Saw that on a group I belong to. The person is now trying desperately to show how Trump is part of a protected class. I shit you not.
“Shitgibbon” is, as of the present time, not a protected class.
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Yes, there should have been something done about that from Day One. He was allowed to get away with doing whatever he pleased in violation of TOS because of his privileged position of power and the many eyeballs he drew to the platforms. The different platforms are not really covering themselves in glory by acting now that they finally feel sure that he will go.
I love this, but we have seen the amazing ability of trumpsters to knowingly embrace double standards. The normal rules of philosophy, debate, and discourse simply do not apply.
Now I’m seeing “so if private businesses can do whatever they want, then they should be able to reopen whenever they want to!”.
The “logic” hurts my head.
Speaking of head-hurting logic, this maybe should go in a separate thread, but isn’t Trump’s revenge plan completely stupid? I mean, I know, I know. But it seems like his revenge plan is to make it easier for tech companies to be sued for hosting irresponsible assholes who say violent shit.
If that happens, won’t that mute his cult on every platform?
This is a much bigger deal than being booted out of the i-store and the play store. Do you use the Discourse App, or do you just use a web browser? I use both, but I wouldn’t be much inconvenienced by being restricted to using a browser.
But if they can’t find a web host, they are actually off-line.
Did that private business have a functional monopoly on the making of wedding cakes for the whole planet?
Look, oligarchs are bad, whether they’re corporate or political. Our system leads to this sort of clash of titans every now and then. When one fucked-up titan finally reins in an even more fucked-up titan, we hoi polloi can rejoice without sending valentines and blowjobs to the first titan.
No social media company has a monopoly. There are different features to each of them, but there are several ways you can share messages on a widely-used platform that are owned by different companies. Not a ton of different companies, but a few at least. When Facebook buys Twitter, then we might have a problem.
But isn’t that the whole incentive to become a titan in the first place?
No, AI… it will never understand nuances.
This snake bit my husband. Because he was there.
That snake is endangered and my husband reached toward it. It bit, he died or got really sick.
I don’t want to kill that snake. I just want it imprisoned. That snake. Not all snakes.
Sorry, I am coming from not just the latest Standing Rock debacle What Really Happened at Standing Rock | I Was There - YouTube
but also oh, so many “real tv” “hehehe, oh, so funny” videos and court cases. And the “it was Antifa”… interrupting the vote that Biden won? Uh, no.
(my husband wasn’t there.) (he’s white. I could have been there… not enough money to be there but I did give.)
My first impulse is that social media companies would move overseas. Then that got me wondering if there was a good place for such a move. I’m not sure.
I also wonder, given the different realities we talk about all the time, if such would allow a Trumpian CEO or FCC head to just entrench themselves even further.
Moving overseas won’t shield them. For example, American companies have to abide by GDPR rules. It might protect them if the source of the media is outside the US. Eg. if Twitter moves to Somalia and someone in North Korea tweets about Pres. Biden.
Even if they move overseas, Congress can still pass all sorts of legislation to mess with their ad revenue.
We’re all part of a protected class each and every one of us. But generally speaking, so long as you’re not discriminating against someone because they belong to a specific protected class it’s not illegal. Unfortunately, quite a few conservatives seem to think that being in a protected class (women and/or minorities at least) protects them from being fired or suffering the consequences of bad behavior.
Good question. No, twitter does not have a functional monopoly on its business. Look how quickly Parler was set up. Or look at the rapid growth of tictok. I find it surprising how easily new social media can start, frankly, but that’s healthy.
And of course, with respect to the president of the US, the big social media forms have even less of a functional olligopaly than with respect to your or me. The president can hold a press conference and the press will show up and broadcast his words. Other presidents have gotten large audiences for “fireside chats”, “press releases” and similar unfiltered communications. All those options remain.
Trump can always post on VKontakte (ВКонта́кте), the Russian equivalent of Twitter.
I’m sure Vladimir Putin will have no problem with that. 
And there’s also Weibo (微博) …