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Social media is now in a grey area. They are privately held, so they have the right to censor as they see fit.
However, they have grown so prevalent and powerful, that they are bordering on, it not crossed into, the monopoly range. When Facebook can shut down a person/group, or twitter can, and it has the effect this has had, a basic LARGE restriction in information flow, that's monopoly. When Apple and Android can team up to essentially take down parler just because they don't like the message, that's a monopoly.
Like it or not, social media has evolved to be so key in people's lives that they are now the main source of information for a large percentage or our country.
Allowing that to be restricted is wrong. Then again, forcing them to not restrict is wrong. So....grey area with no solution.
When it comes to hate groups. Yes they are around and yes they use facebook etc. to spread the word and get membership. However who defines "hate group", today it's anyone who thinks people like Ted Cruz where doing nothing wrong by challenging the electoral count. So by LEGAL word or action, you are now a "hate group". Sheesh.
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Move along Jim, you clearly are letting most of this go right above your head, lack of reading comprehension or just not smart enough would be my guess. Either way your views are flawed, kind of feel sorry for ya. He's just a lying liberal troll. A willfully ignorant useful idiot. There is intellectual honesty in him.
Broncos are officially the worst team in the nation this year.
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The reason for censorship by social media, which is their right because they are private companies, is that certain "Hate" groups were using social media to spread their message as well as to organize events like the storming of the capitol and the charlottesville event that the woman was killed by the lunatic in the car. In addition, people are using it to spread misinformation not to mention absolute lies that can incite violence or at least sway public opinion. The fact that they are private companies means they are into making money. If they don't ban these hate groups, hate speech, misinformation, and down right lies then the other 90% of their customers who don't approve of it will start pulling out. They also could possibly be held liable if their platform is used to encourage criminal behavior. They are gambling that censorship will save them the most money in the long run. I am sure the billion dollar companies have actuaries working on it right now to determine how far they need to go with it. Are you that stupid you think things can't spread without it? We had more hate groups 100 years ago then now. The hate is made up by people like you. There has NEVER been a better time to be a minority. And never a worse time not to be one. As to planning things if you think things don't get planned if social media blocks anything, things that aren't even close to planning but things that say demos and libs are stupid and dangerous, then you are as nuts as we say you are. Guess its self explanatory then.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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They are in the public domain using public airways.
You have a privately owned bakery and you refuse to bake a cake for a Gay wedding. How did that work out?
You have a private bar and you refuse service to Black people. How would that work out? This. Public opinion just isn't on the side of white supremacists. What can you do? You would be wrong in your assumptions. Public opinion is on the side of white supremacists? Your narrative is failing you. So are his Depends.
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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The reason for censorship by social media, which is their right because they are private companies, is that certain "Hate" groups were using social media to spread their message as well as to organize events like the storming of the capitol and the charlottesville event that the woman was killed by the lunatic in the car. In addition, people are using it to spread misinformation not to mention absolute lies that can incite violence or at least sway public opinion. The fact that they are private companies means they are into making money. If they don't ban these hate groups, hate speech, misinformation, and down right lies then the other 90% of their customers who don't approve of it will start pulling out. They also could possibly be held liable if their platform is used to encourage criminal behavior. They are gambling that censorship will save them the most money in the long run. I am sure the billion dollar companies have actuaries working on it right now to determine how far they need to go with it. Are you that stupid you think things can't spread without it? We had more hate groups 100 years ago then now. The hate is made up by people like you. There has NEVER been a better time to be a minority. And never a worse time not to be one. As to planning things if you think things don't get planned if social media blocks anything, things that aren't even close to planning but things that say demos and libs are stupid and dangerous, then you are as nuts as we say you are. Guess its self explanatory then. You might add that his integrity has somewhat of a sliding scale. He’s proven himself as a troll and no more than that. And no less:
The degree of my privacy is no business of yours.
What we've learned from history is that we haven't learned from it.
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The reason for censorship by social media, which is their right because they are private companies, is that certain "Hate" groups were using social media to spread their message as well as to organize events like the storming of the capitol and the charlottesville event that the woman was killed by the lunatic in the car. In addition, people are using it to spread misinformation not to mention absolute lies that can incite violence or at least sway public opinion. The fact that they are private companies means they are into making money. If they don't ban these hate groups, hate speech, misinformation, and down right lies then the other 90% of their customers who don't approve of it will start pulling out. They also could possibly be held liable if their platform is used to encourage criminal behavior. They are gambling that censorship will save them the most money in the long run. I am sure the billion dollar companies have actuaries working on it right now to determine how far they need to go with it. Ignorant fug! 1'st place, the illegal and ill-advised incursion into the Capitol was led by diguised Antifa pukes. 2'nd place, these same privately owned social media platform had no problem with those sites being used to organize and promote Antifa and BLM riots all over the nation, including arson, mayhem, murder, assault upon LEOs (over and over) and looting for over a year. That pretty much destroys any claim they might make of "social conscience".
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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Move along Jim, you clearly are letting most of this go right above your head, lack of reading comprehension or just not smart enough would be my guess. Either way your views are flawed, kind of feel sorry for ya. Are you a narcissist? They often accuse people of doing things that they themselves are doing as a form of deflecting To control the conversation. Good one, you funny guy.
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