[1A] The Free Speech Thread

[actaeon277]

[video=youtube;DpdnzWV3sYI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpdnzWV3sYI[/video]

 

[2A_Tom]

Catching up to Britten.

[video=youtube;bnIaLoSlFWg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnIaLoSlFWg[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

Well, it's not "free speech", but it is about the media.

Huffpo just laid off the opinion staff.

[video=youtube;2ekPvq9U1ug]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ekPvq9U1ug[/video]

 

[KLB]

Well, it's not "free speech", but it is about the media.

Huffpo just laid off the opinion staff.

[video=youtube;2ekPvq9U1ug]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ekPvq9U1ug[/video]

Wouldn't that be everyone?

 

[actaeon277]

Wouldn't that be everyone?

The way they are carrying on, you'd think so.
They are just opinion writers. Talking about how the democracy will now fail.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Joe Rogan is talking to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDqXcWN5w18

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Lot of people *****ed about Joe going "soft" on Jack Dorsey. So he's apparently going to have Jack back on to cover more controversial issues of censorship and deplatforming on Twitter.

 

[jamil]

Lot of people *****ed about Joe going "soft" on Jack Dorsey. So he's apparently going to have Jack back on to cover more controversial issues of censorship and deplatforming on Twitter.

I can see why Rogan softballed Jack. It’s better to give these social media ceo’s a platform to explain themselves, but it can’t be too confrontational or they’ll just quit doing it. Besides, Jack revealed a lot and it wasn’t as favorable as I assume he thiught it would be. The bit about not knowing the specific offense that caused Alex Jones to be banned was very revealing. He knew the reason. He can’t not have known the reason. His company was being mobbed by the masses demanding Jones be deplatformed. There’s no way he didn’t know the reason. The problem for Jack was that he couldn’t give the reason because it would contradict what he just said about how they determine to ban someone.

I do think it would be useful for Rogan to have Jack back on and get into the inconsistencies and get a commitment from Jack to have a clear policy and enforce it consistently. There is no excuse that people are banned from twitter without twitter being able to point to the specific tweets which got them banned, and explain exactly how that violated terms of service.

I still have no idea which tweets from Carl Benjamin got him banned. Yet a journo can say he wants a kid he disagrees with to be thrown in a wood chipper and not only is that guy not banned. The tweet is still there. Granted. The guy apologized. But did Sargon have the opportunity to apologize for whatever it was that he did? I don’t think he was ever told how he violated TOS.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

On the topic of Alex Jones, Joe went on a rant about him yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B93fUUiuwMs

He did a lot of Twitter talk in his Redban episode. Feel a bit bad for Redban... barely had a chance to talk. Here he is talking about Kathy Griffin's behavior, including her comments about Sandmann:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdbX3kngkXs

And here he is apologizing, in general, for the Jack Dorsey episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE8SygTC_NQ

 

[KLB]

Lot of people *****ed about Joe going "soft" on Jack Dorsey. So he's apparently going to have Jack back on to cover more controversial issues of censorship and deplatforming on Twitter.

People *****. It's what they do.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Buzzfeed is whining that "Twitter is allowing" the image of the Democrat women with KKK robes.

Ban all memes!

How is this different than images that depict Trump as Hitler?

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1093287723958394880

 

[actaeon277]

Buzzfeed is whining that "Twitter is allowing" the image of the Democrat women with KKK robes.

Ban all memes!

How is this different than images that depict Trump as Hitler?

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1093287723958394880

Well, one side is them.
One side is us.

Of course, your question was rhetorical.

 

[Dead Duck]

INGO SUCKS!

 

[ArcadiaGP]

New Jersey's AG is threatening criminal charges in order to get Codeisfreespeech.com deleted from the internet. The gun rights groups behind it are suing him on First Amendment grounds in federal court.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

So many threads this could fit in.

Chinese Censorship Company Invests Millions in Reddit

I'm torn.

Reddit is a crate full of cancer. I wish for nothing more than it's slow, painful death... and this might actually be the start of it.

On the other hand...

Chinese influence on American websites is mildly infuriating.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Well, one side is them.
One side is us.

Of course, your question was rhetorical.

Nah, one is true, and the other false... depending on your tribe, lol

 

[ArcadiaGP]

So many threads this could fit in.

Chinese Censorship Company Invests Millions in Reddit

I'm seeing some pretty strong counter to this on Reddit. People getting posts to the very top about things that are censored in China, including a massive thread right now about the Tienanmen Square massacres.

 

[MCgrease08]

More nonsense coming out of the mouth of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, this time in an interview with Sam Harris.

Twitter CEO: ‘I don’t believe that we can afford to take a neutral stance anymore.’

First, it's a joke to try and pretend that Twitter has taken anything resembling a "neutral stance" in recent years.

And second, it's clear Dorsey isn't fully aware of the ambiguous policies or what's led to some of the high-profile bans we've seen lately.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Facebook is thinking about removing anti-vaccination content as backlash intensifies over the spread of misinformation on the social network

This entire anti-vax situation right now is 100% manufactured. I watched it get born, the memes grow, the news articles follow, the screeching... it was created and nurtured to become the story it is now.

There are people out there injecting "news" into the internet to spearhead legislation or emotion.

 

[2A_Tom]

So some free exchange of ideas "should" be quashed? Or am I misunderstanding your post?