Believe it or not, there are two pressing national issues about which there is growing bipartisan agreement.
Hell, this morning I heard Amy Klobuchar and Lindsey Graham agreeing with each other.
- The situation at our Southern border is a true crisis and a national security emergency.
- And the operators of social media companies must conduct themselves more responsibly, even if they have to be forced to behave more responsibly. They’re killing our kids and poisoning our discourse.
We have the ability to deal with these issues. There is ample proposed legislation in Congress to begin to fix them. But, as usual, we lack the will.
GOP extremist jihadists would rather load Trump’s propaganda gun than permit “Biden” to deploy all necessary resources to the border, which requires Congressional approval.
It is true, however, that there are a handful of executive actions available to “Biden” that he has yet to access. And it’s only been in recent weeks that the president has finally joined his 330,000,000 fellow Americans in acknowledging that this is in fact a “crisis.”
Partisan politics “uber alles.” Again. Always.
Oh, but apparently we have time to “impeach” a cabinet member who, it can be argued is not especially good at his job, but nevertheless has committed nothing resembling a “high crime and misdemeanor.”
Now, regarding social media platform irresponsibility, insensitivity and recklessness. I’m a First Amendment, free speech guy. But social media are not a public utility. These private platforms have every right to control and regulate their content by posting and enforcing their rules. That’s not “censorship.” This is an ownership issue
So that means they can stick you in the cooler for three weeks, essentially for endangering the peace. It means they can put Trump or anybody else on double-secret probation and temporarily slap a muzzle on him, at least as it pertains to their property.
They have the right to do that. So that also means they also have the right to reject dangerous or inappropriate advertising. And they have a responsibility to do that, particularly as it impacts the safety and well-being of minors.
Let’s start with age minimums.
A society that refuses to protect its children is doomed.
