Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine

So you want the big government to interfere with business? You want the government to mandate what you watch?
Make up your damned mind, fool.

Yes. If we don’t have a right to never be deleted in 2021, we don’t have a government and we don’t have rights.

You DON'T have a right never to be deleted. It's Facebook. They didn't even have to give you an account in the first place.

That is because the law was changed in 2011. You don’t know anything about anything. If you think deleting a public official, especially a president, is OK you do not deserve to live in America. You deserve to be abused and killed by the police for running a stop sign.

You're being a brat. It's a free private service with terms and conditions - f COURSE they're not obligated to give you anything.

It’s not a free private service. It is for profit big business. As big as any auto maker or computer company. None of these are free private services. Just like Apple has to not offend China if it wants to take advantage of slave labor — Facebook and Twitter have to appease the Chinese government if they want to sell their “free service.” These are multi billion dollar, multi national, publicly traded corporations at the top of the stock markets. They have replaced IBM and General Electric. They are silencing speech to appease China. Because if they don’t, they get banned from access to the Chinese market.

Facebook doesn't charge you. Twitter doesn't charge you. All they ask is that you agree to the terms of service. Grow up.

I hate to break the news to you, but terms of service is not the law. And it doesn’t allow corporations to break the law either. You are saying every time a huge corporation writes a TOS, you are bound to it. The next time you get a product recall notice, break out your terms of service or whatever other agreement you never read but signed “ok” on and tell me how a class action lawsuit is allowed when it violates the TOS. Grow up. Twitter has no right to silence the President of the United States. We are not free at all, if the media can decide to not publish or report reality. That’s the end of free access to information. Then, we’re China with a higher minimum wage.

No duh - the law says that Twitter is allowed to moderate their own content! YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO A TWITTER ACCOUNT!

It’s not their own content.

You literally agree that it is when you joined them.

Twitter deleted the 45th President because he was a pain in their ass and they finally had enough of him! They would have been well within their rights to give him the boot years ago.

Great. Cant wait til you get deleted from everything. If that could happen to a president, you can be deleted from everything. Your celebrating the end of your own rights.

You know who got deleted first? Trump. You know why? He broke the terms and conditions and I didn't.

Excellent. You are OK with the media imposing terms and conditions on your life. But you are against the government imposing terms and conditions on the media.

Do you have such little use for the gift of life that you can't see the difference between the terms and conditions on your use of Facebook and the terms and conditions on your life????

Do you have such little understanding of the world you live in today and how the media is part of every aspect of everything you do? Or are you still doing everything on paper and in person? Let me guess, you still have a bank book........

So are you suggesting that we should have a government-controlled social media platform?

No. I’m saying the FCC fairness doctrine should be reinacted. It was the Republicans that got Obama to get rid of it. It was a disastrous decision. And no, this is not playing a store Trump supporter. It’s about the media only reporting what is best for the media. Not the American people. That won’t end on January 21, 2021. It will only get worse.

Well you see, I'm a capitalist. Not a communist. I don't want the government to have complete control of all assets that are house within the country. I value free enterprise. I value the right to privacy. So there's that.

Me too. But some regulation is necessary. This new way of only telling the story best for the media company is terribly wrong.

"Some regulation is necessary."
Democrats have been saying that. Because they say that, they're called communists. Are you a communist?

Ok—-the megaphone company is free to ban you from using their product because they heard you say “F**k the Police” and “Black Lives Matter” on a YouTube video with one of their devices. And the tear gas company can ban the police because they support FTP and BLM. And Apple can ban you from using their phones because you used it to video the event where someone yelled FTP and BLM while the police sprayed them with tear gas.

There. You lose. Argument over.

Your phone company can indeed cut your phone service if you're abusing it, yes. That's ALWAYS been the case. You've never been able to force a company to give you a free phone service.

You are a moron clown. You would have to be living in China.

Some of us can eloquently display foolhearted misbelief to a degree that can only be considered religious.

So, you're playing the part of a Trump Supporter/Seditionist in satire?

Surprise, people have been banned over incendiary comments threatening the lives of police.

You need to take a civics class.
Saying "F*CK THE POLICE." is expressing a personal disposition of an establishment or aspect of government.
Repeating lies about the government which have not yet been proven in a court of _law_ , targeting people and calling them traitors, evil, liars, etc., is sowing social unrest and discourse that the companies hosting his rhetoric do not want to be party of, or potentially held liable.

Yeah, right, they are not companies run by billionaires, who are looking to make money. They are not for profit social services agencies. You wouldn’t even know where their billions of dollars in revenue even come from anymore. And since you hold an opinion religiously, no matter how opposite it is from the truth, you wouldn’t even consider that these companies are silencing speech in America because they want to make money in China. And China can ban them from selling their not for profit social services to their billion consumers if they allow speech in America that offends the Chinese Communist party. This is a fact. Not an opinion.

So, if Trump had the highest following on Twitter (90 million followers), why would they choose to ban him knowing it would be detrimental to their income? If they're all in league, facebook, Amazon, et al. Why would they all choose to do it?

Standing by for next conspiracy theory...

Because they want to make money in China. He sanctioned China for the first time. China will ban foreign media companies for permitting that type of speech. It is a blatant act of appeasement. Just like the American news media disputed the fact that Covid came from China. I watched whole shows on CNN where they claimed Covid 19 probably came from somewhere other than China. When Covid-19 first emerged, the Chinese media reported it all, right down to the name of “patient zero” who was an intern in the Wuhan Lab. Thereafter, the Chinese government invoked Chinese law and ordered all media companies in China to retract all reports on the origins of Covid-19. Numerous health officials and news people were arrested. Many were never seen again. The Chinese military literally took over. The girl who was patient zero disappeared. Everything about her was deleted from everything. Except her name in the students list of her school. She is completely gone. Never seen again. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is what happened. The only reason you are saying “conspiracy theory” is because you don’t believe that news can be deleted. You don’t realize that this is very common in China. And you don’t know that they can do this to American companies there. I was following the story before the pandemic. Once the crisis began, everything changed. A complete 180.

Because they want to make money in China.
>> Proof of causality?
He sanctioned China for the first time.
>> So?
[Long winded speech about China coupled with conjecture alleging extreme censorship]
What does China's speech laws have to do with]

>>Oh. My. God.

I can't believe I didn't see this.

It all makes sense.

The facts were staring me straight in the face and I didn't see it.

How could I be so stupid?

You've spun the conspiracy theory that China owns Twitter and all other social media platforms.

Rather than accept the widely accepted notion that Trump is just an incompetent egotistical megalomaniac drunk on power, you'd rather blame something else that you can't fix, rather than look a little closer to home and your judgement in character.

Your theory is based entirely on conjecture. You don't have access to the social media financial ledger. You don't know how much revenue they get from where. You're just following the narrative Trump put forth.

The f**kery is strong in this one.