Agreed - Banning Trump an assault on democracy and free speech.

[GeeMail]

I just saw this. A new court battle is startting in Ohio (a Republican state). They are asking for Google to be declared a common carrier.

That's the point we've been making all along. A common carrier cannot claim to censor content. It should simply act like a pipe carrying water.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

I just saw this. A new court battle is startting in Ohio (a Republican state). They are asking for Google to be declared a common carrier.

That's the point we've been making all along. A common carrier cannot claim to censor content. It should simply act like a pipe carrying water.

[RV Pundit]

You're about to get it. Market dominance - the bells of regulations start to ring.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

You're about to get it. Market dominance - the bells of regulations start to ring.

I might get it if you explain how that is relevant, in the case of the social media companies.  Merely being a good product in demand is not enough for the kind of interventions you appear to have in mind.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

Some of the most racist(actually the most racist) people I have had the misfortune to work with are Israelis.  Closely followed by Russians.

That maybe so but that doesn't make Israel an apartheid state. I think some have misconstrued their legitimate security precautions as apartheid. Remember they are dealing with Islamic fanatics like AS who won't hesitate to hide behind civilians to cause mayhem.

I want to keep this thread a bit more focused on the power of social media, censorship, the internet and regulations without straying too far off.  Though I agree that individual racism is not the same thing as state racism, it's fairly well known that Israel keeps Palestinians(who are not citizens) in subhuman conditions.  But that is something for a different thread.

[Dear Mami]

Edit: Never mind . . . Not worth it.

[Arcadian_Dreamer]

Edit: Never mind . . . Not worth it.

Why did you chicken out bat soup lover?

[Dear Mami]

Edit: Never mind . . . Not worth it.

Why did you chicken out bat soup lover?

Lol, are u twelve? Even ur insults scream soft in the head.

I admit invincible ignorance in an anonymous moniker presents an intimating challenge to attempt to tackle. Threw in the towel.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

I screwed up.  I tried to split the topic but instead lost some posts.

[Dear Mami]

I say good riddance 2021 isn't the time to make a whole thread explaining that old issue, researched and discussed ad nauseum. Anybody who doesn't know at this stage. . . doesn't want to. Simple.

[GeeMail]

Now the big tech companies have banned American Frontline Doctors and removed their website for alleged disinformation on Covid. Like the bootleg days, it only works to drive things underground. Chang'aa is still sold and drank in Kenya despite Moi's spirited efforts against it. Not that opposing Covid is illegal, but removing websites does not stop people from seeing the plannedemic as another big heax from the usual suspects.

[GeeMail]

https://www.axios.com/trump-lawsuit-facebook-twitter-82323cf3-b8ce-48ed-8cab-cafe31f0bae7.html

Story refuses to die.