The election is over so why is social media still banning/deleting posts they deem wrong?

[bripat9643]

Any use of government is an abuse.

Nope. Protecting individual rights is a valid use of government. Ask a libertarian.

Name one government that ever limited itself to protecting individual rights.

 

[Zorro!]

These Censorious Social Media Bastards do not fit in our Free Society.

Of course they do. Freedom means that they are not obligated to support your message.

Freedom to speak also means freedom to not speak.

So you support giant corporations denying public services in order enforce political viewpoint compliance?

Public service?

It’s Facebook, not electricity. Get some perspective.

Neither are stores, motels, hotels, or bakers.

You had no problem with Chick-Fil-a imposing and enforcing their political viewpoint. ..

Fake News. Chick-Fil-A has never refused to customers who hold particular political viewpoints.

 

[Zorro!]

These Censorious Social Media Bastards do not fit in our Free Society.

Of course they do. Freedom means that they are not obligated to support your message.

Freedom to speak also means freedom to not speak.

So you support giant corporations denying public services in order enforce political viewpoint compliance?

Public service?

It’s Facebook, not electricity. Get some perspective.

Neither are stores, motels, hotels, or bakers.

You sure? How am I supposed to eat if I can’t got to a store or place that serves food?

Seems like eating is a pretty vital thing.

Not to mention that public accommodation laws don’t protect people from discrimination based on political ideology.

So you are good with banks refusing to do business with people over their political viewpoint?

What about red lining Red or Blue Neighborhoods?

And Educator was fired for posting this on her OWN personal social media

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Do you support firing her for that?

Again, it’s just Facebook you lunatics.

BREAK THEM UP! Remove their Congressional Grant of special immunity based on the assumption that they would act as an unbiased common carrier.

 

[Zorro!]

The election has been over for six weeks ....why are Republicans still spreading lies?

Who cares. Why do democrats feel they need to silence people. Seems fascist to me.

Lots of people care. There are far too many gullible fools such as yourself who will believe anything, and worse still act on it. Every day you fools come here and post links to bullshit articles posted by tin foil hat conspiracy websites, and swear that this stuff is really happening.

The partisan divide has been fuelled by generations of right wing hate radio lying to voters in the fly-over states who call those on the left "communists", and femi-nazi's, and fuelling white male grievance. Every day posters here want the left to be eliminated, or gotten rid of in some way.

Recent studies in European have noted the slide of the Republican Party into right wing authoritarianism - noteably, their lack of tolerance for those who criticize Donald Trump, and Trump's vilification of Republicans who dare contradict or even disagree with him.

Fake News. The 4 year blizzard of lies about the "Russian Collusion" was pushed by felonious leakers in the Deep State with the eager assistance of the Fake News Media.

This culminated with the deliberate suppression of the Biden Crime Family investigation in order to influence the presidential election.

 

[Zorro!]

These Censorious Social Media Bastards do not fit in our Free Society.

Of course they do. Freedom means that they are not obligated to support your message.

Freedom to speak also means freedom to not speak.

So you support giant corporations denying public services in order enforce political viewpoint compliance?

Public service?

It’s Facebook, not electricity. Get some perspective.

Break them up, strip them of their special immunity.

 

[candycorn]

The election isn't over. Still a lot of runoff races to be decided.

 

[Dragonlady]

The election has been over for six weeks ....why are Republicans still spreading lies?

Who cares. Why do democrats feel they need to silence people. Seems fascist to me.

Lots of people care. There are far too many gullible fools such as yourself who will believe anything, and worse still act on it. Every day you fools come here and post links to bullshit articles posted by tin foil hat conspiracy websites, and swear that this stuff is really happening.

The partisan divide has been fuelled by generations of right wing hate radio lying to voters in the fly-over states who call those on the left "communists", and femi-nazi's, and fuelling white male grievance. Every day posters here want the left to be eliminated, or gotten rid of in some way.

Recent studies in European have noted the slide of the Republican Party into right wing authoritarianism - noteably, their lack of tolerance for those who criticize Donald Trump, and Trump's vilification of Republicans who dare contradict or even disagree with him.

Fake News. The 4 year blizzard of lies about the "Russian Collusion" was pushed by felonious leakers in the Deep State with the eager assistance of the Fake News Media.

This culminated with the deliberate suppression of the Biden Crime Family investigation in order to influence the presidential election.

The moment you call the Russia Investigation a "blizzard of lies", I disregard anything else you're saying. And referencing the Deep State is proof positive you're an idiot.

Stop lying, promoting Russian propaganda, and Republican bullshit if you want anyone to take you seriously.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Whats the goal here?

Suppress anger from the right befor the runoff senate race?

Force congress to break them up/strip them of protections?

Think they can permanently control public discourse if they just keep the propaganda machine oiled with the fresh remains of the 1st amendment?

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

Seriously can't say this loud enough....

**** THESE COMPANIES!

The answer to your title question is no more complicated than this:

They're leftists. Controlling free speech is what they do.

 

[Slade3200]

Whats the goal here?

Suppress anger from the right befor the runoff senate race?

Force congress to break them up/strip them of protections?

Think they can permanently control public discourse if they just keep the propaganda machine oiled with the fresh remains of the 1st amendment?

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

Seriously can't say this loud enough....

**** THESE COMPANIES!

Jesus... then don’t use them!! If they don’t want porn on their sites then thats their call. If they don’t want beheadings on their sites then fine. If they don’t want people posting fake/misleading videos that undermine an election then that is also their call. Don’t like it? Then go somewhere else. I’m sure trumps site will be up in a couple months. You can slurp up all the lies that you want there.

Man, that sounds awfully familiar. They are the same arguments supporters of those bakers used when they were shouted at about public accommodation.

You see this as a civil rights issue?

 

[Zorro!]

The election has been over for six weeks ....why are Republicans still spreading lies?

Who cares. Why do democrats feel they need to silence people. Seems fascist to me.

Lots of people care. There are far too many gullible fools such as yourself who will believe anything, and worse still act on it. Every day you fools come here and post links to bullshit articles posted by tin foil hat conspiracy websites, and swear that this stuff is really happening.

The partisan divide has been fuelled by generations of right wing hate radio lying to voters in the fly-over states who call those on the left "communists", and femi-nazi's, and fuelling white male grievance. Every day posters here want the left to be eliminated, or gotten rid of in some way.

Recent studies in European have noted the slide of the Republican Party into right wing authoritarianism - noteably, their lack of tolerance for those who criticize Donald Trump, and Trump's vilification of Republicans who dare contradict or even disagree with him.

Fake News. The 4 year blizzard of lies about the "Russian Collusion" was pushed by felonious leakers in the Deep State with the eager assistance of the Fake News Media.

This culminated with the deliberate suppression of the Biden Crime Family investigation in order to influence the presidential election.

The moment you call the Russia Investigation a "blizzard of lies", I disregard anything else you're saying. And referencing the Deep State is proof positive you're an idiot.

Stop lying, promoting Russian propaganda, and Republican bullshit if you want anyone to take you seriously.

It was a blizzard of lies. The CIA even warned both the FBI and Obama that it was a Clinton Campaign concoction tainted with Russian disinformation.

DNI Declassifies Handwritten Notes From John Brennan, 2016 CIA Referral On Clinton Campaign’s Collusion Operation.

We informed you of this repeatedly, for years. There is no way that you don't know this.

 

[dblack]

Any use of government is an abuse.

Nope. Protecting individual rights is a valid use of government. Ask a libertarian.

Name one government that ever limited itself to protecting individual rights.

Why? What would that prove?

You seem to be trying to justify your hypocrisy. It's not working.

 

[JoeB131]

Feel grateful for the freedoms we still enjoy.

Our children will not have these freedoms.

Our grandchildren will not know these freedoms ever existed.

Get real. You have more sources of "news" now than we had 50 years ago when any town had two newspapers and four TV stations.

I remember back it the 1970's, when a radio newsreader decided she was going to start talking about cocaine use in the 19th century. They literally cut her off in mid sentence.

The problem, of course, is that back in the day, Newspapers and TV stations were held in check by libel and slander laws. They couldn't knowingly put out false information, and they had be be very cautious about what they reported.

Now, any idiot with a Computer can post a video to YouTube.

 

[bripat9643]

Any use of government is an abuse.

Nope. Protecting individual rights is a valid use of government. Ask a libertarian.

Name one government that ever limited itself to protecting individual rights.

Why? What would that prove?

You seem to be trying to justify your hypocrisy. It's not working.

It would prove that you're full of shit. Perhaps in some ideal world government would only protect your rights, but here in the real world every government on Earth tramples your rights.

 

[iceberg]

as usual, when you don't stop a bad activity, the activity becomes accepted and pushed out for more control/power.

 

[bripat9643]

Feel grateful for the freedoms we still enjoy.

Our children will not have these freedoms.

Our grandchildren will not know these freedoms ever existed.

Get real. You have more sources of "news" now than we had 50 years ago when any town had two newspapers and four TV stations.

I remember back it the 1970's, when a radio newsreader decided she was going to start talking about cocaine use in the 19th century. They literally cut her off in mid sentence.

The problem, of course, is that back in the day, Newspapers and TV stations were held in check by libel and slander laws. They couldn't knowingly put out false information, and they had be be very cautious about what they reported.

Now, any idiot with a Computer can post a video to YouTube.

No they can't moron. Republicans can't post videos to youTube

 

[colfax_m]

These Censorious Social Media Bastards do not fit in our Free Society.

Of course they do. Freedom means that they are not obligated to support your message.

Freedom to speak also means freedom to not speak.

So you support giant corporations denying public services in order enforce political viewpoint compliance?

Public service?

It’s Facebook, not electricity. Get some perspective.

Break them up, strip them of their special immunity.

They don’t have special immunity.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Now you are arguing for authoritarian big government actions to address this still?

Protecting every Americans first amendment CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS is the antithesis of authoritarian.

You need to take a class on the 1st Amendment and stop being a hypocrite on your support for big authoritarian governments.

No, the internet needs to be regulated under the FCC as a public square because THATS WHAT IT IS.

See, you did know what I was saying. You are a huge supporter of big authoritarian government.

How is removing special carve outs for social media authoritarian???

I'm beginning to think you don't know what that word means.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Feel grateful for the freedoms we still enjoy.

Our children will not have these freedoms.

Our grandchildren will not know these freedoms ever existed.

Get real. You have more sources of "news" now than we had 50 years ago when any town had two newspapers and four TV stations.

I remember back it the 1970's, when a radio newsreader decided she was going to start talking about cocaine use in the 19th century. They literally cut her off in mid sentence.

The problem, of course, is that back in the day, Newspapers and TV stations were held in check by libel and slander laws. They couldn't knowingly put out false information, and they had be be very cautious about what they reported.

Now, any idiot with a Computer can post a video to YouTube.

No they can't moron. Republicans can't post videos to youTube

Oh they can but they first have to pass the "accepted narrative" filter.

 

[dblack]

Any use of government is an abuse.

Nope. Protecting individual rights is a valid use of government. Ask a libertarian.

Name one government that ever limited itself to protecting individual rights.

Why? What would that prove?

You seem to be trying to justify your hypocrisy. It's not working.

It would prove that you're full of shit. Perhaps in some ideal world government would only protect your rights, but here in the real world every government on Earth tramples your rights.

And you're cheering for more trampling.

 

[iceberg]

Any use of government is an abuse.

Nope. Protecting individual rights is a valid use of government. Ask a libertarian.

Name one government that ever limited itself to protecting individual rights.

when done coming up to ZERO on that, ask them to name a time government gave rights back to the people after taking them.