3 ms·

>If the President of the United States is saying something, it is my right and duty to hear exactly what that is, verbatim, so I can appropriately participate i

>If the President of the United States is saying something, it is my right and duty to hear exactly what that is, verbatim, so I can appropriately participate in our democracy. Sure, you do have that right, it is only that it is not the responsibility of Twitter or Facebook to be the avenue through which the President communicates. Twitter and Facebook have, in my opinion, already bent over backwards trying to let the President say what he wished. The events yesterday basically forced them to make a policy decision: Protect the free speech of a person dangerous to our democracy, who will no longer be in power in a few weeks, or simply wash their hands of him? I am sure it is not too difficult to make a choice given the options. And in addition to all of this, why in God's name, if I did support your belief in a private corporation's obligaiton to run a private enterprise as a public institution, would I try to protect the President when he has done everything he can to cause __the exact__ incidents that Twitter and Facebook are explicitly denouncing his statements for inciting & supporting?

imgabe 6y ago
Today they're silencing the President in the name of preventing violence (highly questionable whether this achieves that goal with respect to a mob of people who believe there is a conspiracy among the media to silence them). Tomorrow maybe a Senator who calls for an antitrust investigation into Twitter or who questions labor practices at Amazon finds themselves mysteriously silenced for "hate speech". When it happens, just remember it was what you wanted.
- turndown 6y ago
  A Trump supported trying to talk to me about the importance of precedent? That'll be the day, that'll be the day. You don't get to support a person who has flouted every precedent they could find in their four years in office and then turn around and act as if you care, or even know the definition of, the word precdent.

imgabe 6y ago

Today they're silencing the President in the name of preventing violence (highly questionable whether this achieves that goal with respect to a mob of people who believe there is a conspiracy among the media to silence them). Tomorrow maybe a Senator who calls for an antitrust investigation into Twitter or who questions labor practices at Amazon finds themselves mysteriously silenced for "hate speech". When it happens, just remember it was what you wanted.

turndown 6y ago
A Trump supported trying to talk to me about the importance of precedent? That'll be the day, that'll be the day. You don't get to support a person who has flouted every precedent they could find in their four years in office and then turn around and act as if you care, or even know the definition of, the word precdent.