Posted on 09/29/2019 6:58:27 PM PDT by Libloather
Then Twitter should never be allowed to send its signals over wireless frequencies licensed for use. A television or a radio station licenses its frequencies from public airwaves of the people. Internet companies do the same. They should be subject to the same rules. If a Twitter uses the internet carriers airwaves to deliver propaganda then their should be restriction on the company.
Then Twitter should never be allowed to send its signals over wireless frequencies licensed for use. A television or a radio station licenses its frequencies from public airwaves of the people. Internet companies do the same. They should be subject to the same rules. If a Twitter uses the internet carriers airwaves to deliver propaganda then their should be restriction on the company.
No one here is an elected official. AOC is.
Hey you anti-Semitic, commie bitch. Now you’re going up against a fighting Jew and you aren’t going to like the outcome. Dov is not an ADL pansy or a J Street coward. He’s a fighter and he’s a New Yorker.
Time to buy a truckload of bandages because you are going to need them. Might have a bloodbank truck standing by just in case he get’s really serious.
AOC - One of the “Four Horses’ Asses of Marxism”
>But I thought they made it so our President is not allowed to block anyone.
Seems to me, that ruling should have been precedent for any elected official...
Once again, there's the problem. They ARE a private company that seeks, and gets, special protections from the government, because they claim it is a "platform" doing nothing more than providing content; say like the phone company. They then turn around and censor that content based on the political beliefs of the people that work there, just like a "publisher" would do. Publishers are not, and should not be afforded the same government protections against liable and other things as platforms are.
In essence, Twitter, Facebook, et al are creating monopolies on political and cultural speech all with government protection. They are either platforms, or publishers; they can not be both, or the Republic will certainly (continue to) suffer for it.
So what?
So what? None of us have the power to write laws. AOC does.
I agree completely with you. But if all a person can do is ‘tweet’ and ‘like’ and all that other crap - I don’t think they should be using the Judiciary to compel anybody to answer to them. They should probably get off their dead ass and do their own dirty work. We’ve have lost the ability to verbally communicate with each other effectively, imo. Social media sucks. It’s an outrage machine. Keyboard commandos.
If it is NOT used for campaigning or for official messages, yes, they can block whomever they please. But it is a very tight limit; the moment the personal account is used for campaign or official business, they have to unblock those they’ve blocked or face a civil rights suit...
(’course, this is where they turn to Facebook & Twitter Jails/bans.. Nothing prevents those companies without any oversight from blocking whomever they please, even if it’s communication between a constituent and their elected official.)
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