Re:Facebook Is a Hostile Foreign Power
by aaron-santos on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:14PM
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Why would you conflate hostile foreign power and being at war? There is a difference here between necessary and sufficient conditions. The presence of hostile foreign powers with whom we are not at war is evidence enough.
Re:Facebook Is a Hostile Foreign Power
by shukantpal on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:56PM
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The board of Facebook consists of Americans. They are helping a hostile foreign power ( Facebook).
Re:Facebook Is a Hostile Foreign Power
by aaron-santos on Monday September 27, 2021 @02:11PM
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Help me out. How does that imply war?
Re:Facebook Is a Hostile Foreign Power
by AlbertCory on Monday September 27, 2021 @03:30PM
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Getting back to your original posting:
First of all, my whole posting was tongue-in-cheek, which everyone else seems to have gotten.
Anyhow, does it makes sense that "A formal declaration of war" has somewhat more legal force than "An Atlantic headline writer declaring them a hostile foreign power" ?
Re:Facebook Is a Hostile Foreign Power
by aaron-santos on Monday September 27, 2021 @04:40PM
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Thanks for explaining. Today was my day to not get a joke on the internet :)
If you really believe that, then a Congressional declaration of war with Facebook is in order. That would mean, among other things, charging all executives and Board members with treason.
Since that word gets thrown around loosely these days, let's see its actual definition (Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution):
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
Sounds like a hostile foreign power to me. An open-and-shut case; after all, we're at war with them.
OK, maybe that sounds ridiculous to you (or maybe not)? If so, then magazines shouldn't use clickbait headlines like "hostile foreign power."