Freedom Forum Institute: [re] Free Expression on Social Media, "The First Amendment protects individuals from government censorship. Social media platforms are private companies, and can censor what people post on their websites as they see fit".
Some types of speech that may be censored are: hate speech, obscenity, misinformation, and harassment.
What you complain about is that conservative hate speech and misinformation is being censored. What I believe the response to these whines should be? GFY.
The social media companies allowed Dotard to break their rules while he was predisent. He only got kicked off after he incited the Jan 6 insurrection. Even though he incited violence throughout his presidency. Insurrection was a line he crossed that finally caused them to enforce their own rules. btw, the lawsuit Dotard says he is bringing against the social media companies won't happen. It's a fundraising ploy. Unless he's dumb enough to agree to discovery.
Mediaite: Trump has a long history of threatening lawsuits that he doesn't follow through with. O'Reilly noted "they're gonna want to take a deposition from you" as part of the lawsuit's discovery litigation, meaning Trump will be forced to give sworn testimony about January 6th.
Wikipedia/Fascism in North America/United States: A growing number of scholars have argued that the political style of Donald Trump resembles that of fascist leaders, beginning with his election campaign in 2016, continuing over the course of his presidency as he appeared to court far-right extremists, and culminating in the January 2021 storming of the United States Capitol. As these events have unfolded, some commentators who had initially resisted applying the label to Trump came out in favor of it, including conservative legal scholar Steven G. Calabresi and conservative commentator Michael Gerson. After the attack on the Capitol, the historian of fascism Robert O. Paxton went so far as to state that Trump is a fascist, despite his earlier objection to using the term in this way.
Clearly you don't know what fascism actually is. But that is true about a lot of things.
Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy, which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. ... Opposed to liberalism, democracy, Marxism, and anarchism, fascism is placed on the far right within the traditional left–right spectrum...
The concept of fascism is dependent on the merger of corporations with the state. The power inherent in government is combined with corporate power, this brings the majority of power in a nation under a small group of individuals. This is known as an Oligarchy.
NAZI's directed corporations in Germany, much as Biden does.
This "corporate direction by government" is WHY fascism is traditionally associated with the FAR RIGHT. W/O the cooperation of the corporatists, fascism CANNOT exist.
In a defensive war building more arms could save lives. Hitler waged an offensive war. So, re "who knew"... the answer is nobody. Excepting (apparently) Nazis like you.
The best way to save lives is to not wage an offensive war. If you wage an offensive war you ACCEPT there will be deaths among your population (soldiers and possibly civilians). You aren't "saving lives" in this case, you're only reducing the number of lives lost which you've already decided to sacrifice.
btw - If the people who launch an offensive war begin to lose it and ask for a ceasefire, but the other side refuses to stop fighting, can more arms "save lives" then?
They wouldn't refuse to stop fighting. They'd ask for concessions. Like an unconditional surrender. Though I don't know what this has to do with the original discussion. Except your attempt to idiotically compare Joe Biden to Hitler. Do "Jews = coronavirus"? Obviously not. Because then (as a Nazi) you'd be all for exterminating the coronavirus. As opposed to your actual stance of allowing it to run rampant.
Although the Dotard administration did approve the emergency authorizations. Does Minus believe that, if Dotard had retained the presidency, that he'd have rescinded those authorizations? You think Minus would be presently blaming Dotard if that had happened? HELL NO. So why is Biden responsible now while (if Dotard was still president) he wouldn't be responsible?
It isn't in the corporate interest to promote skepticism or cure Covid, either. The longer people hunker in Covid fear, the more Amazon deliveries will arrive at you door.
By any measure, Amazon’s growth in the pandemic year has been remarkable. Its worldwide pretax income for 2020 was $24 billion, up 73 percent from the $14 billion it enjoyed in the last pre-pandemic year. Its sales were up 38 percent over the prior year—during a pandemic. The company’s U.S. income in 2020 was $20 billion. If Amazon had paid 21 percent of its profits in federal income tax, that would have come to $4.1 billion. The company’s reported current tax of $1.8 billion was less than half that, meaning last year Amazon avoided $2.3 billion in taxes.
Given that Dotard Donald hates Jeff Bezos, WHY did he not seek to correct the Amazon tax avoidance issue? He was predisent for 4 years. Probably has something to do with the FACT that Dotard Donald is a bigly tax cheat and he didn't want the IRS looking too closely at his corporation. A "pay for" in the infrastructure bill was more money for IRS enforcement (given that more money for the IRS to go after tax cheats would be returned several times over). The republicans said no way. Big surprise. Not.
Joe Biden has no reason to personally hate Jeff Bezos. And your response makes no sense. I was asking about Dotard Donald. His first order of business as predisent was to ram though a huge tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. Joe Biden wants to raise their taxes.
Personally I like President Joe Biden's go big and get a lot accomplished approach. Though doing nothing isn't even possible, given that cleaning up the HUGE mess the former guy left is a LOT of something. And President Joe Biden is also doing GREAT on that front.
Freedom Forum Institute: [re] Free Expression on Social Media, "The First Amendment protects individuals from government censorship. Social media platforms are private companies, and can censor what people post on their websites as they see fit".
ReplyDeleteSome types of speech that may be censored are: hate speech, obscenity, misinformation, and harassment.
What you complain about is that conservative hate speech and misinformation is being censored. What I believe the response to these whines should be? GFY.
Government direction and coordination of industry is fascism.
ReplyDeleteHitler couldn't have done it w/o the Krupps.
ReplyDelete:) Who do you think made him Reich Chancellor?
ReplyDeleteThe social media companies allowed Dotard to break their rules while he was predisent. He only got kicked off after he incited the Jan 6 insurrection. Even though he incited violence throughout his presidency. Insurrection was a line he crossed that finally caused them to enforce their own rules. btw, the lawsuit Dotard says he is bringing against the social media companies won't happen. It's a fundraising ploy. Unless he's dumb enough to agree to discovery.
ReplyDeleteMediaite: Trump has a long history of threatening lawsuits that he doesn't follow through with. O'Reilly noted "they're gonna want to take a deposition from you" as part of the lawsuit's discovery litigation, meaning Trump will be forced to give sworn testimony about January 6th.
As for who is the fascist, Trump told chief of staff Hitler "did a lot of good things".
ReplyDeleteApparently you don't know what fascism actually is. But that's true of a lot of things...
ReplyDeleteWikipedia/Fascism in North America/United States: A growing number of scholars have argued that the political style of Donald Trump resembles that of fascist leaders, beginning with his election campaign in 2016, continuing over the course of his presidency as he appeared to court far-right extremists, and culminating in the January 2021 storming of the United States Capitol. As these events have unfolded, some commentators who had initially resisted applying the label to Trump came out in favor of it, including conservative legal scholar Steven G. Calabresi and conservative commentator Michael Gerson. After the attack on the Capitol, the historian of fascism Robert O. Paxton went so far as to state that Trump is a fascist, despite his earlier objection to using the term in this way.
ReplyDeleteClearly you don't know what fascism actually is. But that is true about a lot of things.
ReplyDeleteFascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy, which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. ... Opposed to liberalism, democracy, Marxism, and anarchism, fascism is placed on the far right within the traditional left–right spectrum...
The concept of fascism is dependent on the merger of corporations with the state. The power inherent in government is combined with corporate power, this brings the majority of power in a nation under a small group of individuals. This is known as an Oligarchy.
ReplyDeleteNAZI's directed corporations in Germany, much as Biden does.
This "corporate direction by government" is WHY fascism is traditionally associated with the FAR RIGHT. W/O the cooperation of the corporatists, fascism CANNOT exist.
ReplyDeleteIn Italy, they didn't call Mussolini's regime "fascism". They called it corporatism.
ReplyDelete"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." -Benito Mussolini
ReplyDeleteThe so-called "inventor of fascism" knew what he created.
ReplyDeleteNAZI's directed corporations in Germany, much as Biden does.
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't. Saving lives by combating Covid disinformation isn't fascist. That's pure stupidity.
Saving German lives by building more arms wasn't Hitler's goal? Who knew?
ReplyDeleteWeren't You one of the one's howling for Trump to use the Defense Production Act to direct American Industry to build ventilators and PPE? Fascist!
In a defensive war building more arms could save lives. Hitler waged an offensive war. So, re "who knew"... the answer is nobody. Excepting (apparently) Nazis like you.
ReplyDeletelol! More and better Arms don't save the lives of the attackers during an attack? They only save lives in a defense from an attack? Who knew?
ReplyDeleteThe best way to save lives is to not wage an offensive war. If you wage an offensive war you ACCEPT there will be deaths among your population (soldiers and possibly civilians). You aren't "saving lives" in this case, you're only reducing the number of lives lost which you've already decided to sacrifice.
ReplyDeleteReducing lives lost doesn't save lives? Who knew?
ReplyDeletebtw - If the people who launch an offensive war begin to lose it and ask for a ceasefire, but the other side refuses to stop fighting, can more arms "save lives" then?
ReplyDelete...just trying to figure out how to use words properly.
ReplyDeleteThey wouldn't refuse to stop fighting. They'd ask for concessions. Like an unconditional surrender. Though I don't know what this has to do with the original discussion. Except your attempt to idiotically compare Joe Biden to Hitler. Do "Jews = coronavirus"? Obviously not. Because then (as a Nazi) you'd be all for exterminating the coronavirus. As opposed to your actual stance of allowing it to run rampant.
ReplyDeleteWow Derv. I would have went with "Trump rushed a vaccine that kills people."
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't rushed. The covid vaccine is based on decades of research. And the vaccines don't kill people, they have saved tens of thousands of lives.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the Dotard administration did approve the emergency authorizations. Does Minus believe that, if Dotard had retained the presidency, that he'd have rescinded those authorizations? You think Minus would be presently blaming Dotard if that had happened? HELL NO. So why is Biden responsible now while (if Dotard was still president) he wouldn't be responsible?
It isn't in the interests of the Russian Federation for the US Republican Party to fight vaccine skepticism.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't in the corporate interest to promote skepticism or cure Covid, either. The longer people hunker in Covid fear, the more Amazon deliveries will arrive at you door.
ReplyDeleteI was using Amazon before Covid...
ReplyDelete...but 73% less...
ReplyDeleteBy any measure, Amazon’s growth in the pandemic year has been remarkable. Its worldwide pretax income for 2020 was $24 billion, up 73 percent from the $14 billion it enjoyed in the last pre-pandemic year. Its sales were up 38 percent over the prior year—during a pandemic. The company’s U.S. income in 2020 was $20 billion. If Amazon had paid 21 percent of its profits in federal income tax, that would have come to $4.1 billion. The company’s reported current tax of $1.8 billion was less than half that, meaning last year Amazon avoided $2.3 billion in taxes.
You could go to Costco Warehouse and get your stuff off the shelves yourself... But you'll impulse buy a 55 gallon drum of mayonnaise.
ReplyDeleteGiven that Dotard Donald hates Jeff Bezos, WHY did he not seek to correct the Amazon tax avoidance issue? He was predisent for 4 years. Probably has something to do with the FACT that Dotard Donald is a bigly tax cheat and he didn't want the IRS looking too closely at his corporation. A "pay for" in the infrastructure bill was more money for IRS enforcement (given that more money for the IRS to go after tax cheats would be returned several times over). The republicans said no way. Big surprise. Not.
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't Biden? LOL!
ReplyDeleteJoe Biden has no reason to personally hate Jeff Bezos. And your response makes no sense. I was asking about Dotard Donald. His first order of business as predisent was to ram though a huge tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. Joe Biden wants to raise their taxes.
ReplyDeleteWhy hasn't he?
ReplyDelete...because he isn't going to.
ReplyDeleteI kinda like Biden's do-nothing approach. We could use more government that does nothing.
ReplyDeleteBiden Banks on $3.6 Trillion Tax Hike on the Rich and Corporations. "The White House is proposing substantial increases in personal income tax rates for those earning about a half-million dollars and higher tax rates on large corporations".
ReplyDeletePersonally I like President Joe Biden's go big and get a lot accomplished approach. Though doing nothing isn't even possible, given that cleaning up the HUGE mess the former guy left is a LOT of something. And President Joe Biden is also doing GREAT on that front.
Doing better than Trump is a tiny hurdle tho
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