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Senator Josh Hawley bill would strip Big Tech Censors of legal immunity

Discussion in 'Current Events' started by CCitizen, Jun 19, 2019.

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  1. CCitizen

    CCitizen Well-Known Member

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    Here.

    I hope the legislation passes.
     
    CCitizen, Jun 19, 2019
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    LINK
     
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  3. CCitizen

    CCitizen Well-Known Member

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    CCitizen, Jun 19, 2019
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    CCitizen Well-Known Member

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    Worth repeating:

     
    CCitizen, Jun 19, 2019
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So conservatives want to mandate who companies do businesses with now.

    I thought y’all were against this?

    If this was a cake would your opinion be the same?
     
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    squidward Well-Known Member

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    Nobody is forcing them to accept immunity
     
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    CCitizen Well-Known Member

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    Absolutely not. If the bill passes, biased Social Media Giants would not be forced to do business with anyone. But they would be liable if they fail to moderate libel on their platforms.

    Hopefully almost all Conservatives will support the proposed bill. The only chance to maintain Free Speach online.
     
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    Zero Chance that it passes.

    Already DOA in The House.
     
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    Hopefully, the Supreme Court will enable victims of libel to sue biased giants for not removing libel about them.

    Brett Kavanaugh remembers what Democrats did to him.
     
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    Freedom of speech was written as the first amendment for a reason. It’s our most important freedom.

    If we don’t have free speech, there will be a bloody revolution. I don’t think Americans would just lie down peacefully.
     
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    I suppose that some people might consider Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as a religion.
     
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    So if this passes and they report a lie from trump, who is responsible?
     
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    Who's speech is more important, the customer or the business?
     
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    Sure why not, if some can worship a magical invisible sky demon that loves them conditionally but only under certain conditions and committed suicide to save them from laws it created then someone else can absolutely worship Zukerburg as the space alien that he is.

    Twitter is most definitely a religion to trump.
     
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    The people, of course.

    Didn’t the Dems mock Romney when he said “corporation are people, too”? Companies are secondary to the people.
     
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    Gone are the days of limited government political parties.

    Gone are the values of the conservative parties
     
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    We keep misunderstanding the first amendment. It bans government from messing with speech. It has nothing to do with the private sector. This proposed legislation is unconstitutional for that reason. The web sites can allow or ban any speech they want. That is what the first amendment is all about. It isn't about fairness or moderation. It is about free speech and government can't meddle in it.
    The first amendment is the foundation for all of our freedoms. Let's protect it.
     
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    Look up the difference between a publisher and a platform
     
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    Well let's just say that they are repressed. Federal government is, without a doubt, the greatest roadblock to an American way of life with freedom. I can't fix it for you. Sorry. I don't have enough votes.
     
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    If it does this forum will be sued out of business in a month.
     
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    In this case it doesn't matter. Government is banned from legislating speech. Pleasant speech doesn't require protection. It is controversial speech that requires it.
     
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    So, your opinion is that social media is the effective delivery of the totalitarian ideology that you relate to? When social media become the effective gatekeepers of thought control, this is what you want?

    I know, the nuance here is beyond you but the fact that you cant see the difference between the service of providing you a cake and publicly writing content on a service, well, it speaks volumes. Would you be ok should the average conservative demand that facebook create reservations just for them? Design code, deliver applications, etc to that goal? And should they not, continuously drag them into federal court for not having done so?

    The tech firms need to take this legislation seriously. It will pass.
     
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    Yea right. This forum is run more fairly than ANY of the big tech platforms. Nobody is banned because of their political opinions, they are banned for breaking the TOS...... you know kind of the way big tech platforms USED to operate.
     
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    Laughable.
     
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