Hashtag Wars: Big Brother Saves the Day!

At it again...all for you. 

by Angela K. Durden
The Most Brilliant Woman in the World

Acccording to Big Brother's Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb:

— If a hashtag mentions opioids, sales will accrue.

— Social Media Tech Giants (SMTG) are part of the opioid pipeline.

Scott Gottlieb,
FDA commisioner

And what is Mr. Gottlieb's two-pronged solution to the opioid crisis? 

One: It is to require SMTGs to stop drug pushers.

Two: It is to invite SMTG CEOs from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit to attend a summit wherein a plan will be laid out to stop the latest crisis in the never-ending but stupid war on drugs. 

Typical Big Gubment solutions, wouldn't you agree? Don't go after the pushers, go after the roads they drive on. What kind of idiocy is this?

But they will acquiesce and make nice at Gottlieb's most very important garden party...especially after Facebook's giant meltdown over sales of user information to Ol' Hill's competition and Twitter's big but failing effort to get her elected by suppressing negative hashtags against her.

Assuming their houses were built on rock, these SMTGs built houses of cards on sand. They got the big heads about their role in social justice and societal engineering. They lied and misrepresented themselves to users while quietly stealing from them. And now two stiff winds are blowing and their houses are shaking.

Stiff wind number one is Big Gubment asking their dutiful dupes to take on a larger role in policing the world. 

Stiff wind number two are other social media tech companies who have been patiently waiting in the wings. One of those is a company called MeWe.com*. What do you think about their Bill of Rights?

Can the company deliver? I don't know. Because here are a few other things they have to say about their terms of service:

• Violate any law or regulation. 

[Angela: Too open-ended. Any law? What if that law is itself unlawful?]

• Send unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or commercial communications, such as spam. 

[Angela: One man's spam is another man's self-promotion. Again with the open-ended?]

• Use automated methods to use the Site or Services. 

[Angela: I am checking with CoSchedule.com to see if this applies to them.]

• Post unlawful, harmful, obscene, or pornographic content. 

[Angela: Who decides the status of these things?]

• Post content that is hateful, threatening, harmful, incites violence; or contains graphic or gratuitous violence. 

[Angela: They have obviously never met a Radical Feminist or a P-HWPCDLRSFC**.]

• Post content you do not have the right to transmit. 

[Angela: What about YouTube videos and other content like memes or images used in satire or comedy?]

• Post content that infringes on trademarks or copyrights. 

[Angela: What denotes infringement here?]

See what I mean? Look, if all of this is CYA language that will keep them from being sued, then okay, I get it. But if MeWe.com is saying they are different, what's with the broad strokes here? 

* As of today, Sunday morning April 8 in the year of our Lord 2018, I'm testing this site. Here is the link to my profile: mewe.com/i/angela.durden. Tell me what you think about it.


** P-HWPCDLRSFC is Pussy-Hat Wearing Politically Correct Democrat Liberal RINO Socialist Fascist Commies