Net neutrality could cover the above.
It is not our responsibility to ensure that every lunatic, child abuser or whatever can have their content promoted via content platforms.
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Net neutrality could cover the above.
It is not our responsibility to ensure that every lunatic, child abuser or whatever can have their content promoted via content platforms.
I read things like this and it really makes me sad. I don’t agree with Steve Bannon or Rudy Giuliani on a lot of things. I also don’t agree with their equivalent person on the left. In fact I am skeptical of most “career politicians”. I really wish we could switch what politics is about. Currently we (meaning news channels and Twitter/internet folk) want to dunk on the other tribe and show them how wrong and stupid t…
> I also don’t agree with their equivalent person on the left. Just out of curiosity who is their equivalent person on the left? > Can’t we all try to find consensus and compromise? What consensus and compromise do you want when the President of the US wants to "find" the votes or when calls the rioters good people and we love you?
I read things like this and it really makes me sad. I don’t agree with Steve Bannon or Rudy Giuliani on a lot of things. I also don’t agree with their equivalent person on the left. In fact I am skeptical of most “career politicians”. I really wish we could switch what politics is about. Currently we (meaning news channels and Twitter/internet folk) want to dunk on the other tribe and show them how wrong and stupid t…
I read things like this and it really makes me sad. I don’t agree with Steve Bannon or Rudy Giuliani on a lot of things. I also don’t agree with their equivalent person on the left. In fact I am skeptical of most “career politicians”. I really wish we could switch what politics is about. Currently we (meaning news channels and Twitter/internet folk) want to dunk on the other tribe and show them how wrong and stupid t…
As an outsider, I've always understood it like this. The conservatives and right leaning people value individual rights and freedom. For example, they are against something like mandatory healthcare, because they might be perfectly healthy yet would have to pay to carry those who are not. Democrats and left leaning people on the other hand value a more general sense of freedom and health. They want to carry the weake…
The right values order and stability even if at the expense of those at the bottom.
I don't think either side is against compromise but first each side has to see where each other is coming from and that there is some value in the opposite view.
Demonizing and miscaracterizing the opposite view, and failing to actually see why they think how they do, is a big problem right now.
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> Can’t we all try to find consensus and compromise? Can you explain the compromise possible between "fighting the COVID 19 death toll should be based on science" and "Fauci should be beheaded"?
> Can you explain the compromise possible between "fighting the COVID 19 death toll should be based on science" and "Fauci should be beheaded"? Replacing Fauci with someone more scientific and less political would probably qualify.
Fauci is one of the most qualified and well respected scientist in the field - who had worked for democrat and republican presidents alike.
Which scientist who is both "more scientific" and "less political" would qualify in your view? How would you assess this?
There is an all out war right now from big-tech on conservative everything. Ushering in authoritarianism like its 1984. Parler blocked by iOS app store and google play, AWS removing their servers from its platform, youTube banning Bannon's podcast. There are plenty of people, groups, and politicians, for example the ayatollah of Iran, chinese state media etc that should pose far more of a threat to the world than som…
Many right wing folks have strongly benefited from YouTube and these platforms - including Trump. Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Prager U, Alex Jones...
All conservatives aren’t banned. This is a straw man. Bannon has called for violence many times - and violence has happened. No company is obligated to support this. He has his website Breitbart to continue his action.
If this were an “all out war” the others wouldn’t be benefiting from the YouTube algorithm of Twitter. It doesn’t seem like banning the open calling for violence is a feature of a dystopia.
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There is a categorical difference between looting your local big box store and attempting to overturn the results of a national democratic election through violence. Did you see the videos of the crowds shouting “hang mike pence” at the capital? The elected democratic mayors of the cities begged the crowds and the police to deescalate violence, and they sent help when called. The elected president of the US escalated…
An important distinction I've also noticed is that the burning down and looting done in riots this summer was an act of spontaneoud anger and rage, not a planned event in order to create fear. No one was planning the looting of a store three weeks in advance, and this is a really large difference being a riot representing the (unproductive) language of the unheard, and an insurrectionist plot.
The nightly riots in Portland and other cities were planned and organized in advance through messaging and social apps as well as with physical posters. You can find the screen caps and photos online if you look. There were also several instances where groups of people were arrested after crossing state lines to attend riots. Both sides have bad actors and no one is absolved. The main contention here seems to be that many people rightly want the law applied equally to both sides but there is a clear bias evidenced by the amnesia or blindness that people seem to be suffering regarding the last year.
How funny to have this coming from a country that advertises freedom of speech as its core values.
People with radical ideas and from the extreme ends of any spectrum deserve the be maintained in the conversation and deserve a voice. Always. The issue isn't they have a voice therefore banning them cannot be an acceptable solution. The large number of people that resonate with those extreme ideas are either in deer life conditions or massively uneducated. Why not start debugging the problem there?
Silencing voices is never a good idea. It's also quite a shame you allow Google/Youtube/Twitter/FB and other big commercial tech companies to decide on your behalf what is socially acceptable and what is not. These are the same companies training your brain with their apps to respond to their commercial interests.
Also, there is a gigantic space between demanding people to take any type of action and becoming violent. Maybe you should stop all Hollywood productions that involve people threatening/killing/inciting each other to commit acts of any sort of violence too.
Lastly, the American society, does cultivate from early days fanaticism. As a European that lived in US for the last 12 years you cannot not see this. Fanatical support for your local sports team, high school team, university, political party and/or faction, city and country is something that is being cultivated and developed from the youngest age. People take pride in bearing a label for generations the label being anything from political affiliation to sport team fans. Continuing the tradition is being perceived as more important than the ideals/ideas one stands for under that particular label.
The lies are 100% of the reason the capital riot happened, so yes, they do need to stop. Fox News lies every single day. What do we expect from a population of people that only hear these lies, day in and day out? They're going to react just like they did on 1/6.
I sometimes wonder how I would feel if my deliberate lies caused so many deaths. Maybe the profit would make up for the pain - or one could indulge in a fantasy that the destruction would ultimately improve the human condition. If my illusions were broken - even for a second - I would certainly die of shame.
Its hard to think about such dreadful things when you're on your yacht or golf course.
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Do you watch CNN? For about 2 years they had cnn playing on a tv near the break room, so as I refilled my water bottle, I got to see what cnn thought was the most important (Trump) news. They spent a week on how much diet soda he drank. They had experts on saying why it could cause mental problems and that they should use the 25th on him. They spent several days when he had 2 scoops of ice cream at a White House dinn…
There's stupid reporting and there's malicious one. Yeah, nobody can stop them from doing commentary on icecream. But also that's not the issue here, is it?