Is big business a greater threat to freedom than the Biden regime?

Is big business a greater threat to freedom than the Biden regime?

  • Yes

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No

    Votes: 2 40.0%

  • They both pose equal threats to freedom

    Votes: 3 60.0%
  • Total voters
    5
  • Poll closed .
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Legion

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The First Amendment was written to limit the government’s power.

In the 18th century, only the state was conceived as possibly wielding the power to keep free people from speaking their minds.

Thus, if maintaining a free people requires free speech, it followed that the government must be kept from controlling speech. For a long time, no more was necessary, but that would change.

The government’s attempts to restrict free speech have mostly been rebuffed.

Some efforts, like the censorship at issue in the 2010 case of Citizens United v. FEC, nearly succeeded, but most failed and failed quickly. The struggle for free speech in law tends toward greater liberty.

Today, however, something novel is happening in America: private actors have become a greater threat to free speech than the government is.

Part of that comes from a laudable achievement — we have tamed free speech’s historical foe, the state.

But part also comes from the rise of new means of communication that not only displace the old, but are uniquely susceptible to monopolization in a way the old media were not.

That means that for the first time, corporate power might be a greater threat to our rights — especially our right to free speech — than the power wielded by the state.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/23/is-big-business-now-a-greater-threat-to-free-speech-than-government/

Discuss.
 
Legion said:
The First Amendment was written to limit the government’s power.

In the 18th century, only the state was conceived as possibly wielding the power to keep free people from speaking their minds.

Thus, if maintaining a free people requires free speech, it followed that the government must be kept from controlling speech. For a long time, no more was necessary, but that would change.

The government’s attempts to restrict free speech have mostly been rebuffed.

Some efforts, like the censorship at issue in the 2010 case of Citizens United v. FEC, nearly succeeded, but most failed and failed quickly. The struggle for free speech in law tends toward greater liberty.

Today, however, something novel is happening in America: private actors have become a greater threat to free speech than the government is.

Part of that comes from a laudable achievement — we have tamed free speech’s historical foe, the state.

But part also comes from the rise of new means of communication that not only displace the old, but are uniquely susceptible to monopolization in a way the old media were not.

That means that for the first time, corporate power might be a greater threat to our rights — especially our right to free speech — than the power wielded by the state.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/23/is-big-business-now-a-greater-threat-to-free-speech-than-government/

Discuss.
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In other words, the right is in a quagmire and angry because the corporate world they have long admired and used as a model has suddenly grown a conscience and isn’t following the script the right had in mind

And it was only a decade ago when the same right argue that corporations were people and had a right to express their views
 
Not long ago, there was considerable diversity not only in the sources of news and entertainment but also in the distribution of such things.

Not only have the sources of news been subject to consolidation, but they have become separated from the methods by which they reach us.

This vertical dis-integration might be seen as an antitrust success, except that the distribution methods are even more consolidated than the news sources.

The “distribution sources” in question are the social media giants of Facebook and Twitter, along with less powerful players in the field like Reddit and LinkedIn.

Instagram and WhatsApp are also cited as delivery methods for news, but they are both owned by Facebook.

Consolidation across Silicon Valley has narrowed the players in Big Tech to about half a dozen: Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
 
Legion said:
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The First Amendment was written to limit the government’s power.

In the 18th century, only the state was conceived as possibly wielding the power to keep free people from speaking their minds.

Thus, if maintaining a free people requires free speech, it followed that the government must be kept from controlling speech. For a long time, no more was necessary, but that would change.

The government’s attempts to restrict free speech have mostly been rebuffed.

Some efforts, like the censorship at issue in the 2010 case of Citizens United v. FEC, nearly succeeded, but most failed and failed quickly. The struggle for free speech in law tends toward greater liberty.

Today, however, something novel is happening in America: private actors have become a greater threat to free speech than the government is.

Part of that comes from a laudable achievement — we have tamed free speech’s historical foe, the state.

But part also comes from the rise of new means of communication that not only displace the old, but are uniquely susceptible to monopolization in a way the old media were not.

That means that for the first time, corporate power might be a greater threat to our rights — especially our right to free speech — than the power wielded by the state.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/23/is-big-business-now-a-greater-threat-to-free-speech-than-government/

Discuss.
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Your link doesn’t work ass boil
 
archives said:
In other words, the right is in a quagmire and angry because the corporate world they have long admired and used as a model has suddenly grown a conscience and isn’t following the script the right had in mind

And it was only a decade ago when the same right argue that corporations were people and had a right to express their views
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Remember ally the crap about a CEO president who would run the government like a corporation


Exactly what the founders DIDNT WANT
 
The Republican Party needs the corporate donations to survive



I hope they keep trashing corporations
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Big business cannot arrest you, put you in prison, or take everything you own on a whim. Government can.
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It's apparent that "woke" corporations are being "advised" by the Biden regime. Payment processors and banks are refusing to serve customers whose politics aren't "woke".

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/silicon-valley-social-media-companies-censors/

Corporations are refusing to hire applicants who aren't "woke".

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/0...criminate-against-whites-in-new-hires-944404/

Corporations are monitoring their existing employees and punishing the ones who aren't "woke".

https://www.lawyer-monthly.com/2018/02/can-you-be-fired-for-being-conservative/

All perfectly constitutional.

Some people are not distracted by the distinction of government and non-government.
 
Don't question big business, trumpanzees.
They're the ones who pull your trumpanzee strings.
Mouth off too much and they'll drop a Brinks truck on you.

Amazing how these sub-human mutants don't even know who their masters are.
 
Legion said:
Not long ago, there was considerable diversity not only in the sources of news and entertainment but also in the distribution of such things.

Not only have the sources of news been subject to consolidation, but they have become separated from the methods by which they reach us.

This vertical dis-integration might be seen as an antitrust success, except that the distribution methods are even more consolidated than the news sources.

The “distribution sources” in question are the social media giants of Facebook and Twitter, along with less powerful players in the field like Reddit and LinkedIn.

Instagram and WhatsApp are also cited as delivery methods for news, but they are both owned by Facebook.

Consolidation across Silicon Valley has narrowed the players in Big Tech to about half a dozen: Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
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And another useless troll from the master of lot lizards, and his fellow master baiters.
 
Silicon Valley’s behemoth companies are incapable of steering through the cross-pressures pushing them to censor more.

These pressures come from social activists working on them through threatened boycotts, it comes from activists among their own employees and on their boards.

These pressures come from centrist and liberal-leaning governments, which increasingly blame social media companies for their electoral failures. And surely these pressures also come from corporations who want to buy advertising on these massive platforms.


https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/silicon-valley-social-media-companies-censors/
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Big business cannot arrest you, put you in prison, or take everything you own on a whim. Government can.
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But your kind of fool loved the corporate world when it came to taxes, and you supported a decrease in their tax rate at the expense of the working man. And it mattered not if that working person lost their home, and lives on the streets. Remember too how the Repugnant ones loved corporate America when they were boycotting No. Carolina over their homosexual laws.
 
"Woke" Americans, especially the young, increasingly are intolerant of speech that they hate.

Instead of the liberty and courage that men like Brandeis extolled, they seek to decide public questions with private force.

Milton and Locke would recognize the methods from their own times, although the actors and questions debated have changed.
 
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