All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Malvolio]

In the case of Facebook and Twitter, both private companies, they get to decide what is appropriate for their platform. Just like CBR.

This. And clicking on "yes" without reading the service agreement is no excuse. I mean, sure we all do that, because who wants to spend half an hour reading pages of legal jargon? But most of the speech that violates the terms of service is usually just common sense. I know a few people who are often landing themselves in "Facebook jail," but they usually know that what they post in a fit of anger is a violation. A lot of these conservatives crying "censorship" are just disingenuously playing dumb.

[Gray Lensman]

This. And clicking on "yes" without reading the service agreement is no excuse. I mean, sure we all do that, because who wants to spend half an hour reading pages of legal jargon? But most of the speech that violates the terms of service is usually just common sense. I know a few people who are often landing themselves in "Facebook jail," but they usually know that what they post in a fit of anger is a violation. A lot of these conservatives crying "censorship" are just disingenuously playing dumb.

I don't even think it's that - the mentality of "Rules and Consequences are for OTHER People" has gone into overdrive with conservatives over the last several years.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I don't even think it's that - the mentality of "Rules and Consequences are for OTHER People" has gone into overdrive with conservatives over the last several years.

And when conservatives are called on the carpet for their assholery like “OTHER people”, they whine, bitch and moan like spoiled children denied candy before dinner.

[Kirby101]

https://www.editorandpublisher.com/s...ion-230,180554

The last paragraph is exactly what Fox News and Right Wing newspapers do every day without restrictions. What are you suggesting the Government does to intervene with Facebook and Twitter.

[numberthirty]

We all know what hate speech is. This is just another BS game the conservatives and Bernie bros play to excuse their hate.

There anything like current, credible proof that anything like this is actually happening?

[Tami]

A Texas man who killed a woman and shot her husband because they supported Joe Biden has been charged with murder

A Texas man has been charged with murdering a woman and shooting her husband because they voted for Joe Biden, reports say.

On 14 November 2020, Georgette Kauffman was shot and killed in her garage, and her husband Daniel was shot through their front door, but survived.

Police have now charged Joseph Angel Alvarez, 38, with the crime, after finding emails in which he admitted to targeting the Kauffmans because they had a Joe Biden flag and a "doll of Trump hanging" outside their house, documents show.

According to the affidavit, seen by local outlet KDBC-TV, Alvarez approached the Kaufmanns' home on Copper Avenue in El Paso, Texas, armed with a shotgun.

While investigating the murder, police obtained a search warrant that uncovered emails sent from Alvarez revealing his extreme political and religious views.

In an email to a US army intelligence group, Alvarez said abortions were "Jewish child sacrifice", and that "pro-choice" people were part of a "Jewish Satanist Party," according to KFOX14.

He also wrote that he believed Democrats were liars.

[numberthirty]

The last paragraph is exactly what Fox News and Right Wing newspapers do every day without restrictions. What are you suggesting the Government does to intervene with Facebook and Twitter.

Without giving you too much grief...

If this one was a snake, it would be about to bite you on the nose.

It is obviously an issue that what is in blue takes place.

Will it seriously make sense to just throw hands up and say "Well, can't be helped..." for every single time this sort of thing happens going forward?

[numberthirty]

Sanders was on CNN pointing out that someone should get on the stick about the three hundred a week not going away.

Edit:

Never mind that he didn't come up for the "Manchin..." bait when they tried to pick that fight. Instead, he pointed out that no Republicans seem to be supporting that three hundred staying in place.

Guy even said straight up "Don't make this a 'Bernie Sanders versus Joe Manchin...' issue..."

[WestPhillyPunisher]

A Texas man who killed a woman and shot her husband because they supported Joe Biden has been charged with murder

Only in Texas. Christ on a crutch. That entire crazy sauce state should go ahead an secede from the Union like they've been threatening to do for years.

[Tami]

Barrett concerned about public perception of Supreme Court

Uh huh.....

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett expressed concerns Sunday that the public may increasingly see the court as a partisan institution.

Justices must be “hyper vigilant to make sure they’re not letting personal biases creep into their decisions, since judges are people, too,” Barrett said at a lecture hosted by the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center.

Introduced by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who founded the center and played a key role in pushing through her confirmation in the last days of the Trump administration, Barrett spoke at length about her desire for others to see the Supreme Court as nonpartisan.

Hey baby, you want the public to see you as Non-Partisan? Then stop acting Partisan!!!! Either that or we should treat the SCOTUS as Partisan and start electing them into office like we do every other politician. Not that I really want to do this, but, how do we take the Political out of the Supreme Court?

[Xheight]

They think people are being banned for their political views when in reality they are being banned for breaking the platform's rules. How did the republicans become so detached from reality.

It is equally strange that once ardent civil liberties anti-capitalists now embrace the totalitarian impulses of corporate america and are all too quick to call for community to enforce norms where they once celebrated plays like the Crucible and read books like the Scarlet Letter. If Puritanism is the new reality then it is time to do something about it.

[Tami]

It is equally strange that once ardent civil liberties anti-capitalists now embrace the totalitarian impulses of corporate america and are all too quick to call for community to enforce norms where they once celebrated plays like the Crucible and read books like the Scarlet Letter. If Puritanism is the new reality then it is time to do something about it.

Given a choice, most Democrats want to regulate the *Bleep* out of Social Media and Similar companies. The preference is to create uniform standards that all should follow equally. But that has been a hard mountain to climb.

[Xheight]

There anything like current, credible proof that anything like this is actually happening?

yes, hate speech is just some speech some people hate to hear. No accident that counties with horrible records of state control are the ones that embrace such anti-pluralism. It is so much easier to direct thinking when everyone thinks the same.

[Xheight]

Woo talk about wrong direction - less regulation and more freedom is what people need to remain free and conversant. It might not look like a conversation to people in the middle of it but circumscribed speech is friendly to commercial interests not ideas.

[Xheight]

And when conservatives are called on the carpet for their assholery like “OTHER people”, they whine, bitch and moan like spoiled children denied candy before dinner.

That's really where the rubber meets the road though - it is NOT for anyone to call people out on violations of fabricated norms, that is a fiction of social media itself - that speech matters and equals dollars of ad revenue.