It’s like existing social media they are familiar with except there’s multiple versions run independently which are connected together using a shared protocol.

Literally, read the news: https://news.google.com/search?for=free+speech&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

You are debasing yourself for a tyrant.

Do you think you are scoring points in a debate? We can all see what is happening in the news, we can read the threats from the President. Playing these games here isn’t going to work. You know what you are doing is wrong. If it were the party you oppose wielding the state against businesses in this manner, your tune would be completely different. It is obvious what you are and why you are here. I’m not interested.

I’m still hoping we get to see him live up to his waterboarding pledge one of these days.

Not interested in feeding sealions, you seem capable enough to use the internet on your own. It’s obvious now that you are a partisan who will defend Trumpism regardless of what is going on right in front of your face and I find that boring. I hope some day you do value freedom enough to advocate for it.

Yes, pay attention to what is happening? Go look at the words of Carr. Go look at what Trump has been saying. It is completely transparent that critics must be silenced or the power of the state will be used to interfere in your business.

I don’t think earning potential provides sufficient justification for associating with someone who rapes people. Their priorities are all fucked up.

You seem to either be uninformed or not commenting in good faith. The FCC explicitly coerced Disney, Trump in his own words says they are going after these companies for being critical of him. Using the power of the state in this way is categorically different than social movements trying to “cancel” people.

Kimmel said MAGA was desperate to prove the shooter wasn’t one of them. That is literally true, they immediately started spinning stories before facts were known. At the time it was still unclear what was going on, which is probably why Kimmel didn’t say the shooter was MAGA and only that MAGA was currently trying to prove he wasn’t.

Also, in the US you are allowed to lie for political reasons all you want. Even if we assume that Kimmel somehow knew the motivation of the shooter and then lied about it, that doesn’t change the fact that he has a right to freedom of speech.

Yes, they have. Being seen to capitulate on free speech has pissed a lot of people off. His ratings are irrelevant, people who hate Kimmel are pissed because it’s not about him specifically.

Your image with the Kimmel quote is a different situation. Businesses are free to make business decisions, that is exactly the problem here. They were not free, and as Trump has reiterated, there’s now a new censorship regime enforced by the FCC which is going to continue interfering in these businesses to silence critics.

I wouldn’t be so sure about that, the Disney brand has taken a major hit here. I think it is still impossible to say what it is going to cost them but it will cost them, they certainly aren’t making more money out of this. It is not a situation that makes the line go up, people are absolutely pissed at Disney.

I think your upper bound is too many droves, the limit is total Disney Plus subscribers.

Here is some potentially useful data: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1095372/disney-plus-number-of-subscribers-us/

To me it looks like their numbers may be trending down already so a boycott could be extra effective. If they have lots of customers already considering leaving then giving them an excuse like participating in a boycott in defense of free speech could help accelerate that trend and make a bigger impact.

I think Trump being so old is motivating it. They want maximum control before they have to deal with the transition to a post-Trump regime. They can see him declining and know that time is limited before the whole game changes in a fundamental way. Establishing the legal pretext to do certain things will make it a lot easier to keep doing them once Trump isn’t around.

It would be great if the lawyers actually faced consequences for such blatant abuses of their profession. Lawyers are supposed to have standards they adhere to which are obviously not being followed. These lawyers know what they are doing is wrong and are doing it intentionally, their Bar association really should not tolerate this behavior.

That’s a good point, it is some fucked up priorities for a publisher to not support free speech but to support rape. Gaiman is a vile and disgusting rapist who brutalized at least one vulnerable teenager and multiple adult women. If you would rather associate with someone like that and help make them richer there’s something fucked up with morals.

They have significantly less sex than previous generations did at comparable ages. It’s been well established by multiple sources at this point, although I don’t think causality is understood yet so it could be unrelated, or more likely porn accessibility is only one factor in the decline.

Hochul can see which way the wind is blowing and adapt, this guy can’t or won’t. He sucks at politics worse than Hochul is my only point.

He does seem to be kind of bad at politics. Hochul just showed him how to thread the needle, he could have followed her lead.