Imagine being this much of a boomer and not understanding how social media has been impacting the world for a decade and continues to influence our entire day to day life.Originally Posted by b-dolo
It doesn’t need to be an essential service for it to have incredible impact on society lol you’re outdated and the worst part is that people like you vote
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Imaging being an internet addict and having to be on social media constantly. Myself and plenty of others do not use social media or limit it to a frequent visit. They don't influence me. Where you even from? You sound like you do understand English to well? It has to be essential service for it to be considerd a monopoly not that it doesn't have a impact. Shit like Facebook are not going to be regulated because their entire purpose is to have people visit their site and then charge a business to advertise there. What are they providing to a consumer? What tangible product is there brainiac?
You're right. It's all entertainment but for some, it's a platform to voice their opinions/considers/news. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube (Google) have changed the world in terms of speech. In this case, Trump has use Twitter as a his voice to his base. The sad thing is people who're low IQ and uneducated will believe anything (Alex Jones, Trump, Tariq Nasheed, etc) only if it relates to their political views. I see this all the time on Facebook. Someone will make a post about BS and their friends will co-sign without conducting a quick fact check. It's not just Trump supporters, it's everyone.
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The 45th President of the United States literally got voted in to office because of his use of twitter lmao you don't even comprehend how social media works so it's best you stay quiet on the issue
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Thanks, that explains a lot. Australia elected officals are probably intelligent and competent. So they serve in the best interest of their constituents and don't allow outside interest like lobbyists for big tech to line their pockets and direct their interest. Trusting government officials over a private business here is non sensical, his politicians are less corrupt, so he must not be aware of the fuckery ours create here
LOL and which cnn ww2 vet told you this nonsense?
If you think Trump won because of his tweets, well you need to take a course on U.S. politics 101. There is a whole subset of people who vote D or R no matter who the candidate is. There is a small sect of voters who decide the winner. How did Obama and Bill Clinton win subsequent elections? They were able to motivate minority or usual non voters to get out and vote for them. Candidates like John Kerry and Hillary Clinton did not invoke any motivation for these same voters. Trumps tweets only serve to rally those who already align their thinking with his. Go ahead and find any data that correlates his tweets to gaining popularity with independent voters. His approval rating was absolutely dismal during his term compared to others.
What needs to be understood is. You want to break up Big Tech and their control. Good idea, but it is not like the acutal public is in control then. Big Tech then put in place lobbyist who pay off politicians to get what they want. This has been going on before internet was everyone's source for news. How many major TV networks, radio stations, newspapers are independently owned? Everything is controlled by a select few. Smaller government or removing money from politics is the only way to end this. That would be a monumental task considering average person does not care regardless, as long they are just trying to
live peaceful in their own existence.
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You are seriously saying that his masterful use of twitter didn’t aid in him winning the most unexpected presidency ever? The only thing more astonishing than Trump getting up was Brexit. Everything Trump tweeted was not only read by 50m followers (at the time, 88m when he was banned) but then all the people that didn’t follow but who followed people that followed oh and not only that but it was broadcast and printed in every media across the USA and the western world.
Trump does not win the election without social media.
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Ahahahahahahaha
Masterful?
PRESIDENTAL HARASSMENT isn't really Machiavellian. Trump ran against the most unpopular figure in US politics, she beat him numerically but not by enough votes to dislodge him in the electoral college because smaller (republican) states have more influence in that system. Hillary lost the election more than Trump won because large swathes of the democratic party stayed home and hated her more than they hated trump. Of course social played a part in everyone's campaign but at the same time Joe Biden literally suspended his online campaigning and still won.
The truth is millennials overhype the internet. It's just a bunch of people trying to be distracted from real life. Biden won the primaries by going to churches because church ppl actually vote. They kept him off the internet because he has the dementia, rapes and will likely drop an N-bomb by June. The people that use it the most don't vote (especially twitter people). It is influential, and it's obviously a big deal but the issue is when people start thinking everyone is as locked into the internet and it's ecology as they are.
Most of the trump and bernie trains are the results of people stewing in dillusional internet bubbles then unleashing their stupidity on the world. But both fell short because they assumed everyone else was as internet dependent and locked into bullshit 1898 ideologies they learned on youtube. If you're online you would think the polity in any given country is 'on the brink' but if you're operating in real life politics occupies 3% of a normal persons actual thoughts day to day and people use the internet to jack off, date, buy stuff and laugh. It's only R/politics people and journalists that only tweet that would have you thinking twitter and facebook are actually making a difference. The way ppl that watch CNN will tell you CNN is making a difference. There's someone out there that thinks his local newspaper's bias coverage is making a difference.
I think FB and Twitter have to be regulated like media companies and google has to be broken up (even though it's literally CIA at this point), but there is also an overhyping of their roles in people's lives outside of self satisfaction and an overestimation of how many people give a fuck about either (especially twitter which is only gay people from NY that work at newspapers, trannies and black middle class kids who gentrified brooklyn with white ppl and want to sound like they're deep)
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The Swift removal of Parler will probably prove troublesome for FB, Apple and Google. Mainly because of the grounds they removed it on, that it was somehow responsible for its users content for inciting mass riots of right wingers.
Zero people arrested in the capitol thus far had a Parler account. But I’d guess most if not all a had FB or Twitter.
All this is right now is a monopoly partnered with a political party in a mission to silence their rivals both political and entrepreneurial.
It is alarmingly corrupt and “authoritarian” because of its brazen nature.
The Congress will be United on this because that building houses some of the biggest criminals and most corrupt, and dishonest narcissistic people in the country. It’s why their approval rating is always consistently low. I think it’s 20% last time I checked.
The future is looking spicy, as the kids say.
Wtf does Machiavelli have to do with anything?
>Hillary the most unpopular candidate ever
>Hillary won the popular vote
Makes sense.
>Twitter doesn’t have that big of an impact
>Trump fanbase exists in an internet bubble
Makes sense.
It’s not that twitter has replaced anything but it’s where people get their information from and it’s a platform for Trump and others to launch themselves from. Ordinarily these things don’t have a real life impact like gender pronouns but when the president has 88m followers this is a whole new ball game.
Trump doesn’t get elected without twitters it’s simple, you can be low-iq and facetious about where was Bill Clinton’s account but he used that in a way to rally his supporters like nobody ever did. His rants were hilarious if you took them as senile rants but dangerous when taken seriously and many people did. The news could and did at times just cut him off their feed and then he’s silence but at that point all he had to do was whip out the phone and go on a rant and he’s got a direct message to his fanbase.
silencing political speech should never happen and neither should spreading political misinformation by removing sides of the argument to fit a narrative. Calling Trump out and flagging his posts as misleading was fine but leaving it until he declared “we won and won big” was far too late.
Last edited by The Hound; 01-11-2021 at 01:40 PM.
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In the US we have a popular vote, and an electoral college vote. Trump lost the popular vote to hilary clinton. Hilary lost the electoral college to Trump and that's what counts. Hilary won the lowest voter turnout election on record by a slim margin but not enough to secure a victory when it counted. So what I said made sense if you know what you're talking about.
corporations are not wings of the government. Cilvarings is not violating Sense-a's 'freedom of speech' by banning him on a website he made for entertainment. Twitter is not a part of the government. The term freedom of speech comes from a clause saying 'congress should not infrige on the freedom of speech'. You cannot take a private company to court and win using 'freedom of speech' because they're private institutions and not the congress at that.
It doesn't matter how you feel it should be, that's what it is and if you want to solve the problem you have to accept that. If you fight the problem talking about 'freedom of speech' you'll lose. Taking twitter away from Trump can be called several things but 2 things it can't be called are illegal or unconstitutional. I don't really know where you're going with trump wouldn't have won without twitter. Maybe maybe not nigga we only have this reality to content with and nothing to compare it with.
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