Pity the Party's Pity Party

White House stages a pity party.

Apparently, the alt right and conservatives are being singled out for persecution by Facebook and Twitter.

The problem is that feed-based platforms cannot avoid ranking items. What conservatives are put out about is that they are not ranked at the top of everyone's feeds.

Trump's remarks barely rise above the level of gibberish. “To me free speech is not when you see something good and then you purposely write bad. To me that’s very dangerous speech, and you become angry at it. But that’s not free speech.” Free speech is when you praise me. Roger that.

Josh Hawley (R-MO) has proposed legislation to require social media to treat every political opinion equally, regardless of what the users want. This is great news for Nazis.

Any feed-based platform cannot avoid moderation, and that will always occasion accusations of bias from people who think you need to hear their opinions whether you want to or not. You need look no further than the pity party itself to see this. Attendees at the summit were required to submit questions in advance, for approval and moderation. An official live stream of the event had comments disabled. All dissenters were thus "deplatformed."

I'll never fathom the belief of conservatives, evangelicals and quite a few progressives that their rights are being trampled on unless you are forced to listen to them. Free speech apparently means my freedom to force you to listen.

Yarbles.

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