I hate that everything is "cringe" today... What happened to calling this the old fashion way, fucked up!

Realistically either a federal court needs to step in or some sort of legislation needs to be passed/updated regarding speech on the internet. A handful of private companies control a huge amount of public communication on the internet. Essentially the internet is the "modern town square" and if you get deplatformed from Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter, your ability to communicate is massively impacted. Unless you're already an established name by the time you get deplatformed (Like Trump or Alex Jones), being deplatformed basically makes it impossible to have a voice online.

People don't care for now because the only people being deplatformed are "right wing extremists" but as time passes the definition for what is and isn't acceptable on major sites will keep getting more and more strict. Even in the beginning it was a pretty grey area where these private companies were removing "misinformation" and citing government entities as the "correct" source. And shortly after the Biden administration became known to work directly with companies like Facebook to remove what they consider harmful information. At what point do we cross the line from "private companies doing what they want" to "the government directing private companies to remove information that hurts them"? For all the people who support these companies censoring topics under the direction of the Biden administration, how will you feel when the next Republican administration does it?

I unfortunately don't see a way this ends that benefits Americans. Both parties have shown that they want to control speech/information on the internet, since 2019 it's not only become tolerated, but actually expected. And for the first time ever a majority of Americans support the US government restricting speech online. That scares the shit out of me personally. Congress isn't going to do shit, the FCC isn't gonna do shit, and the supreme court certainly isn't gonna do shit. I don't want to imagine how the internet is gonna look in 10 years.

We should have never allowed it to get to this point. The endless mergers of tech and media companies that resulted in a handful of companies effectively controlling the internet should have caused riots in the streets. The second companies started "fact checking" posts and removing what they consider false information should have set off tons of alarm bells. And the second the US government started directing tech companies toward posts they needed to take down there should have been riots in the streets. But nobody seems to care because we're all too busy defending powerful corporations and an authoritarian government because apparently authoritarianism isn't bad when it only hurts your political opponents.

So there's no middle ground? I have to disagree with them about every criticism they have about the Democratic party or I'm one of them?

1. Anarchism isn't far left.

2. "Let's burn it all down and worry about a replacement system later" is the famous last words of pretty much every country that is now led by a dictator, warlord, or authoritarian power.

3. I would suggest that we do what has worked for European nations and actually enforce workers rights, and establish antitrust laws to prevent monopolies where they exist now and to keep new ones from forming. Which means we will have to actually start voting in younger people into office instead of dinosaurs who are only interested in keeping their old money where it is.

So to you, other than "revolution, duh" how do you actually plan on solving the issues once you've destroyed the current system? You love asking others how they'll solve it but your ideas seem to end where the rioting does.

You don't want to solve problems, you just want to destroy shit.

Thank you! I've been aware of this and was using it, but it quit working for me. There's definitely a syntax error in the 'Link' button above the 'reply' text box. It doesn't include the assclamation mark. But I'm thinking I manually followed your example, with the assclamation mark.

How long have you been using this, and have you experienced an interuption?

Thanks again!

At best most companies can be considered neoliberal if you really want to pin a political agenda on them.

Company lobby is aimed at those in power. Republicans and democrats are both deeply affected as they are the leading parties as you might know.

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I mean, for the joke, Subaru and L.L. Bean are the obvious choices, but it's also the kind of joke where part of the joke is that it's also not a joke.

Apple.

In 2020-2021 the line "they're a private company and can choose what speech they host on their platform" was thrown around a lot to defend pre-Musk Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and loads of other social media sites.

Disney is adored by many for "standing up to DeSantis" and doing lots of inclusiveness pandering in their media. People seem to instantly forget that a corporation is literally evil the second some people get wound up over a black mermaid.

A really old meme would be the anti-capitalist who owns an iPhone and $2000 MacBook.

Lots of internet techies are excited about Microsoft acquiring Activision just because it means new video games will hit PC and Xbox quicker.

Speaking of Microsoft, while Bill Gates has become more controversial in recent years, he still has lots of people who love him for his philanthropy while nicely glossing over some of the sketchy stuff he's done like his association with Jeffery Epstein and how he has recently become the largest landowner in the US.

I'd say the defending of corporate censorship and defending giant corporations that support certain social issues would be the two most glaring offenders.