Facebook Assists Dems in Shutting Down Bill of Rights

American Thinker.com ^ | April 22, 2020 | Daniel John Sobieski

[Kaslin]

Topping the list of assaults on our Constitutional freedoms is the war on our right to speak freely and peacefully assemble as governors warn their citizens to stay safe, stay home, and shut up. Joining them is the social media giant Facebook which, in its general censorship of conservative thought and opinion, has now decreed that using their platform to communicate complaints about government overreach during the Wuhan virus crisis and to organize protests against said overreach violates Facebook’s Alice-In-Wonderland “community standards”

In the age before cable, there was an iconic sci-fi program called The Outer Limits whose opening featured a series of test patterns, flickering screens and a narrator known as the “control voice” who solemnly intoned, “Do not attempt to adjust your television set. We will control all that you see and hear.” Today that is a chilling reality as social media giants like Facebook routinely censor what people can see and hear on their sites. Today Big Brothers like Mark Zuckerberg conspire nor only to control what we see and hear, but what we can say to each other and what Constitutional rights we can enjoy and when:

[Buckeye McFrog]

Bill Barr gave an interview yesterday saying he’s defending Constitutional rights, virus or no virus.

Let’s send him this and test that theory.

[ronnie raygun]

Find another avenue, here are many

[mewzilla]

Facebook is a private company.

Facebook can censor all it likes.

We either respect private property, or we don’t.

[Wilhelm Tell]

For starters sane people should start calling it “FascistBook.” I think many conservatives underestimated how eagerly businesses would become departments of Big Brother.

[HighSierra5]

What could you expect from a guy that looks like an alien and talks and sounds like a flag.

[livius]

While it’s true that Facebook is a private business and they a right to refuse content they don’t like, I think running it by their favorite state governors first is way over the line. Essentially they are simply the agents for the state, imposing a massively unconstitutional violation of First Amendment rights through their company.

This needs to go to the courts.

[Flick Lives]

Private company or not, one doesn’t get to violate basic rights.

Imagine the extreme case of a company who hires people at extremely good wages, but only if they agree that any children born to them belong to that company. It’s a private company, right? No one is forcing the workers to join. Would that be ok?

[centurion316]

The Bill of Rights does not apply to Facebook, or any other private company. Each of the Amendment in the Bill of Rights constrains the government.

However, Facebook relies on the Electromagnetic Spectrum to reach many of their customers. The U.S. Government regulates this spectrum and can make and enforce standards as a condition of use for everyone who uses any part of it.

[2CAVTrooper]

Wrong.

Facebook is a publicly traded company (their IPO was May 18 2012).

And being a de facto monopoly the “private company” argument no longer applies.

[2CAVTrooper]

“What could you expect from a guy that looks like an alien and talks and sounds like a flag.”

And who’s married to a chicom.

[proud American in Canada]

I have long thought that companies like Facebook and other social media platforms should be regulated, much like it was after all the telephone companies or bought up by Ma Bell. They are more than just fun places to visit.