Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)
The Smiling Pony 
So, imitate China, have the government decide what speech to allow and impose their rules on sites like this one here? How long until “criticizing the president is illegal”?
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Enough is enough. Social media need to be regulated. Their underhanded tacticts towards people that dont fit their liberal agenda has been pushed to far and now tha hammer is coming down. About time. Level playing field or no playing field!
So, imitate China, have the government decide what speech to allow and impose their rules on sites like this one here? How long until “criticizing the president is illegal”?
Background Human 
CHS, Class of 20XX
@silbasa
A level playing field would ban Trump’s sorry ass for violating the TOS.
A level playing field would ban Trump’s sorry ass for violating the TOS.
Background Pony #6180
@The Smiling Pony
Cops have certain protections afforded them that regular people don’t, you also need to consider police department policy. I don’t know what exactly they are doing right now, but their is more to it.
@silbasa
Should terrorist organizations be allowed to espouse their ideology on Twitter as well?
Cops have certain protections afforded them that regular people don’t, you also need to consider police department policy. I don’t know what exactly they are doing right now, but their is more to it.
@silbasa
Should terrorist organizations be allowed to espouse their ideology on Twitter as well?
Background Pony #6180
@The Smiling Pony
about -222 years from now it will be.
@Typhoon2000
Nobody tell him about Biden, he might have a heart attack.
about -222 years from now it will be.
@Typhoon2000
Nobody tell him about Biden, he might have a heart attack.
Vivace 
“ShimSham my GlimGlams”
Talk of undercover cops committing the Minneapolis violence to discredit protests reminds me of COINTELPRO.
NitroFury 
Nitro Cat Bad!
I can guarantee this, if Trump send does the Military and tells them to shoot civilians; I can guarantee, if footage ends up online; the protests not be in one Midwest US state.
silbasa
@The Smiling Pony
@Background Human
Thing is, the corporate version of this is already in effect. What happens when the corporation is so big it can sway public opinion on its own? When it controls all discourse? Its well known that tech is left leaning. Check out the youtube exec that was caught on hidden camera. They need to follow the law if they are “platforms”. If not they are publishers.
@Background Human
Thing is, the corporate version of this is already in effect. What happens when the corporation is so big it can sway public opinion on its own? When it controls all discourse? Its well known that tech is left leaning. Check out the youtube exec that was caught on hidden camera. They need to follow the law if they are “platforms”. If not they are publishers.
The Smiling Pony
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What happens when the corporation is so big it can sway public opinion on its own?
People leave it for another corporation. Free market, remember? If conservatives feel they’re being targeted on Twitter, Gab is right there, ready to take them in. Youtube apparently demonetizing only conserivatives? Head to DailyMotion. Hell, start your own company, prove the American Dream still exists.
Its well known that tech is left leaning.
No, it isn’t. Tech is money leaning, investor leaning, and the people with the checkbooks tend to be conservatives. They just don’t actually do anything, or appear in the public. The actual company employees, regardless of level, doing real work are at their mercy, and they may bitch and moan about the alt-right or whatever, but their boss is the almighty dollar, and it says “increase user engagement by allowing far-right content”. A few “big names” like Alex Jones finally getting banned is if nothing else proof that the right is given too much leeway due to how incredibly long it takes platforms to act against them. Hell Trumpo’s still shitposting daily and breaking the Twitter ToS left and right. In general right-wingers online are treated with cotton gloves due to how quick they are to go full Karen and scream like babies that a private company is being mean to them on their own platform.
They need to follow the law if they are “platforms”. If not they are publishers.
The law says platforms have discretion to remove obscene and extremist content, and they’ve been failing at doing that by keeping Trump’s twitter account active. If you want Twitter to apply its ToS “fairly” regardless of political leaning or position, they’ll have to start banning a whole lot of Republican elected officials.
But a question, though; should this very own site decide “we don’t want to host any pro-nazi images”, would you be calling for the government to step in? What if the site decides “jokes about 9/11 victims are banned”? Would you take away the agency of the owners to decide what it is they’re comfortable with the site they run hosting and in effect promoting?
But a question, though; should this very own site decide “we don’t want to host any pro-nazi images”, would you be calling for the government to step in? What if the site decides “jokes about 9/11 victims are banned”? Would you take away the agency of the owners to decide what it is they’re comfortable with the site they run hosting and in effect promoting?
silbasa
@The Smiling Pony
No. Derpibooru is not a large actor with the power of a nation state. If it were the size of google and swayed the public by becoming the largest place for discourse I might feel differently.
Tech is left leaning as is Silcon walley as per my opinion at least. There was a letter from an engineer at google about how they configured their algorithms. He was promptly terminated. Here is the exec caught on cam: Candid camera video
When democracy is taken over by corporations that manipulate the public one should be worried. Its just another way to become China.
I dont mean to be mean of offend. But I dont think one side having everything and the other beeing shunned is a good idea. Thats how Trump came into power in the first place.
No. Derpibooru is not a large actor with the power of a nation state. If it were the size of google and swayed the public by becoming the largest place for discourse I might feel differently.
Tech is left leaning as is Silcon walley as per my opinion at least. There was a letter from an engineer at google about how they configured their algorithms. He was promptly terminated. Here is the exec caught on cam: Candid camera video
When democracy is taken over by corporations that manipulate the public one should be worried. Its just another way to become China.
I dont mean to be mean of offend. But I dont think one side having everything and the other beeing shunned is a good idea. Thats how Trump came into power in the first place.
Dustcan
Dogs
Lindsay Graham is now urging older GOP judges to just retire so they can get younger judges rushed in for those lifetime appointments.
How pathetic.
How pathetic.
The Smiling Pony
@Dustcan
McConnell said the same ~two months ago
GOP leaders are really nervous that they’re going to lose control of the senate.
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@silbasa
So who decides when a company has too much “power”? And what if it’s “power” over a certain sector, like gaming press? Should the government step in if Kotaku ends up attracting 80% of the gaming blog market simply because the alternative sites suck even more?
Feels like a rendition to a nanny state and proof that the free market doesn’t work.
So who decides when a company has too much “power”? And what if it’s “power” over a certain sector, like gaming press? Should the government step in if Kotaku ends up attracting 80% of the gaming blog market simply because the alternative sites suck even more?
Feels like a rendition to a nanny state and proof that the free market doesn’t work.
@Dustcan
McConnell said the same ~two months ago
GOP leaders are really nervous that they’re going to lose control of the senate.
silbasa
@The Smiling Pony
Many questions :) All I can say is that when a company the size of google decides to influence an election they have massive influence. Who gets promoted by their systems? The free market work to a point when theres a bit of regulation but the endgame of capitalism is monopoly. And when does democracy end and corporations begin at that point? Is it fair that one actor can wield that power when not beeing elected in any way? Think all encompassing like google is. Not just one niche like Kotaku.
Many questions :) All I can say is that when a company the size of google decides to influence an election they have massive influence. Who gets promoted by their systems? The free market work to a point when theres a bit of regulation but the endgame of capitalism is monopoly. And when does democracy end and corporations begin at that point? Is it fair that one actor can wield that power when not beeing elected in any way? Think all encompassing like google is. Not just one niche like Kotaku.
Background Human
CHS, Class of 20XX
@silbasa
In the olden days, companies that got too big for their britches were broken up. Surely that’s a more workable solution than trying to upend Internet moderation as we know it.
In the olden days, companies that got too big for their britches were broken up. Surely that’s a more workable solution than trying to upend Internet moderation as we know it.
NitroFury
Nitro Cat Bad!
I fell like the Minnesota protests is going to turned into the Tiananmen Square Massacre 2.0.
Dustcan
Dogs
I think I posted this before but just in case:
Fox News Coverage: Trump’s Coronavirus vs Obama’s Ebola.
For reference there was only like 11 cases in the US and only 1 death during the global Ebola pandemic. There’s 1.5 million cases and counting in the US and 100 thousand deaths and counting during the global Coronavirus pandemic.
Fox News Coverage: Trump’s Coronavirus vs Obama’s Ebola.
For reference there was only like 11 cases in the US and only 1 death during the global Ebola pandemic. There’s 1.5 million cases and counting in the US and 100 thousand deaths and counting during the global Coronavirus pandemic.
Vivace
“ShimSham my GlimGlams”
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