[ExI] ok this explains it

[William Flynn Wallace]

Just barely scratching the back of my head:  sometime back I read that some
news outlets were not going to offer free time to candidates because they
could not limit the number of candidates.  Makes good sense.  bill w

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 3:09 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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>  >>…But Ari makes it sound like exposing that and stopping that is a bad
> thing.  I don’t understand.  Can anyone explain please?  spike
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> >…What if a media company wanted to discriminate against some political
> party?  It's a private company, so it's not illegal - true?
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> >…Making this transparent would be a terrible idea…
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> Ja, thanks for that.  The fact that Musk is buying a media company at
> enormous expense, planning to make it transparent is evidence that his
> company does not plan to discriminate against some political party.  Billw,
> very perceptive of you sir.
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> The fact that the other media companies do not make their filtering
> algorithms transparent indicates the other media companies DO wish to
> discriminate against some political party.
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> See the reasoning there Billw?
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> So… this “news” guy appears to be arguing that NOT discriminating against
> a particular party is a bad thing, but discriminating against a political
> party is a good thing.  Well, is it?  MSNBC, is that it?  Was this the most
> epic self-own ever?  Was it done for humor?
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> >…I can't see this coming under equal time laws.  billw
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> Cool, I’m all for equal time laws.  All the minor parties get equal air
> time with the two biggies, cool.  Furthermore… there are a lotta different
> brands of Libertarians.  We can divide into at least a coupla dozen
> variants, completely swamp the message of these other guys who win all the
> elections.  We wouldn’t even be able to find the two biggies in the
> resulting pile of hay.
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> On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 1:43 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> OK well I suppose this solves the mystery of why the big panic.
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> https://twitter.com/i/status/1518787650815201281
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> The mind boggles.
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