Things that made you laugh today (Political Version)

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Meanwhile morons like you ignore the calls to murder the POTUS, attack Congressmen and so on as just peachy keen. Not to mention the calls for violence, rioting, looting, arson and murder all done on behest of BLM, Antifa and others for years now. You are serving up a heaping helping of hypocrisy and it stinks.

I don't seek repeal, I see applying it correctly and reclassifying those who edit, limit, modify and censor content like Facebook, Twitter, Google and others as publishers which is what they have become. Simply change their status, leave the law alone and let the market do it's job without the big tech using the protections as a shield to crush their competition with.

I also would like to see anti-trust law applied, hell, we broke up AT&T with less market share than FB, Twitter, Google and so on, US Steel, Standard Oil . . . all had less market share than the big tech giants but guess who is waltzing along because they have bought and paid for the Democrat party.

You just never seem to understand any topic you discuss. You're so lost in your right wing conspiracy theories that you're running around completely clueless without realizing it.

What happened with Parler happened to Parler. Not crazy people like you who were using the service. The right wing spin on this has been laughable. "This is an attack on conservatives everywhere! This was an attack on YOU!"

Parler agreed to terms of service with Google, Apple, and Amazon. And ALL of them include provisions about content that promotes violence or terrorism (Just like literally every other company who has a service involving user generated content). And the terms don't say that you can't have users who are creating that kind of content- they say that you must have a content moderation strategy that makes a good faith effort to take that content down as quickly as possible.

Parler refused to do that.

Apple, Google, AND Amazon had been warning Parler for weeks that it needed to create an effective and serious moderation policy- which is a requirement EVERY other UGC service that works with them has to meet..

Then there was a damn terrorist attack, and it turns out that people on Parler were planning their violence for it on the service. And the jackass CEO did a public interview where he said that people planning terrorism on Parler wasn't really his problem.

Apple even gave them another 24 hours afterwards to do what they promised they would do in their ToS. And the jackass STILL refused.

So riddle me this: why the hell should Parler be exempt from the ToS everyone else has to follow? Because conservatives use it? And why should Google, Apple, and Amazon be forced to be complicit in and be associated with a service that shrugs at terrorism being planned on their app?

Big Tech didn't attack anyone, least of all conservatives. Big Tech didn't target Parler because conservatives use it. Big Tech didn't screw Parler users over.

Parler did that all by itself.

And now you want the government to force a private entity to host speech it finds objectionable- which is a literal violation of the 1st Amendment. Or you want the government to retaliate against these companies for refusing to exempt a customer from terms they agreed to just because conservatives like to use it. There is no such thing as a 1st Amendment violation between two private entities. It doesn't exist because the 1st Amendment only ever applies to the government: it can neither restrict nor compel speech except in extreme situations (and no- your temper tantrum over this isn't an extreme situation). There's no censorship here because these companies aren't government entities. But what you want to happen- THAT'S actually an attack on Free Speech.

And I'm going to guess you had no idea any of that was going on. Because you're too god damn stupid to pull your head out of extreme, right wing partisan news. A willing, easily manipulated sheep is all you are.