Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

  • Every business should have its own “terms of service”

    Why is it legal to discriminate according to political ideology? Does this mean that any private business can now refuse service to anyone because of their political beliefs?  Every business should post a “terms of service” that says you automatically agree once you step beyond a certain point. Then if a user of your service…

  • Google, Apple, and Amazon violated Parler’s human rights

    It’s not that long ago that we were being told the access to the Internet is a human right. Apparently that concept goes right out the window if you have the wrong thoughts. Mind you, it has been mostly those on the left that introduced the concept of Internet access as a human right. Yet…

  • What are we allowed to say?

    I posted the quote below on Facebook last night. I found it after the Internet seemed to explode over calls for President Trump to resign or be impeached and after he was banned from Twitter’s platform. Glenn Greenwald is referencing a case when white merchants filed suit against the NAACP alleging they advocated the use…

  • Is January 8, 2021 the day America died?

    I’m just asking for a friend… Not really. Today has the feel of a seismic shift in the direction of our nation. United we stand. Divided we fall. This is the most we’ve been divided in my 54 years on the planet.

  • The tragedy and lost opportunity that was the Trump Administration

    President Donald Trump is leaving the Office of the Presidency exactly as he came in, unapologetic, obstinate, and hated equally by Republicans, Democrats, and the media. The funny fact is he was perhaps the most malleable of all people to hold that office in the last 200 years. Here was a man interested only in…

  • Media didn’t get what they wanted so they said it happened anyway

    I watched the so-called “riot” and “coup attempt” yesterday live as it was happening. I suspect thousands, if not millions, of people around the country and the world were watching as well. I was watching the electoral vote count and the debate on the opposition to Arizona’s electors on the PBS Newshour program with Judy…