Posted on 07/09/2021 10:00:28 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
...Trump, concluding the op-ed, warned that Democrats are coordinating with Big Tech to suppress any nonconformist thought from social media platforms.
"This coercion and coordination is unconstitutional," he insisted. "The Supreme Court has held that Congress can't use private actors to achieve what the Constitution prohibits it from doing itself. In effect, Big Tech has been illegally deputized as the censorship arm of the U.S. government. This should alarm you no matter your political persuasion. It is unacceptable, unlawful and un-American."
What are people saying?
One user complained, "Trump screams 'I AM BEING CENSORED!' from the editorial page of a mainstream international media outlet. Shame on you, @WSJ, shame on you, @WSJopinion."
Another added, "It's not the biggest takeaway from Trump's op-ed (the biggest has to do with what WSJ opinion has become) but it was still perplexing to me that Trump's use of 'illegal alien' wasn't changed by an editor. AP stopped using the term in 2013, and many pubs have since followed suit."
"WSJ must know the case has no merit and is being used as a fundraising tool. You have some duty to your readers don't you? Maybe some duty to yourselves? Some code of ethics?" another fumed.
"And again, reminding me why I canceled my WSJ subscription," one user quipped.
Another took aim at the paper for not being "serious" or thoughtful."
"Future generations will marvel when we tell them the Wall Street Journal was once considered a serious, thoughtful newspaper," the user wrote.
Another snarked, "*NOTE* @WSJopinion is not @WSJ, rather more similar to right-wing propagandists such as @seanhannity and @OANN."
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
But why did the WSJ allow Trump to do that?
We need the answer to that question.
An excellent question, and I don’t really have an answer, just a hypothesis: Old Media trying to bring New Media into line?
RE: But why did the WSJ allow Trump to do that?
And why not?
If Big Tech can censor Trump and claim it is their prerogative as private companies, can’t the WSJ give Trump a voice and give the same reason?
Leftists hate free speech.
Instead of showing how Trump is wrong for being censored they’re attacking WSJ for not censoring him.
they keep making Trump’s point for him!
“’Future generations will marvel when we tell them the Wall Street Journal was once considered a serious, thoughtful newspaper,’ the user wrote.”
IOW, “I’m so smart, that whomever I disagree with is evil or stupid.” That’s quite a persuasive argument.
President Trump’s op-ed is an important piece, and belongs in a “serious, thoughtful newspaper”!!
The poisonous propaganda put out by Dim party operatives does not!!!!
Must be Over the target....................
Yet you still feel the need to read and post, got it.
"The overall Telecommunications Act, with both Exon's CDA and Cox/Wyden's provision, passed both Houses by near-unanimous votes and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton by February 1996. Cox/Wyden's section became Section 509 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and became law as a new Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
“Section 230 has frequently been referred to as a key law that has allowed the Internet to flourish”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
I admit I’m (pleasantly) surprised that they’re (WSJ) allowing this to be posted.
They aren’t exactly Trump/MAGA friendly, these days.
Maybe seeing a few scribbles on the *wall*?
Communist Totalitarians hate to have their tyranny exposed in cold light of day, wicked satanic prowlers that they are.
In effect, Big Tech has been illegally deputized as the censorship arm of the U.S. government. This should alarm you no matter your political persuasion. It is unacceptable, unlawful and un-American."
If we had had creepy press toadies back when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, they would applaud Bell FOR ONLY allowing people of HIS political persuasion to use the telephone.
Hard to believe the Tech of our time are such little mean spirited control freaks... Guess that's what happened when cultures push grown men to think of themselves as 17 year old boys.
In effect, Big Tech has been illegally deputized as the censorship arm of the U.S. government. This should alarm you no matter your political persuasion. It is unacceptable, unlawful and un-American."
If we had had creepy press toadies back when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, they would applaud Bell FOR ONLY allowing people of HIS political persuasion to use the telephone.
Hard to believe the Tech of our time are such little mean spirited control freaks... Guess that's what happeneds when cultures push grown men to think of themselves as 17 year old boys. Tech and press toadies at the WSJ, Washington Post and New York Times...
The commies are out of control.
The upside is they expose themselves for the totalitarians they are.
“Hard to believe the Tech of our time are such little mean spirited control freaks... Guess that’s what happened when cultures push grown men to think of themselves as 17 year old boys.”
You’re close to defining the problem. In the past, we let kids leave college as flaming Leftists with the assurance that they wouldn’t have any real power, until at least they finally grew up.
That’s not the case now with the techs.
Good point.
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