This Is How You Handle Social Media Political Bias

zantax · 2020-03-02T14:28:43.716Z

Great. Political bias on social media platforms just became a bipartisan issue.

merickson · 2020-03-02T14:46:18.791Z

calirepub:

Sknyluv:

So wait. How is Twitter biased towards conservatives again?

I can’t think of a single social media platform, except for this forum, that isn’t biased against conservatives.

And Hillary won the popular vote by 3 million. Social media’s political tilt, electoral results, which is the chicken and which the egg.

WuWei · 2020-03-02T14:48:03.416Z

highroller:

Twitter should be regulated as a utility.

That’s ridiculous.

Munimula1 · 2020-03-02T14:52:02.002Z

You know, I have noticed that my Twitter feed is extremely leftie. I don’t understand it.

highroller · 2020-03-02T14:56:11.118Z

No, it’s not. The telephone system was regulated (until Clinton) and the social media sites are the followup to the telephone.

WuWei · 2020-03-02T14:56:34.054Z

highroller:

No, it’s not. The telephone system was regulated (until Clinton) and the social media sites are the followup to the telephone.

Yes, it is.

highroller · 2020-03-02T14:57:03.130Z

Whatever dude.

DougBH · 2020-03-02T14:59:31.634Z

highroller:

No, it’s not. The telephone system was regulated (until Clinton) and the social media sites are the followup to the telephone.

Hmmm… We could add a Department of Fair Media Representation. And you do trust Trump to appoint someone who would be fair, don’t you?

merickson · 2020-03-02T14:59:32.417Z

The phone company was regulated in regards to access, fees and how one got a telephone.

It was not regulated in regards to what one could say over the phone and, from that, restricting who had phone privileges.

highroller · 2020-03-02T15:01:35.705Z

I really don’t give ■■■■■ I’m just saying what could be done. You can have social democracy or feudalism.

Those are your choices.

DougBH · 2020-03-02T15:15:07.279Z

highroller:

I really don’t give ■■■■■ I’m just saying what could be done. You can have social democracy or feudalism.

Those are your choices.

No. There are a ton of options between your one or the other. China and Iran have worked some of those options out.

highroller · 2020-03-02T15:25:53.994Z

No there aren’t. You may be varying degrees of one or the other, but at the end of the day you are either moving towards social democracy or towards feudalism.

DougBH · 2020-03-02T15:28:45.672Z

highroller:

No there aren’t. You may be varying degrees of one or the other, but at the end of the day you are either moving towards social democracy or towards feudalism.

And would a government like China determining who is allowed to see or say whatever on the internet be an example of “social democracy”?

merickson · 2020-03-02T15:29:42.650Z

highroller:

No there aren’t. You may be varying degrees of one or the other, but at the end of the day you are either moving towards social democracy or towards feudalism.

I’m not necessarily agreeing, but if everything is along that line, where on that line is a good place to be. All the way at one end or the other is a lousy place. If we need to move in one direction a bit, which direction and how much. Thundering “socialism” or “feudalism” does nothing to answer that question.

WuWei · 2020-03-02T15:30:13.373Z

highroller:

Whatever dude.

Twitter is not the next evolution of the telephone. It is not a utility. It is an interface for the internet.

WuWei · 2020-03-02T15:31:26.569Z

highroller:

I really don’t give ■■■■■ I’m just saying what could be done. You can have social democracy or feudalism.

Those are your choices.

Again, ridiculous. Those are not the choices.

WuWei · 2020-03-02T15:32:10.405Z

highroller:

No there aren’t. You may be varying degrees of one or the other, but at the end of the day you are either moving towards social democracy or towards feudalism.

What is “social democracy”?

DougBH · 2020-03-02T15:36:07.938Z

WuWei:

highroller:

No there aren’t. You may be varying degrees of one or the other, but at the end of the day you are either moving towards social democracy or towards feudalism.

What is “social democracy”?

Why would you ask that? He clearly doesn’t understand the nature of feudalism so youre not likely to do better with “social democracy”.

MidwestIndy · 2020-03-02T15:37:14.699Z

calirepub:

Sknyluv:

So wait. How is Twitter biased towards conservatives again?

I can’t think of a single social media platform, except for this forum, that isn’t biased against conservatives.

Gaily Grind?

Smyrna · 2020-03-02T15:48:50.930Z

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