax rates for poorer states and then allowing a full income tax credit for the higher wealth tax rate amounts.
Mississippi rich folks would pay a higher wealth tax rate on April 14th and have the excess (and maybe a bit more) credited to their April 15th income tax amount.
May Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg become millionaires.
“I’ve not ever been on Facebook, ever!”
It is my understanding that many a website will quite often arrange a visit to Facebook when you access the website.
Facebook - X00 million users daily - and that is not a lie
When it comes to antitrust, the European Union is run by a bunch of tough-talking, yellow-bellied cowards.
Never been on Facebook. skidMark Zuckerberg is a thought burner.
The US has not been a capitalist society for a long time. FDR started it down the socialist road, and it’s getting worse all the time. People want the government to take stuff from others and give it to them. It’s legalized theft.
Facebook is an American Government Intelligence Agency’s “program” which is marketed to the unsuspecting peoples of the world as a free user program... and as such Obama violated the separation between Government and the political parties by using US Property during 2007 and 2011 election seasons.
A judge needs to rule on Facebook being used by Democrats to cancel Republicans.
But it is hard to deny that firms like Google and Facebook got to where they are by winning “votes” in the “consumers’ democracy.” Nonetheless, some critics of today’s corporate jihad against ideological adversaries insist that these firms are only successful because they are “monopolies” or that they only gained so much market share by dirty tricks and corporate welfare schemes.
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