Social Disease

11 Replies to “Social Disease”

1. Very good.

   So when is the president signing an executive order to nationalize Facebook and Google? Because “breaking them up” into pieces Chinese government fronts can more easily purchase won’t cut it.

2. Now that is using the bully pulpit.
   The geek lords are going to have to chose.
   Are they a platform?
   Or are they a publisher?
   Having apparently chosen to edit and constrain their content,with or without the bias,they seem to be acting as publishers,while hiding behind the special protections advanced to platforms.
   And the over bearing arrogance of the all knowing ,all spying ,we are special, programme has pissed of nearly everyone.

   Social justice warriors do not play well with others,cause they cannot conceive that anyone might have a different point of view.

   1. Angel

      Fat thumbs..

      Well said

3. Trying so damn hard to be the victim lmao. I guess deep down everyone wants to be persecuted.

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5. Gee. TIM doesn’t care for Trump so much. For a smart guy he sure misses the big picture.

   1. Tim sure likes to talk a lot.

6. It’s a trap, btw. Look, in 2016 only 46% of Millenials voted in the general election. Guess what happens if you take a sledge hammer to the most important thing in their life (social media)? You’ve seen them. They live on Twitter. Every where you go, there’s someone with their head buried on the screen. Everywhere. You could light their invalid grandmother on fire, and push her wheel chair out in the middle of I-95, and it won’t solicit half the outrage that will come from messing with their Likes and Subs.

   What happens if you break GOOGLE, Twitter, Snap chat, Instagram etc….into 100 Million pieces?

   Well, it’s simple. The media and the politicians of the Left gin it up and work them into a tizzy. They are, then, motivated to vote. We don’t just lose the presidency. We lose the Senate and a lot of State govt. seats in the process. Social media has been flagrant and blatant. They have been begging for this move by the administration. That’s why.

   1. that’s quite an interesting and extraordinary omelette you have presented; however, my gauge says the millennial americans are americans and after sixty years of drifting left, there is a correction taking place. this question of publish/platform in the usa is legal peanuts next to the 1st amendment. the corporations will be history long before the constitutional rights of free speech are ever (if ever) given up.

      1. My dude, the popular vote results of the last 20 years very clearly prove that the opposite is true. Gerrymandering, the electoral college, and voter suppression have moved the US government significantly to the right of what the average American prefers and that’s just a fact.

7. Quit banging on about the publisher/platform bollocks. S.230 of the Communications Decency Act, signed by Bill Clinton in 1996 two years before any of these companies even existed, gives all online platforms the ability to edit user-submitted content without assuming the liability of a publisher. Period. What they’re doing is legal.

   Congress could change this in a heartbeat by amending or repealing the CDA, but you don’t want them to do that because that means blogs like this one vanish overnight. Google and Facebook can shrug off publisher liability like a cheap suit, they have more money and lawyers than God. Legal Insurrection, Instapundit, Conservative Treehouse, Ace of Spades, any US blog that hosts comments either gets rid of comments or gets rid of existing.

   And then there’s the delicious irony of soi-disant conservatives howling for the state to use its monopoly on the use of force to crush a law-abiding private company they don’t like. As if that precedent won’t come back to bite you in the ass when the other side gets power.

   This is why we have Scheer. This is why this country is lost. Because when it’s their ox being gored, Canada’s most vocal “conservatives” turn out to be just more charter members of the Free Shit Army.