Posted on 05/27/2020 4:37:25 PM PDT by RandFan
You may willingly and voluntarily surrender your rights and your freedoms. You may meekly hide in a corner while Twitter determines what you can and cannot say in the public domain. But. Speaking on my behalf and other conservatives, you can go to hell.
“The Federal Government cannot tell private business including social media what to do.”
So why are car companies making hospital ventilators?
They aren’t even news agencies, they’re privately run public forums. You better cheer on when a D is prez and starts running the EO’s against guns or free speech or whatever.
Great. Bye bye freedom and free enterprise. Hello totalitarian dictatorship government.
You can go to hell.
Agree with you here.
He can direct the FCC to declare that any social media that engages in editorial action is a publisher and not a platform, immediately exposing all of Big Tech to liquidation-level legal action as they gain secondary liability for every crime and tort committed where the platform was used in some way.
Which includes things like giving them criminal liability for facilitating child trafficking networks that communicate over DMs.
Sign up on DU and spouse your views. Get banned. Demand EO to allow it. Same thing. Privately run forums should NOT be subject to EO’s or congress running their companies.
>> But MSM owns jack.
True, I don’t normally frame it that way.
ATT & Comcast are licensed telecom operators
CNN is ATT
NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, and Axios are Comcast
Very different from FR. They have billions of users and represent a huge fraction of the American populace. They have enormous sway with the public and to allow them to censor content they don't like is a deadly threat to the survival of our system of governance.
These people are like phone companies and they should be required to carry all traffic, just like phone companies are required to carry.
You are very incorrect.
Twitter/FB and other Big Tech social media enterprises are 100% utterly dependent on being treated as “platforms” and not “publishers” under CDA Section 230.
Their business models absolutely depend on this protection, otherwise they get sued to death instantly.
This liability protection comes with an obligation of neutrality towards content... an obligation breached six ways from Sunday.
Maybe apples and oranges if there’s some kind of valid temporary emergency powers invoked that I haven’t herd about that allow the feds to tell car companies what to do if that’s what happened.
Trump doesn’t have totalitarian power. Not legitimately or constitutionally.
I hope this is more “fake news”.
You just don’t get it.
FR doesn’t require a liability shield as the site is not used as a method of planning or carrying out liability-generating activity.
FB/Twitter are used as such, every single day, countless times.
Trump does have this power and it’s not totalitarian at all but built into the system that those companies rely on to operate in the first place. They lobbied for this arrangement and paid good money for it!
Well, I can at least give you credit for trying to give a reasoned answer. I don’t like the idea still that an EO, and EMERGENCY, should be based on a fact check link. Is it unfair, sure. But I still believe private internet companies should have the say in what goes on their site.
So you’re saying any president can shut down these companies on any whim? That’s kinda anti-American to me, but I guess if they signed up for it..
They literally wanted this arrangement because they expected to be able to manipulate election outcomes to the point where they could control the regulatory outcomes as well.
This is karmic retribution on an epic scale... savor it.
And there is a lot of truth in this. Google does what China tells it to do. I have no doubt that facist book and twitter will also Kow Tow if China demands it.
Allowing private censorship of speech just gets you hidden government censorship of speech.
Gab was deplatformed by hostile providers illegally.
And they were back on the air in a week with a different hosting provider.
They should have sued. But I guess they violated agreements they signed with those who were hosting them, and it’s was sufficiently demonstrable that they decided not to.
They remain online and you can go there and post to your hearts content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
“if there’s some kind of valid temporary emergency powers invoked that I haven’t herd about”
Trump orders General Motors to make ventilators under Defense Production Act
Regulating twitter is so much easier than making a car company produce ventilators.
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