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A private company cannot be authoritarian. Authoritarianism is a form of government. BLM is not anti-democracy, while those who invaded the Capitol obviously ar
by hackyhacky 6y ago
A private company cannot be authoritarian. Authoritarianism is a form of government. BLM is not anti-democracy, while those who invaded the Capitol obviously are.
If you consider the silencing of organized threats to overthrow the US government by neo-Nazis and Confederates to be acts against "conservative voices," this tells us a lot about what "conservatism" means now.
- eplanit 6y agoWhen a private company acts in union with, on behalf of, and/or in support of the regime and its political objectives, it is part of the authoritarian system. I think you'd say the same of Twitter were it aligned with the right instead of the left.
- StellarTabi 6y ago> A private company cannot be authoritarian. Almost all private companies are authoritarian. Examples of non-authoritarian companies might include co-ops.
- jackthehammer 6y agoThen why does it feel like authoritarianism when Twitter and Facebook remove all content from and lock out the President of the United States and any of his supporters?