Skull Pilot
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Where do you get this shit?Well, I was bringing it back to the topic: Alex Jones is calling for a congressional hearing. And many of the board Trumpsters are supporting him in that effort.
I just don't like seeing our rights being dumbed down to the point of actually inverting them. Which is happening. We, many of us anyway, are starting to see rights not as freedoms protected from government encroachment, but as claims on the cooperation of others. The left has long conflated these concerns, and frankly were the first to come up with this idea that an employer can violate Constitutional freedoms. Now the right is getting on board, which is very concerning. They've never been what I'd call stalwart defenders of freedom, but the Republicans have at least provided some check on the liberal ambitions of the Democrats. Seeing them accept the basic premises of the progressive agenda basically provides the last few nails in our national coffin.
This is true. But it doesn't apply to the facebook/google/twitter conundrum.
Yeah. It does. A business cannot violate your Constitutional rights. Only government can do that. It's the same situation.
Bullshit. People violate your constitutional rights. And people run the businesses.
Only the government or agents acting on behalf of the government can violate your constitutional rights
As you have been told many times and I have also cited the explanation of first amendment rights and what they do and do not protect people from the Bill of rights is a control on government.
No website, or newspaper for that matter is obligated to provide you a venue to exercise your first amendment rights
I didn't say any website or newspaper were obligated. I said that those who own papers and websites cannot work together to stifle free speech.
I said it's a crime to print libel, it's a crime to slander, and it's a crime to seek to overthrow the presidency.
You have not proven collusion
And no private entity even if in collusion with another can "stifle" your speech.
You are 100% free to publish your own website, or book or newsletter and say whatever the fuck you want.