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Xenophobia has been part of the human condition since the beginning of recorded history. Today, Christians are persecuted to some extent in over three quarters of the world's countries. Muslims are a close second. It's persecution motivated by religious identity. It's fair to say that Jews have been the victims of that same xenophobia. But unlike Christians and Muslims they had no safe retreat until 1948. I hope this helps.

Ok, I get it now. I wasn't trying to 'play dumb' either. But the thread is about Tulsi Gabbard joining the Republican party. So where's the connection between her joining the party and what you posted?

No idea of what you're trying to convey. Is this in response to my post???

Smart move. If she plays her cards right, she could be President one day.

Ok, so he's not an angel either. I'll give you that one. 😉

Biden, who was supposed to be the 'great unifier' turned out to be one vindictive SOB didn't he? So your example doesn't really work unless the MAGA's are vilifying Biden and excusing Trump. Which I don't believe was the case.

Vindictiveness isn't exactly a quality anyone should admire in a leader. So why make excuses for one and vilify the other?

Why would Trudeau even target Peterson in the first place? He's not a politician. He has nothing to do with official government policy. And as far as I can tell, there's no apparent conflict of interest. I support Peterson because he's a free speech advocate, and we could use a few more just like him. It doesn't mean I agree with everything he says.

Not only are you blind to your own hypocrisy, you're blind to your own stupidity.

So "there's a small amount of truth in that" ...... ya think??? Fox is no different than the rest of them except they support the Republican candidates. Musk openly endorses Trump, and Zuckerberg gives $420 million to local Democrat activists for 'get out the vote efforts'. Fox supports a free press (even for its competition), while the rest of the MSM wants Fox shut down. Personally, I admire both Musk and Zuckerberg. Not for who they support but for what they've accomplished. You're just blind to your own hypocrisy.

I also remember a few years back when a couple of Democrat congressmen tried to coerce a cable provider to pull Fox News off the air using official government paper and letterhead. No real reason given except the contract between Fox and the cable provider was set to expire. The difference is that these Democrat congressmen were serious and Trump is a bullshitter. Was he serious or not? Who the hell knows.

They mostly regulate local TV and radio. What I posted concerning satellite, cable, and online content, comes straight off an FCC website. So I don't disagree.

Congress handed social media over to private entities simply because the people demanded such a platform and private entities are not forced to abide by the 1st amendment. And that's pretty much it.

FCC limitations begin with the 1st amendment. Speech transmitted by cable or satellite TV is generally not regulated. The FCC does not regulate online content, which is significant in a thread devoted to Musk, and Twitter, being bad for western democracy. https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/fcc-and-speech

By what law, or whatever, would give the US government the authority to do that? I seem to have come to a dead end.

I was looking at a CBC poll. Most Canadians support Israel but they also support a Palestinian state (as do I but not the river to the sea kind). The thing is.... is it just a cop-out or can you have both?

Technically on U.S. social media, free speech only applies to the owners of social media platforms. They're the ones who make all the rules concerning what's allowed and who gets to post. Free speech by the users of the platform lies solely at the owners discretion. When a government can get the FBI to coerce an owner into making certain topics off limits, how is that not a first amendment issue?

I can't speak for 1.7 billion Muslims but I'm fairly certain the vast majority of Palestinians don't support Israel's right to exist. And perhaps the question should be if Israel had the right to exist as a Jewish state.

Would have never happened if the Arabs agreed to the UN Partition Plan (Resolution 181). In plain language, Palestine would have been partitioned into Arab and Jewish states with Jerusalem under international control. Both Arabs and Jews (upon independence) would have become automatic citizens of the state they resided in (outside of Jerusalem) with all full civil and political rights. Arabs over 18 residing in the Jewish state would have had 1 year to decide whether to stay or move to the Arab state, and same for Jews residing in the Arab state at the time of independence. Basically, Resolution 181 would have become part of any future constitution drawn up by either party. But no, war was a better option.

I never claimed Musk had no obligations only that social media was treated entirely different than news media. For obligations see Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Well at least she's being honest. But being honest and being honest with oneself are two entirely different things. There's a political price to be paid for being honest with oneself and letting the chips fall where they may. Ask Jody Wilson-Raybould.

While it's possible that certain things be updated, twitter (X) has between 200 to 250 million users daily. How conceivable is it that Musk be made liable for the content of every one of the 250 million daily users?

At the very least they've learned they have the ability to sway official government policy with their actions. An inherent weakness of democracy that they will exploit at every opportunity and was likely a main reason for them going forward with Oct 7.

I agree except for the flag part. I'd be more concerned if some do-gooder used this incident to propose a bill making the public burning of a Canadian flag some sort of offense. What would it accomplish really? Would it improve our quality of life? I doubt it. Let em burn as many flags as they want so there's no doubt about the way they really feel about us.

Yep, and its root cause is politics. Something that the leaders of all parties are guilty of.