<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 3:09 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-5557444739436048575WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] ok this explains it<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>>…<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">But Ari makes it sound like exposing that and stopping that is a bad thing. I don’t understand. Can anyone explain please?</span> <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">spike </span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">What if a media company wanted to discriminate against some political party? It's a private company, so it's not illegal - true?</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">True!<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:rgb(34,34,34)">Making this transparent would be a terrible idea</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">See the reasoning there Billw?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">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?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">I can't see this coming under equal time laws. billw</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 1:43 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">OK well I suppose this solves the mystery of why the big panic.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1518787650815201281" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/i/status/1518787650815201281</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="266" height="211" style="width: 2.7708in; height: 2.1979in;" id="gmail-m_-5557444739436048575gmail-m_2390065818461571049Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:1807c28c0db6917eb1"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> …<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The mind boggles.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br><br><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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