Its like buying a radio that can only listen to democrats approved stations, its ridiculous and yet the fanboys will defend their shitty practices no matter what
That's actually how radio works! The stations are licensed by the government.
This is actually much better as there is no government involved -- this is just a private company doing what it wants with the software and hardware that it owns -- and you are not restricted by the government to use only their technology.
Diverse dissenting views are fine. Plotting armed violence to overturn a legitimate election result isn't.
If the far-right can't operate without plotting armed violence - and there's plenty of evidence it can't - then it puts itself outside the reach of any free speech arguments.
Not just because its views are abhorrent, but because it would gleefully destroy absolutely all forms of dissenting free speech itself if given the opportunity.
There are already laws and means to deal with plotting armed violence. None of them include (or should include) banning the phone company / app company / phone maker / etc.
Not condoning any sort of violence or the riots from Wednesday but I think it is worth observing that the problem isn't that there are people who are trying to "overturn a legitimate election result". The problem is that there are people who believe that the election results were not legitimate. They are acting on that premise and so in their mind they are acting to overturn an illegitimate election result. Simply asserting that they are wrong will not change things, in fact it has a good chance of making things altogether worse as it simply emphasizes the grievance that their concerns aren't being addressed.
Resolving these issues isn't going to come from simply insisting that the other side is wrong. and it isn't going to come from disappearing Trump. Trump is not the source of the problem. Anything we can do to create extreme transparency and rebuild trust in our voting mechanisms would be a good start.
Even if we could magically convince everyone that the vote was 100% accurate as is, the result is still evidence of significant divisions in the American electorate. Resolving these political differences isn't going to be easy.
I'm not going to pretend to have some magical solutions to these divisions but we are going to have to find a better way to understand and mediate our differences. We need to find a way to rise above the tribalism that is growing stronger every day.
No one is “simply asserting”. They’ve dragged this to court and had ~60 cases thrown out for a lack of evidence. They’ve made the choice to ignore this and acted out, violently, at the prompting of their favorite social-media driven personalities.
My point about division is true even if everyone suddenly accepted that the election results were accurate. We need to figure out how to resolve those underlying political differences or every single future election is going to be problematic.
* the role of the federal government (federalism, states rights, etc)
* immigration: byzantine system with no clear rationale driving policy
* foreign policy: China, Russia, Middle East, North Korea, defense budget
* global trade: human rights, free-trade, regulatory frameworks
* sustainable energy policy: fracking, pipelines, renewables, environment
* education: federal vs state, vouchers, charter schools, fixing urban education
* police/judicial: militarization of police, public safety, efficient court systems
* welfare system: another byzantine system with no clear rationale to drive implementation
* healthcare: yet another byzantine systemThe fact that people seem to be honestly blind to how dangerous this line of reasoning is legitimately astonishes me.
It displays differently on iOS and Android now.
Apple is indeed pushing a specific political agenda.
Regardless of how you feel about gun rights, politically-motivated altering of text is a terrible thing. Imagine if you couldn't type a certain text string on iOS? Altering emoji to be one thing instead of another isn't much different.