Twitter is a company that is allowed to set whatever ridiculous rules they want. Just like you shouldn't be able to force someone to bake you a cake, you also can't force a business to be fair to you.
Originally Posted by Grace Preston
You're right. Laissez faire means the government doesn't get to interfere with business. So why does the left get to do it and the right doesn't? That baker effectively had his business ruined because two idiots came in looking for trouble. My point is that if one side gets to do it, then why can't the other? Especially when Twitter champions themselves as "free speech" supporters?
It is not the responsibility of Twitter to ensure an accurate narrative-- it is the responsibility of the voters to research.
You're right. And a lot people tend to get their information from social media, including twitter. And if twitter is censoring a certain candidate, that's effectively fraud, on a mass level.
Right now.. the Facebook pendulum seems to be swinging the other way-- where its ok to make comments about killing an entire race of people, but don't you dare insult someone for being Republican.
I haven't heard of this, but I do know that Zuckerburg has been getting more flack because he is speaking out against censoring, so good for him for the time being.. I guess.
It sucks on both ends-- but they are individual companies and can do whatever they wish in regards to the message they want to spread (much like CNN or Fox News, for example).
And yet, one side does it more.
The Trump camp was egotistical enough to believe that all those free ticket folk were real-- did it not occur to them that they were going to Tulsa... and perhaps something was more than just a little fishy? I mean-- they had more requests for a rally.. in Tulsa... during a "pandemic"... than they typically get in Houston. Or did they let their massive ego outweigh common sense?
I mean, it's Tulsa. Nothing to do there. And people have been so couped I'm sure they were looking for an excuse to go out. Not that this is the point. The point is, things can happen during logistics. Also, Houston is massively blue, so they probably wouldn't want to go in the first place.
AOC is just as bad as Trump in my book-- just in the opposite direction, politically.
Elaborate. Because AOC is routinely pushing the most lefty policies, calling everything racist, refusing to actually do anything worthwhile. I haven't seen Trump do anything that's that far off on the opposite end of the spectrum. Trump is actually pretty middle of the road in a lot of things, whereas, someone completely on the right would never talk about government intervention and whatnot, whereas, Trump feels it is called for at certain times.
I don't believe in censoring a candidate-- but I'm fully in support of vetting and fact checking statements made.
It's not up to twitter, Facebook, or any other social media outlet to "fact check" a political candidate. It's up to the media to provide these on their own outlet. And also, speaking of fact checking, the media also needs to be fact checked, even more than a politician.
Trump does like to bloviate-- and loves to stretch the truth to the outer limits in order to stir up the least educated members of his base. So does AOC, for that matter. Both are wrong for it.
Examples?