"The core principle is that if a private company builds a public square, then they are also subject to the First Amendment."
You may be right with regards to that silly document and the wingnuts that wrote it, but that doesn't make it law, or ever likely to be law. It's just a fever swamp fantasy.
"The term "SJW" is probably now being considered for Facebook's banned word list."
At the very least it's on the "used in weak arguments" list.
"Evidently not AWS. They stood to lose nothing, yet voluntarily engaged in banning instead of making more $$$."
Even if you dismiss the possibility that they were showing a little civic responsibility, they obviously decided that having Parler as a customer was more likely to lose them money than make it. You don't keep that sort. Business 101.
Unless you have a large, purpose-built cinema in your home, no, it's simply not. A big LCD TV in your lounge with a nice surround system is simply not in the same league.
"You are assuming that President Trump will go quietly rather than declaring martial law in order to create the necessary conditions for a free and fair presidential election..."
Yeah coz that's totally what happens after a coup, they just give it back...
"...one that does not suffer from such fatal deficiencies as the current one..."
Over 50 court losses including the SC say you're wrong. But you know better than all them right?
"...that ended up handing probably the worst candidate in American history the victory..."
Come back and see us when Biden has his own Wikipedia category page like Trump's.
"House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy... insisted that Republican House members will back the President if he vetoes the legislation."
Wow. Changing your vote from "fund the military" to "stroke Trump's ego at the expense of the military" is quite a gift to their future election opponents.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It's rational people not stampeded by MINOR
And not just from Covid. If hospitals reach their max capacities and healthcare staff burn out from overwork then more people will die from all causes.
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If you're legally obliged to do it then you're not a Good Samaritan, you're just a citizen.
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Re: Very Simple
"The core principle is that if a private company builds a public square, then they are also subject to the First Amendment."
You may be right with regards to that silly document and the wingnuts that wrote it, but that doesn't make it law, or ever likely to be law. It's just a fever swamp fantasy.
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"...public / private corruption is just an inherent component of capitalism."
Bingo! Tell him what he's won...
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Re: Re: Re: Freedom is Feared
"The term "SJW" is probably now being considered for Facebook's banned word list."
At the very least it's on the "used in weak arguments" list.
"Evidently not AWS. They stood to lose nothing, yet voluntarily engaged in banning instead of making more $$$."
Even if you dismiss the possibility that they were showing a little civic responsibility, they obviously decided that having Parler as a customer was more likely to lose them money than make it. You don't keep that sort. Business 101.
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I suspect the number of people that actually asked them to block Twitter and Facebook was a lot smaller than they're suggesting.
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Re: Re: Ah corruption and cowardice
Thad's right, you got this.
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Unless you have a large, purpose-built cinema in your home, no, it's simply not. A big LCD TV in your lounge with a nice surround system is simply not in the same league.
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And I don't like this Trump era style of dumb commenting. Why the hell would you come to an opinion blog and whine about reading opinions?
(j/k, dumb commenting well preceded Trump)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: just goes to show you the far left is closer
Most of that list is fiction, not 'far left'.
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Re: Re: Maybe you missed the subject line!
So you've finally admitted you want the government to control what people can and can't say. Good to know.
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Re: Re: So your key assertion of "First Amendment rights&qu
"Masnick asserts the above in connection with his wish that corporations have the power to control ALL speech on the Internet..."
No, just their own websites.
How are you so bad at this?
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"You are assuming that President Trump will go quietly rather than declaring martial law in order to create the necessary conditions for a free and fair presidential election..."
Yeah coz that's totally what happens after a coup, they just give it back...
"...one that does not suffer from such fatal deficiencies as the current one..."
Over 50 court losses including the SC say you're wrong. But you know better than all them right?
"...that ended up handing probably the worst candidate in American history the victory..."
Come back and see us when Biden has his own Wikipedia category page like Trump's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Trump_administration_controversies
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Corporations begin and exist only by PERMISSION
"...no one here ever again refer to my comments as spam!"
Oh it's definitely spam. Just as annoying, just as worthless.
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"You don't have much respect for other people's heritage do you?"
If your 'heritage' is adoration of the racists who fought to own slaves and lost, then no, not much respect at all.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Veto proof
"House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy... insisted that Republican House members will back the President if he vetoes the legislation."
Wow. Changing your vote from "fund the military" to "stroke Trump's ego at the expense of the military" is quite a gift to their future election opponents.
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Re: So... You admit in Freudian slip, it doesn't "doesn't exist"
"...a President is ENTITLED by will of the majority..."
Did you mean to confirm that he in fact doesn't have that entitlement, or was that your own Freudian slip?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It's rational people not stampeded by MINOR
And not just from Covid. If hospitals reach their max capacities and healthcare staff burn out from overwork then more people will die from all causes.
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Re: Re: It's rational people not stampeded by MINOR virus.
More than half of Americans say they know someone who has been hospitalized or died due to Covid-19
But sure, go with 'merely flu-like'.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: You are flat LYING about the cause!
You know the difference between 'private' and 'privately owned', but trolling asshole has to troll assholishly.
On the post: Trump Promises To Defund The Entire Military, If Congress Won't Let Him Punish The Internet For Being Mean To Him
Re: And again, MOST of CDA was thrown out for un-Constitutional!
"...unprecedented IMMUNITY..."
The idea of punishing the letter writer instead of the mailman is not exactly unprecedented.
You're bad at the big words.
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