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You may not like me, you may despise my politics, but I am the canary in the coal mine.
They want to set a horrendous precedent which will strangle free speech online, FOREVER.
Should billionaires & huge corporations get to decide what we can say and read?
Don't let them win!
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) August 10, 2018
Kevin Roose reveals how, “Late on Sunday, after returning to his hotel room on a trip away from home, Mark Zuckerberg made a decision he had hoped to avoid.” The report adds that the Facebook CEO “got personally engaged” and “discussed Infowars at length with other High Tech executives,”
Zuckerberg decided to remove the Infowars page entirely, rather than just giving the page a strike, when he saw on the news that Apple had removed the Infowars podcast.
Confirmation that both Cook and Zuckerberg was involved underscores the stark reality that billionaires and giant corporations that control the public discourse are now wielding more power over free speech than governments.
Should billionaires & huge corporations have the power to decide what we can say and read in the public square?
LOL. Good. If you run the company OF COURSE you get to make those sorts of discussions. I swear folks on the right love accusing others of being communists, and socialists, while at the same time cheering on the ideals behind them for their own purposes.
I dont see you complaining about pamplin media much.
Another thread where cons (allegedly pro-capitalism) cry over a private business decision and libs (who really are anti-capitalism) start sounding like Murray Rothbard.
Enjoy your poop show, statists. You deserve each other.
Well, it would have to be a public square first.... (hint: it's not)
If that's the schtick everyone wants to go with then a law needs to be made that political entities can't use private resources to inform the public if they aren't going to be fair and they can control what we see and don't see. How about a new FCC law that includes that? If you want to host political entities you have to be fair to all by supplying the server space to all sides or get fined/shut down. Otherwise you are nothing more than a propaganda outfit for your cause and nothing more.
Billionaires now deciding what you can see and read
Another one of your fake victimhood cries.
Just because Zuk decides not to PROMOTE it, does not mean he is deciding what you can see and read.
Nowhere does it say that Zuk had any ability (or intent) to prevent you from Reading Alex Jones on Alex Jones' site, or any other site that wants to post it. He's just speaking for the company he founded. It's not only his right, but his duty to make decisions about stuff like that, and whatever he decides, someone will find a flaw with it.
Now if you wanted to argue about a company having monopolistic power you might be able too....except that we don't pay Facebook money. Their customers are ads, and people have tons of choices on where to place ads.
Another thread where cons (allegedly pro-capitalism) cry over a private business decision and libs (who really are anti-capitalism) start sounding like Murray Rothbard.
Enjoy your poop show, statists. You deserve each other.
So what is YOUR position on the situation? Should Facebook, a corporation, be allowed to control the content it allows, or not? Or are they so big that the government should de facto take them over and say the 1st amendment now applies?
It's easy to go around saying everyone else sucks, how about YOU propose what the right outcome should be?
If that's the schtick everyone wants to go with then a law needs to be made that political entities can't use private resources to inform the public if they aren't going to be fair and they can control what we see and don't see. How about a new FCC law that includes that? If you want to host political entities you have to be fair to all by supplying the server space to all sides or get fined/shut down. Otherwise you are nothing more than a propaganda outfit for your cause and nothing more.
This would put Sean Hannity on the streets. Won't happen.
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