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0 pointstekknik4y ago0 comments

Because I didn’t throw a party every night for multiple years in a row that invited everybody in the country then once it started getting super popular I only allowed in those that talked like me.

Free speech was so important is the first amendment. It’s valued even hire than protection.

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otterley4y ago

The Constitution constrains what the Government can do. It doesn’t constrain what private actors like Facebook can do. It never has.

Also your analogy is flawed. Facebook doesn’t do what you suggest today (“only allow in those who talk like me”). They allow almost all speech, with opposing viewpoints, different policy perspectives, different cultures, etc. Arguments happen there all the time.

tekknikOP4y ago

> The Constitution constrains what the Government can do.

Yes, thanks for the reminder. That’s why this isn’t the gov doing and instead is the left via their means of control. That’s why there’s pending FOIA requests for this very thing.

> Also your analogy is flawed. Facebook doesn’t do what you suggest today (“only allow in those who talk like me”).

Only if you take it quite literally. Otherwise are you saying they don’t censor anybody that doesn’t reiterate the same thing the left is saying?

otterley4y ago

> are you saying they don’t censor anybody that doesn’t reiterate the same thing the left is saying?

Yes, and there are plenty of examples of it, too. Republican governors and politicians, and right-leaning people of all levels of fame, with very few exceptions, continue to have a presence on Facebook and communicate there with their followers. Pick any Republican governor or Senator: they will be there.

tekknikOP4y ago

So if I go on and post “misinformation”, which is defined by the left as anything antinarative (see all the “you ain’t black” claims) then what?

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otterley4y ago

The Constitution constrains what the Government can do. It doesn’t constrain what private actors like Facebook can do. It never has.

tekknikOP4y ago

> The Constitution constrains what the Government can do.

Yes, thanks for the reminder. That’s why this isn’t the gov doing and instead is the left via their means of control. That’s why there’s pending FOIA requests for this very thing.

> Also your analogy is flawed. Facebook doesn’t do what you suggest today (“only allow in those who talk like me”).

Only if you take it quite literally. Otherwise are you saying they don’t censor anybody that doesn’t reiterate the same thing the left is saying?

otterley4y ago

> are you saying they don’t censor anybody that doesn’t reiterate the same thing the left is saying?

tekknikOP4y ago

So if I go on and post “misinformation”, which is defined by the left as anything antinarative (see all the “you ain’t black” claims) then what?

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