I know that guy's videos.

He's really savage to women. lol

nah

hes not a muslim

https://youtu.be/f83D18xL7VE?t=38m30s

Watching that right now.

"Let's make the shift character actually shifty. Because people will expect him not to be."

...

I mean. When that's your idea of a twist?

"The clown pulls a pie out of his suspenders. Because you'd EXPECT him to pull out a knife. But nah, we just show the audience something basic and silly, instead of *anything interesting in the slightest.*"

Wow. Fantastic. Give this man a media empire.

https://twitter.com/PhillyD/status/1034463388624015360

lets pump up Tim to get his name out

I know not everyone thinks this is the best solution, but this is something to consider:
https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1034481245055590401

guys, I just want to remind you all that almost all the admins are gone and we have ultimate chance to overthrow this class system ✊

Let's pull tags off of mattresses.

And fuckin' jaywalk.

Calling everyone "guys" is sexist, transphobic and probably racist because why not it's 2016

it's okay because we are already sexist mysoginists since we don't have any woman here

yes, I assumed all of your genders

Dude- not cool, its current year after all

i..i'm..sorry.. I need 'reeducation'

I'd love to see some discussions on the public utilities and regulations arguments for social media. I haven't fully made my mind up on it

"Microagression" -A condition where a person lacks any sort of internal fortitude and allow themselves to be offended by all sorts of "Nothings"

I would think it woiuld have to be based on size and very nuanced legislation

Take the time... spend time with nature.
https://www.facebook.com/lets.go.togethers/videos/1307848709347793/

@Manjushri One good argument I've heard against treating them like utilities is that it would solidify their monopoly. Right now big tech firms still have to adapt to trends and compete with or squash upstart competitors. Makes their bottom line volatile and uncertain. See the recent drop in Twitter and Facebook stock. But if treated like utilities they would be much more secure, even if their profit margins suffer.

These are awesome Mantises!

Bringing levity to chat one photo or video at a time.

:3

So if you want these firms to collapse altogether or be replaced by better ones, then treating them like utilities isn't the way to go. Things like electricity companies are typically static and unchanging.

I'm against Regulations and for adding Internet Bill of Rights. Rather have the corporations being liable for violating the internet bill of rights, but I don't want the corporations backed by the government as a utility corporation.

That isn't to say that some sort of regulation can't exist that doesn't enshrine Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc as utilities. This petition might be one approach, another is the changing of legislation to clarify the line between platform and publisher and how they are or are not responsible for the content on their sites.

One way this petition's argument could lead to unintended consequences is spam. Is spam freedom of speech? Do I have the first amendment right to stand on a soapbox in the public square and hock dick pills? How about standing there and blasting a Vuvuzela using compressed air?

There would probably be local laws or ordinances covering such, but would these options be available to internet platforms? What would they look like?

We will still have freedom of speech, but those actions could have social consequences. In other words, their social life destroyed for doing those things, but they won't be silenced and unperson by large mega corporations.

How would they have social consequences if I'm some pseudo-anonymous scam artist from Ukraine?

"The President should request that Congress pass legislation prohibiting social media platforms from banning users for First Amendment-protected speech. The power to block lawful content should be in the hands of individual users – not Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey."

Leaving the option for people to manually block or mute people.

Does "First Amendment protected speech" include sales pitches? What about twitter botnets spamming gibberish?

No Shadow Banning (Remove Feature) or Straight Up Banning without a reason.