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Call your own doctors. I'm not 411. Due Diligence Rob. Give enough of a phuck for once in your life to do some research that you know may just educate you.
Do you have a source to back up your claim that doing one’s own research might make oneself smarter? I think I need a non-conspiracy, peer reviewed, officially authoritative source claiming self research can cause self education. How am I supposed to believe you without proof? 😆
 
Let me also add that for those who cry that it’s a “privately owned company” it’s not! It is a publicly traded company with no share holder owning 51% of the shares or more.
But they are not controlled by the government as far as being able to censor what gets listed to their website. That’s the “private” part.

It’s their website, their rules.

Just like the government can’t tell Microsoft they must show realistic background images as their wallpaper, or Sirius/XM that they must give equal time to Springsteen vs. Metallica.
 
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But they are not controlled by the government as far as being able to censor what gets listed to their website. That’s the “private” part.

It’s their website, their rules.

Just like the government can’t tell Microsoft they must show realistic background images as their wallpaper, or Sirius/XM that they must give equal time to Springsteen vs. Metallica.
Yes they are controlled by the gov
 
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But they are not controlled by the government as far as being able to censor what gets listed to their website. That’s the “private” part.

It’s their website, their rules.

Just like the government can’t tell Microsoft they must show realistic background images as their wallpaper, or Sirius/XM that they must give equal time to Springsteen vs. Metallica.
Nope they are not regulated by the government but you have those who work there with an ideology that leans heavily to the left which is why those things get taken down. Also when you decide what gets to stay and what doesn’t get to stay, that makes you a publisher. Which means section 230 protections go out the window. That means you can now be sued. The phone company doesn’t drop your call and make a text not go through cause they don’t like what you say. They let it all fly which allows them to be covered under section 230 protections
 
But they are not controlled by the government as far as being able to censor what gets listed to their website. That’s the “private” part.

It’s their website, their rules.

Just like the government can’t tell Microsoft they must show realistic background images as their wallpaper, or Sirius/XM that they must give equal time to Springsteen vs. Metallica.
‘The lawsuit claims the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency colluded with social-media platforms “in hundreds of meetings about misinformation” and systematically flagged “huge quantities of First Amendment-protected speech to platforms for censorship,” The Journal reported.’

 
Nope they are not regulated by the government but you have those who work there with an ideology that leans heavily to the left which is why those things get taken down. Also when you decide what gets to stay and what doesn’t get to stay, that makes you a publisher. Which means section 230 protections go out the window. That means you can now be sued. The phone company doesn’t drop your call and make a text not go through cause they don’t like what you say. They let it all fly which allows them to be covered under section 230 protections
Has that been legally established? The last time I looked closely at it (when Trump wanted to make companies liable for what was posted, thereby forcing the censorship to occur), it was a lot of back-and-forth on whether FB is a publisher or platform.

“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

“What does this mean in practice?
It offers a broad shield to tech companies, protecting them from lawsuits over content generated by users on their sites. It gives Twitter and Facebook the right to moderate content but does not give them the responsibility to do so. “Because content is posted on their platforms so rapidly there’s just no way they can possibly police everything,” says Sen. Ron Wyden, who helped create Section 230.”
 
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‘If FBI agents politely ask a private construction firm to bulldoze your house, and the firm patriotically cooperates, the FBI will have acted unconstitutionally—even though the private firm is merely private and acted consensually. Similarly, when FBI agents or other officials persistently seek the consensual cooperation of social-media platforms in suppressing disfavored speech, the FBI agents are abridging the freedom of speech.’


@RobGMN do you get it yet or do I need to keep going?
 
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