boedicca
Uppity Water Nymph from the Land of Funk
- Feb 12, 2007
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This isn't news to anyone.
Brace yourself for the chorus of "they're a private business" from the moonbat asswipes who had no problems forcing a private baker to bake a cake for a poofter wedding.
I guess the moonbat baker won out and now Facebook doesn't have to serve everyone?
Or did the conservative supreme court win out and decide that until big government declares Facebook a monopoly they don't have to allow me to post just like you don't have to allow me to post on your website or stand in your front yard with a bullhorn?
Facebook, Twitter and the other Big Surveillance Media are exempt for media-type regulations because they claim they are platforms and conduits. If they now censor perfectly legal content, they turn themselves into media publishers and are now liable as media. If they want to discriminate, fine. Then they should not be exempted from the regulations that govern media companies.
I'm all for regulating them folks with the full power of monopoly smashing big government. Sounds like we're on the same ship. Whoever let Facebook buy Instagram made a mistake.
Given how they are a communication medium, they should be treated like a common carrier and now allowed to discriminate against perfectly lawful communication.
I don't entirely disagree. Do you think a small place like this website or one you may own has to let me post?
No. This website is not at the common carrier level. Facebook, GOOG and Twitter and the rest of the internet infrastructure control communication. The big player are platforms. This website is more like a wee applications for which there are many substitutes. As the Surveillance Media has proven with its silencing attempt on GAB, there are not easily obtainable substitutes if one is deplatformed.
It's like the U.S Post office refusing to deliver one's mail and AT&T refusing one phone service due to ideological differences.