You suck at attempting to mock perfectly valid points.

Average age of Congress: 57.8 years old.

The problem arises when the upper half of that average doesn't understand how social media works. When you mention "Facebook" to them, they don't even fully understand that it's a communication tool. They say, "You mean that thing my grandchild plays Farmville on?" How are they supposed to legislate something that's completely foreign to them?

The same question arose with the telephone, with television, with audio and video recording. Hell, the same issues arose with newspapers themselves. The entire US legal system and the government itself is set up to move slowly, work slowly, and check itself at every turn.

And you never told me to "take it up with those in a position of authority". You told me to take it up with the social media companies themselves, who're currently immune from legislation over the use of their platforms, or their own abuses of First Amendment protections. If it is a "platform" then they cannot legally censor. Just as your phone company cannot cut of your phone service because you're telling your buddy to vote for Joe Bidan, or even interrupt your call to tell you he's a prevert, neither can social media do the same, if they are legally a "platform". So, when you indicate I take it up with a "position of authority" then point me to these "not-platforms" themselves, what you're really saying is, "Stop attempting to sway opinion, and go hit your head on a wall."

I'm curious why you didn't suggest the more logical course of writing my congress-people, or possibly getting in with a legal group to take it to the Supreme Court?

He's definitely missleading by saying that mail voting "will be anything less than substantially fraudulent".
He's afraid by moderated voters, simply.

It's very odd how you rightfully are distrustful of corporations power and influence when it comes to wealth inequality and corporations buying political influence essentially.

But you are not as scared of the cultural and societal power these corporations now wield by aligning themselves with movements or ideology that suits their bottom line.

At a certain point, if the monopolization of the social media platforms of well over 50% of all network traffic is owned by less than 10 companies, you really have to ask yourself if "private companies can regulate their own platform" starts to become counter productive as a whole.

This ultimately just makes me less optimistic since I don't see how the dystopian futures could be prevented when you have companies with enough power to not only buy all of influence in politics but enough wealth to buy up all competition and innovation similar to how the food industry is also now just a mixed conglomerate of like 5 companies.

Amazon/Facebook/Google/Apple/Disney will just continue to buy up everything , until there's a point where anti-trust and the spirit of anti-monopoly just doesn't exist and you can argue to a certain extent , monopolization is basically legal now.

They did let him lie on their platform a lot, and any negative effects is the fault of Twitter for platforming it.

And you're right, they let it on for a long time.

Trump has had a lot of enablers. He is America's abusive spouse at this point.

And his opinion is still there, just fact checked.

This is the guy who's been walking around stating hes taking malaria medicine for no reason at all.




This is also true.




AutismBob will call you names for disagreeing with him, he knows everything, and is very rigid.




Expanding the ability to vote undermines all the voter suppression the GOP has engaged in for decades.

The party that cannot win a popular election does not want you to vote.

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Democrats are literally taking over school, colleges, companies, media, hollywood and the republicans are just dicking around watching it happen.

You still have the trailer parks and Nascar.

Its a good thing Twitter is stepping in to stop the spread of fake news

"Trump is authoritarian, ergo, it is wrong to complain about Twitter being authoritarian."

Wrong.

Explain it to me like i'm 5 years old how someone can fact check a future event, one that hasn't happened yet and deem it false.

Excellent post!

People like thor are not scared of the cultural and societal power these corporations amass because his own cultural values happen to be in agreement with theirs. The underlying stance is quite easy to sum up: "I dont care about censorship and manipulation of public opinion as long as it's the people I disagree with who are being censored and my own viewpoints which are being given an unfair advantage."





Except that there is no fake news in this case. Trump is making bold predictions about a hypothetical future, and twitter is taking sides in what should be an open-ended public policy debate.

Goomshill put it best:


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