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When billionaires take control of our communication systems

Grandpappy said:
Joe is just slimy enough to stay in political office 40 years and not really accomplish much of anything.
Well, except giving his family a reason to extort money from foreign sources.
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*side eye at the $2 billion that Kushner just got from the Saudis*
 
Cope said:
You all is the derivative of all of you.
Everyone here, of course you can pull your posts decrying Twitter as being too big and needing to be broken up. I believe you.
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The point is that socialists have had a pretty coherent and position on stuff like this for a long time. I don’t care what hypocrisy you believe liberals are engaging in.
 
Craig234 said:
So, there's no law saying you can't talk to your neighbor, or what you can't say to them as an opinion (barring things like threats). But that has very little power. Our society has powerful media that changes millions of opinions - including social media especially, facebook, twitter, youtube etc.,, and media companies.

Media companies have always had issues where their small ownership had oversized power. From Hearst claiming he could take the US to war, to Henry Luce, to the 'elite' media figures who were solicited to a relationship with Allen Dulles, as he gave them the privilege of state secrets as they gave him public stories he wanted.

It's one thing when Jeff Bezos - selfish guy extraordinaire - buys the nation's #2 newspaper, in our capitol, as a whim, IIRC for $250 million of his well over $100 billion. That threatens great harm to the country's political culture - but has gone well so far as he has taken a hands off approach to abusing his ownership as far as we can tell. But he could change that anytime.

Not nearly as harmless is billionaire Rupert Murdoch's owning Fox, which was originally and more correctly called "GOP TV", a top propaganda tool greatly affecting and harming our political culture.

Now, there's Twitter. It's had a surprisingly large effect - trump got huge mileage out of it before it was banned, tweets sometimes play an important role in public discussion, they've created scandals for companies, CEO's and politicians, and so on.

But Twitter has played a largely 'neutral' role, trying to limit some problems like violence and misinformation, finally leading it to ban trump - but now Elon Musk has said he'd like to buy it.

The biggest problem in my opinion for our country is how the business part of the country collectively decided to use its huge wealth to buy political influence since the 1970's, greatly undermining democracy; when billionaires decide to buy the country's systems for communication and political discussion, that is a further threat to our political culture.

We can allow it - and risk becoming more like China, where speech is controlled by the powerful; our constitution limits the government's restrictions on speech, but when speech is dominated by private company systems, it offers no protection. You have the constitutional right to stand on the corner and talk to passers by - pointless.

We could somehow protect systems from being bought up and controlled by these billionaires; or we could use taxation to reduce their ability to do so. But since we're not doing any of that, now Twitter is the next system at risk for a billionaire who likes to troll in politics to be able to stick his nose into the national political culture, having a lot of power who can say what. Helping great wealth risk becoming more and more a force of tyranny.
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Twitter is Neutral my axx.

Poor leftists might have one of their many propaganda arms stolen by a libertarian. Cry me a river lol.
 
Nomad4Ever said:
The point is that socialists have had a pretty coherent and position on stuff like this for a long time. I don’t care what hypocrisy you believe liberals are engaging in.
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You don't believe it, or you want to dismiss it because they seem to more align with your side?

In either event, I will await the others of your tribe to come and decry the hypocrisy. (I know, I may be waiting a long long time)
 
RealityNow said:
People seem overly "Eager" for the Wealthy (Rich) to control everything, as long as the Rich are Leaning to support their Right Wing Ideology).
  • (This has always been acceptable to historically groomed "Serfs")
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It's time forThe Government to create Legislation for Regulatory Controls over Social Media Platforms) It must be Legislatitively Regulated as is any other business and organization.
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Yea the libs were so concerned all this time Twitter has been controlled by a billion aire lol
 
lurchadams said:
Alright. So I read this one, too. Here's the deal. Back in the 60's and 70's journalists/reporters were working class people. They worked their asses off, like Woodward and Bernstein.

Fast-forward to today. They're all rich, elitists, out of touch with real society.

That's my opinion. Does anyone else agree?
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To some extent a big YES, but really that applies more to the nationally syndicated star pundits and analysts more than to the typical journo.
But yes, when you get to or near the top of the food chain, in most cases these media personalities (which IS INDEED what they are - because they HAVE to be) are very
much catered to and "handled" by their parent corporation, for very obvious reasons of profit and ratings.
 
Maybe we have seen what a propaganda mahi
Crovax said:
ROFL 🤣

Dems had no issues with Twitter when it leaned democrat and was censoring mainly right wingers. The said oh its a private company. Now that a suspected right winger wants to buy it, there's a big fuss and it's a "media company" that can not do as it pleases.
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Maybe we have seen what a propaganda machine Fox has become under the thumb of a billionaire. We complain that the Russian civilians get only the news that their government allows, but with billionaires owning our major news outlets will our country be far behind?
 
Grandpappy said:
Joe is just slimy enough to stay in political office 40 years and not really accomplish much of anything.
Well, except giving his family a reason to extort money from foreign sources.
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Now that was a stupid post which said nothing and was filled with the same propaganda that Fox and the Russian are spreading. Just look at Russia and you will see what happens when a few rich own everything including the news.
 
Grandpappy said:
Joe is just slimy enough to stay in political office 40 years and not really accomplish much of anything.
Well, except giving his family a reason to extort money from foreign sources.
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IRRELEVANT!!!!!! to anything other than your personal envy and jealously, because he has done more with his life in helping American than you have. You only repeatedly demonstrate how little you know. Your ingrained bias seems to prevent you from learning .... I've seen your posting, you do nothing but come here repeatedly to attack something, to get your daily drama fix. Your love for self inflicted misery is well noted.
 
Simpletruther said:
Yea the libs were so concerned all this time Twitter has been controlled by a billion aire lol (Spin Drama Comment!!!)
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What people are concerned about is "MIS-INFORMATION".... if you'd followed news you'd know that.
 
What people are concerned about is "MIS-INFORMATION".... if you'd followed news you'd know that.

  • What All social media needs is a Fact Checking algorithm.

An Algorithm that auto deletes and replace posting with a big RED Banner, that says on it

This Poster (Handle/UserName) has posted:

  • Political False and Misleading Statement - (Require Political Statement, to require valid citation)
  • Legislative Mis-Information (Require Legislated Statements, to require valid citation)
Automatic Ban The Poster , make sure every Poster is Verified so they can't create a new profile, and they can be held liable for their commentary/posting.

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People need to learn what Freedom and Responsibility is:

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Freedom and Responsibility​

They are two parallel concepts that, at the same time, go hand in hand, because one leads to the other. This means that freedom can become a subject of responsibility. People are responsible for their actions in principle, because they decide on them and are their cause.
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Synonyms for responsibility
( Nothing is Free!!! ) -
Fredom_ It is the"natural faculty that man has to act in one way or another, and not to act, so he is responsible for his actions." But this freedom is not absolute

The word relates to "Responsibility", Respectfulness to Principles and Integrity of Honesty.
 
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