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The Personal Side of Social Media Censorship
Illinois Review ^ | John F Di Leo

Posted on 09/20/2021 3:58:29 PM PDT by jfd1776

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1 posted on 09/20/2021 3:58:29 PM PDT by jfd1776
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A couple of years ago I was banned...permanently...from youtube for pointing out that there are only two sexes...two genders...and that you can't change either one.
2 posted on 09/20/2021 4:04:10 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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Social Media can legally censor all day long because it is free enterprise and individuals can do what they want with their own companies. GOVERNMENT censorship is forbidden by the Constitution, not private censorship.

The LAST thein we want is MORE unconstitutional government regulations on our freedoms and free enterprise.

The answer of course is LESS government interference in the marketplace and MORE rich Patriot getting into competition with these guys and winning.


3 posted on 09/20/2021 4:05:42 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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At this point anyone, and I do mean ANYONE, still using FB is knowingly aiding and abetting the destruction of the last shreds of the Republic.

No more excuses. Walk away.

L


4 posted on 09/20/2021 4:07:11 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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3 times in a row..

I post a comment (the last one was “happy birthday buddy!”) I get a 30 day time out on facebutt.

facebutt clearly doesn’t want me there any more.


5 posted on 09/20/2021 4:11:54 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said thein story was false!)
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If they censor, they deserve no protections as a platform. They have become publishers and can be sued.

The also collude with the government to remove posts which disagree with the prevailing government propaganda push.

They are no longer “private companies “ and should be regulated.


6 posted on 09/20/2021 4:17:20 PM PDT by stratboy
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...from youtube for pointing out that there are only two sexes...two genders...and that you can't change either one.

I sometimes wish I was one of those other genders. Only males and females show up in death statistics. Apparently the other genders are all immortal.

7 posted on 09/20/2021 4:20:00 PM PDT by Wissa (The Gods of the Copybook Headings shall return.)
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I made a FB account for myself back in 2013.

It was interesting to hook up with people from high school and college I hadn’t heard from for years.

Within a few days of my first exposure to FB, some of my old “friends” were posting stuff on my “Wall” that I didn’t like, that I found offensive and disturbing. No need to go into specifics.

Also I discovered that most if not all of the people I had “lost touch with” had changed in ways that made me not want to be “in touch with” them at all. Or perhaps they didn’t change, but were just no longer suppressing their true selves as they had when we were growing up together.

Anyway, after a week or so I closed my account and never went back.


8 posted on 09/20/2021 4:21:09 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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They are not private companies - they are just arms of the Deep State/Democrat Party.


9 posted on 09/20/2021 4:21:58 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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...Facebook, it has become the primary communication system for many Americans.…

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Well, that’s because their narcissistic idiots. Stop complaining and find another platform. Idiots like the author are responsible for creating and enabling Facebook to become so powerful.


10 posted on 09/20/2021 4:22:52 PM PDT by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows)
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To: jfd1776; upchuck

BTTT.


11 posted on 09/20/2021 4:28:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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You are not a customer of Facebook. You are the product.


12 posted on 09/20/2021 4:33:13 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
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Welcome to the New American MARXIST Order. It only took the reds 100 years to undermine, subvert, distort, and take over American education , much of healthcare, most of Free Speech and other First Amendment “rights”, unhindered travel rights, subverting 2nd Amendment rights in the midst of rising MARXIST violence (plus the usual gang, drug, ethnic and organized crime / cartels crime), homeowner rights, etc.

Facebook is Fascistic,MARXIST and plain old authoritarianism all rolled up into one of America’s “greatest existential threats” to its very existence as the United States of America, not the United Socialist States (prisons) off America.

Oh they said that Hitler was good for Germany and that Staln was “the man for Russia”. How did that work out for human rights, freedom and humanity?

Uncle Adolph, Uncle Joe S. and now Uncle Joe B., now starring in “All in the Family, Part 2, The End of Freedom”.

As Uncle Obama truthfully said about “fundamentally changing America” - YES I DID. Mission Accomplished, Comrades!!!!.”


13 posted on 09/20/2021 4:43:43 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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They are no longer “private companies “ and should be regulated.

Precisely, but who will create/submit legislation to regulate them?

They wield too much power and have deep pockets to keep that from happening.

14 posted on 09/20/2021 4:44:16 PM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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Also I discovered that most if not all of the people I had “lost touch with” had changed in ways that made me not want to be “in touch with” them at all. Or perhaps they didn’t change, but were just no longer suppressing their true selves as they had when we were growing up together.

Through social media (not Facebook) I hooked up with a guy I hadn't seen since 1957. But I quickly found out that today isn't 1957 and his personality had changed in the intervening years, and not for the better.

15 posted on 09/20/2021 4:46:12 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: jfd1776; a fool in paradise; acapesket; Baynative; beef; BullDog108; Califreak; cgbg; ...
Thanks for the ping Tolerance Sucks Rocks. Facebook truly sucks.

This is the Farcebook Is Evil ping list.


h/t pookie18's cartoons

Facebook is a perfect example of socialism:
You get it for free but the quality sucks.
You have no say in how it works.
The guy who runs it gets rich.
There's no real competition.
You have no privacy.
And if you say one thing they don't like
they'll shut you up.

If you'd like to be on or off this list, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail

16 posted on 09/20/2021 4:46:14 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision. Psalm 144:5-6)
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17 posted on 09/20/2021 4:56:53 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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SM are common carriers (Such as telecommunications) that think they deserve special privileges (Mostly liability protection) through REGULATORY decree. Your shallow POV would allow phone companies to censor at will/end service at will for saying “the wrong thing”.

SM are platforms (Using a public utility, lol), if they want to be publishers and censor political ideas/thoughts then the trade-off is the free CITIZEN having the ability (Remember SM want publisher rights with platform protections now) to sue their asses for hypocrisy (Of getting doxxed through the platform, fraudulent postings by their users that the platform allows, libel, and slander (Which can easily be proven) for being a conduit by each and every user but government REGULATIONS prevent that/allow special privileges for these platforms. Riddle me that. The free citizens should have the right to sue Google, FaceBook, and Twitter to the bone. That would kill barriers of entry they and the Federal government set-up and allow companies who want to be 100% platforms for the purpose of nourishing free speech to thrive.
18 posted on 09/20/2021 4:57:21 PM PDT by rollo tomasi
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Wrong answer.

The feds are UNCONSTITUTIONALLY meddling with their enterprise and should be booted out of interfering with them.

The answer is certainly NO MORE unconstitutional federal interference with private enterprise.


19 posted on 09/20/2021 5:11:32 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Your shallow POV would allow phone companies to censor at will/end service at will for saying “the wrong thing”.

Open competition without federal interference would weed out soon enough. We simply do not need MORE unconstitutional federal interference with free enterprise.

How can anyone on the Right be for MORE unconstitutional interference by the $4 trillion 80%+ unconstitutional federal government.

Argue for NO federal interference and open competition which will cure many of these ills.

I can't believe people around here still trust the feds for anything much at all except expansion and Marxist takeover.

20 posted on 09/20/2021 5:19:07 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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