Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[froot loops]

CGVT and AA never told us that their top cop was Anteeee-fa!

[AlabamAlum]

Antifa? More Proud Boys.

[AlabamAlum]

So they kicked Parler off available downloads on Google Play?

Yeah, that’s gonna go over well.

[lineygoblue]

The Party finds it offensive.

Do not offend The Party.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Censorship and Mind Control. It's what the left does!

[iam416]

So they kicked Parler off available downloads on Google Play?

Yeah, that’s gonna go over well.

And Apple.

I remember when folks said people should just create a market alternative to Twitter. Well, they did. I guess now the argument is people should just create an alternative to Google Play and Apple.

The Left has, ingeniously, found their around the First Amendment and there isn't much that will stop them.

[Jeff Buchanan]

So they kicked Parler off available downloads on Google Play?

Yeah, that’s gonna go over well.

At present there is no regulatory framework to prevent the spread of misinformation and hate speech on social media platforms. It's currently up to the platforms themselves to deal with it. That's the main reason why this won't "go over well." While there are some who self regulate either by not using social media or by limiting their activities if they do, there are other users of these platforms with dangerous motives for using them.

IMO, social media platforms should be regulated commercial entities subject to such regulation under the Federal Trade Commission as Congress might specify. I don't believe this is as much about free speech as it is about consumer protections and government's duty to follow the law. It is illegal, for example, for a company to label a product "Made in the USA" when it isn't. Regulations and enforcement of social media platforms become a lot easier if they were obligated to operate as commercial entities.

If an FTC regulatory process involving appropriately crafted laws were in effect for Twitter, most of Trump's false claims would have been illegal and both Twitter and the President could have been charged and prosecuted and subsequently fined. The lies and hate speech that people who post on Parler would also be illegal in the context of inciting lawless action.

Google has taken a step to limit it's liability as well as to make a statement about social media platforms filled with misinformation and hate speech. This isn't about the right of citizens to speak freely. It's about limiting words being used that are of such a nature as to create a "clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." or "the government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action".**

** Schenck v. US, 1919 (yelling fire in a theater), Brandenburg v. Ohio, 1969 (clarified illegal speech with the imminent lawless action test).

[UMStan White]

In four years Trump lost the Presidency, the house and the senate. At least he fulfilled his campaign promise and made America great again!

[iam416]

Unbelievable, he still didn't lose anywhere near as much as Obama -- who was obliterated in the House, Senate AND States....AND saw PDJT take over for him.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Stan is still a bitter old fucksnot I see...

[UMStan White]

OOOH What a rip! OH Oh Oh (but what can one expect from a dumbfuck backwood slobbering moron)

[iam416]

Stan 17, The Wizard 0.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Stan was a long haired hippy student at M protesting the war in vietnam on the diag and listening to Abby Hoffman advocate for violently overthrowing the US government on the library steps abutting it in 1968. Meanwhile, I was an M student preparing to join that war as a Marine ....... two different students with different views there could not have been. But what a great guy and a human being worthy of emulating that I've come to know over the years. Coexist.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Stan 17, The Wizard 0.

You sir are biased.

[CGVT]

You sir are biased.

I am completely unbiased and after further review, the score stands as posted.