The Silicon Oligarchy
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The Silicon Oligarchy
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#2VECTORALISTS
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#3s/Silicon/Tech/
I thought this was going to be about Intel/TSMC/Samsung/GlobalFoundries. There's barely any Silicon in the valley anymore.
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#4I love this new narrative that allowing the president of the USA to communicate on the largest platform in the world is siding with him or being in alliance with him.
At least be honest and say that you want Zuckerberg to censor and police trump. That’s the truth. But don’t pretend that somehow it’s immoral to allow the US President to post on your platform. He’s the president, whether you like it or not.
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#5This is why it’s so important to avoid closed software and especially avoid software that depends on network services run by individual companies.
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#6I love this new narrative that allowing the president of the USA to communicate on the largest platform in the world is siding with him or being in alliance with him. At least be honest and say that you want Zuckerberg to censor and police trump. That’s the truth. But don’t pretend that somehow it’s immoral to allow the US President to post on your platform. He’s the president, whether you like it or not.
Do rules not apply to US presidents?
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#7I love this new narrative that allowing the president of the USA to communicate on the largest platform in the world is siding with him or being in alliance with him. At least be honest and say that you want Zuckerberg to censor and police trump. That’s the truth. But don’t pretend that somehow it’s immoral to allow the US President to post on your platform. He’s the president, whether you like it or not.
The President of the USA should be held to the same terms of service that are enforced against all other users.
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#8I love this new narrative that allowing the president of the USA to communicate on the largest platform in the world is siding with him or being in alliance with him. At least be honest and say that you want Zuckerberg to censor and police trump. That’s the truth. But don’t pretend that somehow it’s immoral to allow the US President to post on your platform. He’s the president, whether you like it or not.
I think it depends how you understand the president.
One view is authoritarian, a person with lots of power who can do whatever he wants.
The other view is democratic, a person employed by citizens to be a representative and have some managerial role.
In the second view, he should have (unless it's required by his job) exactly the same permissions as any other citizen.
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#9tl;dr: I'm from Turkey and "orange man bad"
So boring and unoriginal, missing one side completely and spinning it as unbiased, when it's borderline propaganda. C'mon.
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#10I love this new narrative that allowing the president of the USA to communicate on the largest platform in the world is siding with him or being in alliance with him. At least be honest and say that you want Zuckerberg to censor and police trump. That’s the truth. But don’t pretend that somehow it’s immoral to allow the US President to post on your platform. He’s the president, whether you like it or not.
Do rules not apply to US presidents?
In much the same way that even laws do not apply to anything said in Congress, because the power to control political debate is the power to control government.