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The usual response from Americans to King Dorsey's and King Zuckerberg's one-sided outrageous censorship is that they are private companies. 'If you don't like their rules, make your own social media company'.
Well, what if I made a company, open up a restaurant and decide to not serve food for overweight people because I'm a highly virtous guy and I care so much about my fellow citizens health?
What if I decide to not serve Southern dishes to black people because science says that fried food kills African Americans at a disproportionately high rate?
My restaurant would be burned down of course, my company would be sued to death, human right organizations would loudly protest, I would go bankrupt and both my career and my private life would be destroyed forever. On the other hand King Dorsey and King Zuckerberg can easily hire the best lawyers and can easily pay any amount of penalties for continously violating anti-trust laws, etc.
They can do that because they are global social media monopolies. Look at India or Africa where Zuckerberg, out of pure philantrophy of course, launched the free internet project "Internet.org" with the humanitarian intention to open up the web to poor third-world population. There's only one small restriction: only Facebook can be reached freely, every other website is behind paywall. For these people the Internet is Facebook.
Here in Europe, Facebook is pre-installed on every smartphone. Most of the older generation in Eastern Europe only recently learned how to use a computer or a smartphone. For them Facebook is the Internet. It's the only tool for them to keep in touch with their children and grand children - especially these days in the pandemic when Europe is on lockdown.
It's easy to say to make your own social media platform when billions of people have already adapted to exclusively use Facebook to chat with friends, relatives and get their daily news coverage through it.
FB and Twitter has been promoting bipartisanship and anti-censorship since the get go - it's absolutely nefarious that now when billions have already accustomed to these platforms globally, they start to promote agendas all of a sudden.
I don't understand Americans why they defend and vindicate the actions of these multi-billionare tech giant monopolies so vehemently... just because they censor a group of people that another group currently hates... What happens when you will be the group that Dorsey and Zuckerberg decides to shut up?
Like it or not, 74 million people in America feel like they have been cheated. Do you think it's healthy and helpful to ridicule them and shut their mouths? Did the media censor Bush when he sent Americans to Iraq with the fake WMD story which caused 150.000 casualties?
The usual response from Americans to King Dorsey's and King Zuckerberg's one-sided outrageous censorship is that they are private companies. 'If you don't like their rules, make your own social media company'.
Well, what if I made a company, open up a restaurant and decide to not serve food for overweight people because I'm a highly virtous guy and I care so much about my fellow citizens health?
What if I decide to not serve Southern dishes to black people because science says that fried food kills African Americans at a disproportionately high rate?
My restaurant would be burned down of course, my company would be sued to death, human right organizations would loudly protest, I would go bankrupt and both my career and my private life would be destroyed forever. On the other hand King Dorsey and King Zuckerberg can easily hire the best lawyers and can easily pay any amount of penalties for continously violating anti-trust laws, etc.
They can do that because they are global social media monopolies. Look at India or Africa where Zuckerberg, out of pure philantrophy of course, launched the free internet project "Internet.org" with the humanitarian intention to open up the web to poor third-world population. There's only one small restriction: only Facebook can be reached freely, every other website is behind paywall. For these people the Internet is Facebook.
Here in Europe, Facebook is pre-installed on every smartphone. Most of the older generation in Eastern Europe only recently learned how to use a computer or a smartphone. For them Facebook is the Internet. It's the only tool for them to keep in touch with their children and grand children - especially these days in the pandemic when Europe is on lockdown.
It's easy to say to make your own social media platform when billions of people have already adapted to exclusively use Facebook to chat with friends, relatives and get their daily news coverage through it.
FB and Twitter has been promoting bipartisanship and anti-censorship since the get go - it's absolutely nefarious that now when billions have already accustomed to these platforms globally, they start to promote agendas all of a sudden.
I don't understand Americans why they defend and vindicate the actions of these multi-billionare tech giant monopolies so vehemently... just because they censor a group of people that another group currently hates... What happens when you will be the group that Dorsey and Zuckerberg decides to shut up?
Like it or not, 74 million people in America feel like they have been cheated. Do you think it's healthy and helpful to ridicule them and shut their mouths? Did the media censor Bush when he sent Americans to Iraq with the fake WMD story which caused 150.000 casualties?
It's a great post but I will warn you - and you probably already have figured it out being that you voted for Trump --- the left doesn't care aout logic, reasoning, or fair play. The don't negotiate, they don't meet our side half way. They care about one thing: Power.
These social media companies wield far too much power.
To censor and silence a SITTING PRESIDENT*?!
Just absolutely crazy that such a thing could happen in the US.
How can be people say we live in a fair and free society when we have these big tech companies censoring not only political discourse but also "politically incorrect" views on COVID19, vaccines, immigration, etc.
Let competition arise to take their place. If enough of the silent majority are kicked off they will pick a different platform. Why do I visit here and not use twitter? This site has amazing utility considering it's free.
Companies always start off being consumer friendly until they get too big.
Let competition arise to take their place. If enough of the silent majority are kicked off they will pick a different platform. Why do I visit here and not use twitter? This site has amazing utility considering it's free.
Companies always start off being consumer friendly until they get too big.
Let competition arise to take their place. If enough of the silent majority are kicked off they will pick a different platform. Why do I visit here and not use twitter? This site has amazing utility considering it's free.
Companies always start off being consumer friendly until they get too big.
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Originally Posted by Kevroqs
They can do whatever they want but they shouldn't complain when revenue goes down due to less users.
^These guys understand how this works. OP does not. End of story.
Trump, more than any other person on the planet, probably drove traffic to Twitter (money to Dorsey's bank account).
What I can't figure out is...why did Trump use Twitter? He should have started his own platform. He should not have been giving a communist like Dorsey any publicity at all.
AT&T, when it existed, was a private company. Could it break into your telephone call and tell you not to say something then just cut you off and suspend service solely due to what you said?
NO.
That is EXACTLY what these Tech and Media giants are doing.
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