da PAC Nigguh wrote: ↑Tue Aug 07, 2018 1:37 am
RAPEMAN wrote: ↑Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:58 pm
At this point they might as well be public services. I would have never have said this in the past but maybe the government should run social media, this way they are held accountability to the U.S. constitution. I mean, the government already records all our net activity at this point.
Yeah because when I see how the government runs other forms of media (NPR, PBS) it sure makes me wish they controlled the internet as well.
People gave these sites their power by being retards who let the internet become just 6-10 websites instead of millions. So many oldfag sites and forums I used to use are gone now because the normalfags there decided it would be more convenient to use a Fagbook group or subplebbit instead of keeping the site alive, and fuck if I was going along with them.
This.
Also, just because they SHOULD be public services in some peoples' minds, doesn't mean they ARE.
It does amount to the same deal, as in it does effectively become sweeping censorship when all the major social media platforms blacklist a news group. Even one as full of shit as Alex Memes. But the legality is all that matters and legally, I don't see how a private corporation can be prohibited from refusing access to its services when it retains that right for all users at all times.
If someone wants to argue that twitter doesn't have the RIGHT to ban Alex Jones, then they arguably don't have the legal RIGHT to ban
anyone, under the same argument that these are essential public services which can't be denied without some extreme exception, such as people posting death threats or videos of beheadings. If Twitter doesn't have the right to create its own rules to determine who is allowed to use their platform, then we run into a situation like what Nigguh is talking about, where x person can't get banned unless the fucking Senate votes on it and approves the ban lel.
There's a reason we always shit on e-celebs for putting all their eggs into BLIP BLIP BLIP, TWITCH TWITCH TWITCH, or MUH YOUTUBE AD REVENUE. Any or all of these services could disappear tomorrow or ban you tomorrow. You're not employed by them and they're not a public trust.
Is it censorship to ban Alex Jones? Due to the blanket way it was done, it amounts to the same thing in practice.
Is it unfairly-enforced? Yes. Many more extreme nutters on the left get verified checkmarks.
But ultimately, it is their private website and they have the right to be as unfair as they want. Private organizations are not free speech zones.