Ya, same with Moonlight. And LaLaLand. And Manchester By The Sea. And let's go with Hell or High Water, too. I'll say Fences. And maybe Arrival.

want the batdick

I travel a lot for work so I get the half reading novels. Sadly, rather than give up on a novel to start something new I force myself to finish an entire book so I'll read like half in a week then the last half takes me 3 months. But I just started Silence and his wife is right - it is a great read so far.

Sorry, but it's time to give you a wedgie.

Lol

Thank's again. SNL and twitter are the same thing. U r right. Thank's.

I wasn't trying to make some grand point with these questions - just things I was pondering when reading this article. It's always great to receive snide comments from anons who themselves only have a base understanding of an issue. I'm all for debate, but so often even the most innocuous of questions brings out the…

I guess the "tricky" factor comes in when the average person is unable to 'speak' on the internet without the assistance of a company. If the company is the de facto controller of all speech online the issue arises. I agree that everyone should know to set up their own private servers, but most people, including…

Thanks for the play by play. It's very much appreciated. I definitely hadn't thought of any of those things before. They definitely hadn't been brought up before in in the few hours this post has been up. You totally answered the underlying point being made about what is deemed a forum on the internet. The other…

It's not about the user in this instance, it's about the "utility" provider.

Right, I wasn't arguing otherwise. Just saying the thought is out there and it was worrying to me.

Right, which is why I started the post off discussing the issue of public utilities. There are many politicians who believe internet access should be a right and should be maintained like a public utility. *IF* that happens, it's not difficult to foresee issues arising out of what constitutes a "public" forum, even…

No, it was my old congress member's facebook page. He'd quote a bible verse.
I can't find the original blog from a professor, but here's a story on the issue. http://religion.blogs.cnn.c…

I guess I'm referring to web hosting servers generally. Granted, I guess an individual can host their own domain rather than go through a company, though doing so is much trickier for the average person than simply posting on facebook or w/e.

That's my initial line of thinking, but unlike the coffee shop analogy where racist guy can walk onto a public street, there's not place "online" a racist guy can go to speak his idiocy that's not owned by a private company.

Word. The newspaper analogy makes the most sense for treating social media platforms.

Yeah, show that variety show host who's boss!

People seem to think Fallon tousling Trump's hair and not calling him a bigot is terrible, but give Colbert a pass for light hearted conversation with him, as well as telling his audience not to boo and be respectful of him. I don't get it.

Sadly, I want to ask a serious question - if the internet is declared a "public" utility and becomes more regulated through net neutrality etc., does posting online become speech that under the auspices of the first amendment? I know Twitter isn't the government, but if companies control the only means of posting…

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