While it is crappy to deny him a platform, if he isn’t the owner of the service, the owner can refuse to post the stuff. Of course letting calypso Louie still use the platform says a lot about them. Typical intolerant one way street syndrome. Thanks Jim.
“While it is crappy to deny him a platform, if he isn’t the owner of the service, the owner can refuse to post the stuff. “
The argument Jones makes is that social media has grown to the point it is the medium for a free flow of information and therefore has reached a monopoly level of size and should be regulated like radio and TV.
Just imagine if ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN MSNBC silenced dissenting points of view from the narrative they present.
(do I really have to do a /s on the 2nd paragraph?)
Good point, but:
A Power Company is a private company should they turn off my power because of my free speech? I uses their service to power my computers.
Can AT&T turn off my phones because of my free speech?
Maybe we need to drop Facebook! Thinking about starting my own family website to communicate events and etc.
I just quit LinkedIn, an easy one to drop.
Very happy Free Republic has it’s own forum.
See my post #2 above.
Frankenstein monster institutions that are part private and part government are the very definition of fascism.
https://www.scribd.com/document/383918384/The-Censorship-Master-Plan-Decoded
It goes to the nature of the site. Are they a neutral forum, or a for-profit publisher? One is subject to libel laws, the other is not.
This is far beyond ‘crappy’. This is war by other means.
YouTube and fakebook are defacto monopolies in their sectors. Based on that they need to be regulated by Congress - and their political bias ended.
Would someone explain to me how it is that a baker, a photographer, a pizza parlor are all required to serve all customers because they are “open for business” under the public accommodation laws, but FB,Apple,etc., can refuse to serve Alex Jones. Are they not subject to the public accommodation laws?
This is a serious question, not a comment on the apparent hypocrisy of the situation. Tell me what I’m missing, or what I don’t understand.
“While it is crappy to deny him a platform, if he isn’t the owner of the service, the owner can refuse to post the stuff.”
Nope. That’s nonsense. Verizon wouldn’t be allowed to deny service to Trump supporters, or refuse to patch through calls to republicans. American Airlines wouldn’t be allowed to refuse tickets and service to republicans.
They are a common carrier and need to be reigned in.