Well, I would note that there should unrestricted 1st amendment rights, for all 
for everyone. Even, yes, with globalist corporations. Pursuing people for 
non-work activities, yah even if they're nazis. My final solution is basically 
when nazis, or black israel, or antifa, come for you, for Darwin's sake, shoot 
back and be prepared. No conviction for the defenders for killing the 
assailment, whether it's an attack on a church, school, mosque, synagogue, or 
guest area for the American Association of Atheists. Shoot back, and shoot 
them, nazi or communist, if they wish to en-camp you.  

Beyond this, JC, I suspect that the US may break into separate zones, because 
our Weltiunshang, has become vastly divergent.

On Sunday, January 17, 2021 John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:26 AM spudboy100 via Everything List 
<[email protected]> wrote:


> As long as people can move to another site to say their piece, then there is 
> no issue.

Then there is no issue, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube didn't even exist 10 or 
15 years ago and we got along just fine and we didn't live in an Orwellian 
state. Even back then you could write a letter to the editor of a newspaper if 
you wanted to, but of course they were under no obligation to print it. If no 
Internet platform wants to publicize your harangue and no newspaper wants to 
print the thing then it must be because they all think what you're saying is 
evil or stupid or both. Of course maybe everybody else in the world is wrong 
and you're the only person that is correct, but then again maybe not. You might 
want to consider the possibility that there is another explanation.

> My fix would be to repeal fcc ruling 232 and permit lawsuits against carriers 
> like apple, google, etc. 

Rule 232 allows the president to impose import restrictions  “in such 
quantities or under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national 
security”. Trump used that As an excuse to limit Canadian aluminum imports 
because he claimed that Canada of all places posed a danger to national 
security! I think you mean rule 230, and in your approval of that you show a 
fundamental contradiction with everything you were saying before. Rule 230 
exempts Internet platforms from liability lawsuits arising from things being 
said on their platforms, and the Internet could not exist without it. How in 
the world are Internet platforms supposed to stop people from making libelous 
statements if they're not allowed to kick them off for doing so? How about cell 
phone companies, if two people have a wireless conversation about you or send 
each other libelous text messages should you be allowed to sue the cell phone 
company for allowing it? Trump very much wanted to repeal rule 230, but when 
Twitter banned him for making thousands of personal insults, thousands of 
factual errors including quack medical advice that could kill people, and 
thousands of flat out lies, he whined and threw a tantrum like a three-year-old 
girl having her favorite doll taken away.  

If you are as interested in free speech as I am then it's obvious what the fix 
is.  Get rid of ALL liability laws not just those that involve the Internet, 
get rid of all of them! I say let the free market of ideas determine what's 
true and what is not, and Internet companies and their policies are part of the 
free market of ideas. Of course this will not eliminate all injustice in the 
world, the free market can be wrong but it's more reliable than most things and 
there would be far less chance of massive abuse. I'm perfectly OK with a judge 
determining what is legal and what is illegal but not in determining what is 
true and what is false, and I don't want government to make that decision 
either because history has shown us what happens when they do have that power, 
and it's not pretty.  

> it's not clear that the government is the most powerful institution. 


It's crystal clear to me that government is the most powerful institution 
because government is the only entity that has the legal power to kill you or 
to put you in prison for the rest of your life.  That's why I'm very reluctant 
to give the government even more power, like the power to tell Internet 
companies what they can and cannot put on their platforms.


> On paper, the legislature has the most power, but in practice [...]

 In practice the legislature has given up most of its power to the executive 
branch, and that is to their shame. In practice the USA has been in many wars 
since 1945 but the Constitution says only the legislature can declare war and 
yet they haven't done that since 1941. So on paper the USA has been at peace 
for 76 years, but in practice not so much. 
 John K Clark

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