@BigRed389 : the reply format was weird so I’m doing it this way instead.
You said you agreed with the Congressman’s tweet. He wants to remove someone, for cause, without seeing the results of an investigation. Maybe, just maybe, she sees disinformation coming from the “other” side, and that’s why she feels so strongly about her political views. And maybe she did use her training and left when she saw things getting out of hand. We may never know.
No, you're not actually recalling what I said correctly. This what I actually said:
Her actual culpability can't be determined here (ie did she stay back and not go into the Capitol?) and would be up to the appropriate UCMJ authority to determine.
From what I see she resigned voluntarily and wasn't denied due process at all. I don't blame her, because I suspect she realized that association with something like this is NOT something you can easily recover from (probably bottom of the pack in every rack and stack while she's at that command for poor judgment).
Let's not use hyperbole, because that's exactly what got us here in the first place.
I agree the Congressman's opinion is not "helpful" but I would have a hard time disagreeing that a PSYOPs Captain in the SF who can't recognize misinformation probably isn't going to be very effective at her job in support of the SF mission.
I didn't agree with the Tweet.
If I were her CO, I would've just benched her pending the proper UCMJ investigation.
Except when that private company’s founder says things like this on the digital medium which his company founded:
Just because you think a meme is stupid shouldn’t stop someone from being able to share it. Just as someone shouldn’t be stopped from expressing a political viewpoint simply because you disagree with it. Pretty much everyone here is calling for a return to civil discourse in our national political discussions, while some are seemingly turning a blind a eye as to what that might actually entail.
Nobody is censoring memes for being stupid. Censoring is only happening when it creates harm.
If someone takes a shower cam of your wife or daughter, is it OK to just let it go viral? There are many examples of where it has caused real, not theoretical, direct harm to people when social media has been abused.
In the absence of any real regulation to guide them, companies, as private entities, are policing themselves. As long as they are doing that, you're going to continue to get an imperfect result.
Do I think that enforcement is not completely fair? Absolutely. However, the ones getting themselves Twitter bans are pretty heinous people and groups. Like the literal American Nazi party. Or Hamas. So...are we saying it was wrong to boot those groups from social media?
The US isn’t (currently) punishing people for expressing freedom of speech on social media platforms. But there are people out there who are USING social media platforms and websites to publish names and addresses of people who contributed to Trump’s political campaigns. That’s about as un-American as you can get. And hopefully the government doesn’t stand by and do nothing while companies like Parler, who is currently midnight since AWS kicked them off their servers (not to mention being kicked off the App Store and whatever google uses) are being shut down for daring to have people use their platform to share views which Democratic politicians and the mainstream media find threatening.
You are mixing up freedom of speech the Constitutionally protected right, and the use of a service, which is a privilege.
And it is also within the First Amendment rights of a private company to express themselves by choosing not to affiliate themselves with a service they do not agree with. Remember gay wedding cakes? The decision was you can't force a provider to do something they don't want to do, that's a violation of THEIR First Amendment rights.
Parler, IMO, is running into the same problem that other social media platforms had when they started, but now that they're realizing they actually DO need to moderate content (and not just say it in their TOS) they were not at all prepared for the storm when it hit.
I fear that we’re becoming less and less the “land of the free, and the home of the brave” and morphing into the very thing we’ve been fighting against for so long.
This may be true, but the right wing isn't some kind of "answer".
I dislike the left's stance on gun rights and entitlement spending, but there are plenty on the right just as guilty of being narrowing "freedoms" they don't happen to agree with at any moment. So people on the middle are supposed to pick between a decline into either socialism or fascism? Fuck that.
