Plan B Forum

Sue U wrote:

wesw wrote:whatever, comrade.

It's not whatever. It makes a difference because in the real world where regulation occurs the facts actually matter. But you natter away in your wilful ignorance because you're too lazy to actually learn anything.

wesw wrote: you tube and other platforms use the public airwaves and public right of ways for their signals......

The entire premise here is categorcially wrong. Youtube and other "platforms" do NOT use public airwaves.

wesw wrote:they have become utilities, the primary forum for info and debate.

Whether Youtube or any platform is a medium for information and debate is irrelevant to whether they are "utilities," and they clearly are not. The Internet as a whole could be classified as a utility for FCC regulatory purposes, like telephone service used to be in the olden days, but the FCC is NOT pursuing that course.

wesw wrote:they also got special protection from lawsuits because they are "platforms", "public squares" and not "publishers"

This is absolutely false; Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and similar social media are NOT public forums ("public squares") but ARE PRIVATE forums. They do not have any "special protection" from lawsuits. However, because of they way they are operated, it is very difficult to get liability to attach to them under traditional principles of law.

wesw wrote:I heard it myself in congressional hearings.....

Either your hearing or your brain is broken, probably both.

wesw wrote:now...., they have said that they ARE ?publishers" and they censor views which they do not agree with or that they judge to be " offensive" or "dangerous"

they can t have it both ways.

They're not "having it both ways." As PRIVATE actors they can do what they want with their businesses. Why do you hate capitalism?

wesw wrote:perhaps we should take away their allotted portions of the digital spectrum, if they can t stomach free expression, within the law?

Social media are not "allotted" any portion of the digital spectrum; that's not how either technology or broadcast regulation works.

yeah, that is bullshit

But you natter away in your wilful ignorance because you're too lazy to actually learn anything.

wesw wrote:well, the internet comes thru the same cables at my house, the wi fi uses the same airwaves that are publc to get from my cable box to my 'puter

if these Public Utilities that are the tech giants want to use the cables , right of ways and airwaves, that are public, they must abide by the same rules as the above mentioned entities that use the samepublic avenues to reach us.

the phone company can t ban you and neither can youtube, if they use these right of ways cables and airways

can you see that view?

His primary rules were:  never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.