Government Forces Big Tech to Censor Americans Speech or Else

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  1. Horhey

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    If you support Trump or anyone other than the accepted candidates prepare to have your speech limited. And I mean bigly.
     
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    no one silencing a Trump supporter unless they want to promote hate speech

    or they sign a Trump NDA
     
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    What is 'hate speech'?
     
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    What if somebody disputes an Antony Fauci doctrine on live YouTube? Aren't their accounts automatically suspended?
     
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    speech that incites violence, do you think everywhere should not be able to make that kinda speech against their TOS

    heck, here if you mention a President is more like a cult leader your post will get deleted

    censoring happens everywhere
     
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    no, if they give medical advice, they are defunded, they can still say it, they just lose the ads

    most want the ad revenue, so choose not to partake in that

    Advertisers are free to choose not to support certain content
     
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    You mean, speech that hurts your feelings? But I don't care about your feelings so if I say something bad about Biden or his son my post get taken down by Twitter and Facebook? The left needs to grow up and stop being offended by everything they don't like.
     
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    Nothing wrong with censorship unless it is done by government. This site censors speech. Since it isn't government, it isn't a problem. If you don't like the censorship you can just move on.
     
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    Government Forces Big Tech to Censor Americans Speech or Else

    It is unconstitutional for government to do that. You have confused the rantings of a congresswoman with censorship. shame on you.
     
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    A Biden campaign blurb?
     
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    Trump is the biggest whiner there is, he wants to be able to sue people saying mean things about him, boo hoo - the biggest snowflake President
     
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    Exactly
     
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    You mean hold the media responsible for knowingly broadcasting fake news? Kind of like when Sandman held them all accountable for knowingly pushing a fake claim about him and his school that cost them millions to fix?

    Yeah. I agree with that. But the whining from the left has been intolerable for 4 years now. Still whining over an election and the failure of their Russia Russia Russia scam along with their failed accusations about Kavanaugh being an alcoholic high school serial rapist.
     
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    nope, Trump just whines and calls anything fake news that reports the truth about the negative things he does, such a crybaby Trump is... sad!
     
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    Sorry, I have never seen a cable news provider tank or pay out millions for fake news just because you think the president is whining.
     
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    So now both parties want to control speech on social media. Fun times.
     
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    Trump has never made 1 million from his winning

    he has whined while settling many cases where it cost him big time
     
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    White House employees threaten to sue over political ads, talk about trying to censor free speech - good luck with that, they are public figures

    https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...hners-lawyer-threatens-to-sue-lincoln-project

    "“It is unsurprising that an administration that has never had any regard or understanding of our Constitution would try to trample on our first amendment rights but we fully intend on making this civics lesson as painful as possible,”"
     
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    It's like beauty--in the eye of the beholder. The notion is pure political sophistry.
     
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    Cheap shot. The first video became unavailable.

     
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    Twitter and Facebook are the town square. You're arguing for Silicon Valley billionaires to be the arbiters of truth. Should private restaurants have the right to not serve black people? "We don't serve your kind here. You have to leave."
     
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    No I don't think they should check speech at all. But they can. They aren't government. Nobody is forced to use those sites. I know this because I don't use them and live a perfectly normal life. If you don't like the censorship walk away.

    They should be able to but they can't because it is against the law. Business owners should have the right to destroy their businesses if they like. I don't like the idea of projecting limitations on government onto the private sector. Government should protect freedom, not stand in the way of it.
     
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    I have no way to respond since I can't watch internet videos and don't know its content. Sorry.
     
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