The right still can’t get over Trump being banned on social media

[PostmodernProphet]

No, if he had legitimate things to say there are multiple other avenues, and don’t return with the “free speech” and “censorship” crap, it is neither

I understand.....I'm sure if it were Biden being banned you would be happy with it.....

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I have said such companies should be free to ban him and I consider myself a conservative. What I have a problem with is banning simply because you don't like an opinion which is what I think happened here.

BTW how far are you willing to go to let companies decide who they have to do business with?

In this case, following the logic, shouldn't the market decide?

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what? the topic you started is about social media, not talk radio
talk radio does not allow my speech except in a very limited, prescreened sense if im lucky to get on
and my comments are gone in seconds.

Same thing, a private entity controlling what they feel they want to put out there for public consumption, how is it any different

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I understand.....I'm sure if it were Biden being banned you would be happy with it.....

Biden has nothing to do with it, and Biden is technically banned from media outlets, do you think Hannity is going to allow Biden to come on his show and talk uninterrupted for say twenty minutes straight? Same thing, controlling content

[anatta]

“Simplistic” as it may pertain to the whole picture, there you are correct, but in this case, with the right now upset over Trump being banned, talking free speech and censorship, it is not simplistic. As noted, they are upset cause Trump doesn’t have his most effective podium to disseminate his opinions to them, has little to do “free speech” and censorship

One of my things is the way the right throws around abstract concepts as if they were bumper stickers, “freedom,” “liberty,” “the Constitution,” etc, have even seen a conservative say he doesn’t stop at Stop signs cause it infringes on his “freedom”

1.the 2 tweet he was banned for were innocuous -he was banned "in context"

2.he had millions of followers.it impacts their free speech ability.

3. the ban was capricious. Farrakan , Maduro, and the ayatollah have said much worse
and Trump did not incite -the language is not there

4. Social media may be a private enterprise, but it functions as the public square for political speech

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1.the 2 tweet he was banned for were innocuous -he was banned "in context"

2.he had millions of followers.it impacts their free speech ability.

3. the ban was capricious. Farrakan , Maduro, and the ayatollah have said much worse
and Trump did not incite -the language is not there

4. Social media may be a private enterprise, but it functions as the public square for political speech

You still aren't getting it, regardless of the content, and labeling Trump's tweets as "innocuous" is questionable, they are private entities, and they can edit or censor what they want, as the right likes to say, and by the way was the right's argument in the Fairness Doctrine debate, the market decides, not the Government

And the "public square for political speech" is a stretch, it has no obligation in any form to be the "public square for political speech"

[PostmodernProphet]

Biden has nothing to do with it,

agreed.....its all about your stupidity.......

[AProudLefty]

All Trump has to do is set up Trumpbook and Trumptwitter. And watch stock go BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

[Althea]

The Trumpiods have become addicted to Trump's sacred fascist and racist gospels, and are now desperate and in disarray with the lost of their messiah.

Pavlov's dogs are lost without their bell.

[Trumpet]

Pavlov's dogs are lost without their bell.

Good point.

[Althea]

“Simplistic” as it may pertain to the whole picture, there you are correct, but in this case, with the right now upset over Trump being banned, talking free speech and censorship, it is not simplistic. As noted, they are upset cause Trump doesn’t have his most effective podium to disseminate his opinions to them, has little to do “free speech” and censorship

One of my things is the way the right throws around abstract concepts as if they were bumper stickers, “freedom,” “liberty,” “the Constitution,” etc, have even seen a conservative say he doesn’t stop at Stop signs cause it infringes on his “freedom”

It's pretty fuckin simple to avoid 'censorship'. Just follow the rules of the platform you are using. trump couldn't control himself, so he got spanked.

It's been beautiful, actually.

[cawacko]

Same thing, a private entity controlling what they feel they want to put out there for public consumption, how is it any different

Sort of off topic, but do you agree with Warren and others who have been pushing for the break up of big tech companies?

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Sort of off topic, but do you agree with Warren and others who have been pushing for the break up of big tech companies?

Can't say, really not that familiar with it, but back in the Reagon era I did support maintaining the Fairness Doctrine, so I suppose to be consistent here, I'd commit to some kind of agreement on balance in what they put out there, but I also see no problem with them banning what they have predefined is unacceptable content

[cawacko]

Can't say, really not that familiar with it, but back in the Reagon era I did support maintaining the Fairness Doctrine, so I suppose to be consistent here, I'd commit to some kind of agreement on balance in what they put out there, but I also see no problem with them banning what they have predefined is unacceptable content

Her position, as I somewhat understand it, is that these companies are essentially monopolies with too much power which restricts innovation. Thus they need to be broken up. Not sure is that’s similar to the Fairness Doctrine or not

[PostmodernProphet]

Her position, as I somewhat understand it, is that these companies are essentially monopolies with too much power which restricts innovation. Thus they need to be broken up. Not sure is that’s similar to the Fairness Doctrine or not

are they going to Bell Telephone it?.......regional Twitters?.....