Posted on 05/27/2020 4:37:25 PM PDT by RandFan
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: President Trump to sign Executive Order on Social Media Censorship
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Read my link at 271.
Trump has a lot of power to f*** them up if he chooses to use it. The Justice Department can launch an anti-trust investigation against them and give them a reaming.
Unfortunately, the DOJ anti-trust division is full of liberal Democrats. There’s no way they would support POTUS on this in the very few months before the election.
Amazing how all of a sudden conservatives are fans of big, regulatory government. Hope the 30 pieces of silver is worth it.
Amazing how some can’t notice conservatism hasn’t advanced since Reagan and why that is. I’ll buy you a clue: being a Democrat punching bag does not advance conservatism. Fighting fire with fire in a Trumpian way does.
If you want to become them, then have at it. See how that works out for you.
YES!!!! a private company has EVERY right to deny your freedom of speech! Freedom of speech protects you from the Government, NOT from private companies.
Government is outsourcing totalitarianism. Government has no need to censor you speech if a private company does it for them.
If they are media companies such as newspapers and television and radio and magazines as private capitalist companies then they also should be open to charges of defamation of character and being sued for false reporting but they aren’t. They get to have it both ways make millions billions being a capitalist company and capitalist media yet not follow the rules at all for what they tolerate being quote printed un quote.
I don’t like this ends justifies the means mentality going on here. And my post 271 completely destroyed their entire legal argument for this kind of punishment against a publisher anyway.
Parler is really good. I like it.
Read my link on post 271 very carefully.
Perfect exactly and well stated that is the issue these companies can’t have it both ways be a public media platform and yet not be held to any kind of minimal regulation
Laura Trump just joined Parlor, Eric Trump just joined and Katrina Pearson did also, NOW we need POTUS to put outa tweet and get his followers there SCREW Twitter!!
A publisher has the total right to control the content on their product. That is an advantage. The downside, is they can be sued for libel for anything that goes on on their product.
Companies like Twitter and Facebook have been trying to take the advantages of being a platform or a publisher, without the downsides. They need to pick which one they are. Are they like a phone company, or are they like a newspaper?
And ignorant to boost does not understand the issues of media being able to be sued and other issues
Wow.. let’s just use hyperbole like the liberals do that way you can avoid any rational response to your arguments ATS and just keep on Yelling lalalalala lalalalala
Exactly. They can be a publisher, in which case, they’re totally open to civil liability for their content moderation.
Or they can be a platform, and only take down activity that violates the law (incitement to violence, child porn, etc.).
Since they are only hosting members’ opinions, I’m not sure how they can be liable. Is JR liable for what someone says on FR? No. In fact on my post 271 I link to a site that pretty much clears all this up.
The interface is much better than twitter..
it makes twitter look outdated.
Some conservatives really compare freerepublic to Twitter and Facebook which are almost critical st this point for businesses? Wow, they’ll follow that path of logic all the way to the gulogs.
Freedom of speech means just that. You have the freedom to speak. You can walk out your front door and spout the most bat shit crazy stuff you can think of, and the government can’t shut you up.
But that doesn’t mean you have the right to be heard. A private entity has zero obligation to support your ability to speak. I assume you’re smart enough to see that that’s a good thing.
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