I think it i always better to confront and challenge someone with a reasoned argument rather than banning them. I have never heard of Infowars but unless they are calling for acts of violence they should not be silenced. Nick Griffin was shown to be a complete idiot when he appeared on Question Time and he rapidly disappeared after that. He was probably hoping that the BBC would ban him from appearing so he could play the victim.

One more point

There's a feeling that the timing of this co-ordinated attack by the big three tech giants is due to the mid-term elections coming up as the Democrats have a good chance of taking the House.

And yet they do so with the blessing of the platforms that purport to provide a voice to all.

Downside for them - by banning (or de-blue-tickmarking) certain people, they implicitly condone those they have not banned. Thus we see the stunning level of double-standards and hypocrisy when people like Jeong rear their heads.

These platforms really need to define what to them is "acceptable", and absolutely, that should include political inclination. Just let us know our voices are not welcome in their echo chambers. Then everyone is clear that they are little more than left-wing propaganda engines.

I would like to see that in law in some way. Such that removal from a platform has severe legal implications where content was not found to violate conditions. Conditions that are not so all-encompassing that the platform has discretion and latitude to ban anyone they like.

The mastery of that legal system will be to encode those conditions in a non-ambiguous way that provides end-users with genuine legal remediation for what is currently political censorship.

Well, I respect your viewpoint as consistent then even if our views are kind of in opposite directions.

Well, I say that, but in reality I found the cake thing a really hard issue, which I've advocated both ways on.....I see problems with both issues....I'm not really comfortable with either answer but....I suppose it's easy to go with the view which annoys my political opponents the most.....but that's not very grown up. If I gave it some very serious thought I could probably find some mish mash compromise solution but that's what we pay judges to do....even if some of them suck at it.

As for big tech....I view them as a monopoly....which, in my view, is interfering in the mid terms elections.....which is an abuse of their power.

Edited by Stirlingsays (07 Aug 2018 11.30pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

If Trump wins in 2020, I'd be surprised if he didn't move off Twitter....well at the very least after 2022.

He has to take action on them anyway.....as we can see these companies doing this crap to him once the campaign starts.

Edited by Stirlingsays (07 Aug 2018 11.36pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Thanks for clarifying.