Quote (Black XistenZ @ Mar 19 2018 07:01pm)
thats bullshit. if facebook/twitter/youtube/instagram banned anyone who bought a gun, these people would easily constitute a critical mass for new, rivaling social networks to emerge.
I agree, however, with the point that a small group of unelected persons can define what to tolerate and what to ban for on social media and therefore has an undue and uncontrollable power over the direction of the public debate.
The gun owners already created the NRA to collectively advocate for their cause. And the corporatons now set out to just ban the NRA.
If facebook and many other corporations banned gun enthusiasts, and then the NRA created a facebook clone but for gun lovers, employers would do a search of NRAs facebook and if you had an account on there, they would not hire you.
In our modern world, you dont really have a vote on if guns should be legal or jot. The corporations will set policy that has more teeth than any legislation could. The corporations are now the government.
Just wait. 15 years from now, corporations will get a lot more overt and efficient at acting as a government too. They will start micromanaging your life by processing all the data people freely put out to set policy in ways you cannot imagine today. All of it without your vote mattering at all.
This post was edited by Kuggergug on Mar 20 2018 06:56am