First Amendment of the US Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to …
Post Modern Society: The Icarus Complex
There is a tear in society, a gap, a chasm that is growing and contributing to the wounding of the social fabric of societies almost everywhere. Those on either side of the chasm are barely able to touch one another, …
Death of Free Expression on Campus Drives Intellectual Exodus
University administrators and student unions are tearing down something more important than statues. These self-appointed censors are dismantling the dialectic method bequeathed to us from Socrates and generations of scholars, triggering a brain drain away from academia. Neither arcane nor …
Social Media Giants, are They Too Big?
Recently we have heard a lot of discussion about whether various social media companies should be broken up or regulated, due to antitrust violations and whether they have the right, or responsibility, to monitor and censor the content of their …
Social Media Censorship–Is It Real?
Against the frenzy of inaccurate and manipulative information consistently roaring through our social media sites, the companies that manage these sites, like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, have been trying to wage a war against misinformation. However, they always seem to …
Digital Charter Is Trojan Horse for Censorship
On May 21, the national government unveiled a lengthy “digital charter” with the noble goals of expanded internet access and more trust online. If one peels back the feel-good 10 principles and stated justifications, however, one finds a new weapon …
Who controls the Marketplace of Ideas and does regulating it, limit it?
In Part 1, I discussed some issues around these Social Media companies and whether they are considered monopolies. Because of the nature of their actual business (digital advertising) they aren’t monopolies, they are each other’s competitors in a larger marketplace. …