As long as people can move to another site to say their piece, then there is no issue. On the other hand, the practice has been to censor and de-platform the opponents of twitter, youtube, banks, that were involved in the original censorship. My fix would be to repeal fcc ruling 232 and permit lawsuits against carriers like apple, google, etc.
On Saturday, January 16, 2021 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: On 1/16/2021 4:11 AM, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:00 PM spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: > For me, all I need to see is which companies are doing the censoring? To censor someone you need the power to imprison or kill them if they say something you don't like, so no company is doing any censoring, some of them may want to but none of them are able to because only governments have enough power to do that. I'm not saying companies don't have any power at all because they do, and sometimes they use the power they do have unwisely, and that's a problem, but the solution is not to give even more power to the government because it already has quite enough power thank you. So what is the solution? I don't know, there may not be one, there is not always a solution to every problem and that's why we live in an imperfect world and probably always will, but we should try to make the imperfections as small as possible. And if history has taught us anything it's that giving even more power to the government, which is already the most powerful institution in our society, will not make the world perfect. Except it's not clear that the government is the most powerful institution. On paper, the legislature has the most power, but in practice division and polarization have left it ineffective, with a consequence that it just delegates power with no oversight or control. And there are problems, like global warming that require international solutions. That implies that governments need the power to make the necessary agreements and to live up to them. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/3d09e850-af4b-066c-bbef-6a781f6c5a68%40verizon.net . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1226477468.2687093.1610861179928%40mail.yahoo.com.
