Archy1221 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 7 hours ago, FrantzHardySwag said: Ah yes, I always pegged you for a Big Gov't type of guy. If only that’s what it meant 1 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 7 hours ago, FrantzHardySwag said: Just so we're clear everyone....according to @Archy1221 Private company regulation = BAD Big Gov't regulation = GOOD No. Also not good to generalize 1 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 29 minutes ago, teachercd said: It is great to see that old people still don't really "get" the internet. Might as well ask them to program the VCR. Whats a 'VCR" ?? 2 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 As big tech has squeezed out Parler, it will be interesting to see where that crowd goes next and how tech and govt respond. After the election, I remember hearing Joe Peggs on the radio saying how he is encouraging everyone to go to Parler - free speech, yada yada. He boasted how his following was growing. Conservative talk radio prides itself wt 'independent thought.' I've heard every host over the years say "We don't listen to other talk shows so that we can present original thought --- funny how they all started to sound the same - I wonder how that happens if they never listen to another talk show (Perhaps they all listen to Rush and get their talking points there). Yet Parler was not full of independent thought - it was a cesspool of the worst group think and irrationality that can be found on the internet outside of Q'anon. How do cults form. Group think reinforced by a narcissistic president. https://apnews.com/article/google-apple-amazon-parler-app-367b6dff19026c3811651aa01bde58f2 Link to comment
commando Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 IMO....parlor and all the rest will be back soon. right now they shut down everything to hopefully slow down communications between the conspiriters and help to perhaps dissuade an organized uprising or at least weaken it if it happens anyway. Link to comment
Cdog923 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 16 hours ago, Archy1221 said: I don't really expect Angela Merkel to understand how the First Amendment in the US Constitution works. Link to comment
Enhance Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Many of our own citizens and lawmakers don't seem to understand how the 1st Amendment works, either. However, I have felt for a very long time that the likes of Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., wield some significant power. They have become primary information distributors, but because they're private companies, we are largely asked to rely on their ability to be trustworthy in what they present to us and how they present it to us. I think it's an interesting challenge, headlined by some of the massive lawsuits facing Google right now. I'm fascinated to see when and how it all shakes out, but I don't think that antitrust lawsuit with Google would even go to trial until something like 2023. 1 1 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 2 minutes ago, Enhance said: Many of our own citizens and lawmakers don't seem to understand how the 1st Amendment works, either. However, I have felt for a very long time that the likes of Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., wield some significant power. They have become primary information distributors, but because they're private companies, we are largely asked to rely on their ability to be trustworthy in what they present to us and how they present it to us. I think it's an interesting challenge, headlined by some of the massive lawsuits facing Google right now. I'm fascinated to see when and how it all shakes out, but I don't think that antitrust lawsuit with Google would even go to trial until something like 2023. Agree with your sentiments. I also will add that Google is acting all high and mighty while at the same time defending against their intellectual property theft of Java. Without that theft, Google wouldn’t be what it is currently. Apple is acting all high and mighty when they use basically Chinese slave labor to build their products. It would be nice to see those companies fix their own lack of morals while they save the rest of society from speech they deem unacceptable. 4 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 40 minutes ago, Enhance said: Many of our own citizens and lawmakers don't seem to understand how the 1st Amendment works, either. However, I have felt for a very long time that the likes of Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., wield some significant power. They have become primary information distributors, but because they're private companies, we are largely asked to rely on their ability to be trustworthy in what they present to us and how they present it to us. I think it's an interesting challenge, headlined by some of the massive lawsuits facing Google right now. I'm fascinated to see when and how it all shakes out, but I don't think that antitrust lawsuit with Google would even go to trial until something like 2023. I did have the thought today after reading about the 70k QAnon Twitter accounts being shut down - it’s too late. I feel once you think to do something like that it’s already so big I don’t know if you accomplish anything by doing it and you may be doing more harm than good. That said I think I’m ok with some of this stuff happening temporarily thru Jan. 21 when the military is out of Trump’s hands. 1 Link to comment
commando Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 can anyone show me any republican accounts that were shut down except for those that have spread the "steal the vote" lies and called for people to take part in the big rally that turned to insurrection? i think it was fairly well aimed at the people who extolled the event that turned traitorous. 1 Link to comment
teachercd Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 3 hours ago, Enhance said: Many of our own citizens and lawmakers don't seem to understand how the 1st Amendment works, either. However, I have felt for a very long time that the likes of Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., wield some significant power. They have become primary information distributors, but because they're private companies, we are largely asked to rely on their ability to be trustworthy in what they present to us and how they present it to us. I think it's an interesting challenge, headlined by some of the massive lawsuits facing Google right now. I'm fascinated to see when and how it all shakes out, but I don't think that antitrust lawsuit with Google would even go to trial until something like 2023. I mean...with Ask Jeeves, AOL, Yahoo, Netscape and Netzero, google is far from a monopoly! Also, why hasn't the government gone after the board game Monopoly? 1 Link to comment
DevoHusker Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 8 minutes ago, teachercd said: I mean...with Ask Jeeves, AOL, Yahoo, Netscape and Netzero, google is far from a monopoly! I would have given you a laugh+1 if you had stopped here...but unfortunately... Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 25 minutes ago, teachercd said: I mean...with Ask Jeeves, AOL, Yahoo, Netscape and Netzero, google is far from a monopoly! Also, why hasn't the government gone after the board game Monopoly? Android 1 Link to comment
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