I feel like I'm gonna regret jumping into the politics room but real talk, I have a honest question. we seem to get along when discussing weed tho and I can see you are trying to have a legit conversation so let me ask a few questions and maybe you can help me understand maybe something I'm missing or vice versa. Definitely not trying to argue. Just trying to understand bc a lot of this just makes no sense to me.
can you explain why you think people can't express themselves? do you agree that expressing discontent is one thing, plotting and carrying out violence that results in people dying is another? so as long as things as civil why can't ppl still use facebook/Twitter or any other website? no one is banned there bc of political party or religious affiliation. that would be actual discrimination. so I dont see how rights are being denied?
I honestly think its a false equivalency to a place like China or NK where just saying you disagree with the political system will get you locked up. thats not what's happening here, and I think its trivializing real oppressed people to pretend that it is. no offense.
also gonna be honest. the argument you are making sounds a lot like what abusive alcoholics say when they beat their wives and kids. "look what you made me do to you". Sometimes life doesn't go how we planned, doesn't give us the right to start killing people because of it.
last thing. you do realize that repealing Section 230 would most likely mean the end of RIU and any online forums right? it is one of the key things that let the internet flourish for the last 25 yrs. If that is taken away then whoever owns RIU could get sued for anything illegal that gets posted on here including text and photos. this is the one that I have the hardest time with. Repealing Section 230 is going to lessen your freedoms, and make it so only the super rich or corporations can afford to publish any website or app with user generated content. Can't figure out how Republicans want more government oversight and regulations for private businesses?
I know, it's too bad politics gets mixed into a weed forum. I like you man.
Anyways I can't answer all that right now as I'm in the process of watering, but I'll explain my thoughts on your second paragraph.
People can't express themselves when their opinions are blocked or removed because they don't conform to what the tech companies want.
Expressing your opinions is totally different than instigating violence. Which the left did a bunch of times over the summer but people want to ignore it or not show it, or blame Trump for that too.
And discrimination is exactly what's happening right now. Anyone that doesn't agree with the far left is getting censored by the tech companies. That's not right at all. I thought the democratic party was against discrimination.
Even the ACLU is saying this is bullshit and breaking our civil liberties.
You have Apple, Google, Microsoft, and all the other guys in it together pushing their will on the public.