Posted on 08/06/2018 8:47:29 AM PDT by Enlightened1
trump needs to go teddy roosevelt on they asses.
Yes the 1st Amendment does address it.
Its called freedom of speech and religion.
Facebook, Twitter are platforms run by libs. Why aren’t there any popular conservative platforms?
“...we need to make [the First Amendment] apply to private companies.”
I don’t think we want to go there. Rather, I think we need to provide some conservative competition to Facebook and Apple as posting sites and search engines. It would take some time and money, but it would be better for the country, and the world. Competition nearly always improves goods and services.
Show me. I quoted the amendment.
Enlighten me oh Wise One.
And unlike the lyin' media, he does not label his opinion "news reporting".
Regardless of any opinions you may have no one can keep you from having them and it would be idiotic to think so. That is probably why there is no Constitutional right defending holding an opinion. You do not have a Constitutional right to hold an opinion and no one died defending such a thing.
What you have is a First Amendment Right that prevents the government from inhibiting your right to speak. There is no right to have a podcast on iTunes and to say men and women died protecting this so called right right is an insult.
Is the US government trampling on anyone’s First Amendment Rights?
I would impose so serious of regulations on FB, etc. that they would invariably go bankrupt........
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/14/nyregion/mall-s-limits-on-leafleting-struck-down.html
California, Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, and Colorado have imposed similar broad First Amendment rights on shopping malls.
These companies can be sued in California and Washington, where they have their headquarters.
Liberals have wrapped themselves in the mantle of “love”, educated, smart, rational for YEARS.
By their own definition, EVERYONE else is guilty of hate speech if not to be denigrated as too stupid to be listened to ... which is why Twitter’s quality filter is overwhelmingly censoring moderate conservative voices.
Did they remove any material from Sarah Jeong who works for the racist New York Times ?
The Jews didn't have to listen to Hitler's radio rants. The problem was the Germans were listening to them.
Not participating won't solve the problem.
I don’t like Inforwars. However, this does not matter if you like him or not.
Apple, Facebook, Spotify, YouTube (Google) all banned Infowars within 12 hours of each other.
Don’t tell me that this wasn’t a coordinated attack.
I’m sorry, but they don’t get to claim private business protections.
My power company (FPL) is a private business too, but they can’t turn off my power because they don’t like me.
They are going to find themselves subject to campaign finance laws.
The government didn't own and operate lunch counters either, but they decided they should have a say in making certain citizens had a right to sit at them.
We are now at a time where the dominant form of speech in this nation is carried by private companies, and now they are moving in a lockstep. It is effectively just as bad as government controlled speech, because it has the exact same consequence.
See Marsh v Alabama. Facebook has 1.6 BILLION members (supposedly) worldwide, making it the most public forum that has ever existed. Free speech rights exist in such a space. Just need the right court ruling to confirm that.
No but 2.5 billion other people do. Guess who has more influence than you do.
Newtherism is now Hate? Who does it hate?
Said the Baker to the government.
I see a statement of intent to prohibit censorship. We can extrapolate everything necessary from that.
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