White House Launches Site Where You Can Report Anti-Conservative Bias from Tech Giants

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should ISP’s be required to serve and be fair to all viewpoints in order to exist?

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  1. Starjet

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    Until banning the likes of Alex Jones turns into banning someone like Shapiro or Peterson or even Joe Rogan who might interview the "wrong" people. Liberals have suggested just conversing with someone means you support them, which is NUTS. Rogan talks about it all the time, after he had Jones on. He was getting accused of supporting him by simply giving him airtime. He had him on, just so you could hear him be crazy. The whole point is, you want people to speak, so that you have proof they're crazy or not. You can decide, "damn, he's nuts", and that's a GOOD thing. Listening to Alex Jones rant about B.S. doesn't make you any crazier than listening to MSNBC claim Trump was a Russian spy for the past 3 years. Is it really THAT different, a sitting president working for Russia? Not really. Equal levels of crazy there.

    Its the slippery slope we don't' want to go down, because it can slip in an instant. Its why we live here and not in China or even EU. We don't have a couple people deciding what is "OK".
     
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    I don't want censorship, I just think people I don't like shouldn't be allowed to speak.

    LOL.
     
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    Those wires were put in place with a government permit that prohibits them from discriminating. Just the same as the pipes the water companies and the wires that electric companies put in place. If water and electric companies aren'te allowed to discriminate who they sale services to, neither is an ISP.
     
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    Yeah, yeah, yeah--that's the old communist trick, we gave you the shirt on your back, you owe us your skin. (Makes me want to barf)

    You keep believing we owe our lives to others; I'll keep fighting to be free of the chains of altruism, statism, and collectivism. I'll keep fighting to be free to choose who I sell to, what I sell them, the price I charge, and how much obscene profit I can get for my genius.

    I'd rather be free to think, then chained to the state for the betterment of mankind.
     
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    it's for either party, recently Facebook banned millions of keto users for recommending the keto diet

    "Facebook Bans Millions of Keto Diet Followers"

    https://hvmn.com/podcast/banting-facebook-group-ft-rita-venter-ep-115

    "FaceBook Bans CrossFit For Advocating KETO DIET But Leaves DOCTORED Nancy Pelosi Video Up!"

    https://busy.org/@pressfortruth/l70gkprh

    "They did this because they felt that advocating for the Keto diet is unsafe and therefore they took the steps to remove the page. Crossfit’s response has been to remove itself entirely from FaceBooks services! Meanwhile a doctored video of house speaker Nancy Pelosi remains on the site as twitter users respond with "
     
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    agree for ISP that provide internet service, but sites like facebook are tricky as they are entitled to have a TOS, just like this site, but if they start banning sites that should not be banned, they risk people looking elsewhere, so they need to be careful
     
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    Google, twitter, facebook, youtube, etc.

    Many companies controlled by a few lefties.

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    Facebook is legaly considered a public forum. They do this because it gives them legal immunity for any illegal things that go on through their platform. As a public forum, facebook is legally prohibited from discriminating against any federally protected classes, or based on political or social ideology.

    But just to be clear, an ISP is an Internet Service Provider. A company that sells internet connections. Facebook is NOT an ISP.
     
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    "Righties" are too incompetent to control successful companies
     
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    Lets find out together.
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    Lol...So why would anyone support a wanna-be dictator like trump?
     
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    Perhaps if they show bias they can be considered a publisher. Then they can be sued for every libel on their platform. Perhaps they can be thus bankrupted.
     
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    Maybe, because he’s not a dictator?
     
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    they are a private members only club, they can legally discriminate, try to view their content without being a member, doesn't mean they should, but they can

    and I agree, they are not a ISP
     
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    That's right! And in a country with free speech they are allowed to quash it as they see fit.
     
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    If so then perhaps they could become open for libel suits by those who are libelled on their platform. It is more complicated then any of us may know.
     
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    He is not a dictator.

    Given that Leftists want to impose Totalitarian censorship and Tyranny, everyone who is against them should be supported.

    If Joseph Stalin was running against modern Left, he would have been the better choice.
     
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    they could be if they allowed the harassment and were notified and chose to allow it to continue, that is why they take down sites
     

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