Again, they don't believe in free speech.
To stop "disinformation," of course
Link: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394284867436547
Replies to: Again, they don't believe in free speech.
All speech is free, but some speech is more free than other speech
Silly rubes getting worked up over a government official seeking to suppress bad speech.
And again, the first amendment does not protect your right to post bilge on Twitter
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You would be fine with Trump doing all of this?
Then we truly are just voting to see if we end up with a leftist or rightist autocracy.
The government moved to limit its citizens speech who were political opponents.
Are you truly this far gone that you can see the problem here?! Do you understand the meaning of a “Banana Republic”? Will you again try to find some excuse to say that this is “totally different”?
No they didn't, they encouraged it.
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You are correct. They did encourage it and this guy has never been arrested.
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You are cool with that?
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With what?
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Thanks Jimbasilakusha.
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Snap!
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There is no Fourth Amendment protection for social media posts.
Hence, the Government is free to monitor what one puts out to the world to read.
If the Government can read what one posts, they are free to tattle tale and notify and ask the platform to terminate the terms of service agreement with the subscriber.
The platform makes a business decision where they draw the line with their terms of service rules. That is a question of contract law.
Social media is the new press. Imagine if they did this with the NYT…oh wait…..
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Or imagine - just imagine! - if people couldn’t post an NYPost story about Hunter Biden
Because that’s what happened here.
I seriously don’t know how the country survived.
Baby steps, Chris. Baby steps.
Glad to see you condone Trump doing this, though.
I guess you are just an apologist for the monsters of history
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True, thank God Twitter did not fall in line with the fascists.
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I don’t think that’s strong enough. Obviously just pure evil.
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You're really taking it too far, not funny.
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Yes I guess I really crossed the line there.
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Yes the line between funny and not funny.
You've got to know when to walk away.
what's laughable about your post is how difficult the government can make life for a company that
doesn't follow their suggestions. The EPA, IRS, DOJ, FDA and now the FBI have powers that exceed their usefulness and now more political than agnostic.
the ends justify the means
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Yes. Liberalism Rule #3.
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sure it does, if someone lacks the ability to think, that’s on the person. It starts
with twitter and then moves to message boards.
It's a little fascist.
Some might say "semi-fascist".
No, but it does protect the government from doing it.
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Talk about the gov'ts involvement or stop wasting your time.
This wasn't a private company acting alone.
The monsters of history didn't act alone. They controlled the media and the controlled law enforcement. Collusion between media and law enforcement to suppress the rights of US citizens are the ingredients for real oppression. The tools that these platforms provided to the DHS are the building blocks of fascism. This isn't something to be flippant and cute about.
“The monsters of history didn't act alone.”
Glad to see the right-wing hyperbole machine is still churnin out the hits.
Lazy effort.Why even reply if that's that's what you're going to reply with?
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Because absurd garbage posts don’t deserve serious response
The monsters of history!
The topic is not absurd garbage.
Your tactic of attacking the flowery language, while avoiding the substance of the discussion, is bullshit and you know it. We aren't on the middle school debate team. Diversionary tactics make adults seem incapable.
I'd give you points if you are least attempted humor...or showed any sign of life at all.
The lines between Twitter and the Fed's were completely blurred
"It was a revelation when @ShellenbergerMD found that Twitter had been paid over $3 million by the feds. Based on how many content requests they appear to have fulfilled for the FBI, it now looks like they were severely underpaid."
I don't know how any of this can be legal. If it is legal, we have fucked up somewhere along the way because I don't know how you can interpret this as anything other than infringement on the First Amendment.
It isn't, but that doesn't matter in a banana republic.
These things are done in large part to gauge what sort of opposition will form to their schemes. From this, they decide when to scale back and wait and they decide how quickly they can start to overturn long-established traditions and precedents. Take the DHS Ministry of Truth board. DHS hired a demented birdbrain who advertises her one-woman misinformation/disinformation machine on social media weekly, and they had to pull back on it...temporarily. Honorable Liar Mayorkas himself testified before Congress that the board has not been liquidated, just "tabled." They will eventually come up with something in some form that will be given the same mission as it was originally given, but packaged differently. They have recognized their error and will place someone in a leadership role eventually who comes off as boring as vanilla.
They still have Facebook and Google/YouTube, both of which communicated dozens of times with federal officials about content moderation on their platforms.
Question is: Can the genie be put back in the bottle?...or is this the future for the United States?
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If Americans can’t post NYP stories in social media, is it really even America any more?
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Only if the left gets their heads out of their asses.
We need outrage from both sides.
I think MAS summed up the future as well as anything I've heard.
His summary is supported by the ignorant twits throughout the country that are dismissing or ignoring this problem.