Kinda jumping the gun,
I see what you did there.
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Kinda jumping the gun,
If your ISP decided to prevent you from posting or reading about certain, legal topics online, is that still not a 1st Amendment issue?
It is not.
There's an attack on free speech in this country. People are being forbidden from discussing certain topics when other people or groups don't like what's being talked about.
So, selling guns is the same as prostitution?
Or drugs?
Or automatically assuming since it is a firearm, it's stolen?
Yes, paying attention to the world around me instead of consuming what facebook feeds me makes me a troll, I admit it.
If your ISP decided to prevent you from posting or reading about certain, legal topics online, is that still not a 1st Amendment issue?
They do? I've never come across these...
Facebook? WTF are you even talking about? This post was about YouTube and Reddit. Or are they all part of the same conspiracy?
...and for the record, it's the ranting about "left of Marx" is what makes you a troll, not "paying attention to the world around you."
If it was CYA they wouldn't have videos of 14 year old girls showing how to shave their vagina with millions of views that could be construed as child porn. They've been systematically demonetizing, banning, and removing any content that isn't left of Marx for months now and guns are just the next step.
Oh look, the guy calling people trolls on an internet forum can't identify hyperbole. How surprising.
My point was this isn't new if you've been paying attention, even some of the video game and hardware channels I watch are getting hit just for using certain keywords that their AI picks up.
Then maybe say that, instead of posting a deliberately incendiary political rant? Crazy, I know, but if you don't want to be called a troll, don't troll.
Then make yourself your own community and stop relying on big companies to host it for you. Face it, the larger you are the more scrutiny you're going to be under and the more lawyers will be coming after you.I do. The issue is that as more and more entities decide what can or cannot be discussed, we run out of places to talk about certain things. This is suppression and, even if the government isn't enacting a law forbidding the speech itself, they're still enabling it. Pushing a topic underground doesn't solve anything.
That's why God made VPNs.If your ISP decided to prevent you from posting or reading about certain, legal topics online, is that still not a 1st Amendment issue?
Stop trying to dictate what I do, do you work for Youtube? Why does anyone with a different view than yours have to be a troll automatically? This is the exact issue we're dealing with.
That sucks. I guess all those .50 cal videos Kyle has linked to in the past will be deleted.
There is a ton of "Firearms related content" on youtube. I really liked the videos on classic firearms, firing WW1 and WW2 weapons.
Crazy that they will be taking all that content off line.
The problem is that when these "entities" are some of the largest corporations on planet earth that control a very large portion of what people see online ... I think we're starting to blur the line here of what constitutes our freedoms. With much smaller companies I can agree with you ... but we're not talking about a small company here. This company also has their OS running on hundreds of millions of devices throughout the world. They are very much embedded in everything we do. "Google it" is a common phrase now for simply searching for something online. They're taking over what we see and hear ... much like Facebook ... and these mega companies are picking and choosing what we can do online. This is very much beginning to infringe upon our rights as these gigantic companies continue to grow. I'm sure you can at least see the problem here. It's getting worse, not better. Whether it constitutes what the centuries old amendment states really isn't the point here. It's an issue that isn't going to go away. Private entity or not, these companies have far too much power and they are abusing it.
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I can see where you coming from, honestly, but I think the answer should and will be new competitors that will champion the 1st amendment.
Still occurs very much so with the news industry, even worse in those industries because you don't even have a voice there, and they can very easily push agendas by letting you see specific things. Which IMO, is way worse.The problem is that when these "entities" are some of the largest corporations on planet earth that control a very large portion of what people see online .
Unfortunately, I'm not seeing any of these supposed champions of free speech. At least not on the grand scale of these mega companies that are so eager to snuff it out.
Our freedom to express ourselves in the US is getting chipped away every day ...
I agree that is a problem, but it's unclear to me how that problem might be addressed in the case of private companies, who, for better or worse, have no duty to be fair.The problem social platforms in general have is their standards and policies governing content are often vague and violations are often selectively and subjectively enforced with little to no evidence of wrong doing other than someone reporting the content as a violation usually because they don't agree with it.
It is also a problem when you accept advertising money from people and then ban their content or change your applications to treat the content unfavorably in results.
This seems related to the case currently awaiting a decision from US Supreme Court on if a baker has to make a gay themed wedding cake. Is the suppression by Youtube and Reddit of discussion about legal activities an illegal violation of civil rights even though they are private companies?
If private companies like Reddit and Youtube are this concerned about these informative videos that help people to know how to use firearms in a correct way,
This seems related to the case currently awaiting a decision from US Supreme Court on if a baker has to make a gay themed wedding cake. Is the suppression by Youtube and Reddit of discussion about legal activities an illegal violation of civil rights even though they are private companies?