WHY FREEDOM OF SPEECH SHOULD APPLY TO GOOGLE, FACEBOOK et al
BRAH @ Thu May 16, 2019 12:32 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
BRAH BRAH:
The “They're private companies and can do what they want” is Bullshit! The bottom line is if you support the censorship of anyone based on their political views Left or Right you’re a Nazi, deal with it! 
So if I come over to your place, and spray paint things on the side of your house and you remove them, you are censoring me?
It depends, what are you spray painting?
BartSimpson @ Thu May 16, 2019 2:16 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
stratos stratos:
For here in the US I think one of the problems with censorship issue is the term Social MEDIA ppl see that and instantly think of them as being the same as news media. Thus the people posting are like news papers and here it is FB not allowing their content thus FB "the Gov." is censoring them.
They forget the preamble to your constitution, stating that it's a list of the things the Government may not do. Doesn't say Facebook or Twitter have to.
It would be nice if that was really true.
The government makes private businesses and private organizations do a lot of things that they really have no Constitutional authority to do.
The Constitution says nothing about who a business has to hire.
It says nothing about rent control.
It says nothing about a lot of things that government forces people to do.
While I am against forcing social media to operate as public forums the truth is that there is a large body of extra-Constitutional precedent that says they can be forced to do so.
raydan @ Thu May 16, 2019 2:34 pm
I like finding solutions to these problems...
I suggest that Facebook create another branch of social media, separate from the Facebook we have now... where the extreme Right and Left can go and post whatever shit they want, as long as they don't promote violence, of course.
A separate account will be needed though, if you want to use both Facebooks.