Oh Thank TechnoJesus. I was worried for a moment there.
If your a member of the Global Elite... There maybe a job for you at Facebook on their version of the Supreme Court!
Twitter asks: when should we cut off rule-breaking world leaders?
Twitter Inc said on Thursday it will seek public input on when and how it should ban world leaders, saying it was reviewing policy and considering whether the leaders should be held to the same rules as other users. Social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook Inc...www.reuters.com
Facebooks Oversight Board ordered the restoration of four out of five posts brought up to it for review on issues ranging from hate speech against Azerbaijanis on Facebook to breast camcer treatment pictures violating Instagrams no nudity policy...
The Oversight Board includes a former Prime Minister of Denmark and a former Editor of the Guardian newspaper.
Soon they will be reviewing Donald Trumps Facebook account and whether it should remain suspended.
The Republicans had their shot to take Big Tech to task, and they blew it. Now we all have to live with their (perhaps intentional) failure for the foreseeable future.If Biden falls down some stairs, Horizontal Kamala takes over and she is personally beholden to big tech.
Apparently Facebook and Twitter are still 'grappling' with how to deal with World leaders who allegedly violate their platforms rules.
The Republicans had their shot to take Big Tech to task, and they blew it. Now we all have to live with their (perhaps intentional) failure for the foreseeable future.
It's like the party is completely dedicated to defending corporate interests and giving up ground on everything else.It sucks that they decided to be stupid and not handle things.
The "world" part is the biggest issue here.Apparently Facebook and Twitter are still 'grappling' with how to deal with World leaders who allegedly violate their platforms rules.
And yeah, Facebook's 'Oversight' Board still hasn't decided on the whole Trump thing yet.
My response if I was a world leader is to tell them to fuck off and make my own social media.Apparently Facebook and Twitter are still 'grappling' with how to deal with World leaders who allegedly violate their platforms rules.
And yeah, Facebook's 'Oversight' Board still hasn't decided on the whole Trump thing yet.
It sucks that they decided to be stupid and not handle things.
Its going to be a rough 8-12 years because of that willfull weakness, but I also understand that sufficient arrogance is indigisable from stupidity and that Big tech is quite simply put that arrogant.
they will be put in their place, much bigger and more powerful companies then them were brought to heel in the past and I am convinced they will join them.
They were not stupid. Fact is, Republicans and Democrats are pro-big corporations, anti-free market first and foremost. Everything else is secondary. And besides, modern Republican party was formed by Democrat deserters. They are leftist, if not to the extent Democrats are.
Could you name some of these Democrat deserters?
Elizabeth Warren said:I didn’t write the loopholes you exploit,
@amazon
– your armies of lawyers and lobbyists did. But you bet I’ll fight to make you pay your fair share. And fight your union-busting. And fight to break up Big Tech so you’re not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets.
Amazon said:1/3 You make the tax laws
@SenWarren
; we just follow them. If you don’t like the laws you’ve created, by all means, change them. Here are the facts: Amazon has paid billions of dollars in corporate taxes over the past few years alone.
2/3 In 2020, we had another $1.7B in federal tax expense and that’s on top of the $18 billion we generated in sales taxes for states and localities in the U.S. Congress designed tax laws to encourage investment in the economy.
3/3 So what have we done about that? $350B in investments since 2010 & 400K new US jobs last year alone. And while you’re working on changing the tax code, can we please raise the federal minimum wage to $15?
If the corpos try to crawl back into our bed, let's remember what they did to us. And repay them ten-fold.Wow. The dems turning on tjier own making
Looks like opening salvos are being fired. Elizabeth Warren doesn't like it that people are allowed to send her "Snotty Tweets" and she's vowing to break up big tech so that won't happen anymore. Granted she seems to think it's Amazon that's making the laws allowing snotty tweets (Instead of, y'know, the Constitution) which makes little sense to me but she seems to have some sort of fight going on with Amazon anyway. It is amusing to see her getting so salty that Amazon dares to answer back with facts and figures when she's getting herself worked up into a nice moral outrage.
Ironically I think that social media that censors conservatives should be nationalized and taken away from their owners with no compensation. Sorry owners of Twitter but go screw yourselves.I would point out that this is something of a legitimate issue as the importance of social media platforms increases. On the one hand, they're private entities just like our own forum here, just on a larger scale. On the other hand, if they're being used in an official or semi-official capacity -- as Trump declared his Twitter was -- that arguably gets complicated.
I would be inclined to pass a rule that a government official *cannot* use private social media platforms in an official capacity, but that has its own issues.
In short, she's complaining that Big Tech isn't censorious enough. Why do I suspect this will just end in them ramping up the censorship?