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Comment Re: You have a right to .. (Score 1) 409

That's not what platform means in legal terms. Platforms cannot censor, or silence as they are considered public squares. In exchange, they are afforded legal protection for the content that is hosted. Publishers can remove anyone they want and remove videos they want, but they assume liability for videos (ie, if a video is slanderous, a platform is exempt from civil liability... A publisher is not).

Comment Re: Cutting off 8Chan was a terrible move (Score 0, Troll) 157

Where is it permitted in the Constitution? Under amendment 10, any power not expressly given to the government is reserved by the people and the states. Article 1 section 8 does not grant the authority of the federal government to force "free" healthcare, so it's not a power or right of government.

Comment Not too many services (Score 1) 218

It's not "too many streaming services", it's "too much fragmentation". Having more places to shop is always a good thing, having content creators say "we only sell here" is not. If the content you want to watch is not available where you watch, send a message to the content creator that they can go f*** themselves.

Comment Re:posr fsirt (Score 1) 456

Not accurate... the electoral college keeps all states relevant. If a candidate focuses their attention on LA, SF, Chicago, and NY they won't win an electoral vote election.... but a popular vote election is a completely different story. The Electoral College was designed to keep all states relevant.. and predates the concept of political parties. Electoral college doesn't keep the Republican and Democratic Parties relevant, the parties themselves manipulate law keeping any other voice out.

Comment Re:As long as the security isn't proper id... (Score 1) 456

Not in my state they don't... you get one from the state at cost to the taxpayers upon registering to vote.. and you take it with you to the polls. Even when the talk includes the cost being paid for by the state, the average Democrat labels it as racist. You need ID to buy cars, cigarettes, alcohol, guns, etc. and it's not racist.. but it's racist to require one to vote?

Comment Re:posr fsirt (Score 1) 456

I'm only happy that Trump won because it means Hillary didn't... but I'm equally unhappy with a Trump presidency. The two parties no longer represent the people of this countries or the values this nation was founded on... but fucking retards think there are only two candidates they can vote for... so they keep voting for the lesser evil hoping to break this cycle of shit.

Comment Re:Amazon should be responsible (Score 1, Insightful) 176

No, they shouldn't. It's not their responsibility. Target doesn't put me in contact with the maker of ZYX product. If it isn't a concern that they can address, they'll tell me to contact the manufacturer. If the person buying the product can't figure out who the maker is, then they shouldn't be buying it... it doesn't matter WHERE you are buying from... Ebay, Amazon, Walmart, Target... if you can't figure out who produced it, then don't buy it and keep looking. If you end up buying crap because you didn't look, then that is YOUR fault, not the marketplace's. The marketplace isn't responsible for you buying crap products, that was your choice from the very beginning. The only people pushing costs onto the court system is the customer in this case, Amazon's only obligation is to distribute recall notices, take back recalled items to return to the manufacturer, and take back defective merchandise sold by them to return back to the company, destroy or whatever else so long as it is within the return policy's time. Outside of that, it is not any marketplace's responsibility, whether it be Target or Amazon.

The customer messed up here, they bought a very cheap product and want someone else to pay because they didn't want to do the legwork necessary both before and after the purchase. It is up to the consumer to make good choices, not Amazon nor the Government's job to babysit you and make sure you make good choices and then foot the bill when you don't.

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