Censorship, blacklists, funding blocks, media, life is too short to debate subjects that are obvious to everyone, except you.
What nonsense from Lindsey Graham and other Trump supporters today. Lindsey in particular should be ashamed with pushing false nonsense because he was very aware that Amazon offered the Trump administration distribution help for vaccines. Amazon Refutes Claim That It Never Offered Vaccine Distribution Help to Trump Admin https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-ref...vaccine-distribution-help-trump-admin-1563516 Amazon disputed accusations that it didn't offer COVID-19 vaccine distribution aid to former President Donald Trump's administration, after the company granted President Joe Biden help with that on the day of his inauguration. According to a Fox News report published Thursday, former Trump officials claimed the e-commerce giant never extended such assistance during the Trump administration. During an interview with Fox News on that same day, GOP South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham claimed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was "friendly to the Democratic cause," and said the e-commerce giant should have shared its capacity to distribute COVID-19 vaccines with the Trump administration. "I think what Amazon's doing is pretty disgusting if, in fact, they could have helped the Trump administration, and they chose not to because they don't like him," said Graham. "That's not a good moment for the Amazon company." The senator added that he believed drug companies had the vaccine before the November presidential election and waited until after the election to announce it. "I think, if there been a Democratic president, they would have announced it before the election," said Graham. However, in an emailed statement to Newsweek, Amazon pointed to a tweet posted Thursday afternoon, claiming they did offer help to the Trump administration. "Actually, we didn't wait. We offered the Trump administration assistance on vaccines, built new tools for research and public health authorities, engaged Operation Warp Speed on logistics & advised on testing, and flew in PPE from China when America needed it most," said the Amazon Policy Twitter account in response to questions from Republican Colorado Congressman Ken Buck. In a letter sent to President Biden on Wednesday, Amazon Worldwide Consumer CEO Dave Clark said the e-commerce giant will leverage its operations to help distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to 100 million Americans in the first 100 days of Biden's administration. "Our scale allows us to make a meaningful impact immediately in the fight against COVID-19, and we stand ready to assist you in this effort," wrote Clark. Amazon has faced criticism since its announcement to aid Biden's vaccine distribution, as some question where the company's loyalties lie. Despite that, Amazon has reportedly been in contact with U.S. government officials over the last nine months about the COVID-19 response.
you're reaching in your conclusion that this is big tech out to cancel Trump. This is at best, a billionaire vendetta (with good reason), just read my previous post.
Point is it extends beyond just Amazon. Regardless if you feel they were justified, if it comes out that Gates, Bezos, et al. coordinated their efforts against Trump, that’s criminal.
1st amendment says otherwise. I don't know if they coordinated or they just got gutsy en masse, or Trump exposed legal liabilities after the 6th and they all booted his ass out on legal advice. It may become legal precedent if companies can be held liable (on proven coordination) to shut someone down like that. Similar cases on price & wage fixing have been made. As of yet, no government entity that I'm aware of ordered the companies to shut his ass down, so no 1st amendment infringement was made.
Censorship happened in the final days of a four year term. Those censorship rules apply to everyone. What blacklists occurred during Trump's presidency, since you alleged Big Tech did these things to hamstring Trump? What funding blocks occurred during Trumps presidency? Some media is biased left, some right. What's the problem there? No. Everyone doesn't believe as you do. You made an assertion, I'm just asking you to back it up. So many people believing unsubstantiated bullshit is how we got here. How you lost both houses and the presidency.
Agreed. In effect, the left's been making this case for at least a decade that the internet and social media should be treated as a utility that can't be denied. Righties have been on the opposing end w/net neutrality and against treating social media as such. Alas now that they got burnt they're crying foul doing a hypocritical 180 and wanting to nationalize.