St. Phatty
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Lets also not forget that it's not just Left-Wing sources that have been banned. Right-Wing sources are also getting banned.
All this talk about Left Wing and Right Wing
makes my Chickens VERY NERVOUS.
Lets also not forget that it's not just Left-Wing sources that have been banned. Right-Wing sources are also getting banned.
Can’t really comment, I have no interest in fights beyond winning the ones I can’t avoid.Interesting perspective - there is much angst in your words - and for some odd reason I started looking for some sort of analogy to explain this enormous rift you have now in US society - and my mind settled on the recent - Conor McGregor vs Khabib Nurmagomedov UFC fight - thinking McGregor represented the west/reps and Nurmagomedov the dems/east - or maybe I should reverse that?
Identity politics has taken over - someone will always back a showman.
You missed the part where GOVERNMENT is restricted in this regard but PRIVATE ENTITES have no such restriction. They can and will and do.
How ironic that the much-hated government is the ONLY barrier reining in predatory private interests...but I know that’s not your narrative
it's about letting people speak, because for most people speech equals thought, so if you shut down speech you shut down free thought.
Can’t really comment, I have no interest in fights beyond winning the ones I can’t avoid.
nothing is stopping ANYONE from speaking. but websites are certainly within their rights to toss anyone that does not understand that rules are for everyone...even (or especially) the reality-challenged...
Stopping people from getting their message out is the same thing as silencing them. Social media is a major feature of our American lives these days, and that media has been increasingly monopolized. Now, with the end of Net Neutrality we are facing a situation where even attempting to challenge them with alternatives will risk being throttled by service providers. It wouldn't be a big deal if the game wasn't completely rigged and we weren't facing a monopoly situation.
nonsense. most people DON'T think for themselves. they parrot someone they agree with/want to be associated with. bandwagon jumpers want to be associated with what they think is a "winner". there were a hell of a lot more Dallas Cowboy hats & shirts seen in public when they were winning Super Bowls (or getting whipped by the Steelers, LOL!) thus the large numbers of people that say stupid shit like "i like Trump, he tells it like it is!" no, he says what he thinks uneducated voters want to hear. if Trump acted around their wives & daughters the way he has around other women, some good ol' boy would have already killed him & been feted with a parade in his honor... nothing is stopping ANYONE from speaking. but websites are certainly within their rights to toss anyone that does not understand that rules are for everyone...even (or especially) the reality-challenged...
You missed the part where GOVERNMENT is restricted in this regard but PRIVATE ENTITES have no such restriction. They can and will and do.
How ironic that the much-hated government is the ONLY barrier reining in predatory private interests...but I know that’s not your narrative
That’s true, except it has been established the internet is considered ‘public’. This is going to be some tough sledding ahead through courts and such. Some seem to refer to the Supreme Court ruling where a JW was preaching in the streets of a corporate ‘owned’ town as the precedent set for future litigation
Interesting spin on the subject!
I didn’t mean to dismiss this post...it’s true I have no comment on a professional fight I didn’t see, but your comment stands.Interesting perspective - there is much angst in your words - and for some odd reason I started looking for some sort of analogy to explain this enormous rift you have now in US society - and my mind settled on the recent - Conor McGregor vs Khabib Nurmagomedov UFC fight - thinking McGregor represented the west/reps and Nurmagomedov the dems/east - or maybe I should reverse that?
Identity politics has taken over - someone will always back a showman.
You wrote it...
I was just commenting...
Is the internet public or private?
I'd say it is predominantly PRIVATE!
If it were public Gypsie would be getting paid via tax money for his site or at least have it paid for and not require donations to keep it abreast.
I'm under the impression that Gypsie has to pay (a private enterprize) for the space and bandwidth used for IC mag.
they are not silenced by not being given the platform they prefer. disadvantaged? damn right. a level playing field is desirable but probably not attainable. there are, no doubt, other outlets. if enough people demand a certain product/service etc, someone will provide it for a price. i see the source of your concern here though.
Ahhh, this Alex Jones fella getting thrown off some social media sites - I did watch a bit of his stuff - but all the shouting he does as a form of delivery as he presents whatever he presents kinda puts me off - but quite a few people seem to like what he spouts - some of it is or could be credible - even if some of it is just more foil hat stuff - should it not be up to the reader/viewer to make up their own minds about what they read or view?......rather than have some nanny global power tell us what we can consume via the internet/media?