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ScrumpTheTexan Forum Administrator 05/05/2019 01:57 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech  I am a Christian. Christian does not equal doormat or pushover "I Have Sworn upon the Altar of God... Eternal Hostility against every form of Tyranny over the mind of man." -Thomas Jefferson, Sep. 23, 1800  The Election of Donald John Trump: [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] For previous Newsletters, click 'Scrump's News Letters' @ [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76809044 United States05/05/2019 02:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech A bill before the Texas Senate seeks to prevent social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints. Supporters say it would protect the free exchange of ideas, but critics say the bill contradicts a federal law that allows social media platforms to regulate their own content. Quoting: Putin's Voluntaryist The measure — Senate Bill 2373 by state Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola — would hold social media platforms accountable for restricting users’ speech based on personal opinions. Hughes said the bill applies to social media platforms that advertise themselves as unbiased but still censor users. The Senate State Affairs Committee unanimously approved the bill last week. (Update: The Texas Senate approved the bill on April 25 in an 18-12 vote. It now heads to the House.) “Senate Bill 2373 tries to prevent those companies that control these new public spaces, this new public square, from picking winners and losers based on content,” Hughes said in the committee hearing. “Basically if the company represents, ‘We’re an open forum and we don’t discriminate based on content,’ then they shouldn’t be able to discriminate based on content.” MORE: [link to www.texastribune.org (secure)] well, this is incouraging. the President is still "monitoring the situation". |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76929612  Belgium05/05/2019 02:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech So they are going to sue a private company and disallow there right to operate as free press to protect another group of snowflakes. Lol Sets a dangerous precident crating a situation were companies must follow state mandate allowing them to control media. Stupid. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76929612 Belgium05/05/2019 02:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech Do you people not see where this could lead? Think about Chic fil a or Hobby Lobbies practicies of not hiring or promoting ideals they disagree with. What do you think will happen to companies like that if this passes? Organizations with more so called right wing views would be forced to accomidate the left as well. The government has no business telling private companies or citizens what information they can and cannot allow. If you dont like Facebooks policies put on your big boy pants and create another platform for those views, you arent entitled to change the way facebook operates. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26309361 United States05/05/2019 02:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech This proposal is actually unconstitutional. Sorry it wont see the light of day. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76929612 No its Constitutional Nope this would be another step towards facism. Bull shit. Facism is the original censoring. Don’t confuse matters. Zuck, Jack, the LinkedIn-Hoffman-aka fat fuck who works with Soros, & more all need to be sued. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76929612 Belgium05/05/2019 02:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech This proposal is actually unconstitutional. Sorry it wont see the light of day. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76929612 No its Constitutional Nope this would be another step towards facism. Bull shit. Facism is the original censoring. Don’t confuse matters. Zuck, Jack, the LinkedIn-Hoffman-aka fat fuck who works with Soros, & more all need to be sued. Its a social media servicee for crying out loud. All Im saying is this sets a dangerous precident. Government would essentially be censoring a private companies right to conduct business as they see fit. No government intervention ever works with something like this. Do not give them more power to control the media. Im telling you this is a very bad idea and will have terrible repercutions. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26309361 United States05/05/2019 02:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech This proposal is actually unconstitutional. Sorry it wont see the light of day. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76929612 No its Constitutional Nope this would be another step towards facism. It’s a step towards removing the infection. But thanks for the disinfo. "When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts … Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend" - George Carlin |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26309361 United States05/05/2019 02:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech Bull shit. Facism is the original censoring. Don’t confuse matters. Zuck, Jack, the LinkedIn-Hoffman-aka fat fuck who works with Soros, & more all need to be sued. Its a social media servicee for crying out loud. All Im saying is this sets a dangerous precident. Government would essentially be censoring a private companies right to conduct business as they see fit. No government intervention ever works with something like this. Do not give them more power to control the media. Im telling you this is a very bad idea and will have terrible repercutions. Not business. Speech. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77590672  United Kingdom05/05/2019 02:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech Do you people not see where this could lead? Think about Chic fil a or Hobby Lobbies practicies of not hiring or promoting ideals they disagree with. What do you think will happen to companies like that if this passes? Organizations with more so called right wing views would be forced to accomidate the left as well. The government has no business telling private companies or citizens what information they can and cannot allow. If you dont like Facebooks policies put on your big boy pants and create another platform for those views, you arent entitled to change the way facebook operates. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76929612 Dance monkey, dance! Move to the jiggle of the strings. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26309361 United States05/05/2019 02:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech Bull shit. Facism is the original censoring. Don’t confuse matters. Zuck, Jack, the LinkedIn-Hoffman-aka fat fuck who works with Soros, & more all need to be sued. Its a social media servicee for crying out loud. All Im saying is this sets a dangerous precident. Government would essentially be censoring a private companies right to conduct business as they see fit. No government intervention ever works with something like this. Do not give them more power to control the media. Im telling you this is a very bad idea and will have terrible repercutions. When the owners of social media platforms ARE ‘facists’, we have a problem. I’m all about small government but when democrats are in power, Bezos, Jack Zucker, media have the power to overthrow an election to keep power, that’s a motherfuckin problem. Hint, it’s been attempted. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26309361 United States05/05/2019 02:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech Bull shit. Facism is the original censoring. Don’t confuse matters. Zuck, Jack, the LinkedIn-Hoffman-aka fat fuck who works with Soros, & more all need to be sued. Its a social media servicee for crying out loud. All Im saying is this sets a dangerous precident. Government would essentially be censoring a private companies right to conduct business as they see fit. No government intervention ever works with something like this. Do not give them more power to control the media. Im telling you this is a very bad idea and will have terrible repercutions. What...you don’t want Zuckerburg to be sued? Pffftt |
| MrCoolone User ID: 68740868 United States05/05/2019 02:43 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech Bull shit. Facism is the original censoring. Don’t confuse matters. Zuck, Jack, the LinkedIn-Hoffman-aka fat fuck who works with Soros, & more all need to be sued. Its a social media servicee for crying out loud. All Im saying is this sets a dangerous precident. Government would essentially be censoring a private companies right to conduct business as they see fit. No government intervention ever works with something like this. Do not give them more power to control the media. Im telling you this is a very bad idea and will have terrible repercutions. When these media platforms discriminate based on content they're no better than a nazi. We have a freedom to say whatever we want as long as that speech is not illeagal. We have a right to communicate whatever content we want to as long as the content is not illeagal. Censorship is the cornerstone of FACISM! If you support Censorship you’re no better than a communist. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74882520  Luxembourg05/05/2019 02:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech Bull shit. Facism is the original censoring. Don’t confuse matters. Zuck, Jack, the LinkedIn-Hoffman-aka fat fuck who works with Soros, & more all need to be sued. Its a social media servicee for crying out loud. All Im saying is this sets a dangerous precident. Government would essentially be censoring a private companies right to conduct business as they see fit. No government intervention ever works with something like this. Do not give them more power to control the media. Im telling you this is a very bad idea and will have terrible repercutions. What...you don’t want Zuckerburg to be sued? Pffftt Do you want the owner of Hobby Lobby to be sued? |
| Libertarian User ID: 74882520 Luxembourg05/05/2019 02:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech Bull shit. Facism is the original censoring. Don’t confuse matters. Zuck, Jack, the LinkedIn-Hoffman-aka fat fuck who works with Soros, & more all need to be sued. Its a social media servicee for crying out loud. All Im saying is this sets a dangerous precident. Government would essentially be censoring a private companies right to conduct business as they see fit. No government intervention ever works with something like this. Do not give them more power to control the media. Im telling you this is a very bad idea and will have terrible repercutions. When these media platforms discriminate based on content they're no better than a nazi. We have a freedom to say whatever we want as long as that speech is not illeagal. We have a right to communicate whatever content we want to as long as the content is not illeagal. Censorship is the cornerstone of FACISM! If you support Censorship you’re no better than a communist. Its a private company. It would be different if the Texas or U.S. government was censoring people. Which in some cases they do but this is unrelated. Let me give you an example of how this might backfire on people with certain ideals. Remember a few years ago when Reddit had a problem with what was an underage section where users posted content that was completely legal but was brought under scrutiny by CNN? Well if a bill like this gets passed it would essentially give people who are interested in posting such content a free pass to sue reddit to allow their LEGAL content back on the site. Do you think that should be allowed? Even though Reddit removed the sections due to the bad fallout and loss of business from it? Do you think Facebook should be required to post content which they deem as a violation of thier terms of service just as Reddit has done? Hell GLP falls under this law as well. Some leftist group like ANTIFA could claim that GLP was discriminating them by removing their posts. This bill all sounds fine and dandy at first but it will end up biting a lot of people and businesses in the ass. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 69226408 United States05/05/2019 02:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26309361 United States05/05/2019 02:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26309361 Bull shit. Facism is the original censoring. Don’t confuse matters. Zuck, Jack, the LinkedIn-Hoffman-aka fat fuck who works with Soros, & more all need to be sued. Its a social media servicee for crying out loud. All Im saying is this sets a dangerous precident. Government would essentially be censoring a private companies right to conduct business as they see fit. No government intervention ever works with something like this. Do not give them more power to control the media. Im telling you this is a very bad idea and will have terrible repercutions. What...you don’t want Zuckerburg to be sued? Pffftt Do you want the owner of Hobby Lobby to be sued? What the Hell are you idiots talking about.  |
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| MrCoolone User ID: 68740868 United States05/05/2019 02:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26309361 Bull shit. Facism is the original censoring. Don’t confuse matters. Zuck, Jack, the LinkedIn-Hoffman-aka fat fuck who works with Soros, & more all need to be sued. Its a social media servicee for crying out loud. All Im saying is this sets a dangerous precident. Government would essentially be censoring a private companies right to conduct business as they see fit. No government intervention ever works with something like this. Do not give them more power to control the media. Im telling you this is a very bad idea and will have terrible repercutions. When these media platforms discriminate based on content they're no better than a nazi. We have a freedom to say whatever we want as long as that speech is not illeagal. We have a right to communicate whatever content we want to as long as the content is not illeagal. Censorship is the cornerstone of FACISM! If you support Censorship you’re no better than a communist. Its a private company. It would be different if the Texas or U.S. government was censoring people. Which in some cases they do but this is unrelated. Let me give you an example of how this might backfire on people with certain ideals. Remember a few years ago when Reddit had a problem with what was an underage section where users posted content that was completely legal but was brought under scrutiny by CNN? Well if a bill like this gets passed it would essentially give people who are interested in posting such content a free pass to sue reddit to allow their LEGAL content back on the site. Do you think that should be allowed? Even though Reddit removed the sections due to the bad fallout and loss of business from it? Do you think Facebook should be required to post content which they deem as a violation of thier terms of service just as Reddit has done? Hell GLP falls under this law as well. Some leftist group like ANTIFA could claim that GLP was discriminating them by removing their posts. This bill all sounds fine and dandy at first but it will end up biting a lot of people and businesses in the ass. If it's an open forum, you prefer to discriminate based on content? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26309361 United States05/05/2019 02:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech Just imagine - FB and Twitter have to pay for the legals fee charged by 100's of lawyers. Let the free speech flow! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69226408 The same thing could happen to GLP genius. Sorry, I don’t take political advise from someone that called Hobby Lobby a social media giant that censors. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 45294869 United States05/05/2019 03:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26309361 Bull shit. Facism is the original censoring. Don’t confuse matters. Zuck, Jack, the LinkedIn-Hoffman-aka fat fuck who works with Soros, & more all need to be sued. Its a social media servicee for crying out loud. All Im saying is this sets a dangerous precident. Government would essentially be censoring a private companies right to conduct business as they see fit. No government intervention ever works with something like this. Do not give them more power to control the media. Im telling you this is a very bad idea and will have terrible repercutions. When these media platforms discriminate based on content they're no better than a nazi. We have a freedom to say whatever we want as long as that speech is not illeagal. We have a right to communicate whatever content we want to as long as the content is not illeagal. Censorship is the cornerstone of FACISM! If you support Censorship you’re no better than a communist. Its a private company. It would be different if the Texas or U.S. government was censoring people. Which in some cases they do but this is unrelated. Let me give you an example of how this might backfire on people with certain ideals. Remember a few years ago when Reddit had a problem with what was an underage section where users posted content that was completely legal but was brought under scrutiny by CNN? Well if a bill like this gets passed it would essentially give people who are interested in posting such content a free pass to sue reddit to allow their LEGAL content back on the site. Do you think that should be allowed? Even though Reddit removed the sections due to the bad fallout and loss of business from it? Do you think Facebook should be required to post content which they deem as a violation of thier terms of service just as Reddit has done? Hell GLP falls under this law as well. Some leftist group like ANTIFA could claim that GLP was discriminating them by removing their posts. This bill all sounds fine and dandy at first but it will end up biting a lot of people and businesses in the ass. Alot wrong with this thesis. The issue is they DON'T uniformly enforce their TOS. They selectively, and rather arbitrary, censor based solely on political opinion. The facts are quite clear in the matter. They allow Hammas and Antifa pages to stay up, while censoring someone like Paul Joseph Watson? They allowed the covington kids to be ubiquitously smeared by left-leaning news outlets without any TOS violation. They did the same with allowing the 'fake news' Russia meddling hoax to go on for years. This is clear gerrymandering. Further, they ceased being a 'private' company when they did a public IPO, accepted public grants, and promoted themselves as a 'platform' for public discourse. In fact there are supreme court rulings on old shopping malls trying to censor certain people for passing out political flyers while not applying the rule to others, and the shopping mall lost the suit based on the fact that the company was now acting in the capacity of a 'public square'. I'd have no problem if they actually enforced their TOS uniformly, but that isn't the case. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74882520 Luxembourg05/05/2019 03:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76929612 Its a social media servicee for crying out loud. All Im saying is this sets a dangerous precident. Government would essentially be censoring a private companies right to conduct business as they see fit. No government intervention ever works with something like this. Do not give them more power to control the media. Im telling you this is a very bad idea and will have terrible repercutions. When these media platforms discriminate based on content they're no better than a nazi. We have a freedom to say whatever we want as long as that speech is not illeagal. We have a right to communicate whatever content we want to as long as the content is not illeagal. Censorship is the cornerstone of FACISM! If you support Censorship you’re no better than a communist. Its a private company. It would be different if the Texas or U.S. government was censoring people. Which in some cases they do but this is unrelated. Let me give you an example of how this might backfire on people with certain ideals. Remember a few years ago when Reddit had a problem with what was an underage section where users posted content that was completely legal but was brought under scrutiny by CNN? Well if a bill like this gets passed it would essentially give people who are interested in posting such content a free pass to sue reddit to allow their LEGAL content back on the site. Do you think that should be allowed? Even though Reddit removed the sections due to the bad fallout and loss of business from it? Do you think Facebook should be required to post content which they deem as a violation of thier terms of service just as Reddit has done? Hell GLP falls under this law as well. Some leftist group like ANTIFA could claim that GLP was discriminating them by removing their posts. This bill all sounds fine and dandy at first but it will end up biting a lot of people and businesses in the ass. If it's an open forum, you prefer to discriminate based on content? So you would be completely fine with Reddit allowing sections with such content back up? Because that is what will happen if something like this passes. Same goes for Facebook and Twitter. You see all of the things that you might deem bad and unsavory would also be protected under such an amendment to private business function. The 700 Club might have to start allowing Gay married couples to post their opinions to that website. I have tried to make my point as clear as I can. I do not support what the social media websites are doing but they have the right to operate freely and they have violated no laws. So what do I do? Stop using their services, simple as that. No need for "Government" intervention, they are not here to help you. |
