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| RJSV:
At any rate, the gist of this, from what I've been hearing, on some of the more conservative channels, that folks are declaring how 'ridiculous' some claims are, (thus dangerous and requiring 'censorship'), but nowhere in the protestations are the actual claims actually addressed. They are not. It's a dismissal, while stating "no need to explore THOSE 'crazed' conspiracy (nuts)." But why, remind us readers, that (twitter) censorship or suppression happened or increased significantly under TRUMP ? |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: John B on December 05, 2022, 03:21:52 am ---The issue is that the DNC and biden staff sent communications to twitter staff instructing them to censor speech, hence the claim is infringing on the 1st amendment by proxy. --- End quote --- Ok, but the DNC does not have authority to demand that, they can only send a request, which the staff of Twitter can choose to abide by if they wish. Shady perhaps, but not a violation of the 1st Amendment, unless you can prove that somebody acting on behalf of the government was forcing Twitter to censor something. |
| RJSV:
Yes, OK, but now we are getting back to that thing where a person cannot speak one word, without a chorus of "PROVE IT !". |
| RJSV:
...plus a chorus of 'eye rolling'...to the degree that people must be getting 'eye cramps'. Meaning the claim is made that such and such is SO ridiculous as to merit immediate dismissal, (with attendant eye rolls and saying '0hhh here we go...another conspiracy theory...' to be dismissed, of course. |
| tszaboo:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 05, 2022, 03:12:08 am --- --- Quote from: wraper on December 05, 2022, 12:56:13 am ---Twitter was violationg first amendment on behalf of democrats (government is not allowed to impede with free speech). Twitter employees were not even sure what rule to apply to block that information. Nothing to see there... Democrads good, Musk bad :palm:. Not to say your argument is just nonsencical, he gets attention to himself, not diverts it. --- End quote --- The First Amendment does not apply to Twitter which is a corporation, not a branch of the government. The amendment protects an individual against prosecution for speech, it does not prevent a company from controlling what you say on their platform. For example Dave can ban any topic he wants here and the Constitution would do nothing to prevent that, even if he was based in the USA. I am generally a proponent of free speech, but the first amendment applies to specific circumstances, and Twitter is not one of those. --- End quote --- While the first amendment is still mostly uphold in the US, the issue is really that corporations have become stronger than the US government. If the woke propaganda decides to shut you down, then you are done. You loose your job, and become a pariah. And they can do this just after accusations, no due process, or after a single tweet or other social media post that they don't like. And not just for the individuals, they do this to companies. Look up ESG score. The score is worse, if you don't follow the ideology. And it is applied to you, and your subcontractors and customers, so in B2B, to other companies that do business with you. You don't like The Twitter Corporation? Downgrade their ESG. Next time they apply for a loan or want to rent servers or whatever, they are going to be turned down. Or they will loose their income because companies are not going to advertise on the platform. Or de-list their app from the app store. Sounds familiar? https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TWTR/sustainability/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMSudgQvn0oF6wLiy1s2jTEn3rWB068r7_DP9g2pSduFZjsq4JlnSlQmIQSlB7_IWi_LiWkpWGmTNxBhj_YUB6fStPVI3SdHikeJRMoSvJgH-s3TAYVy8E0MsXM7-Mvuwnfdgl5pDhMqU7xrzqfFeME1KL55jtR1RF_2iMNASWkX Updated before the acquisition, I'm sure now it would get a much lower score. High is good, low is bad. ESG is applied by companies like Blackrock, who own everything. It doesn't really matter what the US government places into the law anymore, while systems like these are let to exist. |
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