From the movie Heartbreak Ridge:
“Colonel Meyers: What’s your assessment of this exercise?

“Highway: It’s a cluster [bleep].

“Colonel Meyers: Say again?

“Highway: Marines are fighting men, sir. They shouldn’t be sitting around on their sorry asses filling out request forms for equipment they should already have.

“Colonel Meyers: Interesting observation.”

Look at that. I even censored a quote from a movie.

We shouldn’t be sitting around letting our social media monopolies remove the freedoms we are supposed to already have.

wayne wrote: “I don’t need to hear what Ciaramella “feels” happened on the phone call, we have the transcript, which the president released.”

We may not need to know what he feels about it or even what he thinks about it, but he is the source of the complaint that begat the impeachment. How this complaint came about is important, especially since he had nothing to do with the events that brought about his complaint but is based solely upon a rumor that he heard. It is important for the investigation to include all the details of how this complaint came to be. We need to hear those details. For Congress to not investigate them would be similar to government officials censoring the public forum investigation.

A second-hand rumor is all that it took to get Congress to start looking at this event for impeachable offenses. This would be surprising, even shocking, except that at least one Democrat has said that if the president is not impeached by Congress then he would easily win reelection. Thus, the Democratic Party is doing all that it can to find some modicum of excuse for such an impeachment.

Wait. Doesn’t that make this impeachment investigation a campaign ploy by the Democrats at taxpayer expense rather than DNC expense? They found a way to use government against their political rival.

Wait. Isn’t that what they accused Trump of doing with a request to investigate Biden’s self-proclaimed extortion of The Ukraine — again, with taxpayer money?

This approval opens the doors for many more commercial legacy newspapers to seek tax-deductible status and philanthropic funding — a potential lifeline for local news outlets whose owners agree to “”give up control””.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/11/meet-the-salt-lake-tribune-501c3-the-irs-has-granted-nonprofit-status-to-a-daily-newspaper-for-the-first-time/

Newspaper is owned by the billionaire family of the huntsman chemical, (Who developed MTB oxygenated fuel which acted as rusting agent for underground metal fuel tanks which led to the poisoning of the groundwater throughout California responsible for thousands getting cancer) his son entered politics, and all of Huntsman’s problems went away.
They built the Huntsman Cancer Institute, (perhaps out of guilt?).(my father-in-law went in for minor cancer surgery, he didn’t survive)

You heard of his son “John Huntsman” a Republican who ran for president. Quit as Utah governor, after his reelection, to join Obama to be his diplomat to China. Then diplomat to Russia for President Trump. he was also the leader of the deep state support organization called the Atlantic Council. (Look it up)
Rumors are that Jon Huntsman is back, wants to be governor again. I wonder if he ever decided what party to join. I guess it doesn’t matter when you have Google behind you, and you own a nonprofit newspaper.
It’s curious that everything you hear in the news about the Clintons, Biden, Obama, Russia and Trump happened while he was ambassador.
Don’t look behind the curtain!

“Should we reform Section 230?” [1996 Communications Decency Act]
American Enterprise Institute
September 2019
https://youtu.be/vnB-UNSHuOU
1:27:54

Still there.

Also, the President sets foreign policy and that is inherently political as well.

It isn’t surprising that Democrats are trying to pull some shenanigans but it is surprising the media is going along with it. (OK, it isnt surprising.)

And these are the effects relayed to those who populate these companies and they are without doubt Liberal at the minimum and leftist and Socialist at the maximum and they are also politcally active in supporting their ideology.

And that is where they run off the road and will in time bring governmental regulation down upon themselves because of their inability to remain more or less objective. Because as we know “By any means necessary” is their political warfare mantra, and that becomes their focus over and above our system of governance.

And so they must be reinstructed and reminded about what and where their responsibilities exist.

https://www.oann.com/report-internet-freedom-declines-worldwide/

Ugliest violation of free speech there is.

BUT, …

Yeah that word. Censorship is only an applicable word when it is done on a “public forum”.

To date the only social media platform even suspected of being a public forum is Donal Trump’s tweeter feed. That’s it.

Thus, until we can get a binding legal decision somewhere, somehow, that says that Social Media constitutes a “public forum” they are at the liberty to ban, remove, even ALTER, any content posted on THEIR PRIVATELY OWNED SERVERS.

Just like you have to right to ask someone to leave your house for saying disgusting things to you and/or your family. Social Media companies have the same right!

The word censorship, or censoring simply does not apply here. Social Media’s privately owned servers do not constitute a public forum, yet.