Time to declare these social media products as 21st century private telephone exchanges.
The laws have been in place to protect us since the 1890's.
The telephone network had the very same problem way back then, as local telephone exchanges were being hooked up for long distance.
"private" telephone companies were unsubscribing "subscribers", censoring phone conversations, refusing connections, and all the stuff we are currently experiencing.
Ben Franklin's claim to fame at the time was fixing the same problem in the postal network, which was vital for delivery of newspapers.
Twitter, Facebook Reddit, etc are NO DIFFERENT than what Franklin and early telephone went through. We just do not recognize it immediately, because we do not see that social media is just a really fancy way of talking on the telephone or getting a piece of mail.
So, time to wake up and realize this is NOT a freedom of speech issue -- it is a postal / telephone exchange issue and it is a FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY issue.
We need to help each other educate our legislators (state and federal) to clamp down on this hijacking of our public telecommunication lines (which carry the internet).
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Time to declare these social media products as 21st century private telephone exchanges.
The laws have been in place to protect us since the 1890's.
The telephone network had the very same problem way back then, as local telephone exchanges were being hooked up for long distance.
"private" telephone companies were unsubscribing "subscribers", censoring phone conversations, refusing connections, and all the stuff we are currently experiencing.
Ben Franklin's claim to fame at the time was fixing the same problem in the postal network, which was vital for delivery of newspapers.
Twitter, Facebook Reddit, etc are NO DIFFERENT than what Franklin and early telephone went through. We just do not recognize it immediately, because we do not see that social media is just a really fancy way of talking on the telephone or getting a piece of mail.
So, time to wake up and realize this is NOT a freedom of speech issue -- it is a postal / telephone exchange issue and it is a FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY issue.
We need to help each other educate our legislators (state and federal) to clamp down on this hijacking of our public telecommunication lines (which carry the internet).
Excellent comment.
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