Publicly traded companies are private property held by members of the public who are private citizens. As with every other company there is a group of people with more power to make policy decisions.
Oligarchy means a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
In that sense any corporation could be called an oligarchy or "part of the oligarchy" but that's kind of like saying "ruled by the elite." Who or what is this oligarchy? The billionaires who own all mass media? Or the Rothschilds and those other families who have been the power behind the scenes?
It winds up sounding like a conspiracy theory where Donald is "draining the swamp" but they just won't let him. If there really is an oligarchy on this sort of scale Donald would have never been allowed to take office unless he was serving their interests.
Anyone can post on twitter at no cost and twitter can remove anyone for any reason or for no reason. To say that I or you or Donald or anyone has a right to post on twitter sounds like claiming some sort of ownership. That is why I mentioned communism.
If it is something other than that I would be interested to hear the reasoning.
I feel like you’re being wiley and asking me to respond to you for the benefit of other, less intelligent people on this thread, who aren’t even capable of posting a cogent series of discussion points or ideas - because you know I don’t have patience or interest in people like that.
I also know that you know that I know, what an oligarchy is. So we’re going in circles already, before we’ve even begun.
“Anyone can post on twitter for no cost, and twitter can remove anyone for any reason or for no reason”. This isn’t the issue, is it? It’s the not issue anyone is arguing, and it’s not the issue at stake.
When you have the sitting President of the United States of America using a platform like Twitter as their official and
direct mouthpiece, and preferred method of communication, and then that platform is removed from a sitting President for political reasons, and any and
ALL of the other (few) similar platforms that also exist similarly follow suit and
ban him and
shut him down - because they “don’t like what he said”... ???? This is not China, last time I checked. And we do not silence sitting Presidents, just because the other party “doesn’t like what they said”. This has been outrageous, and a shame on the face of the United States that will go down in history, for NONE of the reasons Dems think
This is
censorship happening of a
magnitude as yet unseen, and people are celebrating?? This is why I don’t have the patience or interest in engaging here, with the types of people that need this POINTED OUT to them. And I don’t mean you, to be clear.
Apple, Amazon, and Google are three of the biggest companies in the world,
who have now colluded, to
censor with their aggregate power, ANYTHING they don’t like.
Where does it stop?
Is it fine to censor and silence the President who is actively sitting in office?
What about everyone that supported him politically because they agree with his policies? Get rid of them too? Ok.
So now, even as I type this, the nation’s collective goal, media would have us believe at least, is that we’re actively trying to erase any kind of conservative voice from the media, from public office, from policy making, from everywhere we can - why? How is the beneficial for a society? Or how is that a measured action? Or how is that aligned with the tenets of our constitution? A two party system was already bad enough. This is now beyond the pale.
Further to which -
no one should be typing nonsense here about “private companies can do whatever they want”. No. NO, they absolutely cannot do whatever they want. There’s a little something called Antitrust laws, and they are all deeply, deeply in violation at this stage. The legal fallout from what happened 2010-now will be tremendous.. and will go on for years.
And last but not least... to the people going on like broken toys, about sedition, insurrection, and incitement of violence -
please.
Does that mean that we’re also going to bring charges against Biden (said he wanted to beat Trump up, if it was up to him)? This is apparently acceptable for him to say
on an official engagement, publicly, and at a press conference?
And we’re also presumably going to slap that braindead, wholly illiterate specimen Maxine Waters, with charges of insurrection and incitement of violence
too, yes? For using her public platform to rile a huge crowd and by publicly publicly promising them to “go right up there and take Trump out herself”. All to a baying mob.
Mafia Reptile CryptCreeper Pelosi on the riots this summer, and destruction of property and statues? Statues are historical artifacts, and Art. She shrugged, when asked about the ongoing riots. She smiled and SHRUGGED.
No FBI lists were issued, no warrants for people’s arrests, in fact, Kamala Harris’s official statement was that “they should NEVER stop” rioting. Tbey should never ever stop rioting. So? Please explain to me. If conservatives were to take power again? It would be fine to shut down any sitting president they don’t like?
Internet shutdown is censorship.
And exactly
no one is talking about a baker and a gay cake. f***ing please. Grow up before posting something so idiotic and so completely broken off from any semblance of reality.
Internet shutdown, around elections especially, is one of
the most grave acts that can be committed - and certainly so in what we call “the free world”
It
doesn’t matter if it’s the left or the right doing it. It’s wrong, and it can only lead to an abyss.
Liberals have turned into tyrants, and the question is - who actually gives a flying f*** - who you’re f***ing? or what your gender preference is or one of 10,000 other meaningless other points...
IF it’s all underpinned by “liberals” who don’t believe in the Bill of Rights, anymore??
If you support a system that takes away your most
basic right - that of free speech
Then
you’re not a liberal, and you support a system of
tyranny.