Thread: The Leftist Tyranny of Twitter

Originally Posted by Checkerboard Strangler

One hundred percent absolutely relevant to your assertions that Twitter is "the public airwaves", which it isn't.
Now, if you wish to INSTEAD argue that a site like Twitter should BE REGARDED AS "the internet equivalent OF" a "public airwave spectrum user"...

Then I might even be tempted to say that your new argument actually has a lot of merit, if for no other reason than the fact that a site like Twitter is in point of fact operating as if it were such a thing.

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Growing pains, our data infrastructure is still, even in 2019, a new idea, and the data environment of 2019 doesn't even resemble what we originally started out with twenty-some years ago.

Simply put, Twitter is "private texting taken PUBLIC". It looks and operates a lot like private text messaging but it "broadcasts" those text messages to all subscribers instead of to one single recipient or small group of recipients.

But it doesn't change the fact that the entire infrastructure consists of servers which are corporate owned.
Even the actual "pipes" (copper, fiber and cellular) which carry it are corporate owned.

We gave up any and pretty much all chance to regulate those pipes as a utility just not too long ago.
And WHY did we lose that battle?

Because people like Jack Hays accused us of BEING LEFTISTS.
It was the so called "LEFTISTS" who WANTED a bit more regulation.

---Regulations which might have even served people like yourself a bit better.
Leftist tyranny MY ASS.

Use of the phrase "public airwaves" was a throwaway line unrelated to the thread topic. Sorry it made you unhinged.

Originally Posted by Jack Hays

Use of the phrase "public airwaves" was a throwaway line unrelated to the thread topic. Sorry it made you unhinged.

Your entire thread is throwaway material if you're going to hide behind that egg-proof barrier.
The title itself sounds unhinged right from the start.

Throwing out tropes like "LEFTIST TYRANNY!" is not only a bit unhinged, it's maudlin and Bircherite, bordering on hysteria.
Just think...maybe if a few of those tyrannical leftists had gotten a wee bit of respect for their arguments, it would have been possible to apply a quasi public utility approach to Twitter, Facebook, the whole lot of them.
It still would have been imperfect but it would have allowed a bit more control to organized campaigns that distort the way that these platforms can be used.

You refuse to even acknowledge the fact that your entire line of thinking, namely that "leftists" are somehow engaged in a tyrannical attempt to control a stockholder corporation, is false...and you've tripped over your own right wing jingoism.

Originally Posted by zimmer

Tell me, for what reason should the President be banned from twitter?

For what reasons should the right leaning voices listed be banned?

The Chief Twitter twit recently claimed (paraphrasing) 100% contrary to his Congressional testimony.

Seeing as that’s serious crime these days... perhaps they should get a SWAT team to his house early tomorrow morning.

Flamin' socialist. Wanting the guvmint to dictate policy to private companies. Move your commie ass to Venezuela.

Originally Posted by Checkerboard Strangler

Your entire thread is throwaway material if you're going to hide behind that egg-proof barrier.
The title itself sounds unhinged right from the start.

Throwing out tropes like "LEFTIST TYRANNY!" is not only a bit unhinged, it's maudlin and Bircherite, bordering on hysteria.
Just think...maybe if a few of those tyrannical leftists had gotten a wee bit of respect for their arguments, it would have been possible to apply a quasi public utility approach to Twitter, Facebook, the whole lot of them.
It still would have been imperfect but it would have allowed a bit more control to organized campaigns that distort the way that these platforms can be used.

You refuse to even acknowledge the fact that your entire line of thinking, namely that "leftists" are somehow engaged in a tyrannical attempt to control a stockholder corporation, is false...and you've tripped over your own right wing jingoism.

Read the thread before popping off.
Recent criticism of Omar by Dems makes my point.

Originally Posted by Jack Hays

Read the thread before popping off.
Recent criticism of Omar by Dems makes my point.

Oh you poor dear...can't take criticism, or correction, or learn, or even read or comprehend.
It's all leftist tyranny.
To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Take it up with the Twitter board of directors and then mull over what I said about net neutrality and the effort to define the data infrastructure services as utilities.

Which I am betting you won't and therefore I see no reason to read anything further from you or to respond.

Originally Posted by marke

Twitter has caused leftist liberal democrat propagandists a whole heap of problems. Trump has been driving the weenies crazy by sidestepping the monopolized democrat mainstream media and taking his unaltered and unedited message straight to the American people.

you mean his misspelled tweets of anger/lies/distortions/fake news? Because as we know the biggest pusher of fake news is the Orange Orc himself. The only reason it is unaltered and unedited is because the man is quite a few sandwiches short of a picnic/ a dozen cards short of a full deck.

When the history books are written about Trump he will be known for as the (hopefully) one term president who was known as the biggest presidential twitter liar/distorter of facts, famous for his complete disregard of being truthful.