Everyone involved in news business knows that Facebook has had a huge impact on revenues. The two things are intertwined, it's not some novel imposition -- Facebook could be a patriotic company and pay its share here. It is showing no public concern.
Just a private company, controlling chokepoints of vital information and shutting them down when they're trying to intimidate a country's government.
News organizations are heavily reliant on Facebook, they are not imposing a novel or unrelated connection. News organizations also have social value, the government has an interest in ensuring their survival and not watching Mark Zuckerberg destroy them.
The Australian Science Teachers Association can't share content anymore on Facebook, that has wide ranging public implications, it's not simply some private organization running a clubhouse or something, and the big bad mean government is trying to violate its liberties.
At a time of a pandemic Facebook blocked a swath of Australian scientific organizations from being able to share content. Just a business deal, as if business has no impact on society and Mark Zuckerberg is his private government.
At a time of a pandemic Facebook blocked a swath of Australian scientific organizations from being able to share content. Just a business deal, as if business has no impact on society and Mark Zuckerberg is his private government.
Why is a capital strike by Facebook being treated as like a florist blog banning a commenter or something? Facebook has a dominating presence over the Internet and is a major component of economics and governance. Its Standard Oil or the railroads in 2021.
Facebook blocking an Australian disability advocacy group. Sure sticking it to the government, aren't they?
Facebook is playing a game of chicken with global governments. In the long run it is more costly to ban Australian news than to allow it, but they are betting the government will give in. If they don't give in, governments, backed by the public, are more powerful than corps. — Zaid Jilani
Scott Hounsell: It seems everything with liberalism is about two things: force and, as a direct result, hypocrisy. Whether it is taxes, speech, or any of the other 100 different ways it seeks to control your life, the inherent requirement for the left’s enforcement mechanism of their grandiose ideological quest is always force. Don’t pay your taxes? Force. Don’t want to buy an electric car? Force. Don’t want to believe that a man can become a woman? Force. And as we have been seeing more recently, decide you don’t want to get vaccinated? Force. ...
If you think that climate change is as big of a threat as you constantly lecture us that it is, why don’t you just volunteer to make the changes in your life to combat it? ...
If, again, climate change was such a grave threat to our existence, and immediate action is necessary, why would you only give up some? Why would you not give it all up? Why wouldn’t you take the totality of the action available to you, with as much ...
Anony Mee: Joe is building a more impoverished populace, a diminished and less robust commercial sector, and a disheartened electorate. Republicans must pound this message home and give this administration a daily beat-down from now until November 2022. It’s the very least Joe’s minions deserve.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/joes_tricky_tax_trick.html
Spruce Fontaine: How does one debate with a side that claims with a straight face that the supply chain problems are an indicator that President Brandon has fixed the recession (according to Sec. Buttigieg) or that the $3.5-trillion infrastructure package is already paid for?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/slumming_in_america_off_borrowed_moral_capital.html
