Censorship on Social Media? STFU, Snowflake.

So-called conservatives are complaining about social media "censorship".  They are acting like Marxists, worse than the whiny social justice warriors they complain about incessantly.  What do they propose to do about this huge problem?  Class action lawsuits?  Government takeover of private property?

 

A lawsuit would get dismissed for two reasons.  First, social media accounts are set up under terms of use agreements that contain arbitration clauses.  Second, in the event there was a court that would ignore Federal law and refuse to enforce binding arbitration, there is no plaintiff with standing to bring a suit under Article III of the Constitution because there are no damages.  YouTube won't publish your rant video?  How much did you pay for the right to post whatever you please?  Oh…nothing?  Well, here's your money back, with interest.  Go home, Karen.

 

You would deny the property owner the right to tear down your posters from their fence, or paint over your graffiti? You demand YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to allow you to do whatever you want using their facilities that you don't pay for? If you are demanding the right to use someone else's private property like it was public property, you're a goddamn communist. If you don't like YouTube controlling the bandwidth it pays for, you need to pay for your own. If the Government shuts down free speech, that's unconstitutional censorship. If a private company enforces terms of use you agreed to when you set up an account on their platform, that's capitalism. You're free to speak from the public square and publish your rants in a newspaper or magazine you print at your own expense, but you can't commandeer private property for your purposes. Grow up and stop like acting like the frickin' Marxists you claim to oppose.

Joseph of Arimathaea

August 1 is the day currently designated to commemorate Joseph of Arimathaea.  It used to be July 31, but the damned Jesuits stole it because their founder had the nerve to die on that day.  You'll notice I considered JK Rowling (and Harry Potter) more worthy of a post than Ignatius of Loyola. 

 

All four Gospels recount the detail that Jesus was buried in a tomb owned by Joseph of Arimathaea, a wealthy member of the Sanhedrin and secret disciple of Jesus who had, along with fellow council member Nicodemus, interceded with Pilate to be allowed to give Jesus' body a proper and timely Jewish burial.  Scripture doesn't tell us much else, but tradition (folklore, really) has quite a bit to add.  One of the more intriguing accretions is the legend that Joseph of Arimathaea gained was a wealthy merchant in the metals industry, who had an interest in tin mines in Britain (Cornwall, specifically) and traveled there by sea frequently.  On one such trip, he was accompanied by his nephew, Jesus of Nazareth.  His legend is the basis for William Blake's poem, set to music by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry:

 

BBC Proms - Hubert Parry: Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)

 

 

Saint John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople in the 4th Century, wrote that Joseph was one of the Seventy Apostles Jesus commissioned in Luke 10.  Medieval legends place Joseph as having custody of the Holy Grail, the chalice of the Last Supper, and bringing it to Britain after the Resurrection.  He is credited with being responsible for the fact that Christianity was already firmly rooted in England well before the Roman armies arrived with missionaries in tow.  Tertullian, who died in AD 222, wrote that Britain had embraced the Gospel by his day.  Queen Elizabeth I credited Joseph with bringing Christianity long before the existence of the Roman Catholic Church when defending the Church of England against Rome's attempts to delegitimize it.  The world's oldest (and arguably most) Christian nation has adopted Blake's anthem as second to "God Save the Queen", and this Anglophile wishes our own country had one as good.