#1
He's right. But they can't have their cake and eat it too - Section 230. They can't censor and at the same time claim protection from libel suits because they are not controlling content (censoring.)
"Former President Obama and his wife Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground, is ending its deal with streaming platform Spotify and reportedly exploring other options for a new podcast deal.
In a statement on Thursday, an Spotify spokesperson told The Hill that it has declined to extend its deal with the production company but said its content “i s expected to remain available on Spotify.”
The deal between High Ground and Spotify is expected to end this fall."
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04/22/2022 8:46 Comments ||
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#4
So it is OK to censor, delete or ban commentary when a Social MEDIA Company supports a different Political Agenda or Party?
Also, by taking sides the Social MEDIA companies are no longer protected by the 1st either, as they are politically aligned,by publishing and controlling commentary to meet their agenda.
#5
^ Note the Yahoo headline seems like Obamas made the decision. Nope. Spotify thought the Zeros would be actually, ya know, doing something other than just getting paid. Big Mike apparently refused to do work, like actual podcasts.
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/22/2022 8:48 Comments ||
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#6
^ There's what's wrong with capitalism right there. Expecting value for your dollar is such a nazi / white supremacist stance.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/22/2022 9:17 Comments ||
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“The First Amendment is a check on the power of the state. It doesn’t apply to private companies like Facebook and Twitter,” he said, calling for more “value judgements” on content moderation and censorship on social media.
Companies have the right to continue or cease business with clients they do or do not agree with morally. Interesting take.
(takes a bit of cake)
“Our brains aren’t accustomed to taking in this much information this fast, and a lot of us are experiencing overload,” he said.
Sorry your heads are full of bong water and box wine.
As the greatest lawyer since Cicero, could I ask what your opinion is on "In the Spirit of the Law"?
#8
The problem with "content moderation" is who gets to do the moderating. Good luck if you trust Baraq to do it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/22/2022 11:53 Comments ||
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#9
A POS empty suit. He is not black, he is mullatto and why so many were fooled by him I cannot understand. Oh! he ran against McCain and Romney. A light goes on in my feeble brain.
[REDSTATE] On Wednesday, the Florida Senate passed a bill to abolish the “Reedy Creek Improvement District." This "improvement district" was created to benefit the Disney corporation in 1967. Today, the Florida House of Representatives passed the bill and sent it to Governor Ron DeSantis ...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president... for signature.
The bill passed by the legislature on Thursday would eliminate the Reedy Creek Improvement District, as the Disney government is known, as well as a handful of other similar districts by June 2023. The measure does allow for the districts to be reestablished, leaving an avenue to renegotiate its future. It now moves to DeSantis’ office to be signed into law.
#4
It was never a "tax avoidance scam". It was a deal to support economic development in an area that was swamps and orange groves before Walt came looking.
Disney shareholders should be suing the board and executives for the stunts that cost the company the arrangement.
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04/22/2022 13:31 Comments ||
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#5
It'll be interesting what the building inspectors find...
Garry Reid, the DoD's Director for Defense Intelligence, was recently dismissed from his duties after an Inspector General investigation into his misconduct
Complaints against Reid included claims he was having an affair with a subordinate, sexually harassed staff, and interfered with a secret UFO program
Former staffer Luis 'Lue' Elizondo claims in an exclusive interview that Reid was allegedly ousted for a spat over UFOs - and will be replaced by his alleged mistress, Tara Jones
Jones is named only as Employee 1 in an April 2020 IG report which found evidence of an 'inappropriate relationship and favoritism' but not a sexual affair
But Elizondo claims it wasn't until the IG investigated his complaints of Reid's alleged vendetta and smear campaign against him that Reid was dismissed
Last May Elizondo filed a separate 64-page complaint to the Department of Defense's Inspector General alleging a coordinated effort to discredit him
Elizondo shot to fame in 2017 after helping leak extraordinary videos from of tic tac-shaped UFOs moving with incredible speed and agility near aircraft carriers
#3
Trump is living rent-free in Voldemort Groluling4088's tiny head :-)
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/22/2022 6:51 Comments ||
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#4
Explain the moral difference, if any, between resigning because one does not agree with policy direction, and resigning because the team leader is insufferable.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/22/2022 11:57 Comments ||
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#6
Don't you understand? She can't be bargained with. She can't be reasoned with. She doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And she absolutely will not stop... ever, until you get head!
[Breitbart] The Biden administration is trying to blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for the country’s economic woes, but it is President Biden who is responsible for inflation and may plunge America into a recession, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on Thursday.
Speaking at the Destin Harbor Boardwalk, where he announced the extension of the Sunshine State’s red snapper season, DeSantis provided a reality check to the Biden administration, which refuses to take responsibility for menacing economic issues — such as rampant inflation — plaguing the country during Biden’s presidency.
"If you look what he did when he came in, decided to print trillions and trillions of dollars, and the result of that has been the worst inflation that we’ve seen in this country in four decades," DeSantis said, emphasizing the toll it is placing on Americans.
"It’s killing people all across the board to have to pay so much for gasoline, have to pay so much for bills, have to pay so much for food ... and they say it’s 8.5 percent, but if you look at the things that matter, it’s gone up way more than that," he said of inflation, as the prices of key goods have gone up well over 8.5 percent.
[JustTheNews] new complaint to the Georgia State Election Board alleges that more than 300,000 ballots were unreliably recorded on unverified early voting poll closing tapes in Fulton County, Georgia in the 2020 election.
"Fulton County's Advance Voting poll closing tapes are a fraudulent, un-certified, unsigned, and un-checked false representation of over 311,000 ballots that no court could legally accept," the complaint alleges.
The December 2020 recount in Georgia determined that President Joe Biden won by just 11,779 votes over former President Donald Trump.
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#2
Yours is certainly one opinion, Voldemort Groluling4088. And if you are indeed correct, the investigation will embarrass itself mightily by finding nothing, which will shut up those Trumpsters nicely. Let’s together loudly encourage them to waste their time and destroy their cause, hmm?
#5
BTW: What was the OFFICIAL outcome of the GBI / Fulton Co. Investigation of the 5,000 Illegally printed pre-voted absentee ballots, just needing a name applied?
Stacy Abram's campaign, it seems, had GA absentee ballots professionally printed.
These phony Absentee Ballots were found in a rental car at the Atlanta Airport, that was returned by a Stacy Abrams Campaign Worker returning home to NY.
Why are we still waiting on GA-GBI/Atlanta PD to FULLY release the findings.
#6
They can find all the irregularities they want but it is (and always was) impossible to prove fraud actually changed the election. It was however, possible for Congress to refuse to certify the election because of the irregularities, but of course asking them to do that is a 'coup' attempt.
Exposing the fraud, though, has been and would continue to be a win.
Slightly off topic, there has been some talk about Title 42, especially from the greatest politician in history, successor and surpasser of Cicero Obama, Monsenior Brandon de Tapioca, and of keeping it intact. I find it interesting this consideration comes on the heels of Latinos really, really not liking the government's current tack and the leftist embrace of destroying their culture, linguistic and religious.
#13
You should have to give just as much ID to vote as you do to buy a gun.
Driver's license is all the ID you need for that. But then there's a background check. I have no problem with those either. Could be a problem for illegal border-crossers who are issued DLs by lefty state gummints, though.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/22/2022 13:08 Comments ||
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#14
And for all the imaginary people living in post office boxes and dead people, which is the point. And someplaces now demand a matching thumbprint to buy a gun, I don't mind that if we can apply it to voting.
But voter fraud is treason and should be punished by death. I don't care who does it, what party they belong to, or how 'important' they are. If you can do the fraud, you can splatter the wall.
[AOL] During a town hall meeting with constituents on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., warned that something like the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot could happen again — and that the insurrection was thwarted only because Democrats controlled the House of Representatives.
"This is no joke. Jan. 6 was a trial run, and a lot of people don’t seem to understand that," Ocasio-Cortez said. "It was a trial run."
The storming of the Capitol by a violent mob of then-President Donald Trump's supporters as Congress was in the process of certifying Joe Biden’s victory left multiple people dead and over 140 officers injured. More than 750 people have been charged by the Justice Department in connection with the riot.
"They’re going to come back," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And if [Republicans] take the House, then they have the votes to not authorize and legitimize the presidential election.
"The only reason it wasn’t worse was because Democrats had the House," she added. "And [Republicans] didn’t have the votes in the House."
#2
I can agree to the part where the Fed's planted 30+ people in the crowd to direct and steer vocal but peaceful protesters into committing illegal activities they would not have committed.
eg. Congressional Police opening doors and 5th column planted persons steering (entrapment) the curious into the house chambers.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[JustTheNews] new complaint to the Georgia State Election Board alleges that more than 300,000 ballots were unreliably recorded on unverified early voting poll closing tapes in 
[AOL] During a town hall meeting with constituents on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., warned that something like the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot could happen again — and that the insurrection was thwarted only because Democrats controlled the House of Representatives..png)
