Freedom of Speech takes a hit

[MikePal]

This is not an insignificant event...Apple, Google and Amazon have blocked the App for a social media service called 'Parler' .

Social network app Parler suspended from Apple App Store, Amazon web hosting service

Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc have suspended Parler from their respective App Store and web hosting service, saying the social networking service popular with many right-leaning social media users has not taken adequate measures to prevent the spread of posts inciting violence.

The action by Apple and Amazon follows a similar move by Alphabet Inc’s Google on Friday. Parler is favored by many supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump, who was permanently suspended from Twitter on Friday, and it is seen as a haven for people expelled from Twitter.

“We have suspended Parler from the App Store until they resolve these issues,” Apple said in a statement Saturday.

Good for him

On Parler, the app's chief executive John Matze said: "We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!"

The issue is discuss on this video, it's long , but you get the jist in the first 8 minutes during her opening.

[impact]

We now know the scope of things to come. Muzzle the population physically and electronically.
If you oppose, they will censor you. No room for honest debates and discussions.

[MikePal]

Something the world has criticized China for doing for years. Yet here we have it in "land of the Free"

Unfortunately because our Village Idiot is one who admires a dictatorship, I can see how this can happen..the first $800 miilon to the MSM was a start.

[kokes]

you either stand for free speech or you dont - the "tolerant" Libs and Left stand for it only when it fits there agenda.
This is a huge attack on the american 1st amendment freedom of free speech, yes some will say Twitter can do what it wants, but when the lamestream news networks are compromised is was the only channel left to communicate on.
If they can silence the President then can silence anyone, you, me, etc...


The First Amendment provides that Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise. It protects freedom of speech, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

[gbk]

Maybe it is the time to learn from former eastern European Countries.Once the communists were gone-the new "democratic"left (former communists)made sure ,they owned all the media.
So-when the center and the right realized the POWER of the media ,and complained : in the name of fairness-pluralism-access to information etc etc,the left should"share"the media(HOW NAIVE wish),the answer was :

If the right wants media-the right needs to buy himself a media!

[MikePal]

If the right wants media-the right needs to buy himself a media!

Much like our Rebel News...Ezra wanted a voice and was blocked , removed and banned anytime he was there to report when the Village Idiot was speaking. He had to take them to court (which he won) to get access as a reporter.

Two right-wing media organizations won a legal battle Monday to allow their correspondents to cover this week’s election debates, in a ruling they touted as a victory for freedom of the press.

A federal court judge in Toronto said Rebel Media and the True North Centre for Public Policy successfully established that they would suffer “irreparable harm” if denied access to the English-language leaders’ debate taking place in Gatineau, Que., and its French-language equivalent later this week.

[fishermccann]

There would be no trump, without Murdoch. If a bakery, does not have to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple........... private business, freedom of choice.........

[greatwhite]

They still block him and I believe he has taken them to court several times and won, then they just do it again.

Trudeau is not really one who believes that laws apply to Liberals. Most Liberal supporters believe he is above the law.

Much like our Rebel News...Ezra wanted a voice and was blocked , removed and banned anytime he was there to report when the Village Idiot was speaking. He had to take them to court (which he won) to get access as a reporter.

[MikePal]

There would be no trump, without Murdoch. If a bakery, does not have to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple........... private business, freedom of choice.........

you sure:

Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of News Corp., was reportedly opposed to Donald Trump becoming president.

The Hollywood Reporter's Michael Wolff writes in a new piece that "Murdoch instructed [then-Fox News CEO Roger] Ailes to tilt to anyone but Trump...even Hillary."

According to Wolff, the Murdoch family was not pleased with Ailes' support of Trump; this included, "not just the liberal sons...but also the father, whose tabloid, the New York Post, helped create Trump, but who found him now, with great snobbery, not of 'our' conservative class."

But he (personally ) supported Hillary and Obama..

[Fox]

The problem here is that freedom of speech is becoming misconstrued. The first amendment of the US constitution is where freedom of speech comes from, this is the actual text

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances"

The key here is Congress, this silencing of trumps outlets is not through congress. This is a guy using free platforms, for which he has agreed to a code of conduct and abiding by their rules, to express something that they do not want on their platforms. Is this censorship, yes, but it is through an online forum that is run by a company that decided what is being posted, not by the government.

There are other versions of social media that have grown recently that are outlets for right wing propaganda and they cannot be shut down by the government, they are also not run by an organization that does not want them there, so they remain.

People need to remember that freedom of speech only means that you cannot be prosecuted for your words, unless they incite violence, but your employer can fire your for wearing their company badge while you commit federal crimes. This forum can remove you or lock your thread if you do not abide by the rules.