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• On the post: Surprise: Wall Street Journal Editorial Board (Correctly) Explains Why Florida’s & Texas’ Social Media Laws Are Horrible And Unconstitutional

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2024 @ 01:12pm

  Google offers their own cellphone service, "google fi wireless", so in this instance, google would be T-mobile

• On the post: Surprise: Wall Street Journal Editorial Board (Correctly) Explains Why Florida’s & Texas’ Social Media Laws Are Horrible And Unconstitutional

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2024 @ 12:27pm

  Google can blanket ban entire accounts across the entire Google ecosystem, based on content on Youtube, resulting in loss of all services.

• On the post: Surprise: Wall Street Journal Editorial Board (Correctly) Explains Why Florida’s & Texas’ Social Media Laws Are Horrible And Unconstitutional

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2024 @ 12:18pm

  Google is a common carrier

  So on one hand people in the government claim; that social media is so dangerous that we cant allow free enterprise, that misinformation is so important that there need to be federal officers and former federal officers embedded within the social media companies to monitor dangerous posts right? Isn’t that the entire premise of the CISA program itself that “social media” was under the prevue of federal cyber security response. Yet on the other hand you want to reject the possibility that the same industry of national importance, such as was the case when the railroads were providing the key means of transportation and were also private companies, that those companies are cannot be deemed to be “common carriers” such that they have to serve all customers without distinction?

• On the post: Surprise: Wall Street Journal Editorial Board (Correctly) Explains Why Florida’s & Texas’ Social Media Laws Are Horrible And Unconstitutional

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2024 @ 12:17pm

  Google is a common carrier

  Google was literally found guilty of antitrust, and under antitrust laws, companies can be forced to do business with people they don’t want to, and can be prohibited from their “free association” rights under the first amendment. The fact is that google: controls my telephone number controls my passwords controls my wireless phone service controls my emails controls my domain names controls my wallet (google pay) controls my medical records (google health) If google didn’t want to be a “common carrier” then they shouldn’t have vertically integrated their services into every aspect of the economy.

• On the post: The Right To Advertise?

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2024 @ 11:57am

  Common Carrier Cont.

  So on one hand people in the government claim; that social media is so dangerous that we cant allow free enterprise, that misinformation is so important that there need to be federal officers and former federal officers embedded within the social media companies to monitor dangerous posts right? Isn’t that the entire premise of the CISA program itself that “social media” was under the prevue of federal cyber security response. Yet on the other hand you want to reject the possibility that the same industry of national importance, such as was the case when the railroads were providing the key means of transportation and were also private companies, that those companies are cannot be deemed to be “common carriers” such that they have to serve all customers without distinction?

• On the post: The Right To Advertise?

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2024 @ 11:51am

  Google is a common carrier

  Google was literally found guilty of antitrust, and under antitrust laws, companies can be forced to do business with people they don't want to, and can be prohibited from their "free association" rights under the first amendment. The fact is that google: controls my telephone number controls my passwords controls my wireless phone service controls my emails controls my domain names controls my wallet (google pay) controls my medical records (google health) If google didn't want to be a "common carrier" then they shouldn't have vertically integrated their services into every aspect of the economy.

• On the post: Social Media Isn’t A Shopping Mall

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2024 @ 05:49pm

  So on one hand people in the government claim; that social media is so dangerous that we cant allow free enterprise, that misinformation is so important that there need to be federal officers and former federal officers embedded within the social media companies to monitor dangerous posts right? Isn't that the entire premise of the CISA program itself that "social media" was under the prevue of federal cyber security response. Yet on the other hand you want to reject the possibility that the same industry of national importance, such as was the case when the railroads were providing the key means of transportation and were also private companies, that those companies are cannot be deemed to be "common carriers" such that they have to serve all customers without distinction? Google lost a lawsuit alleging that it was engaging in anti-competitive practices, and their first amendment freedom of association and contract was in fact constrained, similarly the legislature of Texas wants to create a common carrier burden on the social media companies that limit their ability of association and contract. After all Google is literally in the money transmission business, in the public telecom business, advertising business, and so many vertical businesses that this anticompetitive condition was created in the first place.

• On the post: Social Media Isn’t A Shopping Mall

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2024 @ 02:54pm

  How can the government deem social media such a national security concern, that they have to try to stop tik tok because of Chinese "national security" concerns, and also embed government officials in all of the major tech companies for censorship? Because they're common carriers Google even loans and transmits people's money, how much more "common carrier" can you get than a literal licensed money transmitter?

• On the post: Free Speech Absolutist ExTwitter Suspends Navalny’s Widow’s Account After She Speaks Out, Blames Spam Tools

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2024 @ 02:48pm

  Mike Masnick gaslighting again

  False Equivalency, he knows that Pre-Elon Twitter wouldn't have ever fixed the problem or even talked about and been transparent to the public about it.

• On the post: Two Congressmen Introduce Law To Grant Copyright To Golf Course Design

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2024 @ 02:35pm

  They're upset

  that AI golf course designers are going to take their job.

• On the post: Thanks To Swedish Court Ruling, Google No Longer Notifying Publishers About ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Removals

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2024 @ 11:19am

  Who could have predicted this?

  It's almost like the people who benefit the most, are the powerful people who don't like getting caught lying, because they want to conflate the "right to be forgotten" (censorship) with "privacy".

• On the post: Social Media Isn’t A Shopping Mall

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2024 @ 09:27am

  Common Carrier

  Google controls: my passwords my telephone number my cellphone service my email service my domain names Is google a "information content provider" or a "common carrier"? Also google was just found guilty of antitrust, does anti-trust law also include "discrimination" prohibitions?

• On the post: Apparently Suing Non-Profits That Highlight Terrible Shit On ExTwitter Isn’t Scaring Off More Non-Profits From Reporting On Terrible Shit On ExTwitter

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2024 @ 10:16pm

  the New York Times absolutely could not sell him a subscription without violating U.S. law.

  So all you need to do to bypass the first amendment, is make laws regulating "services", because the first amendment doesn't protect services?

• On the post: Apparently Suing Non-Profits That Highlight Terrible Shit On ExTwitter Isn’t Scaring Off More Non-Profits From Reporting On Terrible Shit On ExTwitter

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2024 @ 01:05pm

  It can’t be that bad, most of the business world seems to get it right, most of the time. There are dozens of automated tools to do the bulk of the work.

  That doesn't change the nature of the constitution, the fact that there are "automated tools", doesn't change the fact that the government can't burden speech.

• On the post: Apparently Suing Non-Profits That Highlight Terrible Shit On ExTwitter Isn’t Scaring Off More Non-Profits From Reporting On Terrible Shit On ExTwitter

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2024 @ 01:03pm

  and accepting money from them in exchange for some form of service (which is very much against the law)

  Okay, and what is twitters "service" if not speech, you're literally arguing that its illegal for the New York Times to sell a news subscription to Vladmir Putin, because its a "service". Leftists and their mental gymnastics.

• On the post: Apparently Suing Non-Profits That Highlight Terrible Shit On ExTwitter Isn’t Scaring Off More Non-Profits From Reporting On Terrible Shit On ExTwitter

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2024 @ 12:59pm

  you keep deadnaming your own child, and not respecting their transition, so why should you be extended that courtesy?

  I dont know about you, but my parents chose my name at birth, and got to control that name until I turned 18. Moreover there is no such thing as a "transition" its called genital mutilation, and it was wrong when the abrahamics did it, and its wrong when the trans allies do it.

• On the post: Wyden: Data Broker Used Abortion Clinic Visitor Location Data To Help Send Targeted Misinformation To Vulnerable Women

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2024 @ 12:48pm

  Hint: Information, as in data, isn’t speech.

  this is hilarious that you want to lecture me on 1st amendment law, from such an absurd statement.

• On the post: Apparently Suing Non-Profits That Highlight Terrible Shit On ExTwitter Isn’t Scaring Off More Non-Profits From Reporting On Terrible Shit On ExTwitter

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2024 @ 11:08am

  Mike Masnick gaslighting again

  He claims that he supports free speech, as long as its not the free speech of a "sanctioned entity". The freedom of speech includes the freedom to listen, and I should be the one who gets to choose if I want to listen to Vladmir Putin on twitter, rather than the government.

• On the post: Wyden: Data Broker Used Abortion Clinic Visitor Location Data To Help Send Targeted Misinformation To Vulnerable Women

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2024 @ 11:02am

  Show me what abortion laws proposed do not make exceptions for rape , incest, and health of the mother... I'll wait.

• On the post: Wyden: Data Broker Used Abortion Clinic Visitor Location Data To Help Send Targeted Misinformation To Vulnerable Women

  

  endomorphosis ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2024 @ 11:01am

  The reason why we live in a patriarchal society, is precisely because of sexual dimorphism, and those societies are currently replacing our own, because they actually produce children. Abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism, its all just another way of saying "genetic dead end", and "cultural suicide".

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