Originally Posted by
husaberg
Ya wasting your time anytime something happens he doesn't like he cries communism or nazi or undemocratic. or all three.
Yes, isn't it funny how Undemocratic, Communist and Fascist frequently share the same bed...
Originally Posted by
husaberg
He goes on with the rights of individuals and companies to stay or do what they like..... unless its something he doesn't like what they do, like ban trump from twitter etc etc etc
I do - and in case you've forgotten, Free Speech is one of those rights.
As for Twitter et al, There are two issues at play - one is the unequal application of the rules, I mean, Donald Trump was yeeted from the platform, but the Taliban still had Twitter accounts...
The second is Quasi public spaces, whereby the Supreme Court has ruled that if a privately owned space has all the functionality of a Public space, then the protection of the 1st Amendment applies:
"the more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it. The Court continued, Whether a corporation or a municipality owns or possesses the town[,] the public in either case has an identical interest in the functioning of the community in such manner that the channels of communication remain free."
Now, whether or not you believe Twitter and social media at large to be covered by that is up to your interpretation, however the key thing here is 'opens up his property for use by the public in general' - which to me definitely describes Facebook, Youtube, Twitter - since for all three, an account is not required to view and there is no fee to join.
Further to that, the 1st Amendment was written to protect anywhere that political speech was taking place in the public domain - which definitely describes Twitter.
And you'll also note (because you're an idiot with a short memory) that Trump was prohibited, by the Federal Court - from blocking people on his twitter account under the auspices of the First Amendment - So, which is it? Is it private property when you want to ban Trump, but a public space when you want to hurl abuse at Trump?
Originally Posted by
husaberg
you would have to wonder if NZ was so bad why he doesn't go back to England under Boris the bestest ever tory.
I like Boris - or at least, I liked pre-Covid Boris, there's many many many things I'm not happy with the UK Tory Government on. Like not repealing a whole load of Tony Blair's crap, not reigning in the BBC, Allowing the Migrant Crisis to continue etc.
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
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