What do all you conservatives think?

Does Congress have the right/obligation to protect the public from social media?

Or should the government keeps hands off and let the public fend for themselves?

No. Stay phuck out of their business is my personal opinion.

If they insist on putting their finger on the scales politically then Congress should regulate them. If they stay out of politics then hands off.

I worry that the tech illuminati who run these platforms of public discourse will determine for themselves who can talk and what they can say. And if they don't, their advertisers will.

These are pseudo "public spaces".

Yes, you have freedom of speech, but you can't use the pen I produce for it. You can't use the paper I manufacture to write it down. You can't use the megaphone I created. You can do your free speech in your closet. In MY platform your speech must be bland, inoffensive, and approved.

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Disengage delete accounts.

First, they need to decide what they are and what they are not. They are currently skirting the law, and trying to have it both ways.

If they're a neutral public forum, they need to stop suppressing, curating, editorializing, shadow banning, and banning political content they disagree with. If they're not, they should be sued out of existence.

Apparently Facebook "follows" subscribers around the internet and sells this information to various users. The fact that they do this is buried somewhere in their user agreement but it's not readily accessible.
OK with you?

(04-10-2018 07:41 PM)Old Dominion Wrote:  Apparently Facebook "follows" subscribers around the internet and sells this information to various users. The fact that they do this is buried somewhere in their user agreement but it's not readily accessible.
OK with you?

I'm surprised that anyone was surprised by this. I've never done Facebook because it always came across to me as nothing more than a gossip and rumor spreading site and where people told other people way too much about themselves.

People should be smart enough to figure all this shyte out for themselves, otherwise, I imagine they vote for dims.

(04-10-2018 07:01 PM)Old Dominion Wrote:  What do all you conservatives think?

Does Congress have the right/obligation to protect the public from social media?

Or should the government keeps hands off and let the public fend for themselves?

No

no

Yes.

I'm not ideologically opposed to regulation. I'm opposed to superfluous regulation.

No.

(04-10-2018 07:58 PM)TechRocks Wrote:  

(04-10-2018 07:41 PM)Old Dominion Wrote:  Apparently Facebook "follows" subscribers around the internet and sells this information to various users. The fact that they do this is buried somewhere in their user agreement but it's not readily accessible.
OK with you?

I'm surprised that anyone was surprised by this. I've never done Facebook because it always came across to me as nothing more than a gossip and rumor spreading site and where people told other people way too much about themselves.

People should be smart enough to figure all this shyte out for themselves, otherwise, I imagine they vote for dims.

It has actually been a nice forum to reconnect with old high school/college buddies - and that is all I have used it for. I never get into politics or personal stuff beyond pics when I get back from a vacation, etc.

I suppose it could be something of a cesspool but it's not something I see...

I don't do the Facebook or any other social media. I don't care what someone's steak or beer looks like and doubt they care about mine. It's nothing but a waste of time. If you want to connect, or reconnect, with someone pick up the phone and call them.

(04-10-2018 08:06 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Yes.

I'm not ideologically opposed to regulation. I'm opposed to superfluous regulation.

And here we have the winner!

Conservatives obviously don't believe in "no government". We believe in limited government.


So, since a liberal posed the question to conservatives in the original post I'll pose this question to him: Should congress legislate the right of private citizens to own guns?

Limited as in staying out of **** like this they have no business getting involved in.

(04-10-2018 07:26 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  Disengage delete accounts.

Yep. This.

Don't like it? Leave like a crappy movie theater showing a Hugh Grant movie. You'll probably be better off for it anyway. Wish my kids had never gotten the phones and laptops etc in the first place.

This is going to be an enormous societal breakdown.

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I value my privacy hence I do not Facebook. I do not need government to "help" me in that regard.

Based on the questioning yesterday, they shouldn't be allowed to do anything about tech. The staff of all of those questioning him should be fired

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(04-11-2018 05:39 AM)fsquid Wrote:  Based on the questioning yesterday, they shouldn't be allowed to do anything about tech. The staff of all of those questioning him should be fired

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I didn't see a lick of it...your take would define why I ignored that circus....

to the OP's question, yes.....you can't have an obvious media monopoly disallowing opposing views relative to 'their' agenda.....that's no different than Orwellian in a different skin....

there is a monstrous difference between being able to turn the channel of choice vs. allowing a single entity to steer and drive the doctrine.....

there's a reason I don't do any bit of social media horseshite.....unfortunately, there's too many easily brainwashed dipshites that do.....

line 1b) is winning the race at the moment.....

line 1c) is currently getting his arse whipped.....

ol' boy picked the fight..........he got it in spades......

#henceDJT has evolved into #DJTexperiment.....

shite like this should bother the shite out of every soul that believes in the 1st amendment

this shite sickens me......fk'n morons.....