The real problem for these companies as conservatives leave in droves is drops in revenue, they think they can push their evil lib agenda on all. We will prevail.
The real problem for these companies as conservatives leave in droves is drops in revenue, they think they can push their evil lib agenda on all. We will prevail.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
From a legal standpoint, this is correct. But I'm not really discussing legality here -- only the moral implications of the whole thing.
You're correct that conservatives opposed the Fairness Doctrine in the '80s, because right-wing talk radio had already gained enough of a foothold that they felt it largely negated (and probably exceeded) the left-wing editorial portions of regular broadcast stations.
Keep in mind that the mainstream media in those days was also not nearly as liberal and biased as it is now, so there was less of a concern then about biased news, and more of a concern about biased editorials.
My point about the Fairness Doctrine was that there had already been action taken in the past in order to bring ideological fairness to mass media. Yes, the public airwaves allowed them to be able to assert it, but that was just legality. The spirit of the law was to prevent one side from disseminating all of the editorial opinion.
Much has changed since then, but we are back to the same question -- should we allow private companies with a near-monopoly on information platforms control the ideology of the information disseminated on them?
I think a lot of this could be solved by making two sets of rules -- one for large social media, and one for everywhere else. The "everywhere else" rules would essentially be the same as they are today. With large social media, a lot of this could be solved by the following rules:
- No banning or removing messages by any sitting major or semi-major politician (meaning the President, VP, governors, Congresspeople, Senators, and big city mayors).
- No banning or removing messages by any large publications (the term "large" could be carefully defined here, to prevent confusion).
- No warning labels allowed for either of the above categories.
- All third-party fact checkers must be open and transparent regarding their process and their staff making these decisions, and must make a good faith effort to staff an equal number of people from the left and right. Any third-party fact checker which fails to do so cannot be utilized to determine the validity of any politically-related stories or posts.
The whole "fact checking" nonsense really infuriates me, because none of the fact checkers will be transparent about anything, and it is clear that they all have a strong leftist bias.
It's not even rocket science to put together a good and fair fact checking organization. For example, if someone hired me, Kalam, BCR, and Walter to get together and fact check things, I bet we could do a pretty damn good job, regardless of our differing ideologies. By ourselves, each of us would probably have some bias, but put together in a room as a group, we could probably come up with honest fact checking.
I would actually LOVE to see stories fact-checked by legitimate, unbiased checkers. Unfortunately, no such organization exists, hence the current fact-checkers avoiding any form of transparency.
I'm just coming up with ideas off the top of my head here, but surely there's a way to solve this censorship issue while also combating disinformation campaigns.
(long before there was a PFA i had my Grenade & Crossbones avatar at DD)
ANY anti-trust action in the tech sphere will benefit almost everyone everywhere. If that's an offshoot of banning Trump, A fucking Men.
Break up Google, break up Amazon, break up Facebook, break up all the digital monopolies in every area. Shit, break up all monopolies and monopsonies in every area. Would be a tremendous unforeseen consequence of all this.
You guys are a bunch of cucks if you think I’m a liberal. Go back to mindlessly supporting Ted Cruz, Matt Gaetz and believing the election was stolen. I have respect for Druff because at least he can acknowledge reality, actually believe what he says and doesn’t just regurgitate some Q nonsense. I’m talking to you @Dwai
Well, at least Amazon didn't drop Parler from its web hosting service yet, so that should be a good sign, right?
Fuck Bart Hansen
DWAI IS GOD MFER
I don’t cry you man baby basement bitch.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
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