(January 14, 2021 at 3:48 pm)Drich Wrote: can you not see what facebook, apple, twitter google has does removes our first amendment rights? can you have freedom without the first amendment? can you not look at the 190 seconds it took to impeach the president in the house without one scrap of evidence being examined as an affront to the people who duly elected president Trump? how can freedom exist if a sitting president is removed without any evidence that supports the charges brought against him? where is due process of the law? where is his fair trial? when do the people who voted for him be given a chance to see a legitimate attempt to break the law?
Wow, are you really this misinformed?
#1. Facebook, twitter, google...etc. are all businesses, not government bodies. Any business can dictate the rules by which you may use their products or services. Do you need evidence of this? Consider recordings of music and/or movies. It is illegal to duplicate any music or movie for the purpose of resale unless the producer allows it. Would you claim Disney is robbing you of your rights if they sue you for copying Disney DVD's and selling them online? You would lose. What you are confusing yourself about is the government's limitation to squelch your right to free speech. It wasn't the government that cut Trump off, it was the companies.
#2. You need evidence of Trump inciting the mob to violence? Did you watch any of the videos recorded that day of his speech? Have you not seen any of his online rants about a stolen election, etc.? You would have to be blind to not see that this was obvious incitement. And even that is irrelevant. Impeachment is whatever the House says Impeachment is. The Senate will "try" Trump for these crimes using evidence and legal arguments and decided if Impeachment is withheld. And he's gone in 6 days anyway, why does it matter?
#3. Whether you voted for him or not has nothing to do with it.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller