well, they silenced at the same time lots of conservative voices, or shadow-banned them, try to select the sources of news, sorting out the conservative ones…
But isn’t shutting down the opposition a “value” to the campaign? Under that theory, these actions should be criminalized as FEC violations.
If it was actually occurring, and not just a figment of conservative victimization porn, than yes - an argument could be made as to it being an in-kind contribution.
No they didn’t. The perpetual victim complex of the far right has morphed into full blown paranoia.
If social media platforms are part of the opposition, then they should openly and honestly announce that, so that its officially for everyon they are using the platform of an affiliate of the DNC and that platforms should be treated as such
You want to shut down free speech ahead of an election? ■■■?
Corporations are people, haven’t you heard?
I think he is advocating more for a fairness doctrine.
That are only your pathetic excuses. I will not lonk here the testimony of Zuckerberg as he was asked about Diamond&Silk, the shadow ban of Matt Gaetz and many other examples like that, which have been already exposed. Its just kindergarten to claim now ‘dindu nufin’ and so on…
Don’t tell him that geez.
you mean like you guys are doing with the Trump crime family now?
No, he said FB, Twitter etc should be shut down for a month leading up to the election.
Only big banks and financial corporations are allowed to influence elections
owning a platform like that , where most of the people of the country have an account, many of them using it on a regular basis and trying to use that monopoly in order to manipulate elections, is an abuse of freedom of speech
btw, it was my opinion, what I would do. It isnt the issue of the thread
Thats off-topic, you discuss enogh on many other threads about Trump and his alleged crimes
Oh… well that is much better.
Actually… I wouldn’t mind the Twitter thing. The President would have to put his insane thoughts out there with prime time addresses from the Oval Office breaking into your prime time sitcoms of let’s say a remake of Archie Bunker because this is my scenario and I can do what I want but anyway say that they do a remake of that episode where Archie does blackface to get in good with a fraternity lodge that he wants to join and all of a sudden that gets interrupted with a special message from the Oval Office and all it is is the President at his desk which is strewn with coke cans and burger wrappers yelling “Witch Hunt!!!” Over and over for about five minutes.
That would be much more interesting than Twitter.
Or an Archie Bunker remake.
I think I might be coming around to this idea.
Oh for ■■■■ sakes. Give it a rest.
Pouring 10s if not 100’s of millions of dollars into a campaign by corporations in order to manipulate elections is an abuse of freedom of speech? You don’t seem to have a problem with that, unless you are suggesting Citizens United wasn’t a stupid ass decision.
No what you are saying is you don’t like that a corporation that doesn’t neccesarily support what you believe excercises that right so shut it down.
Sorry, it was the side you believe in that opened that can of worms, not you get to live in the bed that you made.
Nope. It’s not. No matter how you want to paint it.
You have a right to speech. You don’t have a right to a platform.
Next they will be suggesting that media organizations don’t report on elections or candidates 30 days before the election. You can see where it goes from there.
Comparing Citizen United to social media plaforms is like apples to oranges
Trump (flanked by Pence and Ryan): We’re going to be shutting down Facebook and Twitter for 30 days because we have an election in a month and we dont think those platforms have been fair to republicans…
I’m sure that would go over great.
