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Censorship and suppression have been outsourced to tech monopolies. The same tech monopolies that are protected by paid-off politicians. The monopolies provide protection for the powerful and wealthy (including China) that you so glibly dismiss as if it isn't happening.

Implying there's a free market is ludicrous. “Well, start your own ding-danged TwitBook!” We all saw what happened to Parler. The Constitution has been subverted and that's pretty clear to anyone who has the slightest idea what's going on.

This is where I'm at as well. I don't consider these private companies because:

1. They are publicly traded

2. They have said over and over that they are a public square and when everyone was locked at home, they became e
even more of a public square

3. They have a terms of service that is only applied for certain groups of people and not applied for others (Anti-White tweets from a New York Times editor, putting the covington kids in woodchippers from Hollywood people, etc) and when they do censor you, they don't tell you why

4. Some of these people are now working in the government, making these tech companies an arm of the Government. Like @hooptyuber said, the Government is going through these private companies to get rid of people they don't like, and the Media serves as their lapdogs. That is too much protection for these "so-called" private companies.

5. And this lab leak story that the media was talking about last week. It was news Last April but those people were brushed aside as conspiracy theorists.

This isn't a free market. If it was Parler would still be up in it's original form. Instead you have these "private" companies colluding with each other to keep in power and have monopolies on the Internet. That is dangerous in what should be a healthy functioning society.
 
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Coincidence that they’re rolling this out after President Trump was banned? Not to mention the number of users that either left or were banned. Guess maybe their daily active users are down…
 
This isn't a free market….you have these "private" companies colluding with each other to keep in power and have monopolies

this is exactly how the free market is meant to operate. those with wealth and power are free to consolidate and increase that wealth and power without any restraint

this is the inevitable outcome of free market capitalism
 
Censorship and suppression have been outsourced to tech monopolies. The same tech monopolies that are protected by paid-off politicians. The monopolies provide protection for the powerful and wealthy (including China) that you so glibly dismiss as if it isn't happening.

Implying there's a free market is ludicrous. “Well, start your own ding-danged TwitBook!” We all saw what happened to Parler. The Constitution has been subverted and that's pretty clear to anyone who has the slightest idea what's going on.
You not knowing the Constitution then using that lack to support a trendy narrative is on you. You have the right to spew hate and fake conspiracies, no private company can be forced to give you a megaphone. Their rights are just as important as yours. What happened to Parler was it’s own fault. Signing a contract then violating the terms has consequences.
 
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Censorship and suppression have been outsourced to tech monopolies. The same tech monopolies that are protected by paid-off politicians. The monopolies provide protection for the powerful and wealthy (including China) that you so glibly dismiss as if it isn't happening.

Implying there's a free market is ludicrous. “Well, start your own ding-danged TwitBook!” We all saw what happened to Parler. The Constitution has been subverted and that's pretty clear to anyone who has the slightest idea what's going on.

this is exactly how the free market is meant to operate. those with wealth and power are free to consolidate and increase that wealth and power without any restraint

do you want someone to step in and break up the monopolies the free market has created? are you looking to interfere with the operation of unfettered free market capitalism?
do you want the state to force private companies to publish certain content? sounds like some sort of socialism or communism to me ;)

also, i’m not sure where it says in the constitution that any private company is obliged to help you get your message out. it’s their right to free speech that allows them to deny you. you can’t have it both ways
 
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