Posted on Oct 17, 2018
The Supreme Court will hear a case that could decide whether Facebook, Twitter can censor users
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Interesting.
They mostly censor conservative views, they don't agree with, so the implications of the potential outcome are huge.
They mostly censor conservative views, they don't agree with, so the implications of the potential outcome are huge.
The Supreme Court will hear a case that could decide whether Facebook, Twitter can censor users
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Facebook and Twitter are private entities. They don't censor anyone. They decide what content they want on their private networks. I don't agree with the professed politics of Silicon Valley, but censorship is something that takes place when the government tells you what you can and can't say. That isn't happening. Anybody can go out start a competitor to Facebook and Twitter and have whatever content guidelines you want with regard to politics.
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"Anybody can go out start a competitor to Facebook and Twitter."
There have been many attempts, but most if not all have failed. Should we wait for the next big innovation in social media in order to have a more balanced level of influence?
Ideas can be better or worse regardless of whether they are profitable, why should "profit" necessarily be a proxy for what is better? Some ideas are not comfortable and even insulting, and yet they need to be heard to the same degree.
There have been many attempts, but most if not all have failed. Should we wait for the next big innovation in social media in order to have a more balanced level of influence?
Ideas can be better or worse regardless of whether they are profitable, why should "profit" necessarily be a proxy for what is better? Some ideas are not comfortable and even insulting, and yet they need to be heard to the same degree.
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It's flabbergasting how many Americans don't understand that private corporations can censor. The Constitution only applies in this regard to the government.
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Cpl (Join to see)
a quick interweb search and I found a few, here's one... Your questioning my quip tells me you aren't listening to or reading the right news sources.
"Google’s parent Alphabet, market cap $762 billion, has received $766 million since 2000"
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/03/google-tesla-apple-facebook-rake-in-massive-subsidies-report/
"Google’s parent Alphabet, market cap $762 billion, has received $766 million since 2000"
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/03/google-tesla-apple-facebook-rake-in-massive-subsidies-report/
Google, Tesla, Apple, Facebook rake in massive subsidies: report
Tesla’s subsidies from Nevada cost a Reno-area school district tens of millions of dollars in revenue, report says.
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SSG James Arlington
Cpl (Join to see) Semantics, then, as the article points out that these are tax breaks and not direct payment of public money, rather money governments would have collected with no tax breaks. This is, as the president would say, Fake News. It's misleading.
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Cpl (Join to see)
What I hear you saying james is that corporate welfare, aka tax-breaks, are good as long as the companies benefiting are anti-conservative.
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