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It's not just big tech. It's pretty much every company that has any sort of business ties with the movement. It's really a bad example to point out because th

It's not just big tech. It's pretty much every company that has any sort of business ties with the movement. It's really a bad example to point out because this isn't a few monopolistic companies cutting off his voice. It's practically every company in existence.

user-the-name 6y ago
Shouldn't you be realising that saying that someone is "cutting off the voice" of the president of the United States by banning him from a website is more than a little bit ridiculous? There is no one on this planet who har a larger voice than him.
- Amezarak 6y ago
  > There is no one on this planet who har a larger voice than him. Nobody has a meaningful voice unless it is amplified by mass media. That includes the President. Television and radio have increasingly (since at least the Bush years, got much worse with Obama, and continued with Trump) chosen to ignore Presidential press conferences and addresses they didn't feel like covering, or heavily edited them, provided them only with their commentary, etc. That's one reason why politicians have increasingly turned to social media!
  - wtfiswiththis 6y ago
    The fact that Trump stopped press briefings because he already favored using his personal Twitter account for presidential business is a problem for him, not us.
croon 6y ago
> It's not just big tech. It's pretty much every company that has any sort of business ties with the movement. [...] It's practically every company in existence. If all the courts (including your own judges) are silencing "your movement", your own AG is silencing you, the guy in charge of election security is silencing you, "all" media is silencing you, experts, fact checkers, law scholars, now most of your party, and not just big tec, but "practically every company in existence", etc etc, maybe you're not being silenced, but are simply full of [expletive] and everyone's fed up with that and you should stop spewing it and solve the problem for everyone.
- bcrosby95 6y ago
  I agree with cutting off his voice. I never said they shouldn't. You seem to have agreed with everything I typed here. But it's nice to see tribalistic downvotes because of a perception of my "side" rather than based upon what I actually said. You're part of the problem. But I guess politics is the new religion.
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user-the-name 6y ago

Shouldn't you be realising that saying that someone is "cutting off the voice" of the president of the United States by banning him from a website is more than a little bit ridiculous? There is no one on this planet who har a larger voice than him.

Amezarak 6y ago
> There is no one on this planet who har a larger voice than him. Nobody has a meaningful voice unless it is amplified by mass media. That includes the President. Television and radio have increasingly (since at least the Bush years, got much worse with Obama, and continued with Trump) chosen to ignore Presidential press conferences and addresses they didn't feel like covering, or heavily edited them, provided them only with their commentary, etc. That's one reason why politicians have increasingly turned to social media!
- wtfiswiththis 6y ago
  The fact that Trump stopped press briefings because he already favored using his personal Twitter account for presidential business is a problem for him, not us.

croon 6y ago

> It's not just big tech. It's pretty much every company that has any sort of business ties with the movement. [...] It's practically every company in existence. If all the courts (including your own judges) are silencing "your movement", your own AG is silencing you, the guy in charge of election security is silencing you, "all" media is silencing you, experts, fact checkers, law scholars, now most of your party, and not just big tec, but "practically every company in existence", etc etc, maybe you're not being silenced, but are simply full of [expletive] and everyone's fed up with that and you should stop spewing it and solve the problem for everyone.

bcrosby95 6y ago
I agree with cutting off his voice. I never said they shouldn't. You seem to have agreed with everything I typed here. But it's nice to see tribalistic downvotes because of a perception of my "side" rather than based upon what I actually said. You're part of the problem. But I guess politics is the new religion.
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