Canada Free Press: “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…”. The salient terms here are “Congress shall make no law”. The meaning of “abridge” at the time it was used in the 1st Amendment to the Constitution was “to deprive”. Thus, even though the actions by Internet giants Google, Facebook, Twitter, and all the other blatantly leftist social media corporations in censoring conservative content – read: pro-American, pro-capitalist, pro-Christian, pro-traditional values, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-Trump, etc. – clearly deprive us of our freedom of speech, the actions are constitutional, since the perps are companies and not Congress. Though these self-proclaimed arbiters of what is acceptable to say or discuss are depriving the majority of Americans – and do not doubt me, as R. Limbaugh says, we ARE the majority – of a venue to speak out, they are not included in the language of the 1st Amendment, and therefore, not covered.
We are faced with a similar problem in regard to the “mainstream” media. Technically, TeeVee “news”, both networks and cable, MSN, Yahoo, The Hill, Politico, all the failing “newspapers”, etc. are “the press”. Interestingly, the amendment has no definition of what “the press” is. If we applied the reasoning the idiotic, double-standard left tries to apply to the 2nd Amendment, that the Founders meant only the muskets in use in the late 1700s, then TeeVee, radio, the Internet, and all news
transmitted in any way, shape, or form other than ink on paper, including news sent by the far-left Associated Press, by telephone, telegraph, or fax, would not be covered. Hmmm…In any case, this so-called modern press is free to make up the most outrageously libelous and seditious lies and slander on a daily basis, without fear of curtailment or legal repercussions. Conundrums, indeed.
So, what can be done to stop this usurpation of freedom of the flow of information, this imposition of fascist brainwashing, social engineering, indoctrination, and propaganda on us? Time to follow the advice of trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt. Since in terms of mass communications we can only speak softly, let’s use our anti-trust laws as our Big Stick, and beat these fascists silly. read more
They better hurry up and get that kicked off. And they better put Face Book front a center. Yesterday was the California Republican Convention down in San Diego. There were a couple Conservative FB page owners there live streaming the event and speaking with people. One of them is a black guy and he’s attracting a lot of attention. He does a great job. I watched some of it yesterday and figured I’d watch the rest today. Except it’s all been deleted. Gone. Along with other peoples videos that were there doing the same thing. Tell me they are not fucking with the electoral process. The only way you would know what took place at that convention, and how great it was, is if you attended. These different forms of media that are involved in trying to change, or maybe maintain, the direction of our country have no problem sacrificing profits, or their businesses, to achieve their goals. We are in a civil war and we are not fighting back.
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I don’t like monopolies, but I’ve also never understood how breaking them up is any of the federal government’s business under the Constitution.
This would require congress to act. With the present leadership we have that just ain’t going to happen.
FaceBook (Instagram, WhatsApp and many more), Alphabet Inc (Google, Youtube and many more), Walt Disney Inc, Amazon.com, Time-Warner, ComCast etc etc. The list is huge where one company owns most of the assets in a vertical tower (Cable, TV Networks, Fim Production, TV Production, Internet hubs like HULU etc.
These companies essentially control what the population sees, hears and interacts on and three of the four currently big ones are of the same mind politically and use their power to shape what the population see in the news and on entertainment shows. They need to be broken up.
Perhaps it could have been argued, and I am not claiming that it could be argued persuasively or even in good faith, that before Mr. Lincoln’s annulment of various “problematic” portions of The Constitution, that state government agencies were not subject to laws affecting federal agencies. It is states, after all, that create (control, allow the continued existence of) “corporations” (and many other “non”-government organizations, as well — though in some areas the particular “non”-government organization may be created as an extension of a government organization that is, itself, under the control of the state, and thus federal, government).
But that was then, and this is now. There is only The Government, singular. If a state government has a county agency issue licenses, that does not make those licenses outside the rule of that state’s law. Agencies created by a state are not immune to federal law, even federal regulations, simply because the state level of the singular bureaucracy issued the paperwork (with the federal level’s blessing).
Mark Zuckerberg can claim, in the here and now (again, I am not claiming persuasively or even in good faith), that he has a right to determine what Mark Zuckerberg chooses to publish (and chooses to hide). But a state agency that does Mark Zuckerberg’s bidding, (because he has been selected to run it, because he has bribed whoever has been selected to run it, or simply because he paid — none dare call it “bribe” — someone to create it for him to run) is still a government entity. Yes, the (federal) EPA is different than the California EPA, which is different from the San Diego EPA (or do they call it “Sanitation Department”?). But claiming, in Mr. Lincoln’s post-America, that they are not all government agencies, deriving their “legitimacy” from Columbia, subject to the whims of Columbia, even existing only at the will of Columbia, is so far beyond absurd, it must be a — well let’s just call it a fake truth.
So why are government created agencies like Facebook and Twitter, California and Chicago, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, not subject to laws regulating other government created agencies? Other than that — actually written rule — the law is for thee, not we (unless, this time, we want it to be), rule of law thingy.