[Flavious_Maximus]

Senator Chris Coons (D., Md.)?

The bearded Marxist is from Delaware.

[griswold3]

So we’re going to have to repeat history??
First hand knowledge is useful. Not enough survivors objecting to tyranny around any more.

[a fool in paradise]

>> Joshan mocks how much computers have changed and then asks why our regulations on privacy and censorship cannot evolve as much as our technology.

We hold these RIGHTS to be self-evident.

[a fool in paradise]

>>After all, Joshan shows of his first computer was a “giant behemoth of a machine” but that was before he understood “the blending of the real world and the internet world.”

Now you can run your apps in “the cloud” on someone else’s computer, where they can read what you type and then delete and even take note when you pause in typing.

[a fool in paradise]

>> they now censor ideas deemed misleading or dangerous on subjects ranging from climate denial to transgender criticism to election fraud.

9-11 conspiracy theories and skepticism were never a problem according to Yahoo/Google/Myspace/Facebook/Twitter/Youtube/et al

Neither have been JFK assassination conspiracies.

Or 5 years of talk about Russian influence and theft in the 2016 election...

[a fool in paradise]

>>What we have seen in the last few years is that corporations have far greater ability to curtail speech and that you can have a type of state media without the state.

Despotism (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w

“A community is low on a ‘Respect’ scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.”

“...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...”

“A community rates low on the ‘Information’ scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.”

“See how a community trains its teachers”
“...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.”

“And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...”

Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo

“The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...”

Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff

[DUMBGRUNT]

a corporate giant running commercials to get people to support new regulations

Brawndo Has What Plants Crave!

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Big companies partnering with government to quash rights is the definition of Fascism.

It’s. Here.

[DesertRhino]

https://www.amazon.com/Hillarys-Secret-War-Conspiracy-Journalists/dp/1595552251

Book by Richard Poe in 2004 lays out exactly what is unfolding now. A lot of the book is about internet journalism surrounding the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
But the important part of the book is that Hillary recognized VERY early what an open internet meant and pushed for censorship laws.

This is very worth a read because the things she pushed then are happening today.