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Who is going to be the next President of the United States?

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Its obviously is a free speech issue. If all eminent platforms are controlled by private tyrannies, does it make one feel better that it's technically not called "government"? It obviously is a (non elected) government. A corporate, ie fascist by definition, government. The fact that people refuse to see it in those terms is amazing to me.
 
reno cool
Its obviously is a free speech issue. If all eminent platforms are controlled by private tyrannies, does it make one feel better that it's technically not called "government"? It obviously is a (non elected) government. A corporate, ie fascist by definition, government. The fact that people refuse to see it in those terms is amazing to me.
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I would probably argue that allowing a tiny handful of platforms to get to this size through anti-competitive behavior was a mistake that has free speech consequences. I'm not fully buying into the facebook and twitter are government argument. They can't throw us in jail or silence us on other platforms. There should and would be more platforms if we didn't let the giants buy up their competition every time.

I'm also not comfortable with major platforms being forced to be unmoderated conduits for any speech. I think certain fringe speech deserves to have a harder time amplifying itself.
 
Archie
can you clarify the "do the things they are doing right now" portion of your question? what are they doing?
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Basically banning any user that has a conservative view.

I understand Trump, but some of the other profiles banned had not reason being banned.

Why hasn’t Maxine Waters been banned?

Her rhetoric was A LOT more inflammatory than Trumps
 
Casperwaits
Basically banning any user that has a conservative view.

I understand Trump, but some of the other profiles banned had not reason being banned.

Why hasn’t Maxine Waters been banned?

Her rhetoric was A LOT more inflammatory than Trumps
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From a legal standpoint it doesn't matter what the reason is EXCEPT for race/sex/etc.

It can literally be, "we banned him because we don't like him but didn't ban her because we like her."

Now you might face a consumer backlash - you don't just lose those who feel wronged but also those who demand consistent application or clear "rules". They choose to run their business how they want.
 
Casperwaits
Basically banning any user that has a conservative view.

I understand Trump, but some of the other profiles banned had not reason being banned.

Why hasn’t Maxine Waters been banned?

Her rhetoric was A LOT more inflammatory than Trumps
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"Banning any user that has a conservative view" is a ridiculous characterization of what is happening. It is obviously and verifiably not true.

The rest of what I was going to say Boner just covered.
 
MrX
"Banning any user that has a conservative view" is a ridiculous characterization of what is happening. It is obviously and verifiably not true.

The rest of what I was going to say Boner just covered.
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But it is true.

Do I need to list who has been banned over the last week that hasn’t said anything inflammatory?
 
I haven't paid much attention to it.

But I thought it was just a terms of service type thing. Like if SBR John didn't like you talking about about betislands he could have reload zap your SBR Account.

it's not limiting your freedom of speech. You are still able to scream from the rooftops, or go on tv or write an editorial that you hate Betislands and SBR mods.

and you won't be going to jail or facing any fines or penalty, you just aren't welcome to do so at SBR

SBR ain't a right, and neither is twitter. doesn't matter the size
 
Archie
I haven't paid much attention to it.

But I thought it was just a terms of service type thing. Like if SBR John didn't like you talking about about betislands he could have reload zap your SBR Account.

it's not limiting your freedom of speech. You are still able to scream from the rooftops, or go on tv or write an editorial that you hate Betislands and SBR mods.

and you won't be going to jail or facing any fines or penalty, you just aren't welcome to do so at SBR

SBR ain't a right, and neither is twitter. doesn't matter the size
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They still owe me $1300 lol
 
Casperwaits
But it is true.

Do I need to list who has been banned over the last week that hasn’t said anything inflammatory?
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Ugh, Casper, C'mon.

You said they are banning any user with a conservative view. You know damned well I could list hundreds of conservatives with active twitter accounts without even trying. As far as I know, every republican U.S. senator and representative's account is active on twitter. There's an obvious starting point.
 
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