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originally posted by: DanZek
"So, do you believe that there should be no right of free speech? That Google should be prosecuted for having an opinion? "
I understand you have a problem with reading. Its simple, if Google wants an opinion it's a publisher, and should be regulated as such.
If it does not want to be regulated, it does not get an opinion.
It's that simple.
originally posted by: Breakthestreak
But but memes swayed the election
Says a moron
People vote for POLICY, which the dEms have ZERO of. In 2016 and now too. No policies, no votes.
It wasn’t ‘the russians’
So do you think having these things as public utilities is any better? You trust the Government right? But that’s better than DARPA running the Internet, after all
originally posted by: Bobaganoosh
It will end with the platforms coming to the fork in the road between publisher and public utility. They're pretty much asking for it though.
We can hope anyway.
originally posted by: DanZek
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: DanZek
a reply to: chr0naut
This is not a discussion on whether or not you like Trump or the definitions of Fascism. This is a discussion on how a single massive company aims to tamper in elections. Get on topic.
The Trump Organization is a single large company.
Perhaps the convictions of some of its principals for actual tampering within the electoral process during the Trump campaign might indicate that it isn't as off topic as you would like.
If we are to prosecute one, we should prosecute the other equally.
If we pretend that the Russians had no effect on electoral outcomes, we should also say that Google, similarly, has no effect on electoral outcomes.
The double-think that absolves one side and damns another is simply an unbalanced view.
Either Prosecute Google for attempting to affect electoral outcomes and prosecute the Trump Organization and the press. Or support the Constitutional right to free speech.
My call is that Google have the right to express personal and accumulated views especially if they are countering a vast disinformation campaign organized by an enemy state, that has been going on for decades.
I see that speaking to you is fruitless since all you do is conflate issues and try to steer away the conversation of the point at hand. Google is a company that will subvert proper elections. No amount of your Orange man bad detracts from that fact.
Google claims its a platform not a publisher and yet it is acting as a publisher in eliminating the free expression of one side.
Google needs to be held accountable for it's actions. This is a non partisan issue.
You want an Orange man bad thread, go make your own.
I wish governments were stronger against companies - should have been shut down, the top brass jailed and assets appropriated.
originally posted by: DanZek
originally posted by: Breakthestreak
But but memes swayed the election
Says a moron
People vote for POLICY, which the dEms have ZERO of. In 2016 and now too. No policies, no votes.
It wasn’t ‘the russians’
Slight correction. Dem policy is as follows: Orange man bad. That is it, that is all they are platforming on, that is the entire ground of their debate. They have nothing else. It's pathetic.
originally posted by: ThirdEyeofHorus
So do you think having these things as public utilities is any better? You trust the Government right? But that’s better than DARPA running the Internet, after all
originally posted by: Bobaganoosh
It will end with the platforms coming to the fork in the road between publisher and public utility. They're pretty much asking for it though.
We can hope anyway.
They did create it, or was that Al Gore ?
originally posted by: DanZek
a reply to: Generation9
All they have done is prove Veritas right. Google may as well replace the 'o's with swastikas.