Ugh. I meant to include this in the previous post.
In September of 2019, Kamala Harris, then a Senator, wrote to Twitter on official Senate stationery that it should censor then-President Trump. CNN’s Jake Tapper challenged her on the suggestion. (She also tweeted that position.) “You wrote to Twitter and the CEO Jack Dorsey and asked him to take away the president’s Twitter handle. How is that not a violation of free speech? The President has the same rights that you have, that I have, how would that not be a slippery slope where they have to ban half of the people on Twitter?”
Harris’s totalitarian reply: “A corporation has obligations. Their Terms of Use dictate who receives the privilege of speaking on that platform, and who does not. And Donald Trump has clearly violated the Terms of Use, and there should be a consequence for that. Revoke someone’s privilege, because they have not lived up to the advantages of the privilege.”
There’s a Harris “value” for you, and the Biden Administration’s “value” as well. When the government applies pressure on a corporation to ban a political figure’s speech, indeed a sitting President’s speech as he seeks re-election, the “privilege” of communicating with the public on social media becomes a right being infringed by the government. Does Harris believe freedom of speech is a right or a privilege? That’s a “values” question Dana Bash should have asked Harris.
Nah. Too hard. She might have flubbed it.
Ethics Alarms 
jack, your review of the “interview” underscored the rightness of my decision not to watch.
Here’s a headline from an opinion piece in The Guardian which reads like a Babylon Bee headline given its author (which reads like a punchline):
Radical? Far Left? Harris’ Policies Are Common Sense Sen. Bernie Sanders
Elon Musk is out of control. Here is how to rein him in by Robert Reich:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/30/elon-musk-wealth-power
I mentioned this one in the earlier Kamala post, but with no link, so it wouldn’t get stuck. Especially read the comments.
From the article.
Elon Musk is rapidly transforming his enormous wealth – he’s the richest person in the world – into a huge source of unaccountable political power that’s now backing Trump and other authoritarians around the world.
The only authoritarian actions that I recall Trump ever took were the bump stock ban and the CDC eviction moratorium.
It hardly needs to be said that a web-based platforms refusal to deny service or remove posts is none of the government’s business- federal or state.
If the moderators of a discussion forum on a Holocaust education web site fail or refuse to remove pro-Nazi and pro-Hamas content, that is not the government’s business at all.