Corporations are people, they have a right to shape public discourse if they have the ability. That's just free speech, and is something conservatives actively argued for for decades, and not something I personally accept. If conservatives actually believed in no government interference, they wouldn't see the government as a viable solution to big companies actively shaping the conversation. Additionally, fossil fuel companies actively shaped the discourse around fossil fuels for decades through political donations and media advertisement. Didn't see conservatives bitching then.

It's plainly obvious if you pay attention that American conservatives don't give a shit about companies shaping the conversation or abusing monopolistic positions as long as they agree with what is being done. The second they don't believe in what is being done, they call for regulation.



This part doesn't matter because of the previous, but I'll add it for clarity: Amazon deplatformed Parler because Parler was a center for violent rhetoric and hate speech, and did not have sufficient moderation. They had many many posts calling for political violence that the moderation team was explicitly aware of and did not have the capacity to deal with.

This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Jul 11 2021 10:17am

not every business is some massive unelected monolithic oligarch corporation, unless of course you’re in the group which worships the government - then small businesses dont exist

then again this is the same group that demanded we not shop at mom and pops or local stores, and instead only shop at amazon and walmart over the last 18 months. and then re-started crying why corporate profits were so high and the stock prices of said corporations went up so much

This post was edited by excellence on Jul 11 2021 10:19am

to this particular group we are discussing, the state is supreme. it makes money and never runs into budgetary issues. it is the most efficient thing in the world and thus is allowed to take away rights and mitigate commerce “for the good of the people”.

Just another example of its ok to give companies $$ and bail out large conglomerates. Capitalism on the way up communism on the way down.
Like Tom Brady and his shitty PPP loan for his t shirt company. R love govt’t cheese. They only get mad when it’s black people on food stamps

The money bail out was like $2 million.

Food stamps are $4 trillion.

Learn math, scrub.

Wut?

Welfare is a million times worse than a loan to help one company that pays itself off over ten years.

Scrub.

Comparing the attitude.. thanks for proving me right

No one cares.