Posted on 04/24/2020 8:14:20 AM PDT by simpson96
In the modern marketplace of ideas, if you're a private citizen with a message you want to disseminate, the way to do that is to place your message on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or any other internet outlet in which the American people provide the content. No reasonable person can challenge the fact that these outlets monopolize people's ability to spread information and ideas. When outlets such as Facebook and YouTube try to block ideas or information about protests, they are just as bad as any tyrannical government.
That there are several corporate different entities that offer Americans the ability to talk to each other does not change social media's monopolistic nature because all of the companies pull in the same harness. They are guided by and employ people who have identical cultural and political values, among which is the belief that all ideas that do not harmonize with theirs must be stifled. They are ideological bigots, every bit as hate-filled and narrow-minded as the old-time Jim Crow Southerners who closed their businesses to people because of their skin color.
Right now, the ideological harness tying together these outlets is "Destroy Trump." They will oppose anything he espouses and support anything that might help damage his chance of re-election in November. Even in ordinary, pre-virus, times, their ability to control the public conversation has been significant, but at least it was offset by the fact that people could still socialize the old-fashioned way face to face.
In a time of Wuhan virus panic, though, the reach these media outlets have is dramatically expanded. Trapped at home, people can no longer share ideas at the workplace, at their kids' soccer games, waiting in carpool lanes, at political meetings, or anywhere else in which people normally exchange ideas. If people
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(con’t)”Flush with power, Facebook has announced that it will stifle Americans’ efforts to exercise their First Amendment right “peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Mark Zuckerberg has explicitly said that if people use Facebook to organize a protest, his Facebook censors will take down that information:”
“YouTube is joining the censorship brigade by depublishing any videos with information about the Wuhan virus that runs counter to information from the World Health Organization (WHO) ”
Trump needs to use the DPA and confiscate these resources for National Defense.
Fact 1: The overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from COVID-19. The recent Stanford University antibody study now estimates that the fatality rate if infected is likely 0.1 to 0.2 percent...In New York City, an epicenter of the pandemic with more than one-third of all U.S. deaths, the rate of death for people 18 to 45 years old is 0.01 percent, or 11 per 100,000 in the population. On the other hand, people aged 75 and over have a death rate 80 times that. For people under 18 years old, the rate of death is zero per 100,000..
Fact 2: Protecting older, at-risk people eliminates hospital overcrowding...
Fact 3: Vital population immunity is prevented by total isolation policies, prolonging the problem...
Fact 4: People are dying because other medical care is not getting done due to hypothetical projections...
Fact 5: We have a clearly defined population at risk who can be protected with targeted measures... -
OK, start a fake Islamic website, and organize a protest. See if it is taken down. If not, sue the pants off of Mr. Z.
Start a fake Black Lives Matter website and organize a protest. See if it is taken down. If not, sue the pants off of Mr. Z.
Start a fake anti-Trump website, and organize a protest. See if it is taken down. If not, sue the pants off of Mr. Z.
“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one”
-Variously attributed to Ben Franklin, Horace Greeley, and/or H.L. Menken.
I’m normally against regulation, but these people need to be regulated to death.
Also, they need competition.
In the meantime, overwhelm their a$$es with dissent. Make it virtually impossible to stop.
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