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Black guy gets kicked out of Starbucks - capitalism and free enterpriseFlimsy.
GOPer get temp ban on Facebook - 1st Amendment issue
Same basic situation except the 1st was unwarranted.
Someone tell Twitter that.
Black guy gets kicked out of Starbucks - capitalism and free enterprise
GOPer get temp ban on Facebook - 1st Amendment issue
Same basic situation except the 1st was unwarranted.
Facebook blocked the spread of a liberal article because a conservative told it to
How Facebook’s supposedly unbiased fact-checking can go very wrong.
Facebook, in an effort to deal with the fake news crisis, has given five news outlets the power to block the spread of articles they deem “false” on Facebook — empowering them, in essence, to act as the social media giant’s censors. They are the
Associated Press,
FactCheck.org,
Snopes,
PolitiFact, and
the Weekly Standard:
four nonpartisan outlets and one conservative one.
the liberal publication ThinkProgress published a piece on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing with
the headline “Brett Kavanaugh said he would kill Roe v. Wade and almost no one noticed.”
The fact-checker for the Weekly Standard ruled it was false.
Facebook’s punishment mechanism kicked in, and
the ThinkProgress article was cut off from being seen by about 80 percent of its potential Facebook audience.
The stakes here are high: Facebook provides about 10 to 15 percent of ThinkProgress’s traffic,
which means that getting choked off from readers there is a nontrivial hit to its readership.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...eekly-standard
Goddamn, FB is as stupid as it is incompetent and corrupt.
No. Different conventions. Different mediums. Different issues.
I'm telling you that.
Medium is irrelevant. What's relevant is that it's a private business and that your rights aren't infringed upon by service or lack thereof. Twitter can ban anyone it wants without violating any rights. Only the market punishes them for it, not the government. This becomes a gray area where content is concerned, it seems.
Well no, a black guy can't get kicked out for being black
Woods didn't get banned for being white or being conservative. What's your point?
Black guy got kicked out because he didn't buy anything. Woods got temp ban for spreading false narrative.
The medium is very relevant. Consumer space vs. cyber space are two different things. Nuisance laws apply in physical space in ways they don't apply online. I agree that online businesses have rights of control, but there's a mitigating factor when their business is the exchange of information not associated to products. People aren't signing up for FB or Twitter on the basis that they need them to tell them what they can and cannot say.
You said "black guy".
You could have just said "guy gets kicked out for not buying anything" but you didn't.
easy exercise: do you think if those black guys had been white that Starbucks would have sic'd the police on them?
blacks lose out, kicked out, suspected for 1000s things
eg, blacks get less aggressive cancer treatment than whites.
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There's no such laws. You should talk to your Congressmen about getting government involved to make laws to regulate FB and Twitter.
But then, because it's *government* that would be involved in regulating free speech, they would likely be violating the 1st Amendment.
Especially in light of Citizen's United, which established that private companies are people.
Well Starbucks caved in pretty fast on that one
LOL, Derp got fatalitied.
I could have just said "individual". Why did that trigger you? Let's discuss in another thread.
Yeah you could have said "individual". But you added black to it. I got triggered by you getting it wrong.
I can see this from your p.o.v. You tend to be a laughing stock.
Cuck still his bestie's joke.
Wrong. The Supreme Court has made numerous decisions on the application of free speech outside of government.
It's not my fault you got called out for making up again.
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