Censorship continued: first the Parler app then @realDonaldTrump

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Re: Censorship continued: first the Parler app then @realDonaldTrump

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Post by vnatale » Tue Jan 12, 2021 11:04 pm

Republicans usually revere the free market. Now, they’re cursing it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... ursing-it/

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Jan. 12, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. EST
You have to savor the irony: Republicans who normally extol the virtues of the free market are now cursing it. That’s because they are feeling the wrath of corporate America for having subverted U.S. democracy and instigated an insurrection.

Simon & Schuster decided to cancel a book by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), leading him to rage against the “woke mob” in ways that he has never done against the MAGA mob that invaded the U.S. Capitol. He even called the publisher’s move a “direct assault on the First Amendment,” as though every American has a constitutional right to be published by Simon & Schuster. Other major companies have said they won’t donate to the Sedition Caucus — the 147 congressional Republicans who voted not to certify the presidential election results. The financial hit could hurt GOP chances of retaking Congress in 2022.

President Trump is said to be “gutted” because the Professional Golfers’ Association of America voted to take the 2022 PGA Championship away from one of his golf courses. If only he could get a mulligan for his attacks against U.S. democracy.



That these right-wingers are able to protest Twitter’s decision on Twitter refutes their silly scaremongering about the end of free speech. Indeed, the fact that Twitter banned the president of the United States shows that freedom of speech is very much alive in America. Any media organization in China or Russia that tried to shut down Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin’s lies would not be in business for long — and its owners would not be at liberty either.


A better solution is to introduce more transparency and accountability into social media companies’ decisions to ban certain users — without risking heavy-handed government censorship. It’s a tough balancing act, but it can be done. Mark MacCarthy of the Brookings Institution suggests the creation of an independent industry arbitration panel that could oversee social media companies’ implementation of their own standards to make sure they are being fair and consistent. This would provide a way to appeal decisions by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey or Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg without forcing the government to rule on who should be allowed to say what.

But simply because social media companies need to be more transparent in their decisions doesn’t mean that they were wrong to ban Trump and some of his most deranged followers. If the companies had acted earlier — while Trump was spreading lies about election fraud — the Capitol might never have been attacked.
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Re: Censorship continued: first the Parler app then @realDonaldTrump

Post by I Shrugged » Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:52 am

Max Boot is not a republican, no matter what he might say. He’s a center neocon.
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Post by vnatale » Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:22 am

I Shrugged wrote:
Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:52 am

Max Boot is not a republican, no matter what he might say. He’s a center neocon.


Duly noted.

Any response to the thoughts he expresses. His words?

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Post by I Shrugged » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:40 am

vnatale wrote:
Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:22 am
I Shrugged wrote:
Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:52 am
Max Boot is not a republican, no matter what he might say. He’s a center neocon.
Duly noted.

Any response to the thoughts he expresses. His words?

I'm going to apply the Vinny standard. Max Boot is discredited in my mind so I'm not going to evaluate what he might say. :)
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Post by vnatale » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:55 am

I Shrugged wrote:
Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:40 am

vnatale wrote:
Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:22 am

I Shrugged wrote:
Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:52 am

Max Boot is not a republican, no matter what he might say. He’s a center neocon.


Duly noted.

Any response to the thoughts he expresses. His words?



I'm going to apply the Vinny standard. Max Boot is discredited in my mind so I'm not going to evaluate what he might say. :)


Good one. I was wondering if you'd reply that way.

Except the "Vinny standard" is directed towards certain wacky conspiracy theories that are not infrequently brought here. Plus, brought from sources that are either fringe or obviously biased or both.

Still waiting for anyone to tell me how large that antifa mob was in New York City on Sunday.
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Post by dualstow » Thu Jan 14, 2021 12:43 pm


Still waiting for anyone to tell me how large that antifa mob was in New York City on Sunday.
Dunno

I was going to create a thread, Where Tech Meets Politics, to make up for that post of Cortopassi’s that was deleted, but it looks like this thread serves that purpose just fine.
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Post by vnatale » Thu Jan 14, 2021 4:07 pm

https://www.distractify.com/p/parler-data-dump

A Hacker Leaked Every Single Post From Parler, and It Isn’t Pretty





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Re: Censorship continued: first the Parler app then @realDonaldTrump

Post by Xan » Thu Jan 14, 2021 4:15 pm

I thought the principle just established was that hacked material was considered off-limits for journalistic investigation. The Biden laptop was much less "hacked" than all this was.
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Post by dualstow » Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:44 pm

InsuranceGuy wrote:
Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:19 pm
Even Salon sees the hypocrisy of blaming Parler for the capitol incident: https://www.salon.com/2021/01/16/despit ... hdogs-say/
... {rest of post is directly above^^}
Yes! It was only very recently that Zuckerberg caved and started shutting down Holocaust denial. I understand that these platforms are going to be criticized whether they go all free speech or try to moderate, but there are clear double standards here with with regard to Parler. I hope someone like Peter Thiel swoops in and saves Parler.
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Post by SomeDude » Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:39 am

Simonjester wrote: https://dailytorch.com/2021/01/left-cal ... ervatives/

army of citizens to monitor domestic terrorists,
It's LITERALLY out of the NAZI/Communist playbook, done over and over and over.

freedom loving patriotic Americans need to get as many states to secede as possible. Then all the "domestic terrorists" can move there and have normal lives and not bother the communists anymore.

Everyone will be happier.
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Re: Censorship continued: first the Parler app then @realDonaldTrump

Post by SomeDude » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:39 am

Simonjester wrote: https://www.americanthinker.com/article ... rward.html
there is frightful talk of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, blacklists, purges, cleansing, re-education camps, deradicalization, and deprogramming — all from the mouths of Democrats. That they are so emboldened to actually articulate these noxious ideas out loud — the very tactics employed by the worst despots and most notorious political movements in history — should chill everyone's blood.
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Post by dualstow » Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:04 am

SomeDude wrote:
Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:39 am
...freedom loving patriotic Americans need to get as many states to secede as possible. Then all the "domestic terrorists" can move there and have normal lives and not bother the communists anymore.

Everyone will be happier.
I think sedition is still a punishable crime.
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Post by dualstow » Fri Jan 22, 2021 6:44 am

Sarcasm, on the other hand, merely alluding to sedition, is still legal.
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Re: Censorship continued: first the Parler app then @realDonaldTrump

Post by whatchamacallit » Mon Sep 27, 2021 10:12 pm

https://trends.google.com/trends/yis/2020/US/

I find it hard to believe orange man did not make top ten people searched in 2020.

Rewriting history.
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Post by SomeDude » Wed Sep 29, 2021 4:58 pm

whatchamacallit wrote:
Mon Sep 27, 2021 10:12 pm
https://trends.google.com/trends/yis/2020/US/

I find it hard to believe orange man did not make top ten people searched in 2020.

Rewriting history.
His name is Orangemanbad.
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