Your and Doc's hypotheticals of ten million or 100 million view are not serious. Damages in 99.99% of the cases are going to be so negligible that no attorney is every going to take on the case.
bawhahaha Anything published by either of them is bunk.
Demonstrated political bias is 'a feeling'? No. The political bias demonstrated is factual.
It is also bunk to dismiss the power the social media platforms capacity to manipulate.
It's a problem because you don't like how it's done, and you can vote with your feet and not let the door hit you on the ass on your way out. It's not a problem legally. Part of free speech means the government cannot require my platform to air a particular kind of speech, or really any kind of speech. The government mandating equal time or some bureaucrat's arbitrary notion of "fairness" on my private property would be a huge infringement on my freedoms.
I have no idea what you mean by those comments. What is "this" that's not how DP moderators make decisions? If it's that they allow most political views, that's true. But they don't allow other views clearly protected by the 1A if censored by government, which is what the 1A restricts. Racists get the boot if they're too obvious, which is good. DP can ban you or me for any reason or no reason, delete any post they want for any reason or no reason, and there's nothing we can do. That is a GREAT thing, IMO. The alternative is we can sue, or complain to the FCC and subject them to audits or other damages, all because we aren't happy with how they run their own place. It's their business how they run it, not mine or yours. We play here or not, our choice. We properly have no say on the rules here.
Because they are not government. That is why.
That is because you choose not to see it.
We had anti-trust laws on the books for decades. Ask Ronald Reagan what happened to them.
I seriously doubt you know more than two conservatives. Your propensity for deliberately lying has already been well established.
No one blocked "serious" content. They blocked stupid shit aimed at even stupider people.
Sure it does. The only thing they would be responsible for is their addition, not the shared material.
Most other private corporations have when operating in the same manner as the social media sites. If the site is deemed a social media site, those sites have those protections. Name a private corporation that runs a similar site that does not have those protections.
No. The entire reason for the exception in the law is to make them not accountable for that which is posted on their site. Tabloid magazines are always being sued for what they post. But normal sites that allow such things to be posted by users on their sites are not held accountable for what their users post. So if that rule is removed, then those social media sites would be held accountable for what others post on their site. So they could be sued the same as tabloids for some user reposting a story from a tabloid on their site.
Private companies can be as inconsistent as they want. There is no law that requires consistency from them. Otherwise major news networks could be sued for inconsistency, investigated for inconsistency.
Yes. I would expect it. Why would I join a site that has a conservative political bias and not expect to get censored based on that bias? If I were to join the Blaze site or Parler, I would expect some bias in their business operations to lean conservative. Even Facebook sees far more conservative posts and posters posting than liberals. But it is a private company. I wouldn't complain about it. I am using their platforms for free, choosing to use it.
There actually is a condition that impairs a person's ability to recognize faces (not saying he is being truthful about this, only that it does exist).
www.nhs.uk
Having been in the military and from NC, I know a lot of conservatives. Hell I live with some, who are also on facebook. My facebook feed is full of conservative stories and nonsense they post. I have far more conservative posts and crap covering my feed than liberal (although I still have liberal posts and even some crap as well).
