re: Check out this X post from Trump’s FCC Chairman nominee.

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It's odd that you are taking up for Big Tech

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I believe in freedom from forced governmental regulation and ensuring companies/individuals are free to make their own choices.

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and not the general public

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My standards apply to the general public, too. I don't want government using force against them, either, allowing them to make their own choices.

I seem to have more faith in the general public to make their own choices than you. You want a Nanny state to protect them and want to use fedgov to regulate business to do this.

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and calling that authoritarian.

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More government force = authoritarian.

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when the most fundamental right in this country is the core of the Big Tech business model

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Commercial speech?

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you are okay with them squashing Americans 1st Amendment rights

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How? How can Big Tech prevent a person from speaking their minds?

Relying on the contractual relationship between the parties (Service Agreement with the product Big Tech is selling) is a discussion of contractual law, not the 1st Amendment.

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because they are a private company?

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I believe private parties should be allowed to contract with extremely minimal government intrusion into the agreement.

Government should only be used to enforce those contracts.

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Did you miss all that time when the DHS and FBI employees were coordinating with Big Tech to quash right leaning voice circa 2020?

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Yes they restricted the use of their platform per their contract.

That didn't prevent those people from saying what they wanted; only using the resources and platform of the company to do so.

The government passed no law mandating this regulation on the population, generally. It was a dispute among private parties.

There is no right to Twitter or Facebook. Those relationships are based on contract.

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Your "above the fray" bullshite is tiresome because it always seems to go one way. Pontification from a false perspective is ineffective due to its transparency.

Well if you feel like the new FCC Chairman is going too far with holding Big Tech accountable because they are hiding their censorship behind the guise of "NewsGuard" that leans heavy on promoting communists propaganda from China then sue him and the FCC.

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Your "above the fray" bullshite is tiresome because it always seems to go one way. P

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I am an outspoken believer in freedom of trade/contract and individual property rights. That's not being "above the fray" that's a policy preference I made in 2005 and have never backed down from promoting.

That used to be the dominant policy preference on this board. It's not some radical idea outside of leftist echo chambers.

Some people maintain their principles.

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Next, require all 'journalists' to be licensed; Those who report the news should be restricted to facts (or penalized).

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Play that out to its logical conclusion.

Who determines what the facts are?

The Biden administration would’ve shutdown every right wing news outlet during his administration using politifact and other leftist fake fact checkers as their hammer.

I agree they should have to cite evidence like you would with a college term paper, but if you empower the government to decide what the truth is you’ll quickly end up with totalitarian propaganda.

Noted libertarian SFP sees no issue with government agents coercing corporate entities.

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Noted libertarian SFP sees no issue with government agents coercing corporate entities.

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Companies agreeing on their own = fine

Government using actual force (via regulation/legislation) = bad

Nothing wrong with private companies making their own choices. That's freedom and promotes libertarianism.

You’re on tilt.

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Lol. I assume that Fat Tony telling a restauranteur he “could die in a bomb blast” would be informational only and not amount to coercion.

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Talk about the sophistry you always like to reference

The regulations that exist between producer and consumer are that of contract. No force involved. A producer acting pursuant to that contract is private action. No government involved. None of this implicates the 1A in any way.

Making social media a utility is a huge expansion of government and erosion of the ability of private parties to make their own decisions. That's leftist-socialism bullshite.