“Rights” fans are screeching that the Supreme decision on Twitter and FB destroys the constitution and ruins freedom of speech.
Sheer nonsense and crazy bullshit. The decision is precisely and fully correct by the original “constitution”. Freedom of press means that a publisher can censor and edit as much as it wants, for any reason including government persuasion. No complexities or contradictions involved.
FB and Twitter are publishers, not common carriers. They take in text and images, edit and censor them, and distribute copies of the text and images. Same as Gutenberg or Ben Franklin or Kellogg or Random House or Warner Brothers or CBS or any publisher in history.
A common carrier (roads, postal system, telegraph, telephone, web) carries text and images without editing or censoring them.
The only new thing is that the Supremes are getting pissed at the total failure of Congress. Nearly all of these hot issues DO NOT BELONG IN THE COURT. They are legislative decisions that should be made by the legislature. Fixing a car is the job of the carmaker. Fixing a program is the job of the programmer. Fixing a law is the job of the lawmakers.
Recently the Supremes have been tossing these warranty repairs back to the group that caused the error, and so far the “legislators” are stubbornly refusing to GET OFF THEIR ASS AND DO THEIR GODDAMN JOB.
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In this case even changing the web laws won’t change the basic economics. Big media obeys big government because it’s big. That’s all. A company that wants BIG global or national reach needs capital and loans and licensing and lawyers. All of those resources, especially the licensing, are servants of Deepstate. FB and Twitter are global, so they have to obey the least common denominator of many different governments.
Relatively open-minded magazines must remain small. Every independent journal relies on a benefactor or trust fund instead of Wall Street, and stays under the radar, typically with circulation less than 100k.
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