Asking a serious question:
What else are you waiting or watching for at this point?
Another State Supreme court rejected Trump’s appeal.
If it gets to the SCOTUS, are they rigged against him when they reject it. He’s literally put in 1/3 of the body.
Well it’s not a public platform, it’s a privately own soap box that allows users to use the platform as long as they abide by the rules.
You Tube got the rights to clean their own house, despite they are missing spots.
Starhammer = 
Tim Pool to make a video telling him everything is going according to plan.
This x1000000000000000
People who keep talking about “free-speech” have not read the Constitution. This is a case of “my house my rules”.
Places like Twitter, Youtube and Facebook may technically be privately owned like an office or a business, but in practice they’re digital squares and meeting places where millions of people meet, produce content and have a huge effect on both individual citizens and society at large. They are de-facto public spaces that are under the legal control of giant corporations.
My point is that private businesses have no business owning something so hugely influential to society and shouldn’t be in the position to potentially end free speech on the internet on a whim because they “own” the platforms.
Big businesses already can have a lot of influence by controlling TV networks and newspaper. By owning the largest sites on the internet however, like Youtube and Facebook, they could go a step further if they wanted and directly decide what sources of information are allowed to get to the millions of people who are on their platforms and which shouldn’t.
The reason they’re censoring Trumpers now is not something the corporates are doing out of love for unbiased information or democracy, they’re doing it because it would be bad PR for them to appear associated to deranged rightists denying the result of the election. But it’s obvious that if it was in their interest and they could get away with it, these same corporations would have no problem backing the far right out of interest and enforce the same rules on the right’s political enemies.
For the moment corporations like Google and Facebook just seem interested in avoiding backlash and keep the status-quo, so they’re not going to pull something like that anytime soon, but the potential social and political threat is there, which is what I want to point out.
Thing is, that is no house.
That is the whole damn city and everyone in it.
And since I’m an actual Socialist my stance is that they shouldn’t own it.
Just in case…
An argument can be made for that, but right now as it stands these are private institutions. While there is a solid footprint, they are not deemed “public spaces”. This now starts to ebb into the digital divide and how to address that issue.
Idaho public health officials abruptly ended a meeting Tuesday after the Boise mayor and chief of police said intense protests outside the health department building - as well as outside some health officials’ homes - were threatening public safety.
The request from Boise Mayor Lauren McLean and the Boise Police Department came just a few minutes after one health board member, Ada County Commissioner Diana Lachiondo, tearfully interrupted the online meeting to say she had to rush home from work to be with her son.
"My 12-year-old son is home by himself right now and there are protesters banging outside the door," she said, according to CBS Boise affiliate KBOI-TV. "I’m going to go home and make sure he’s OK."
The protest at the health building was organized, at least in part, by a loose multi-state group called People’s Rights. The group was created by Ammon Bundy, an outspoken opponent of mask mandates during the coronavirus pandemic who gained national attention and stoked the so-called “patriot movement” after leading armed standoffs at his father’s Nevada ranch in 2014 and at a wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon in 2016.
If only these terrorists would kill themselves.
Please stop promoting suicide…
Yeah, they need to cease that. Knowing the competence level of the team, someone is gonna figure out that they left tracked changes on and just reject all changes 
Ironic considering dude’s first month in office was to undue almost everything Obama policies, that weren’t shit, and to try to erase his legacy.
Fine. I won’t post about wishing ill on these fuckfaces, that’ll be my last post saying it.
Absolutely. My argument is more about challenging how things are right now rather than describing how they are. How they are right now is that they are privately owned stuff like any other because colossal websites are still seen as little things on servers.
However stuff like Youtube has grown to such a degree over the years that they have become a huge part of social life and also a huge influence on it, and therefore relabeling may be in order sooner rather than later, because Youtube at this point has less in common with my personal blog and more with a highway. Not a random website on a server, but a fundamental infrastructure.
I will throw such a fit if she somehow wins…
I guess I’m a simple guy, but I can’t really fathom why someone worth 500 million is so deadset on being a public servant who would receive $175k a year.
After 1 term of 6 years, that would get .2 percent of her savings.
I guess political power is the new cocaine.
If Lindsey Graham and McConnell didn’t already get in, I’d be there with you. Just another day at this point. I just hope the people of GA are smarter than those in SC and KY.
I think Rev. Warnock will defeat her,but Perdue will defeat Ossoff.
It’s shameful but Perdue chickening out of the debates will spare him the damage of the debate and probably allow him to eke out a victory.
I will also throw a fit if that happens…
So do you support Trump vetoing the NDAA unless section 230 is replaced or abolished?
Like you said
So they’re doing everything they can to appease to their consumers. I’m sure they’ve lost a decent amount of Americans because of this. There’s a reason that Parler is making headlines. But they wouldn’t do it unless the majority of their customers didn’t already agree with the information and conclusions that they’re pushing.
It’s symbiotic. Twitter puts disclaimers on Trumps tweets about election fraud because most of its users thinks it’s bullshit. Their users drive its values. If twitter came out and said the world is flat, put it all over the site, and deleted any tweet that said that the earth ISN’T flat, people would find somewhere else to go.
No one has to use Twitter, facebook, or google. They’re just the biggest and best at what they provide. If they start to cross that fine line, I have faith that people will leave.