MSM ignores google censorship

The problem stems from private businesses being able to actually exercise a monopoly on the ability to communicate freely, due to essentially owning the public square where people would congregate to be heard.

 

You are stunningly confused. You clearly meant to send this reply to someone else as I am well aware the 1st amendment applies to govt and not private sector

 

These people are not being refused service because they are of an oppressed race but violent reprobates who support killing policemen who are doing their jobs. How would you feel about the members of NAMBLA demanding that your personal blog carry and promote their vile proclivities?

 

How does Facebook have a monopoly?

 

Free speech - yes. Guaranteed platform - no.

 

Exactly.

 

Oh well.

Them's the breaks.

 

It is not so much facebook itself, as it is google and all other affiliated companies that it has purchased and owns. When it owns all primary forms of social media, such prevents anyone from being able to have a dissenting opinion heard or even acknowledged as existing.

 

Unless google is violating RICO statutes and anti-trust laws in the process of purchasing other branches of social media.

 

YOU don't understand the first amendment. And why would you? You're not even an American.

The 1st amendment doesn't apply to private companies.

 

Success is good. But not when they begin to have a corrosive effect on our society.

 

The ability (or inability) to have a "dissenting opinion" has NOTHING to do with access to social media.

 

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Which is precisely why they are right to start limiting the total crackpottery on social media.

 

Google and the leftists can't silence 2 things: Votes & the Electoral College.

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Having the ability to know that a dissenting opinion even exists, however, has everything to do with access to social media.

 

There’s more idiocy coming from the left than the right. And they’ve been deleting legitimate conservative opinions, not just the crazy stuff.

 

Then why shut down an entire group why not shut down those posting what you claimed they did?

 

Spite. Simple, undiluted, political spite. Being carried out by those who are now in a position of authority for what may be the first time in their lives, and they get to decide what does and does not occur.

 

So you are a big government nanny state righty. Got it.

 

Which google doesn’t. Nothing is stopping any right winger from starting their own search engine.

 

Then why are there only a few actual search engines in existence? If it is truly so easy to compete with google, why is such not being done at a widespread level?

 

We just went over that, the board is being quarantined because they won't moderate themselves. Now answer my question, how do you feel about being made to host CP on your daughter's web page?

 

You are aware they subforum had people banned daily right?

I have no idea what you are ranting about.

 

I'm not sure this constitutes a 1st amendment violation, but some might try to argue that google constitutes a natural monopoly, and that due to anti-trust legislation it should be subject to certain fairness and neutrality restrictions.

Interesting to see that those on the Left who wanted "net neutrality" legislation have absolutely no problem with what google is doing here.

 

Google is a platform not a publisher this is a very important distinction and where the 1st amendment comes in, same for you tube, facebook, twitter, etc.