Posted on 12/29/2018 7:00:52 AM PST by WellyP
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The rulebook's details were revealed Thursday night thanks to a Facebook employee who leaked over 1,400 pages of the speech policing rulebook to the Times because he "feared that the company was exercising too much power, with too little oversight — and making too many mistakes."
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Not only that, I would bet the Pot that ANY competition to facebook or Twitter would be immediatly and mysteriously suppressed and squelched
Never heard of Spreely, and I just couldn’t get over the way the Mewe webpage was formatted, as you said. I’ll check out Spreely.
I got a Spreely account. The website looks decent enough. A little slow. I gotta start learning the ins and outs of the website, like how to limit the news feed to display what I want to see, how to add friends, etc. Any suggestions?
All of these issues and FB are ultimately about private property, not speech.
It is not the place of the federal govt to regulate what you can or can't say in a movie theater or bar...or on FB. It is the domain of the theater owner, the bar owner, and the owner of FB to regulate what happens on their property, or not. In turn, if these private property owners exercise their rights in a manner at odds with the voluntary users of this property, it is the prerogative of the users to disengage. That's freedom and liberty.
Now, what kind of the patrons whine and moan and run to the government when the business owner upsets them? Often it is a liberal, most recently someone upset when a cake store won't bake them a cake. Many Deplorables bemoaned this cake episode, citing the rights of business owners. And rightly so, regardless of anyone's thoughts on gay marriage.
So it is a curious episode, when alleged conservatives suddenly become lovers of an expansionist interpretation of the Commerce Clause and demand government intervention with regard to FB, Twitter, Amazon, and other collections of servers and networks with which people engage VOLUNTARILY. What people may be missing, is that the beast Leviathan that they want to empower to break up some leftist technology company will be the same monster that breaks up Breitbart, Freerepublic, or any other similar entity when the a Dem come back to power.
Indeed, the same arguments being used by the right to regulate FB et al were used by former Sen Al Frankenstein to regulate FB et al. When conservatives and Sen Groper are philosophical cousins, something is wrong. As for me, I will stick with the Founders and morality and not bow to the liberal god of feelings and expediency.
Drive stake through fascist left vampire.
If there’s one thing the ACLU was right about was when fmr director Norman Seigel said that in reality the 1A is there to protect UNPOPULAR speech. Also for ADA pres Abe Foxman said censoring hate speech is the WORST thing to do. The best way to deal with it is to CHALLENGE it with more speech. This is the beauty of the 1A, it allows the extremist idiots among us to expose themselves.
If facebook is going to censor conservatives, they should be considered publishers and have their protections against lawsuits removed. I do not want to see government puish them, but I also do not want their perfidy rewarded.
Wow me too! Hello cellmate!
I’m pretty new at Spreely, too, so i haven’t explored the settings as far as news feeds.
Where can we see the actual leaked pages and read for ourselves?
Fakebook cannot claim to be a common carrier unresponsible for comment threats and copyright violations AND censor dissent.
bake the damn cake
The snowflake behind the counter is what an antifa thug unmasked looks like...
Although not particularly applicable to FaceBook, (a private entity), "Congress" is not just the 535 members who sit in session at the US Capitol, but also all the agencies, departments, appointees, employees, etc. which were created by Congress.
Example: The FCC and so-called "Fairness Doctrine" (RIP 1949-1987, thank you Reagan) ...
Congress created the FCC ... the FCC operates under the aegis of Congress ... the FCC imposed the "Fairness Doctrine" which enforced limitation on freedom of speech within the realm of broadcasting.
"Broadcasting" is a form of communication, an extension of the (printing) Press, which was the foremost communication technology of its day at the time of our Founding.
Broadcasting is no more a 'special' form of communication than any other media technology thruout history: the spoken word, the written word, carved tablets, painting, sculpture, grunts, barks, meows .. etc
Clearly the "Fairness Doctrine" was an abridgement of the First Amendment, since the FCC established it, and the FCC is an agency of Congress. Thereby, Congress is fully responsible for this abomination which lasted some 48 years!
~ MM ~
Facebook will be hard to kill, but not impossible.
I use MeWe.
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... speech is their product...
Their product is personal user data. What individual members say has no market value. Facebook censors certain users because they can as a monopoly, and because FB management are fascists.
To paraphrase Hildebeast Clintoon: “Can’t we drone that droid?”
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Doesn't seem to have much to do with Facebook censorship.
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