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Facebook Board Readies For Its Biggest Decision Yet: Whether To Reinstate Trump
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| 5/4/21
| Rachel martin
Posted on 05/04/2021 10:40:30 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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The decision is also expected to set a precedent for how Facebook will treat the accounts of other world leaders and politicians. And it could be a model for other tech platforms grappling with the question of control over free speech.Break them up. There should be no "control" over free speech. Reasonable expectations perhaps, but no banning.
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:40:30 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: 1Old Pro
Too late. Facistbook is exposed. Break them up.
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:44:33 AM PDT
by
polymuser
(A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
To: 1Old Pro
Facebook has censored too much. They lost me!
To: polymuser
Break them up.DeSantis is proposing $250,000 per day fines for banning politicians.
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:45:38 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: 1Old Pro
It’s ironic that Trump can’t ban trolls from his comments section, but Facebook and Twitter can ban Trump.
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:45:48 AM PDT
by
Tzimisce
( )
To: 1Old Pro
“Break them up. There should be no “control” over free speech. Reasonable expectations perhaps, but no banning.”
Should private companies be allowed to develop their own policies or not. Conservatives argue a bakery should be allowed to refuse to bake a gay wedding cake. It would be hypocritical to make that argument and at the same time declare Facebook shouldn’t be allowed to set the rules for use of its services.
Should a motel be required to allow pets in the rooms? Should an over 55 community in Florida be required to allow families with children to purchase and inhabit homes?
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:46:07 AM PDT
by
Soul of the South
(The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
To: 1Old Pro
We need the identities of these faceless censors to be public knowledge. Just like the members of a school board or a govt panel. Facebook censors deserve no special protections from civil action. Any citizen must be able to take the individuals to court for violations of constitutional rights.
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:46:11 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Tzimisce
It’s ironic that Trump can’t ban trolls from his comments section, but Facebook and Twitter can ban Trump.Yep, time to break up and regulate as publishers
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:46:36 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: 1Old Pro
Trump doesn’t need them nor should ever go back. They’d just take him off again.
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:46:45 AM PDT
by
albie
To: albie
Trump doesn’t need them nor should ever go back. They’d just take him off again.Cheap advertising; earned media.
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:47:26 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: 1Old Pro
forget it, POTUS. why give them the revenue. bring forth your own platform and capitalize on it.
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:47:46 AM PDT
by
avital2
To: Soul of the South
Should private companies be allowed to develop their own policies or notYes, as long as they are not a public utility, like facebook and twitter.
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:48:27 AM PDT
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1Old Pro
To: 1Old Pro
The only reason they would it self-serving, to stall off a future section 230 clamp-down if the present administration is no longer able to protect them.
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:50:30 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: 1Old Pro
they're just skeeerd sh1tless he'll say NO THX!
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:53:58 AM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there is no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
To: 1Old Pro
Priscilla CHAN (China) will decide.. WILL CHINA THROW US A BONE?
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:56:27 AM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
When do they ban the real disinformation spreaders?
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:56:45 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: 1Old Pro
Trump should tell Facebook not to bother and to go to hell.
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:56:52 AM PDT
by
TalBlack
(We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
To: 1Old Pro
FB has to say: “Please come back Mr. Trump, we apologize”
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:57:22 AM PDT
by
Az Joe
(FREE CHAUVIN!)
To: 1Old Pro
How about reinstating Donald J. Trump to the Presidency. That’s where he belongs. MAGA!!!
To: 1Old Pro
“Yes, as long as they are not a public utility, like facebook and twitter.”
By current law they are not considered to be public utilities. They have the same freedom to publish, or not publish, as the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, Fox News.
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posted on
05/04/2021 10:58:47 AM PDT
by
Soul of the South
(The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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