Hey, remember when a tan jacket was enough to have people claim you hate America? I feel like we need to block Trump from all media outlets to reinforce the notion that actually trying to overthrow the US government is a level of anti-American activity worthy of scorn and punishment.
The real problem here is that Trump is free. There is a serious problem with our justice system in that justice is insufficiently swift. Trump and all his allies should have been instantly incarcerated on January 6, 2021. It has been two years and that traitor is still free to spew his venom. He should be locked away with no access to any communication device. The same with Bannon and every other conspirator, and every Republican who voted not to certify Biden's election victory should have been ejected from office and every AG who signed that heinous letter should have been disbarred. There's a time to draw the line on due process, and when there's an insurrection attempt it's time to draw that line. Otherwise, the insurrectionists are free to continue their attempts.
Are you still on twitter and facebook? I left when Musk took over, knowing the right-wing shitshow that was about to commence, although not knowing how quickly. The people do have a say, we say with our engagement. Big follower accounts don't leave because of big followers numbers with the attention they provide. If those that oppose the alt-right's attempt to overthrow our democracy left, twitter would quickly join the importance of Parlar and Truth Social.
Eggs and Trump. Your posts yesterday and today were really about the same thing, the concentration of corporate power into the hands of a few, and it does not really matter who the heads of the corporation are, the point is the concentration of power. This includes, of course, the "military industrial complex". All need breaking up. We are under corporate thumbs even if we enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and yes even the freedom to bear arms in the context of a well-organized militia (though we usually leave out this last part!). Breaking up the corporate giants will not happen unless we can get the money out of politics. The thing Trump represents is big money. Trump disappears when money ceases to be the motive force of politics. To that end I think the most dangerous politician(s) in America is not Trump, it is those who control the money. Think Rick Scott, Glen Youngkin, Joe Manchin and their corporate cronies whose wealth resides in stock dividends. They really drive the system and are very hard to deal with in a reasoned way because the believe, in a social Darwinist mindset, that money proves that they are better than we are, right down to reproductive genetics.
The most important question is whether Trump or anyone has a Constitutionally protected right to have lies, false and misleading statements, for which they have no factual evidence of the truth of his statements, to be publicly distributed. Legal precedents support that false information in commercial speech can be regulated under the standard of being "truthful and non-misleading" to prevent the corrupt manipulation of consumer preference between companies and service providers. And of course libel and fraud have never been Constitutionally protected speech.
It is time for us to confirm that lies, false and misleading statements cannot be distributed by the social media platforms that today have greater public reach than traditional broadcast media. The originator of statements has the responsibility to present the factual evidence that their statements are true, and the platforms have the responsibility to review and agree that the evidence supports the truthfulness of the statement if it becomes broadly distributed via their algorithms. The law should hold each liable if these requirements aren't met. And this requirement should apply to all speech, including political, health care, educational policy, etc. False and misleading political speech is more damaging than false commercial speech in our society and we should confirm that false political this speech is not Constitutionally protected outside of the halls of Congress.
There is a new book being launched at the National Press Club on Washington on February 1. The title is "Discovering Truth" about this very issue, by a lifelong expert in the advertising industry's experience in the voluntary self-regulatory actions to implement the standards of truthful and non-misleading commercial speech.
This should be the focus of revising Secrion 230 of the Telecommunications Act this year. It would make the issue of Trump's presence on social media platforms irrelevant if this standard would be enforced.
Robert is wrong in saying, "America is still struggling with the damage Trump did to our democracy." The truth is, 'America is still struggling with the damage Trump is still doing to our democracy.'
No. the pathological liar and leader of an insurrection against our government should have a lifetime ban from Twitter and Facebook, but the avaricious Zuckerberg has already succumbed to Trump who probably paid him for re-admission from one of his phony fund raising accounts where the gullible send the crook money. Trump belongs in prison and on a GA work gang.
Trump is in the news every day! He doesn't need another platform! What is taking the justice department so long in locking him up? Anyone else would have been in prison long ago!!!
In my opinion ,he should be in jail.
Jane Bouvier
Hey, remember when a tan jacket was enough to have people claim you hate America? I feel like we need to block Trump from all media outlets to reinforce the notion that actually trying to overthrow the US government is a level of anti-American activity worthy of scorn and punishment.
Enforce anti-trust laws on the books. Close all tax loopholes. Reverse Citizens United because corporations are not human individuals.
No. He should be in jail like the other people in jail for January 6th.
The sooner Trump is in jail, the better. What’s taking so long???
The real problem here is that Trump is free. There is a serious problem with our justice system in that justice is insufficiently swift. Trump and all his allies should have been instantly incarcerated on January 6, 2021. It has been two years and that traitor is still free to spew his venom. He should be locked away with no access to any communication device. The same with Bannon and every other conspirator, and every Republican who voted not to certify Biden's election victory should have been ejected from office and every AG who signed that heinous letter should have been disbarred. There's a time to draw the line on due process, and when there's an insurrection attempt it's time to draw that line. Otherwise, the insurrectionists are free to continue their attempts.
Are you still on twitter and facebook? I left when Musk took over, knowing the right-wing shitshow that was about to commence, although not knowing how quickly. The people do have a say, we say with our engagement. Big follower accounts don't leave because of big followers numbers with the attention they provide. If those that oppose the alt-right's attempt to overthrow our democracy left, twitter would quickly join the importance of Parlar and Truth Social.
Eggs and Trump. Your posts yesterday and today were really about the same thing, the concentration of corporate power into the hands of a few, and it does not really matter who the heads of the corporation are, the point is the concentration of power. This includes, of course, the "military industrial complex". All need breaking up. We are under corporate thumbs even if we enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and yes even the freedom to bear arms in the context of a well-organized militia (though we usually leave out this last part!). Breaking up the corporate giants will not happen unless we can get the money out of politics. The thing Trump represents is big money. Trump disappears when money ceases to be the motive force of politics. To that end I think the most dangerous politician(s) in America is not Trump, it is those who control the money. Think Rick Scott, Glen Youngkin, Joe Manchin and their corporate cronies whose wealth resides in stock dividends. They really drive the system and are very hard to deal with in a reasoned way because the believe, in a social Darwinist mindset, that money proves that they are better than we are, right down to reproductive genetics.
The most important question is whether Trump or anyone has a Constitutionally protected right to have lies, false and misleading statements, for which they have no factual evidence of the truth of his statements, to be publicly distributed. Legal precedents support that false information in commercial speech can be regulated under the standard of being "truthful and non-misleading" to prevent the corrupt manipulation of consumer preference between companies and service providers. And of course libel and fraud have never been Constitutionally protected speech.
It is time for us to confirm that lies, false and misleading statements cannot be distributed by the social media platforms that today have greater public reach than traditional broadcast media. The originator of statements has the responsibility to present the factual evidence that their statements are true, and the platforms have the responsibility to review and agree that the evidence supports the truthfulness of the statement if it becomes broadly distributed via their algorithms. The law should hold each liable if these requirements aren't met. And this requirement should apply to all speech, including political, health care, educational policy, etc. False and misleading political speech is more damaging than false commercial speech in our society and we should confirm that false political this speech is not Constitutionally protected outside of the halls of Congress.
There is a new book being launched at the National Press Club on Washington on February 1. The title is "Discovering Truth" about this very issue, by a lifelong expert in the advertising industry's experience in the voluntary self-regulatory actions to implement the standards of truthful and non-misleading commercial speech.
This should be the focus of revising Secrion 230 of the Telecommunications Act this year. It would make the issue of Trump's presence on social media platforms irrelevant if this standard would be enforced.
Sincerely,
Robert Viney
Mason, OH
NO! Trump will never change. And if Garland does not speed up, we are in for chaos.
This looks like a purely financial decision by these social media darlings.
Absolutely not! It's bad enough that he's back on Twitter; we don't need his vile spouting on Facebook and Instagram.
Pardon me, but keep in mind, Meta is losing money.
GREED is the ONLY reason it is allowing #Turdking #MangoWanker back onto their platform
Robert is wrong in saying, "America is still struggling with the damage Trump did to our democracy." The truth is, 'America is still struggling with the damage Trump is still doing to our democracy.'
No. the pathological liar and leader of an insurrection against our government should have a lifetime ban from Twitter and Facebook, but the avaricious Zuckerberg has already succumbed to Trump who probably paid him for re-admission from one of his phony fund raising accounts where the gullible send the crook money. Trump belongs in prison and on a GA work gang.
Trump is in the news every day! He doesn't need another platform! What is taking the justice department so long in locking him up? Anyone else would have been in prison long ago!!!
He should not be able to spout his lies on any national medium. Very bad move for allowing him back!