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Not Only Is InfoWars Just the First Step in Eradicating Oppositional Speech, They're Admitting It
A US Senator, calling for the effective end of the First Amendment.
Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart. These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) August 6, 2018
Where is legacy “conservative” media ringing the alarm bells? Oh, sorry; they’re tweeting about pizza today. https://t.co/our2glLINU
— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) August 7, 2018
As usual, @DavidAFrench's thoughtful, nuanced take is invaluable. https://t.co/OcRkmF8tvv
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) August 7, 2018
It’s almost like we’re secretly already resigned to the deplatforming, and now we’re just pleading our cases against it happening to ourselves by throwing InfoWars under the bus.
— Stephen Herreid (@StephenHerreid) August 7, 2018
Too much conservative commentary sounds like “Welcome, Leftist overlords. Please kill me last.” 2/2
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2018 12:19 PM (+WXeq)
Posted by: Eustace Haverkamp at August 07, 2018 12:19 PM (XuYmQ)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, designated anti-hero at August 07, 2018 12:19 PM (AM1GF)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 12:20 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 12:20 PM (c+2jX)
Note: "that" subject to revision next time McCain's tumor opens its staffs piehole.
Posted by: DaveA at August 07, 2018 12:20 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Denny Crane at August 07, 2018 12:21 PM (KFJON)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at August 07, 2018 12:21 PM (FTXAT)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 12:21 PM (c+2jX)
But this definitely falls into the "First they came for the Jews, but I said nothing because I wasn't Jewish...." story.
And these asshole politicians that support this should be strung the fuck up.
Posted by: Eustace Haverkamp at August 07, 2018 12:21 PM (XuYmQ)
Posted by: Javems at August 07, 2018 12:22 PM (hKXB0)
A sitting Senator, under oath:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
is openly calling for censorship.
What an asshat.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at August 07, 2018 12:22 PM (tVWQB)
Limbaugh lurking and hitting this note - justifiably -hard.
If this ain't the hill to die on, I sure as hell can see it from here.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:22 PM (G4W16)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, designated anti-hero at August 07, 2018 12:19 PM
You are far too young to be so cynical.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2018 12:22 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 12:23 PM (c+2jX)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2018 12:23 PM (+WXeq)
Posted by: Publius Redux at August 07, 2018 12:23 PM (Fb9aZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 12:23 PM (W0Oy7)
Posted by: Javems at August 07, 2018 12:22 PM (hKXB0)
And therein lies the $220+ trillion dollar question...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:23 PM (G4W16)
Posted by: Joe Mama at August 07, 2018 12:23 PM (oUJqV)
What... you thought my pants would say "si?" My pants are American, dammit.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (9chmE)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (khWYc)
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (DLP4D)
First they came for Alex Jones and the conspiracy types
Then, you know the rest
Lastly, they never did get around to the 9/11 truthers
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, designated anti-hero
You are far too young to be so cynical.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
I'm not sure I'm going to live long enough to catch up with my cynicism-age. May as well get it out of my system now.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, designated anti-hero at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Apollo at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (ctuyM)
Let me flip through Mission to Moscow, think I got a Soviet quote that has bearing on this.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (37My0)
Posted by: Bruce at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (8ikIW)
omg! they're part of the pizza conspiracy! no wonder they didn't take pizzagate seriously!
Posted by: Anachronda needs more tinfoil at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (xGZ+b)
Limbaugh lurking and hitting this note - justifiably -hard.
If this ain't the hill to die on, I sure as hell can see it from here.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:22 PM (G4W16)
**
The hill is most definitely within reach of our artillery. Commence barrage, fire at will.
Posted by: Publius Redux at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (Fb9aZ)
Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Bruce
sorry, books to burn
Posted by: Bruce at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Cap'n Cuck at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (8snMi)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: HA at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (MAstk)
This was their cute little way of celebrating InfoWars going down.
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (uKdee)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (c+2jX)
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (J70i0)
Posted by: Under Fire at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (37My0)
Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (a0IVu)
The self-eating vegetable.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (G4W16)
Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (9chmE)
Posted by: trev006 at August 07, 2018 12:26 PM (3Tn95)
Posted by: Javems at August 07, 2018 12:22 PM (hKXB0)
And therein lies the $220+ trillion dollar question...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:23 PM (G4W16)
Well, in previous incarnations, it was jackbooted thugs, either in brown shirts or calling each other comrade.
Posted by: moki at August 07, 2018 12:26 PM (V+V48)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 07, 2018 12:26 PM (44Kmm)
What... you thought my pants would say "si?" My pants are American, dammit.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM
Love is the, how you say, universal language.
Posted by: Paolo at August 07, 2018 12:26 PM (ctuyM)
No prisoners taken.
Posted by: Under Fire at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (r9UYA)
"Omega Glory" was a Trek episode, not a peek into the near term future...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:26 PM (G4W16)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at August 07, 2018 12:26 PM (uKdee)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2018 12:26 PM (+WXeq)
Posted by: HA
Then let's impeach the people who made that stupid rule!
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 12:26 PM (c+2jX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 12:27 PM (W0Oy7)
This totalitarian crap makes me want to puke.
I don't just want these companies busted up, I want them totally destroyed.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 07, 2018 12:27 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Count Fenring at August 07, 2018 12:27 PM (O9JR8)
Posted by: Toad-O at August 07, 2018 12:27 PM (cct0t)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 07, 2018 12:26 PM (44Kmm)
We're a representative republic, not a democracy. But Chris Murphy can go to Hell.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:27 PM (G4W16)
Posted by: BignJames at August 07, 2018 12:27 PM (0+nbW)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 07, 2018 12:27 PM (Lg2h/)
Posted by: HA
Has a Senator ever been removed from office? If so: Via what mechanism?
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 12:27 PM (c+2jX)
Infowars will continue to serve their purposes well into the future. It'll be the venerated scalp, the beat-until-its-pulp example of righteous censorship and the template for a campaign of silencing.
Posted by: Zod at August 07, 2018 12:28 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:27 PM (G4W16)
I understand there is a large waiting list?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 07, 2018 12:28 PM (Lg2h/)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo
Not to be confused with the Giant Iceberg Lettuce of Scorn and Disdain.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, designated anti-hero at August 07, 2018 12:28 PM (AM1GF)
Only one has been impeached - William Blount.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at August 07, 2018 12:28 PM (tVWQB)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 12:29 PM (W0Oy7)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (c+2jX)
It's not about elections. It's about power and control. They don't care about elections any longer. They want those to be sham shows of support for them.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 07, 2018 12:29 PM (J70i0)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 12:29 PM (eSx+E)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:27 PM (G4W16)
I understand there is a large waiting list?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 07, 2018 12:28 PM (Lg2h/)
We need Oprah, not Steve Rubel, at the head of the velvet rope.
"And you go in! And you go in! And you go in!..."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:29 PM (G4W16)
Posted by: BurtTC
He's some loudmouth libertarian who used to believe in some amusing conspiracy theories. He's about 1% as toxic and crazy as the average leftist academic.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 12:29 PM (c+2jX)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM
A rock-solid platform of banning free speech, removing plastic straws from the ocean, and higher taxes. Blue Wave baby, tsunami level.
Posted by: The DNC at August 07, 2018 12:29 PM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: C. "Doc" Danger at August 07, 2018 12:29 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Chris Murphy at August 07, 2018 12:29 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at August 07, 2018 12:29 PM (RD7QR)
Only one has been impeached - William Blount.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at August 07, 2018 12:28 PM (tVWQB)
Paul Ryan will get right on this....
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:30 PM (G4W16)
Posted by: DamnedYankee at August 07, 2018 12:30 PM (37IEG)
If you want some Sausage, I'm your Vienna.
Posted by: C. "Doc" Danger at August 07, 2018 12:29 PM (ctuyM)
"It" moved.
Posted by: Shep at August 07, 2018 12:30 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Mikey NTH -Insanity and Delusion Clearance! 50% Off Fashionable Lunacies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 07, 2018 12:30 PM (hLRSq)
My 18 yr old just informed me that the censoring is a good thing because Jones was harassing Sandy Hook families and threatening them.
Posted by: Euro at August 07, 2018 12:30 PM (0/0b4)
***
They got away with stealing the Dem primary.
They got away with 3-6M illegal alien votes in 2016.
They got away with libeling Roy Moore in AL.
They aren't afraid of blow back in the least.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 12:30 PM (eSx+E)
The idea that the first amendment only protects citizens against GOVERNMENT censorship of speech vs the spirit of freedom of speech, especially in an age where a very few trillion dollar tech companies own the platforms on which most Americans tend to communicate broadly with the world.
For a long time I've pushed back against the common carrier idea because that means government gets their hands into "monitoring" companies and pushing them to maintain invisible bureaucrats' ideas of neutrality.
I'm now thinking Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, and several other companies have demonstrated enough meddling in speech to make it a wash. If they continue on this current path, the private companies may actually be worse, given this idea that only government stifling speech is wrong.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2018 12:30 PM (9qZ3S)
Tech companies have access to enough digital data to identify people of influence, with whom they are communicating (pageviews, twitter follows, etc.) and taking these non-progressive influencers to kill opposition to the Left's narrative, ability for political opposition to communicate, associate.
Given how Obama and Hillary partnered with Google and other tech companies, I would not be surprised if this is much more coordinated and mapped out that we could imagine.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2018 12:30 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 07, 2018 12:30 PM (9wYFF)
Having a complete $hithead as speaker of the house doesn't seem to be working.
Posted by: Boss Moss
You ain't seen nothing yet.
Posted by: Kevin McCarthy at August 07, 2018 12:31 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 07, 2018 12:31 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (9chmE)
He's a conspiracy theorist who is pretty popular in some quarters. For example, he believes that the Sandy Hook incident with Adam Lanza was a false flag operation by the government. Stuff like that.
I've never watched five minutes of Alex Jones. Not my cup of tea, but I will say that youtube was full of videos about Sandy Hook being a false flag and they were there for YEARS. No one did anything about them. So all of a sudden being concerned about this stuff isn't cutting it.
It's about the election. Thing is is that this seems like a really bad time to pull this shit. Is it desperation? Maybe they know they're not going to win in November.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 07, 2018 12:31 PM (4ErVI)
This is all natural muh free market Cuckservitism and we need to support it for muh principalisms so we can use those same muh principalisms to stop the right from ever attacking the left in the same way -
because that's the REAL goal. No right on left attacks!
Posted by: Bill Kuckin' Kristol, Ben Squeak Shapiro & the Washington Consensus at August 07, 2018 12:31 PM (aa/C1)
Yesterday (when this was written), they flirted with each other by pretending to have very strong opinions about pizza.
Bill Kristol loves a big 12 inch pepperoni.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 07, 2018 12:31 PM (10vO4)
Jones was harassing Sandy Hook families and threatening them.
***
I can't wait for Facebook etc all to ban all those antifa types.
Because that's coming next...right? Right???
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 12:31 PM (eSx+E)
That way third parties can leverage this technology to offer truly open services and platforms.
I don't really want to do this but the fascists have left us no choice.
Posted by: Kreplach at August 07, 2018 12:31 PM (upD/b)
Posted by: Zod at August 07, 2018 12:31 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Chris Murphy at August 07, 2018 12:31 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at August 07, 2018 12:31 PM (7AQC5)
Come on now, they are goals. If they get achieved then they no longer are goals, and then what would we campaign for donations on?
Posted by: Conservative Cruises, Inc. at August 07, 2018 12:32 PM (hLRSq)
Tech companies have access to enough digital data to identify people of influence, with whom they are communicating (pageviews, twitter follows, etc.) and taking these non-progressive influencers to kill opposition to the Left's narrative, ability for political opposition to communicate, associate.
Given how Obama and Hillary partnered with Google and other tech companies, I would not be surprised if this is much more coordinated and mapped out that we could imagine.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2018 12:30 PM (W+vEI)
Any freelance Mossad agents around who can infiltrate where the servers are and erase them, en masse?
Asking for a friend...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:32 PM (G4W16)
Only one has been impeached - William Blount.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
Thank you!
If we were the Left, we'd harass every congressperson until they impeach Murphy, Relentlessly. We'd conduct sit-ons at their offices. We'd chain ourselves around Congress. We'd coordinate our of Journolist to hammer home the talking point of the need to impeach Murphy, until they caved and did our bidding.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 12:32 PM (c+2jX)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, designated anti-hero at August 07, 2018 12:19 PM (AM1GF)
Fortunately I was an early adopter.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2018 12:33 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2018 12:33 PM (Evws/)
Because anything that does not parrot the Demolie is hate speech.
All are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2018 12:33 PM (SbIX4)
Yesterday (when this was written), they flirted with each other by pretending to have very strong opinions about pizza.
Bill Kristol loves a big 12 inch pepperoni.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 07, 2018 12:31 PM (10vO4)
_______
Girth or length?
Posted by: Bill Kristol - Grand Stag of of he Coup-Cucks-Clan at August 07, 2018 12:33 PM (aa/C1)
Posted by: Litlle Boomer at August 07, 2018 12:33 PM (6fu25)
This was their cute little way of celebrating InfoWars going down.
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (uKdee)
Ah. That makes sense.
Posted by: rickl at August 07, 2018 12:33 PM (xjiRE)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 07, 2018 12:33 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Les Kinetic at August 07, 2018 12:34 PM (a4RJn)
They may be based in the US
It is wrong to assume they give a sh#t about free speech. They don't value it, and are happy to cooperate with hose in power - here or in another country - to enforce whatever speech codes are preferred.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2018 12:34 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: concrete girl at August 07, 2018 12:34 PM (M5P9t)
Posted by: Chris Murphy at August 07, 2018 12:34 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2018 12:34 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 12:34 PM (W0Oy7)
companies have demonstrated enough meddling in speech to make it a
wash.
Chase them for monopolist practices and some of the problem goes away.
Posted by: DaveA at August 07, 2018 12:34 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 07, 2018 12:31 PM (4ErVI)
---
They're trying to plug all the holes in their collapsing dyke of misinformation.
Monopoly?
Hardly.
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 07, 2018 12:34 PM (9wYFF)
Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at August 07, 2018 12:24 PM (a0IVu)
The self-eating vegetable.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (G4W16)
If Krystal could eat himself he wouldn't have time to tweet! In fact, he'd probably never leave his cabin.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at August 07, 2018 12:35 PM (9BLnV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 12:35 PM (W0Oy7)
Members of Congress can be expelled by their own respective body. (See Article I, Section 5, Clause 2.)
Posted by: HA at August 07, 2018 12:35 PM (MAstk)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 07, 2018 12:28 PM (Lg2h/)
"Heaven is a gated community. Hell has Open Borders."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2018 12:35 PM (AURKQ)
Posted by: Bill Kristol at August 07, 2018 12:35 PM (jDF8P)
Posted by: HA at August 07, 2018 12:35 PM (MAstk)
We're ceding the territory to them by concluding there is no way we can compete, whether they be Goggle, Twatter or Faceplant.
The reality is a lot of conservatives may be upset, but not upset enough to stop using their services. This is because it's always easier to go through the open path than through the thorn bushes. And that's why the ambush is usually on the easy path.
Conclude what you will.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at August 07, 2018 12:35 PM (37IEG)
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free
flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The
once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information
flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation
gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid
slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to
information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Amazing how the left has changed over the years...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (eSx+E)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 12:34 PM (W0Oy7)
The last thing I want is for the government - any government - to control it.
It needs to be decentralized and or dismantled.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (G4W16)
"Multiple Mjolnir-sized banhammers are coming down on Alex Jones...
...A word of caution to InfoWarsamaniacs and conservatives, in general, is to avoid mob-like tactics. It's perfectly fine to be angry at Twitter over Candace Owens' brief suspension, along with ire towards Facebook et al. for banning Jones' official accounts.
But any online mob thrash to find some leftist to kick off social media will only encourage their allies to target another one of you. It's the nature of online witch hunts, where everyone has to put on a jersey of a certain color and stripe to make sure people know where they stand on the issues.
There's no need to form your own version of the online Polizie to make sure social media is safe from the opposite side's opinion.
Screw the 'new rules.' Go do your own thing. You don't have to conform to the crowd and there are plenty of other options out there to discuss and debate issues."
Posted by: @TaylorMillard #SuperCuck #OmegaMale at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Toad-O at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (cct0t)
Posted by: Mikey NTH -Insanity and Delusion Clearance! 50% Off Fashionable Lunacies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (O2RFr)
Forgot about French. Fvck that guy too.
Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (aa/C1)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (LiyEm)
When I think of an issue which will absolutely drive our people to the polls in record numbers in November I think plastic straws. I look into my daughters eyes and envision an ocean completely covered with tiny floating straws, it just chokes me up with emotion. How can I leave a planeet like that to her.
Why are the Republicans doing this to the country?
Posted by: CheChe at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: Gref at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (T390Q)
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (9wYFF)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (W0Oy7)
Posted by: Javems at August 07, 2018 12:22 PM (hKXB0)
And therein lies the $220+ trillion dollar question...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:23 PM (G4W16)
Well, in previous incarnations, it was jackbooted thugs, either in brown shirts or calling each other comrade.
Posted by: moki at August 07, 2018 12:26 PM (V+V4
And this, of course, is where the left totalitarians are way ahead of the curve, because they're smart enough to identify the information choke points and occupy them. See, for example, SPLC and syphilis-ridden scrunts like Amanda Whatshername at Twitter.
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at August 07, 2018 12:37 PM (RD7QR)
So do we have a special "code" here for when Big brother shuts us down?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (O2RFr)
Lock Load?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2018 12:37 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 07, 2018 12:37 PM (Boy/L)
Forgot about French. Fvck that guy too.
Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (aa/C1)
Son-of-a-Postage Stamp.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:37 PM (G4W16)
Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2018 12:38 PM (SbIX4)
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 07, 2018 12:38 PM (9wYFF)
Posted by: Chris Murphy at August 07, 2018 12:38 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2018 12:38 PM (O2RFr)
It needs to be decentralized and or dismantled.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (G4W16)
________
I agree it should be destroyed and Nationalizing it is one way of destroying it.
It's sub-optimal, I agree 100%, but they must be destroyed. Attack on all fronts
Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at August 07, 2018 12:38 PM (aa/C1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, 3-D Printed Version at August 07, 2018 12:39 PM (+y/Ru)
Trump is supposedly mulling over unclassifying the FISA applications and other things related to MUH RUSSIA investigation.
Likely those documents will strongly hint at the sort of conspiracy we talk about regularly here.
So are they going after Jones now so they can justify banning any other "conspiracy theorists" that start connecting the dots of a Trump data dump?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 12:39 PM (eSx+E)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 07, 2018 12:39 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: PaleRider, simply irredeemable at August 07, 2018 12:39 PM (KHdt5)
I've followed links to that site and read some interesting articles - it helps that he contributors include Paul Joseph Watson. PJW may be ranty, but his analysis of current events and the Left is good.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2018 12:39 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2018 12:34 PM (AllCR)
All Senator's and Representative's office have an automatic response to all invasive busy bodies that try to tell them they don't know what's best. It is an algorithm designed by some Pakistani Demonicrat that checks for ideology and then responds accordingly. For conservatives, the canned response is:
"Thank you for taking time away from distilling your moonshine huffing paint thinner to give us your two cents worth of stupidity. Blow me, you fascist!"
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at August 07, 2018 12:39 PM (9BLnV)
Posted by: Lurker Grabbing Spare Tire at August 07, 2018 12:40 PM (/Uq1h)
So do we have a special "code" here for when Big brother shuts us down?
You do not know the 'special' HQ handshake?
Posted by: Under Fire at August 07, 2018 12:40 PM (r9UYA)
Apparently the SPLC.
Not kidding, the tech companies are using them for this.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2018 12:40 PM (W+vEI)
So...what info and theories will be officially allowed, Senator Murphy?
Are grassy knoll JFK assasination theories OK or not? There is no
proof, but many of your supporters likely believe it. Are theories
postulating aliens built the Great Pyramid OK, even though there is not a
smidgen of proof of that?
Posted by: Gref at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (T390Q)
FIRE CAN'T MELT STEEL IS OK, BUT IF YOU THINK OBAMA WAS BORN IN KENYA THEN OFF WITH YOUR INTERNET HEAD!
Posted by: Chris Murphy at August 07, 2018 12:40 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 07, 2018 12:40 PM (9wYFF)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2018 12:40 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 07, 2018 12:41 PM (oVJmc)
So do we have a special "code" here for when Big brother shuts us down?
- - - -
We really should have a backup site. I know Ace Dark is a thing, but if this site goes that probably does to.
Though I guess the same argument can be made about any backup site.
Ugh I hate liberals.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at August 07, 2018 12:41 PM (72PAC)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2018 12:42 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: David French's Allerglie to Canine Semen at August 07, 2018 12:42 PM (aa/C1)
>>So who determines what are lies and what is hate speech?
Apparently the SPLC.
Not kidding, the tech companies are using them for this.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2018 12:40 PM (W+vEI)
ARE YOU NOT PAYING ATTENTION. ITS ME! IF INFOWARS HAD A BOOK I WOULD BURN IT. WHO'S WITH ME! BURN INFOWARS INTERNET BOOK! IT'S ELECTRONACTH.
Posted by: Chris Murphy at August 07, 2018 12:42 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 12:42 PM (W0Oy7)
***
No. Daniel Ivandjiiski is behind Zero Hedge. He is a former hedge fund manager.
Note - its on the wiki page so I'm not outing the guy.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 12:42 PM (eSx+E)
Having a complete $hithead as speaker of the house doesn't seem to be working.
Posted by: Boss Moss
You ain't seen nothing yet.
Posted by: Kevin McCarthy at August 07, 2018 12:31 PM (r9UYA)
!!!!!!! nnn-nt sss-sfassst sfassst sfassst
Posted by: Nanski Peloski at August 07, 2018 12:42 PM (HgMAr)
What makes it so aggravating is how gratuitously evil it all is. There is no overriding reason for him to attempt this. Not given his current circumstances, not given the fact that he was born and raised here and was exposed to our ethos at some point. In some ancient, ignorant, semi-civilized culture where there were various factions struggling for power I could at least sort of understand it, but not here. The modern Democrat makes me disgusted with humanity to the level I never thought were possible. They're sociopaths just for the lulz.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 07, 2018 12:43 PM (/qEW2)
ITS FUNNY BECUASE NOT ONLY DO I WANT TO SILENCE YOUR OPINIONS BUT I AM
THE BIGGEST SUPPORTER OF OUT AND OUT GUN CONFISCATION THERE IS.
Posted by: Chris Murphy at August 07, 2018 12:38 PM (ymnmz)
Chris Murphy has never been anything BUT a politician. Started at age 25.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at August 07, 2018 12:43 PM (37IEG)
When a civilization or a society has a problem, it best to face it, talk about it, make the required changes, etc. If problems are suppressed then they fester until they explode.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2018 12:43 PM (I2dne)
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like the one about how real socialism hasn't been tried yet?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 07, 2018 12:43 PM (h/uSM)
We really should have a backup site. I know Ace Dark is a thing, but if this site goes that probably does to.
---
Has anyone on the HQ thought of a site on the Dark Web? That might be the way to go. Or at least a plan to consider.
Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2018 12:43 PM (SbIX4)
I had some clown call yesterday for the R challenging Senator Cantwell. The R challenger is an former RNC #NT state hack. I told her to go fuck herself.
Posted by: Under Fire at August 07, 2018 12:43 PM (r9UYA)
First comes the virtue signaling about how much they personally hate Alex Jones, then some chatter about how bad deplatforming is.
The first half sorta undercuts the second.
Is anyone going to stick up for Alex Jones and say they actually dig his stuff? I find him amusing and right more often than MSM outlets.
Also check out ol' Razorfists rant on Bitchute or YouTube (while he is still there)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 07, 2018 12:43 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2018 12:36 PM (O2RFr)
The Valu-Rite is on the shelf.
Repeat:
The Valu-Rite is on the shelf.
Carry on.
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at August 07, 2018 12:43 PM (RD7QR)
By removing his access to all forms of publishing and mass communication tech?
They have gone so far as to kick him off LinkedIn and Pinterest.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2018 12:43 PM (W+vEI)
I have a feeling that that jugeeared imbecile is behind this, meeting with those cucked out progs scheming and all that shit.
Just feels so contrived. No surprise the Quisling Conservatives have shut up.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Raniere at August 07, 2018 12:43 PM (ySAEx)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2018 12:44 PM (NV/E7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2018 12:44 PM (AllCR)
***
No. Daniel Ivandjiiski is behind Zero Hedge. He is a former hedge fund manager.
Note - its on the wiki page so I'm not outing the guy.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 12:42 PM (eSx+E)
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I stand corrected.
Thanks for the info, 18-1
Wait.
18-1?
hmmm...
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 07, 2018 12:44 PM (9wYFF)
I think that ship has sailed. Before they nailed Microsoft for their monopoly, Microsoft never lobbied DC.
Microsoft learned that lesson the hard way. They cozied up to many Reps and have been spreading money around ever since.
I think had Microsoft been lobbying before, that suit wouldn't have been successful. Now they are lobbying and have been for a long time. I really don't think lightning is going to strike twice on them.
Other companies were paying attention as well, and I think they learned that lesson.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2018 12:44 PM (9qZ3S)
The leftards have no religion, so to fill the hole with idol worship. The government is their savior and god. They are committed body and soul to their god and strive to make it all powerful. Anything not in that interest is heresy and MUST be banned. Its the same crap that puts dictators in power. They are beyond reason and can be dissuaded only by violence. IMHO
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 07, 2018 12:44 PM (44Kmm)
You do not have to nationalize them, simply put them in the same class as the phone company, the power company,et al.
These entities cannot discriminate in who can utilize their services.
Can the power company refuse to deliver power to the offices of the local neo-nazi or other unsavory group?
NO!
These social media companies need to be brought to heal.
This is one way.
The other way is to eminent domain their IP and algorithms and put them out their for third party companies to build truly open systems and networks.
Posted by: Kreplach at August 07, 2018 12:44 PM (upD/b)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at August 07, 2018 12:44 PM (tVWQB)
He hates gay frogs?
He's a conspiracy loon, not a hate-monger. There's no political side he's on, either, as evidenced by him riding the 9-11 shit for so long. That was fine with the Left, while it was used against Bush and fueled their side.
Picking Jones is just starting with the kid nobody particularly likes, before moving on to the next.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 07, 2018 12:44 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: David French - the Twinkin man's Egg McMuffin at August 07, 2018 12:44 PM (aa/C1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 12:34 PM (W0Oy7)
Really, you want a PBS type organization (that's putting a positive spin on it) to monitor your on-line musings? How about a good old fashioned monopoly bust-up instead.
Posted by: Wendy at August 07, 2018 12:44 PM (bpemY)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 07, 2018 12:41 PM (oVJmc)
I'm afraid there would be projectile vomiting if I imagined that. Just changing her Depends alone would be a soul killing jobs, not to mention preparing her for the S & M with Huma.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at August 07, 2018 12:45 PM (9BLnV)
Spoiler, I realize it doesn't make sense.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2018 12:45 PM (/tuJf)
Our only option is to keep him in the minority.
Support R Senate candidates in WV, ND, IN, MT, MO, FL and NV.
We must retain control in the Senate. Judges matter.
Posted by: HA at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (MAstk)
First comes the virtue signaling about how much they personally hate
Alex Jones, then some chatter about how bad deplatforming is.
***
Alex Jones is an asshole. The left loved him when he did his conspiracy theorizing in reference to 9/11 and the Iraq war.
But unless he is directly calling for violence, which AFAIK he isn't, deplatforming him is wrong.
I don't think the former statement takes away from the latter.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (eSx+E)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (W+vEI)
They have gone so far as to kick him off LinkedIn and Pinterest.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2018 12:43 PM
Pinterest? Where all the stay-a-home and home-schooling moms share pictures of quilts and hobby projects?
That's too a bridge too far.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: Under Fire at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (r9UYA)
Just feels so contrived. No surprise the Quisling Conservatives have shut up.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Raniere at August 07, 2018 12:43 PM (ySAEx)
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Obama's reappearance would bear this out.
Then again, crap midas.
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (9wYFF)
We get those I-Beams from a I-Beam mine in upper Wisconsin! They are dug out of the ground in magical even lengths and sizes, dusted off and loaded onto trucks for transport to building sites. If you backwoods sister humping people knew more about Wisconsin we wouldn't be having this discussion!
Posted by: DamnedYankee at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (37IEG)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 07, 2018 12:41 PM (oVJmc)
Defoliating her thigh calluses?
Posted by: Mikey NTH -Insanity and Delusion Clearance! 50% Off Fashionable Lunacies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (hLRSq)
That, and publicly flirting with other heavily overweight middle-aged men.
HEY! We're not overweight, just big boned!
- Cuck Scribblers Local #350
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (e1mEI)
The Valu-Rite is on the shelf.
Carry on.
Posted by: joncelli
And by on the shelf he means the floor.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (P/aDH)
Pizza Delivery Guy from all the porn movies
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (LiyEm)
We'ed all be wearing Mao suits
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2018 12:42 PM (O2RFr)
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you had me at weed
Posted by: Libertarians at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (h/uSM)
The first amendment is merely a codification of the government's requirement to defend freedom of speech. We live in a culture which as part of the social contract agrees that liberty requires the freedom of expression be as broad as possible for us to have the greatest freedom and security. Give up that, and you give up the benefits, no matter how much you think it helps your side.
This nation has gone from "I think your ideas are disgusting, but you're free to do that" to "you are evil and must be suppressed" which is the first step to tyranny in every single society in history's existence. This has to be fought at every stage.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 12:47 PM (39g3+)
I've been going on for a decade now how we all should get CB radios to stay in touch during The Burning Times...
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 07, 2018 12:47 PM (ZQfW9)
We'ed all be wearing Mao suits
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2018 12:42 PM (O2RFr)
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how is that NOT cultural appropriation by her?
Posted by: Libertarians at August 07, 2018 12:47 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 12:47 PM (eSx+E)
10 minute delay only!
Posted by: David French at August 07, 2018 12:48 PM (aa/C1)
Funny that you think that infowars speaks for a majority of us! Until today, I didn't even know who they were. So the removal of them from Apple and this hoopla has made me want to see what they are all about.
The Streisand Effect coming to the fore would be a good finger-poke in the eyes of the censorious pricks in the Vanguard of the Commentariat, but it isn't good enough.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2018 12:48 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: josephistan at August 07, 2018 12:48 PM (7HtZB)
Pizza Delivery Guy from all the porn movies
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (LiyEm)
&______
You're gonna need a bigger tip.
Posted by: Anthony Weiner - Big Sausage Pizza Deliveryman at August 07, 2018 12:48 PM (aa/C1)
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 07, 2018 12:48 PM (9wYFF)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, 3-D Printed Version at August 07, 2018 12:48 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2018 12:49 PM (AzW6q)
Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart.
As Khrushchev once famously said, " We have complete freedom of speech in the Soviet Union; we just don't allow people to tell lies."
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 07, 2018 12:49 PM (10vO4)
Just the guy I wanted to ask. You're around the water and on the beach alot I suppose. East coast mainly from what I recall. Have you ever seen a straw floating on the water?
I've spent decades near the water from Maine to Florida and I can honestly say I've ever seen a one.
Is this a west coast thing?
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 07, 2018 12:49 PM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 07, 2018 12:49 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2018 12:50 PM (+WXeq)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2018 12:50 PM (/tuJf)
1) A private organization can decide who gets to be in it and who gets to have a voice there
2) As a society we cherish freedom of speech and must oppose all attempts to suppress that no matter who the target.
I don't really give a damn what Instagram allows or doesn't, as I never have gone to the site and have no interest in it. It looms large in the minds of people who post pictures on it, but in the end, its just a site where people post pictures.
My concern is with places people post information and ideas. Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, that kind of thing is a clearinghouse for individual input into the social discussion. That's where you can bypass the gatekeepers and promote ideas and news that are otherwise ignored by the establishment. Those areas have to be free and open or there's no point in having them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 12:50 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 12:47 PM (39g3+)
The 1st Amendment doesn't ask the federal government to defend free speech. It proscribes the federal government from attacking it.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 07, 2018 12:51 PM (kPDB9)
A few points: (1) This is absolutely the first stage in a coordinated plan to deplatform everyone on the right. It's not really about Alex Jones at all. (2) Aside from its free-speech* implications, which are serious indeed, this also looks like an antitrust violation: Media companies, which compete with Jones for eyeballs, colluded to get other media companies to shut him down. Were I Jones, I'd file an antitrust suit. This is more than arguably conspiracy in restraint of trade (and possibly a conspiracy to deprive him of civil rights). (3) This is proof that we need to break up these big tech companies, which exercise way too much power via their near-monopolies. That they coordinate in the abuse of those monopolies only makes it clearer.
* Note that I say "free speech" and not "First Amendment." The First Amendment only limits government, but "free speech" is -- or at least until very recently was -- a broader social value in favor of not shutting people up just because we don't like their ideas or politics. As for the "private companies can do what they want," well, that's not the law, or the custom, and hasn't been for a long time. It's especially not true where the companies have, as these companies have, affirmatively represented to users and shareholders that they don't discriminate based on viewpoints.
46 Posted at 12:20 pm by Glenn Reynolds
Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2018 12:51 PM (Evws/)
We have to suppress free speech for the survival of democracy.
Won't be long now before the shooting starts. Christ I hoped it wouldn't get this bad.
Posted by: gp at August 07, 2018 12:51 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: Jim Rose at August 07, 2018 12:51 PM (VFl7m)
This revolution is "devouring its own children. ... the killing of political offenders began in 1934 and has progressed with horrifying speed. pg 400
The philosophy of communism justifies all acts if done in its name. There are no considerations of honor or loyalty which control as against duty to the party. pg 402
The government is a dictatorship not "of the proletariat," as professed, but "over the proletariat." It is completely dominated by one man. pg 403
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 07, 2018 12:51 PM (37My0)
They have gone so far as to kick him off LinkedIn and Pinterest.
Well, there's still his website, infowars.com.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2018 12:51 PM (9qZ3S)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 12:47 PM (39g3+)
Based on all of the First Amendment cases I read in law school suppression of unwanted speech was pretty common, supporting the speech of those society did not approve of was not so common.
Posted by: Mikey NTH -Insanity and Delusion Clearance! 50% Off Fashionable Lunacies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 07, 2018 12:51 PM (hLRSq)
He is talented though, in that he manages to vault onto every single prog bandwagon.
Posted by: West at August 07, 2018 12:52 PM (7Fa8Y)
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 12:52 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Caliban at August 07, 2018 12:52 PM (QE8X6)
Senator Chris Murphy (Commie-CT) is showing us that he believes that we have no First or Second Amendment rights. Trump should prove to him otherwise with a bold gesture, such as the liberation of Cuba.
Posted by: w at August 07, 2018 12:52 PM (vhrlk)
Posted by: Under Fire at August 07, 2018 12:52 PM (r9UYA)
Pizza Delivery Guy from all the porn movies
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 12:46 PM (LiyEm)
EM WHACKA-CHICKA FOADY FIE!
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at August 07, 2018 12:52 PM (RD7QR)
I've seen lots of crap floating in the water and washed up on beaches over the years including straws but I never noticed an epidemic of straws. It's just more pointless virtue signaling,
If you want to see all kinds of garbage floating in the water head to Asia. They've been using it as a dumping ground for decades.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2018 12:53 PM (/tuJf)
Jesus, but Chris Mussolini, er, Murphy, is such an embarrassment.
He is talented though, in that he manages to vault onto every single prog bandwagon.
Posted by: West at August 07, 2018 12:52 PM (7Fa8Y)
THAT'S NOT FUNNY!
Posted by: Chris Murphy at August 07, 2018 12:53 PM (ymnmz)
Fahrenheit 127.0.0.1
A Chris Murphy Production.
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 12:52 PM (UnA8+)
+++++++++
Well played, sir or madam.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2018 12:53 PM (I2dne)
The sort of conspiracy mongering that Jones does actually does sort of work. Its why the left does this inherently and constantly - from 9/11, to the origins of crack cocaine, to how Reagan got elected in 1980 the left has its own, insane ideas.
The left is moving against Jones because of this. His Sandy Hook stuff is...wrong...but it makes people question gun control and the FNM narrative. Just like the left claiming Bush was behind 9/11 had a similar effect with the WoT.
So if you are a liberal, this is double plus good - any voices that hurt the left are bad - whether it be Jones, AoS or the Rush Limbaugh - and should be banned.
If you aren't a liberal though defending Jones is tough...because he is horrible. But no more then say...Sarah Jeong or Van Jones.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 12:53 PM (eSx+E)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 12:47 PM (39g3+)
You said "suppressed". They're saying "killed".
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 12:53 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Heavily Over-weight Middle Aged Men at August 07, 2018 12:53 PM (FTlwv)
After reviewing your opinions, your contacts, your internet history, your credit history, your school transcripts, your bank records and medical records, me and my fellow giant corporations have decided you are a threat to the American Way of Life.
Have a nice day,
"Tail-gunner Mark" Zuckerberg
ps: We will also be contacting your phone, power and water companies. Also local restaurants and grocery stores. Stock up!
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 07, 2018 12:54 PM (Ndje9)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 07, 2018 12:54 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: Biergood at August 07, 2018 12:54 PM (57HKF)
No longer. They realized the value and have co-opted them at the corporate level.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at August 07, 2018 12:54 PM (37IEG)
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Raniere at August 07, 2018 12:43 PM (ySAEx)
The gay mulatto's tactics lean more toward whether to wear the pink camisole or the leather chaps. He couldn't be behind anything that can't be read off a teleprompter.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at August 07, 2018 12:54 PM (9BLnV)
Dems these days have gone nuts. And not in good hairy sweaty way that flops from side to side like a pair of lemons in a leather glove. Mmmmmmm.
Posted by: Bathhouse Barry at August 07, 2018 12:54 PM (aa/C1)
**ZZZZZZ**
**snort**
Huh? Is Murphy smoking pot?
No?
Well, then, what the fuck did you wake me up for? A man needs his sleep!
**farts**
**stretches**
**ZZZZZZ**
Posted by: Jeff Sessions, Super Patriot and Constitutional Defender at August 07, 2018 12:54 PM (kqsXK)
Posted by: Ben Shapiro, National Review/FOX approved Conservative God at August 07, 2018 12:55 PM (MuTTO)
Posted by: West at August 07, 2018 12:52 PM (7Fa8Y)
That's because he is willing to say and do anything to get this kind of attention. Is attacking Alex Jones the "in thing" today? Then Chris Murphy is sprinting to get in front of the mob.
Posted by: Mikey NTH -Insanity and Delusion Clearance! 50% Off Fashionable Lunacies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 07, 2018 12:55 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, designated anti-hero at August 07, 2018 12:19 PM
Welcome to my world.
Well, Ace of Spades was a great place while it lasted.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 07, 2018 12:55 PM (kqsXK)
***
The snipe has been hunted...repeat the snipe has been hunted.
EoM....
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 12:55 PM (eSx+E)
Everyone knows this. Everyone's long accepted this. He's full of shit most of the time, but then so is Media Matters.
So now we have the entire Zillionaire Mafia coming down on Jones' head in one day? They're proving Jones' case for him.
Posted by: JEM at August 07, 2018 12:55 PM (fPBjF)
I wish bad stuff didn't exist. I wish stupidity was painful, it would have saved me a lot of misery in the past. I wish people wouldn't be swayed or fooled by lies and deception. But those are all prices we pay to be free, a greater freedom. Its part of the social contact: I give up things I want in order for us all to gain greater things. Yes, I want Maxine Waters to shut up and CNN to get their act together. But they're free to do what they do, even if it is very obnoxious.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 12:56 PM (39g3+)
I remember an encounter years ago with a deranged biker leftie and her gay friend...
The gay friend said that line of Volatires or whatever, about hating the words but supporting your right to say them...
WEll, this musty old bag was stomping around looking at my friends minivan with the Bush stickers and simmering...after the queen said those words, she screamed WELL I DONT.
And that was that.
That is the mind of the prog, a violent mess of immorality and crashing dumbness...
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Raniere at August 07, 2018 12:56 PM (ySAEx)
I applaud his right to free speech and to be a fool.
Why can't he support yours.
That's right he's a fascist.
#whochrismurphysilencenext?
Posted by: President Richard Punch at August 07, 2018 12:56 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2018 12:56 PM (SbIX4)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 12:53 PM (eSx+E)
++++++++++++
They aren't even in the same league. Alex Jones is more than a bit kooky IMO, but he isn't a racist or a hate monger. He has another problem, too, in that he is right sometimes so you can't just write him off immediately - despite how kooky he is.
Regardless, his treatment is shameful - and I don't have to be an Infowars fanboy to be appalled at what is happening to him and his organization. An organization, by the way, that he seems to have built the hard way.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2018 12:56 PM (I2dne)
Wrongthink is double-plus ungood.
Posted by: Winston Smith at August 07, 2018 12:56 PM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2018 12:57 PM (Y274z)
Then we nailed the coffin shut when those assholes didn't die in a hail of patriot gunfire the second the cameras started rolling.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2018 12:57 PM (9Om/r)
That's too a bridge too far.
It's extra petty, no?
Just an extra FU to be sure he gets the message that NO tech platform is available to you, don't even think about it.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2018 12:57 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Ben Nerd Virgin Shapiro at August 07, 2018 12:58 PM (aa/C1)
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 07, 2018 12:58 PM (Ndje9)
Posted by: reality man at August 07, 2018 12:58 PM (xOBRH)
Posted by: Surfperch at August 07, 2018 12:58 PM (X00x7)
Weak sauce, yellow bellied, and pusillanimous. Instead it should be pointed out continually that the Left has an army of malicious liars who are infinitely worse.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 07, 2018 12:58 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 12:58 PM (W0Oy7)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 07, 2018 12:58 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2018 12:59 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 07, 2018 12:59 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at August 07, 2018 12:59 PM (RD7QR)
I strongly suspect that InfoWars is having a greater impact in Europe than the left is willing to put up with. Not everything on the site is raving lunacy like Alex Jones' more unhinged rants. IN between his screeching about gay frogs, he's got some good points and has been proven right in some of his odder sounding conspiracy theories. And there are other guys on that site like Paul Joseph Watson who are pretty darn solid and effective.
Basically Alex Jones is the spectacle that brings people in to look around and the other people bring the content. And I think it was making inroads to people that the left want kept away from the truth.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 12:59 PM (39g3+)
There is a crackdown on thought criminals.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 12:58 PM (W0Oy7)
I know right!
Posted by: That guy Hilary put in jail at August 07, 2018 12:59 PM (ymnmz)
how does it make the product more profitable?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 07, 2018 12:59 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2018 12:57 PM (9Om/r)
Which included a sheriff and state attorney in Missouri, IIRC.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 07, 2018 12:59 PM (kPDB9)
Posted by: dw at August 07, 2018 12:59 PM (X8FSN)
Conservatives need to man up, the idea that after InfoWars this will all be over is complete bullshit.
Also, the TruCons that worship at the altar of big business also need to understand this is not a "free market" issue. If you want tot talk about deregulating and tax rates, fine, but silencing political participants has ZERO to do with whether our country has a market that fosters economic growth.
Posted by: Jolly Roger at August 07, 2018 12:59 PM (UfkIY)
Posted by: JROD at August 07, 2018 12:59 PM (fYcSe)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, designated anti-hero at August 07, 2018 01:00 PM (AM1GF)
The issue here is not the victim. You might like Candace Owens or Alex Jones or you might dislike them.
And it really isn't the psychotic protesters going after breakfast patrons or websites.
The real issue is shrinking violet, p*ssy cucks that should be men and stand up and say something that stare straight down at their coffee while assholes scream and yell at their fellow diners and restaurant owners/social media CEOs that give tacit approval by letting/making it happen.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 07, 2018 01:00 PM (CEc/B)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 01:00 PM (W0Oy7)
I applaud his right to free speech and to be a fool.
Why can't he support yours.
That's right he's a fascist.
#whochrismurphysilencenext?
Posted by: President Richard Punch at August 07, 2018 12:56 PM (ymnmz)
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I actually don't. He is an elected member of Congress. As such, he took an oath to uphold the Constitution. The Constitution prohibits the state from limiting free speech. This may be a gray area (he is expressing an opinion, not pushing for policies or laws), but as man who swore defend the Constitution, he should not be publicly lauding wide-scale industrial collusion (which is a crime, for what its worth) targeted at censoring a citizen of the United States.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2018 01:00 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 07, 2018 01:00 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 07, 2018 12:59 PM (fA1SL)
Something, something, Polonium...
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 01:00 PM (UnA8+)
https://bit.ly/2M2n8Pm
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, 3-D Printed Version at August 07, 2018 01:01 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at August 07, 2018 01:01 PM (aa/C1)
Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2018 12:25 PM (9chmE)
Every time I open my TalkStream app to listen to Tammy Bruce, Jones is up at the top with Rush; which means a LOT of people are listening to him.
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 07, 2018 01:01 PM (y7DUB)
Would not be surprised if the same people behind the IRS harassment scandal are behind this, as it's the same mindset: we must kneecap our political opponents ability to connect with others. Not only was Eric Schmidt active in the Obama WH, but he worked on Hillary's campaign and invested $100 in CrowdStrike.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2018 01:01 PM (W+vEI)
Ok.
Did the cocksucker also recuse himself from protecting the 1st Amendment?
Posted by: Smashing the Golden Calf at August 07, 2018 01:01 PM (WPxnj)
It's not just deplatorming but also giving a bigger platform to whack jobs like the Sarah Jeong and insisting that she is mainstream.
They are trying to shift the boundaries of acceptable conversation to far left ideology.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2018 01:02 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2018 12:57 PM (Y274z)
Pass the potatoes and the fried snickers bars!
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at August 07, 2018 01:02 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Biergood at August 07, 2018 12:54 PM (57HKF)
Good idea.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at August 07, 2018 01:02 PM (72PAC)
Posted by: Chris Murphy at August 07, 2018 01:02 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 07, 2018 12:47 PM (ZQfW9)
Well, as long as the other Morons to whom you want to chat live within a dozen miles or so. Long-range communication, via "skip" is the exception, especially with a quiet Sun.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2018 01:02 PM (NV/E7)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 07, 2018 12:58 PM (KUaJL)
Who cares? Why would anyone with a brain be using gmail or chrome?
These companies are not invulnerable. THey depend on use and traffic. We all have the option of not using their "services" of these natures and taking our traffic elsewhere.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 07, 2018 01:02 PM (kPDB9)
Posted by: Under Fire at August 07, 2018 01:02 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: DamnedYankee at August 07, 2018 12:54 PM (37IEG)
Which is a defining characteristic of fascism.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2018 01:02 PM (NWiLs)
I've noticed a lot of that around. When you bring up tolerance and diversity, they don't defend it or find some circuitous way to argue it. They simply say "F--- tolerance!" Its not even part of the leftist lexicon any longer, except as a weapon to bash the right.
I've been unpersoned by my niece. She decided that since I consider a tranny to be unchanged in gender simply because they hack off or add bits, that I'm a monster. She is doing exactly what she claims I am: hating someone for what they say or do, without justice or reason. When I pointed that out, she just got madder at me.
Its sad too because a year ago she was a sweet heart who hugged me like a life preserver at her father's funeral. Now I'm the worst person on earth.
No coincidence: she just started college.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 01:03 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: IP at August 07, 2018 01:03 PM (IVFy0)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 01:03 PM (LiyEm)
And re California's jungle primary a decision for a 5th A republican form of government would be helpful.
If you can't vote for the opposition in a November election then you don't have a republican form of government...you have a cabal form of government. I'm certain of this.
Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2018 01:03 PM (Y274z)
....
Don't try to use a fake name Ben, we know it's you.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 07, 2018 01:03 PM (CEc/B)
But these social media conglomerates are publicly traded, and they can't falsely advertise as "fair and balanced" while actually operating as a leftist political hatchet machine.
And when does Amazon enter the anti-trust zone, since they tie all their services into one giant machine. Buy products from them, means use their shipping, their producers, their "slaves" in China.
Easy money policy allowed Amazon to drive out brick and mortar competition. They lost money on every book sold for a long time, to gain "market share". But it was more than books and market, it was eliminating competition as they lost money for 20 years. That is not a normal process, but they buy politicians and a newspaper to gain/buy political support.
At the root imo, the globalist oligarchs pushed these leftist policy CEOs, with bad intent from the start. Go to the inner sanctum CFR/Bilderberg meetings and (in your imagination) collect the notes ... they have a plan for US.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 07, 2018 01:03 PM (bT8Z4)
Posted by: Jiffy at August 07, 2018 01:03 PM (2LelM)
Apparently deBlasio is speaking at the Nutroots convention and going off
on News Corp, blaming them for among other things the election of
Trump.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2018 12:50 PM (/tuJf)
I blame (ok, thank actually) Hillary Clinton. And the GOP establishment.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2018 01:03 PM (jxbfJ)
what is the distinction between twitter removing Jones and the banhammer?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 07, 2018 01:03 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2018 01:04 PM (Evws/)
Is best way. More in sorrow than in anger and all that.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 07, 2018 01:04 PM (fA1SL)
Probably right more often than wrong, no reason to deplatform him. He's a juicy target because people blame him for the Sandy Hook truther harassment of victims. I don't know how guilty he is for inciting those a-holes, but so what, everything is inciting somebody. I actually did look up some of that SH truther stuff, and while I don't buy it, I want the ability to hear those people if I choose.
Posted by: gp at August 07, 2018 01:04 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: Chris Murphy at August 07, 2018 01:04 PM (ymnmz)
And the true fascists that want censorship of their fellow Americans but allow all sorts of vile things continue out of political correctness?
Words could express my thoughts on them, but...
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 07, 2018 01:04 PM (z79tQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 01:00 PM (W0Oy7)
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given what you do in there, that's not wise, just common sense
Posted by: Bob from NSA at August 07, 2018 01:05 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at August 07, 2018 01:05 PM (guOXV)
Posted by: Jiffy at August 07, 2018 01:03 PM (2LelM)
The same Civil Rights Division where Holder's holdovers still rule the roost?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:05 PM (G4W16)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 01:05 PM (W0Oy7)
Ban Roseanne!
Hire James Gunn!
Hire Sarah Jeong!
I mean, I'm a private person outside punditry.
Posted by: David French and Cucktillion! at August 07, 2018 01:05 PM (aa/C1)
Don't try to use a fake name Ben, we know it's you.
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I READ ALL CAPS IN BEN'S VOICE NOW.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 07, 2018 01:06 PM (10vO4)
Actually, I don't think it is. What little information we have about why this was done and who backed it, they never bring that up. Its just alleged racism and 'hate speech' that they don't really explain. And they never say that he actually violated the rules, just that he "skirted up against the rules" repeatedly.
But here's the thing: I don't think this is resonating with voters. I don't think average Americans are seeing this and going "damn right, burn the witch!!!!" I think they are going "really? I'm not sure I want you in power."
We'll see in a few months.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 01:06 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 07, 2018 01:01 PM (y7DUB)
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During 2016, the old media got broken. Breitbart and InfoWars were routinely in the top 5 media outlets. This never got discussed, but their oligopoly was shattered in 2016, and I think it probably helped Trump get elected. Since then, they have dropped again but their influence grew very large when the chips were down and this is an election year. If they succeed here, I suspect it will be Breitbart next (though they're kind of rudderless anymore), then on to the smaller fish to make sure it never happens again.
InfoWars is the test case. Go for scale first. If it can work against Alex Jones, the same playbook can be used elsewhere because its efficacy has been demonstrated against the toughest target.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2018 01:06 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: Chris Murphy at August 07, 2018 01:06 PM (ymnmz)
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The banhammer isn't used to smash dissenting voices, it's used to punish those that violate certain explicitly expressed rules, among them directly fomenting the use of violence.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 07, 2018 01:06 PM (CEc/B)
I never platformed them in the first place. This is the extent of my "social media".
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2018 01:06 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2018 01:06 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: dananjcon at August 07, 2018 01:07 PM (xqfqx)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2018 12:51 PM (9qZ3S)
And how long before they find a way to prevent DNS servers from taking you to the URL when you punch in "infowars"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2018 01:07 PM (NV/E7)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 07, 2018 01:07 PM (ymnmz)
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The banhammer isn't used to smash dissenting voices, it's used to punish those that violate certain explicitly expressed rules, among them directly fomenting the use of violence.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 07, 2018 01:06 PM (CEc/B)
Ace doesn't hold himself out as a common carrier, either.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2018 01:08 PM (NWiLs)
.....
The banhammer isn't used to smash dissenting voices, it's used to punish those that violate certain explicitly expressed rules, among them directly fomenting the use of violence.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 07, 2018 01:06 PM (CEc/B)
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Also for being really really annoying.
Tim in Illinois almost banhammered me once for doing just that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:08 PM (X+Lmq)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2018 01:08 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 07, 2018 12:39 PM (VpIIl)
It's both. "Shut the fuck up and bake the cake. Or else."
Posted by: rickl at August 07, 2018 01:08 PM (xjiRE)
That's right, Chris.
The worst thing possible is for our nation to be torn apart.
Rather, one side should be smothered to death with a pillow while it is sound asleep. And for that to work, they must be kept in ignorance.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 07, 2018 01:09 PM (/qEW2)
I think Murphy confuses 'democracy' with something else. Slavery may be too strong a word.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 07, 2018 01:09 PM (1g7ch)
Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at August 07, 2018 01:09 PM (UFyv9)
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So are all national level Democrat office holders. They are all national socialists now. You couldn't tell the difference between the average Dem talking head/pol and Mussolini, at least if your put the latter in a suit and tie and didn't let him talk with his hands
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 01:09 PM (eSx+E)
Posted by: IP at August 07, 2018 01:09 PM (IVFy0)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:05 PM (G4W16)
Sleepy Jeff still thinks he's in the Senate where they move in geologic time frames.
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 07, 2018 01:09 PM (y7DUB)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 01:10 PM (W0Oy7)
Posted by: rickl at August 07, 2018 01:08 PM (xjiRE)
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I think it's worse. "Bake the cake and tell me you like it and appreciate the opportunity - but shut up about everything else. Or else."
It is far more insidious than "do what I say, but keep your opinions to yourself, prole."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2018 01:10 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at August 07, 2018 01:10 PM (xzqr4)
The line is this: you are free to do what you want, but ought not. There are more ways to regulate and control things than government and law. No number of laws can create a polite and well-ordered society, it has to come from within. In the past, general decency and a commitment to freedom kept people from doing what they ought not.
It is painful to me to see so many people who ostensibly embrace small government principles default to "THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW!!!!" every time something comes up. The last way we deal with things should be more laws. Giving the government more power does not result in more liberty.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 01:10 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 07, 2018 01:10 PM (2DOZq)
Based on that, the Trump administration should declare twitter, facebook, and youtube as public space and order the FCC or the FTC to regulate them under the same rules as other communications companies are regulated from blocking viewpoints that they disapprove of.
Posted by: sparks at August 07, 2018 01:10 PM (aWD5H)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, 3-D Printed Version at August 07, 2018 01:10 PM (+y/Ru)
That's nice Devin.
Posted by: Under Fire at August 07, 2018 01:10 PM (r9UYA)
So basically we have become The Handmaid's Tale.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2018 01:10 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:11 PM (G4W16)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 07, 2018 12:58 PM (KUaJL)
Yes they can.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 07, 2018 01:11 PM (J70i0)
People have been doing it for as long as the written word has existed.
Probably even earlier.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2018 01:11 PM (AURKQ)
Imma find me a ship to sink. brb
Posted by: G. Gnome, BAHT y'all at August 07, 2018 01:11 PM (al6UK)
Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at August 07, 2018 01:11 PM (guOXV)
Therefore, not 'dehumanizing'.
When was the last time your dog had a conspiracy theory? (except for all the times you just pretended to throw the ball and he thought it was Space Aliens behind it all).
Posted by: West at August 07, 2018 01:11 PM (7Fa8Y)
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Well, actually its the kneeling they want. What they make you kneel over doesn't matter so much...to them.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 01:12 PM (eSx+E)
Maybe the entire 'plastic straws are covering the ocean' is the opening gambit for the Barbara Streisand's of the world to keep the riff-raff off the beaches in front of their oceanfront mansions.
You see, we tried banning and that didn't work. Now we have to restrict access. For the children.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 07, 2018 01:12 PM (LOgQ4)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*sucks in air*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I am trying to parse out the line between saying (as I would) hey I don't Alex Jones and I'm pointing this out for reasons of noting that I am not engaging in special pleading and hey I don't like Alex Jones because eww I am not one of those icky people ewww.
Self-servingly, I think it is reasonable to note that hey I am making these statements for someone whose work is irrelevant to me. But what's the line between that and hey I am saying Alex Jones's work is irrelevant to me because of intellectual class reasons.
Class may not be the word I want there Caste is more appropriate.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 07, 2018 01:12 PM (mf5HN)
Peace in our time!!!
Posted by: David French and Cucktillion! at August 07, 2018 01:12 PM (aa/C1)
People have been doing it for as long as the written word has existed.
Probably even earlier.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2018 01:11 PM (AURKQ)
We shouldn't have to go over to samizdat. It shouldn't come to that at all.
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at August 07, 2018 01:12 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:11 PM (G4W16)
If it was good enough for Saddam...
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 01:13 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, 3-D Printed Version at August 07, 2018 12:48 PM (+y/Ru)
God I'd love to see one of these faggots dragged into court and absolutely bankrupted so they die in crushing poverty.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 07, 2018 01:13 PM (4ErVI)
Gender is not sex they scream.
Fine, I'm not referring to your gender. Gender is a mystery of the mind. I'm referring to the visual cues available to indicate your sex. When I use pronouns referring to you, they are an indication of what sex I perceive you to be.
Did I misgender you? Nope, I was referring to your sex.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2018 01:14 PM (9qZ3S)
Verified Account
1. One of the terrifying things about the Facebook [and] Apple bans of everything RealAlexJones has ever said, is that it is not based on any particular allegation. They haven't identified a specific violation of their terms of service. They're just un-personing him.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9xhjl9w
A longish Twitter thread but worth it.
Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2018 01:14 PM (Evws/)
https://bit.ly/2AOYMDh
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, 3-D Printed Version at August 07, 2018 01:14 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at August 07, 2018 01:12 PM (RD7QR)
Amen, we shouldn't.
But if we must, we will.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2018 01:14 PM (AURKQ)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at August 07, 2018 01:14 PM (h/uSM)
When was the last time your dog had a conspiracy theory? (except for all the times you just pretended to throw the ball and he thought it was Space Aliens behind it all).
Posted by: West at August 07, 2018 01:11 PM (7Fa8Y)
You think the mailman just walks up to your house, gives you some random box, and leaves, and doesn't have some sort of agenda? Opel your eyes, people! And the Garbage men just take your wonderful odorous and tasty trash for free out of the goodness of their heart? Wake up!
Posted by: Your dog at August 07, 2018 01:15 PM (KUaJL)
There is also this distinction: the bigger and more socially significant your website becomes, the greater responsibility you have to support and promote liberty and broader discussion. My blog gets like 30 readers a day unless a big blog links it. The cultural impact from Word Around the Net is miniscule, almost too small to measure. Ace's blog is more significant, but still pretty minor worldwide.
Twitter is global with billions (with a B) of people checking it regularly. That crosses the line from private enterprise to "must be deliberately conscious of social impact" for a responsible, honorable, and virtuous organization.
And they recognize this, because that's the exact excuse they use for silencing voices they dislike: because they know their broad social and cultural impact.
Yet because they are driven by principles of control, ideology, and a certain religious fervor rather than joy in liberty and expression, their response is 100% in the wrong direction.
And this all happened because Trump won in 2016. Because he and his supporters were able to use social media to bypass and negate the legacy media monopoly on information and ideas, they reeled with horror at what had happened. For almost two years now, they've been struggling with how to prevent that from happening ever again.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 01:15 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Citizens (and Non-Citizens) of Connecticut at August 07, 2018 01:15 PM (vg8iE)
Gender is not sex they scream.
Fine, I'm not referring to your gender. Gender is a mystery of the mind. I'm referring to the visual cues available to indicate your sex. When I use pronouns referring to you, they are an indication of what sex I perceive you to be.
Did I misgender you? Nope, I was referring to your sex.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2018 01:14 PM (9qZ3S)
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You're behind.
Those rules already changed.
Biological sex is now a social construct.
Remember the story about the gender studies person who wanted to change biology textbooks in regards to how they write about the sex of animals?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:15 PM (X+Lmq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 01:10 PM (W0Oy7)
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you probably like the vag
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at August 07, 2018 01:15 PM (h/uSM)
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Posted by: Benito Shapiro, National Review/FOX approved Conservative God at August 07, 2018 01:15 PM (MuTTO)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 07, 2018 01:13 PM (4ErVI)
You're being kind.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2018 01:16 PM (9Om/r)
Verified Account
1. One of the terrifying things about the Facebook [and] Apple bans of everything RealAlexJones has ever said, is that it is not based on any particular allegation. They haven't identified a specific violation of their terms of service. They're just un-personing him.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9xhjl9w
A longish Twitter thread but worth it.
Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2018 01:14 PM (Evws/)
Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn were put through hell by the Canadian Human Rights Commission for publishing criticisms of Islam back in '05-'06.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:16 PM (G4W16)
What's so wrong about that?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2018 01:16 PM (AURKQ)
Actually, to be more accurate, it's like
"Welcome, Leftist overlords. Please penetrate me with your big manly member first, last, and all day in between."
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 01:16 PM (c+2jX)
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at August 07, 2018 01:12 PM (RD7QR)
All kinds of shit shouldn't happen, but it does.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2018 01:16 PM (NWiLs)
What's so wrong about that?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2018 01:16 PM (AURKQ)
You know who else wanted Tweetensraum...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:17 PM (G4W16)
Posted by: Under Fire at August 07, 2018 01:17 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, 3-D Printed Version at August 07, 2018 01:17 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: totalitarian holding an armload of books he didn't like at August 07, 2018 01:17 PM (c+2jX)
So we're discussing the Senator from Illinois, Barack Hussein Obama?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:17 PM (6qErC)
Like Sandy Hook, the issue was "gun free zones" are once again open targets for killers. But Jones takes the lead with "they were actors, no kids died, etc." ... and the MSM follows up by using Jones to represent the "right's view".
But sensationalism has always sold, and Gore's version of "Climate Change" is a much bigger fraud backed by most of our government. So the climate deniers (what Orwellian terms they use) will be banned, and still forced to pay their fair share of "carbon tax" to enrich the UN globalists, that actually are involved in human trafficking ... (but mentioning that will also be a hate crime).
Posted by: illiniwek at August 07, 2018 01:18 PM (bT8Z4)
Yep. French and his ilk are the real writers, and uncredentialled upstarts like Alex Jones are not.
It's a special club that gets to write and opine about current events, you know, and so many of these web/social media types are not allowed!!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2018 01:18 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 07, 2018 01:18 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 01:16 PM (c+2jX)
Manly member? Impossible, leftists can fuck cheerios without breaking them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2018 01:18 PM (9Om/r)
i'm pretty sure crows have some interesting theories about french fries. just a feeling i get whenever i'm eating lunch in a shady spot at the park.
Posted by: Anachronda needs more tinfoil at August 07, 2018 01:18 PM (NmR1a)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 07, 2018 01:13 PM (4ErVI)
+++++++++
Close. People like this actually don't care for money after they have enough of it to live comfortably. They're after power. I want them bankrupted, too - that helps prevent them from re-establishing control - but if you want their souls to hurt, take away their power instead.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2018 01:18 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 01:18 PM (W0Oy7)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 07, 2018 01:18 PM (2DOZq)
both, IIRC
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2018 01:18 PM (AURKQ)
Murphy is just peacefully claiming his right to obtain Tweetensraum for his people.
What's so wrong about that?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2018 01:16 PM (AURKQ)
Springtime for Murphy and Connecticut.
Winter for Alex and the law.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 07, 2018 01:18 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at August 07, 2018 01:19 PM (2NqXo)
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 01:19 PM (UnA8+)
Fuckbook and Twatter down.
Posted by: Under Fire at August 07, 2018 01:17 PM (r9UYA)
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I've never understood the market capitalization of social media.
At best, it's an ad selling service. But, is it any good as that?
I question the efficacy of ads in general (personal bias since so few seem to work on me), but to value a company that does nothing else but shovel ads so highly seems insane.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:19 PM (X+Lmq)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2018 01:19 PM (+WXeq)
David French waves piece of paper, declares "peace for our time." Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2018 01:19 PM (BWL+E)
So we're discussing the Senator from Illinois, Barack Hussein Obama?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:17 PM (6qErC)
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Is this about the constitutional amendment designed to overturn Citizen's United?
This ain't a new thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:19 PM (X+Lmq)
Breitbart has turned into as slobby of a site as Bannon looks like. Hiring that dumbass whiney whore, Michelle Field, and putting her in a high exposure position was more rudderless than I can excuse.
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 07, 2018 01:19 PM (y7DUB)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2018 01:08 PM (NWiLs)
I'd prefer that one of kbdabear's wimmenz hold myself out.....
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 07, 2018 01:20 PM (8snMi)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 01:20 PM (39g3+)
What's so wrong about that?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2018 01:16 PM (AURKQ)
You know who else wanted Tweetensraum...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:17 PM (G4W16)
Connecticut's other Senator?
Posted by: Surfperch at August 07, 2018 01:20 PM (X00x7)
Canis Zod is a great American; she lets not her dog-heart be troubled.
Posted by: Zod at August 07, 2018 01:20 PM (Bdeb0)
Heck, in Steyn's case, all he did was quote a muslim who had said hateful things --- and then Steyn was prosecuted for hate speech.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2018 01:20 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Shane McGowan's Liver at August 07, 2018 01:21 PM (E1ETU)
Fine, I'm not referring to your gender. Gender is a mystery of the mind. I'm referring to the visual cues available to indicate your sex.
isn't that just a long-winded way of saying "cosplay better"?
Posted by: Anachronda needs more tinfoil at August 07, 2018 01:21 PM (NmR1a)
Posted by: katiejane2 at August 07, 2018 01:21 PM (bEaWw)
All of the so-callend FANG companies own a LOT of other properties as well besides their namesakes, most of them also predicated upon:
A) Selling your info
B) Sub-letting your eyeballs
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2018 01:21 PM (AURKQ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 01:20 PM (39g3+)
I view him as an agent of chaos, division and destruction. He was very good at that.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2018 01:21 PM (NWiLs)
At best, it's an ad selling service. But, is it any good as that?
I question the efficacy of ads in general (personal bias since so few seem to work on me), but to value a company that does nothing else but shovel ads so highly seems insane.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:19 PM (X+Lmq)
Hasn't Twitter been busted more than once outright faking its engagement numbers to sell advertising?
I think Facebook too but I'm not sure on that.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 07, 2018 01:21 PM (mf5HN)
Yes.
"Advertising", in general terms, doesn't have to be "that" effective. Returns in fractions of percentages are a good thing - and beat the alternative (no sales)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:21 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, The third cup still tastes good! at August 07, 2018 01:21 PM (ULoJS)
Sounds like a swell guy.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at August 07, 2018 01:22 PM (SkuXa)
I make that it will be a political nuke.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2018 01:22 PM (/tuJf)
High priest: "I warn you, you're only making things worse for yourself"
Condemned man: "Worse??? How could it be any worse???"
No matter what we do, it's not as if it will give them anything additional to hold over our heads. It's not as if they would do anything to us that they are not already doing.
And it's not an abandonment of principles. At this point it's self defense. THAT is always part of any set of ethical principles.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 07, 2018 01:22 PM (/qEW2)
David French waves piece of paper, declares "peace for our time." Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2018 01:19 PM (BWL+E)
French. Fitting name.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:22 PM (G4W16)
Fine, I'm not referring to your gender. Gender is a mystery of the mind. I'm referring to the visual cues available to indicate your sex.
isn't that just a long-winded way of saying "cosplay better"?
Posted by: Anachronda needs more tinfoil at August 07, 2018 01:21 PM (NmR1a)
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I'm a dolphin trapped in a man's body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJH5AR0CuRI
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:22 PM (X+Lmq)
Posted by: Jiffy at August 07, 2018 01:22 PM (2LelM)
Is this about the constitutional amendment designed to overturn Citizen's United?
The Left would never resort to so antiquated a method as a constitutional amendment. They would just declare it invalid and get their tame-tabby judges to say anyone challenging that has no standing.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2018 01:22 PM (BWL+E)
Was going to explain but the window quickly closed and the car behind gave me the high beam flash. Another conversion opportunity lost.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 07, 2018 01:22 PM (e1mEI)
Posted by: Ripley at August 07, 2018 01:23 PM (MxEKc)
All of the so-callend FANG companies own a LOT of other properties as well besides their namesakes, most of them also predicated upon:
A) Selling your info
B) Sub-letting your eyeballs
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2018 01:21 PM (AURKQ)
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But the selling of info is also predicated on the idea that ads sell because the people buying the info are mostly using it to sell ads.
Social media's reign on Wall Street has always felt like a paper tiger to me. Heavy on speculation short on actual return.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:23 PM (X+Lmq)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJH5AR0CuRI
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:22 PM (X+Lmq)
So you're admitting you're a serial rapist?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2018 01:23 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:23 PM (6qErC)
At best, it's an ad selling service. But, is it any good as that?
Yeah I'm in the same boat. I think advertising has its place and use, but its very limited, and most of what people get from these social media sites is grossly overestimated and misused.
I have heard from literally thousands of people and businesses that Facebook advertising is an utter waste of money and time. Worthless, completely without value. But people buy it and when they get sales, attribute it to ads. Its like people who figure the stars caused their crops to be more productive that year, so they go all into astrology.
Eventually, I think people will wise up to this (and the limited impact of social media outrage on businesses) and that will be the collapse of these platforms. It doesn't matter how many people or who uses your website if you don't make any money at it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 01:23 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Jiffy at August 07, 2018 01:22 PM (2LelM)
Link this morning about how Google refused to partner with the US military but is in bed with the Chi-Coms to Chirs Murphy their critics.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:23 PM (G4W16)
Zombie Lowell Wiecker, what do you think of today's match ups?
Posted by: Battle for the Dumbest US Senator at August 07, 2018 01:24 PM (ymnmz)
With a US Senator saying the First Amendment is trash to those that don't think like him, now I have a very, very bad feeling.
These Lefties are insisting to live in a bubble, and it ain't gonna happen. Peacefully, anyway.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 07, 2018 01:24 PM (UsCnO)
As Khrushchev once famously said, " We have complete freedom of speech in the Soviet Union; we just don't allow people to tell lies."
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 07, 2018 12:49 PM (10vO4)
That's basically the same as "Hate speech is not free speech", which is so popular on campus these days.
Posted by: rickl at August 07, 2018 01:24 PM (xjiRE)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at August 07, 2018 01:24 PM (t0Z53)
Not putting the DefCon 5 flaming skull on this ?
Does Ace appreciate that Der Furher ain't stopping at Info War Land?
Posted by: Smashing the Golden Calf at August 07, 2018 01:24 PM (WPxnj)
***
...so you do *not* have to bake the cake?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2018 01:24 PM (eSx+E)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 07, 2018 01:24 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2018 01:24 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2018 01:25 PM (BWL+E)
1) No corporation "owns" the personal data of U.S. citizens. Every single citizen must specifically and explicitly opt-in to any data collection and- separately - must also agree to any use of the data.
2) Any firm possessing or using personal data belonging to U.S. citizens takes joint and several liability for any misuse of that data.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, The third cup still tastes good! at August 07, 2018 01:25 PM (ULoJS)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2018 01:26 PM (+WXeq)
Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at August 07, 2018 01:26 PM (aa/C1)
Posted by: Shane McGowan's Liver
YOU'RE MISUNDERSTANDING THE POINT.
The Left just spent an entire decade forcing society down the "Bake that cake!" rabbit hole, in which is was ruled that ALL companies MUST accept as clients ALL customers, whether they like those customers or not, to the extent of being forced to write out (i.e. publish) the customer's opinion, even if you disagree with it.
The left "won" this argument by framing it as neutral "non-discrimination."
So all we're doing now is FORCING THE LEFT TO PLAY BY ITS OWN RULES.
We didn't make these rules. The Left did. And they forced the rules on society.
And now the Left is trying to act like the rules don't apply to them.
Fuck that. The rules, as odious as they might be, apply to everyone. We MUST insist on this.
Posted by: totalitarian holding an armload of books he didn't like at August 07, 2018 01:26 PM (c+2jX)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2018 01:18 PM
In case anyone was wondering, chili does burn the inside of your nose. Thanks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2018 01:26 PM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2018 01:26 PM (+WXeq)
Not all forms. They have their own website. People are talking about them on Gab. Voice of Europe is carrying their show on VoE's Fakebook page.
Conservatives should find other venues before they get banned, though. Not everyone can depend on tons of strangers helping them get back in touch with their Internet friends after the fact.
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at August 07, 2018 01:26 PM (81OU+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:19 PM (X+Lmq)
I wonder the same, but there must be money to be made. You could carry it further to why do we still have spam email and telemarketing. In this day in age I can't believe either work, but the fact they still exist means they both do. Isn't there some famous quote along the lines of "you will never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the general public"?
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at August 07, 2018 01:26 PM (kUmUV)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 07, 2018 01:26 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: x at August 07, 2018 01:26 PM (nFwvY)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2018 01:19 PM (+WXeq)
I make of it what I always make when one of those rumors comes around - nothing will happen, no one will lose a pension, no one will see jail time, no one will be executed for treason.
It's all bukakke theater, as Her Imperial Malevolence so aptly termed it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 07, 2018 01:27 PM (kqsXK)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:27 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: Darrel Issa at August 07, 2018 01:27 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 01:27 PM (c+2jX)
The ju jitsu involved is that the FSA wants "free money", some people want privacy, and others are being appalled by Big Tech's unpersonings. The only folks standing in the way are Gopesters.
Much of the power of social media and Amazon to some extent rests on inflated stock prices based on monopoly conditions with the people providing content not being paid for it. If actual cash starts to outflow from these companies, billions in fake value go up in flames. Much of their accounting is probably like Enron's and an investigation into this would help.
Oh, and unleash the trial lawyers for restraint of trade, collusion, etc. Many states actually have little Sherman Anti-Trust acts and thus action can occur in state courts--especially those hostile to big tech. Multiple lawsuits in different locales and involvement of friendly state attorney's general offices can hobble Big Tech just like Big Tobacco. Discovery of what Big Tech has been doing will be just as poisonous to them as Big Tobacco. Multiple class action lawsuits increase the uncertainty to investors and reduce stock values.
As for me, I use alternative tech for most of everything that I can avoid. I also grew up using things like gopher and usenet. Then again Ace's place kinda resembles them in tech level.
In essence, kill their stock prices and oligarchs are too busy worrying about where their next billion will come from rather than harassing others.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2018 01:27 PM (jWFXC)
Posted by: Commentor 17, Consp17acy Theorist at August 07, 2018 01:27 PM (X00x7)
Science. "Statistically significant correlation between excess body weight and lower IQ level has been demonstrated in multiple studies."
http://brainblogger.com/2016/10/28/effect-of-obesity-on-human-brain/
Posted by: Bob at August 07, 2018 01:27 PM (kI2il)
Winter for Alex and the law.
----
Caste director of YouTube...
Will the dancing Hitlers wait in the wings! We're only seeing singing Hitlers today!
Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2018 01:27 PM (Evws/)
I wonder the same, but there must be money to be made. You could carry it further to why do we still have spam email and telemarketing. In this day in age I can't believe either work, but the fact they still exist means they both do. Isn't there some famous quote along the lines of "you will never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the general public"?
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at August 07, 2018 01:26 PM (kUmUV)
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That's bad logic.
People pursue all sorts of nonsense despite mountains of evidence pointing out that whatever they're doing is ineffective.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:27 PM (X+Lmq)
What's really funny is when the biological males pretending to be females argue it's really not a big deal if they use women's restrooms, because nobody knows they're not female. No alarms or hackles raised, because it's a secret!
Honey, they know.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2018 01:28 PM (9qZ3S)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at August 07, 2018 01:28 PM (9acFt)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 07, 2018 01:26 PM (KP5rU)
I can't imagine it'll be long.
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 01:28 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 01:28 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2018 01:26 PM
Those little chunks of carrot are the worst though, aren't they?
Posted by: @JRandomMoron at August 07, 2018 01:29 PM (ctuyM)
The FBI put in the FISA request a statement that they fired Steele and prohibited him from collecting information for them in late 2016. They lied.
Steele continued to pass them information through Ohr after Steele went to work with Ohr's wife at Fusion GPS.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2018 01:29 PM (/tuJf)
Here, stand on this street corner and twirl a giant sign. It's your big marketing break!
Snort.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:29 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 07, 2018 01:26 PM (KP5rU)
I can't imagine it'll be long.
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 01:28 PM (UnA8+)
There's already soft shariah law. Just look at what they do to anti-jihad types.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2018 01:29 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 01:10 PM (39g3+)
Because the reality is far different from theory on this. There's a reason why the anti-trust laws came about at the end of the 19th century. The reality is that business tends towards monopoly. Twitter, Facebook, and Google are pretty close to that now. Thinking that someone else will to enter the marketplace is unlikely. Just from a business standpoint, the competitors get swallowed by the big fish to maintain the monopoly.
On the other side, the SJW's put press on banks, IT vendors, etc. to not supply you with what you need to get your business going.
Right now, decrying gov't regulation while being ruled by corporate fiat isn't any better.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 07, 2018 01:29 PM (J70i0)
What's really funny is when the biological males pretending to be females argue it's really not a big deal if they use women's restrooms, because nobody knows they're not female. No alarms or hackles raised, because it's a secret!
Honey, they know.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2018 01:28 PM (9qZ3S)
If you weigh more than 130 lbs., you ain't passing, no matter WHAT you do.
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 01:29 PM (UnA8+)
441 428 It's the obligatory prostration for their leftist masters.
Posted by: steevy
Or the defense attorneys at one of Stalin's show trials.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2018 01:29 PM (BWL+E)
Posted by: Cloud Williams at August 07, 2018 01:29 PM (JNKLN)
Posted by: Bob from No Such Agency at August 07, 2018 01:29 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 07, 2018 01:30 PM (OLCnA)
Get him to hold it or stand in front of it.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 07, 2018 01:30 PM (ymnmz)
People pursue all sorts of nonsense despite mountains of evidence pointing out that whatever they're doing is ineffective.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:27 PM (X+Lmq)
At a personal level certainly, but in business? I don't advertise (considered unethical in my profession), but if so - wow. Think how much more we are paying for things with that much bad decision making going on.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at August 07, 2018 01:31 PM (kUmUV)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2018 01:31 PM (NWiLs)
Yeah. Because businessmen figured out how to continue using the power of the state.
East India Company, anyone?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:31 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 07, 2018 01:30 PM (OLCnA)
===============
Socialism only works when 100% of the population is 100% on board with the experiment.
Otherwise it falls apart.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:31 PM (X+Lmq)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2018 01:32 PM (Evws/)
And should. And should win.
I am not a Jones guy, but Infowars does reporting that others won't. I suppose that is true of the Weekly World News and Zombie Art Bell, too. But they went after Jones because he is Trump adjacent. I am Trump adjacent, so they will come for me, too.
It's not a conspiracy "theory" if its an actual conspiracy, right?
Posted by: blaster at August 07, 2018 01:32 PM (Q6ISu)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 07, 2018 01:18 PM (2DOZq)
both, IIRC
-
Yeah, they wouldn't let Hitler in either.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, 3-D Printed Version at August 07, 2018 01:32 PM (+y/Ru)
I've had folks 'splain to me that "Democracy" meant that "everyone agreed" to whatever it was...
El Sigh.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:32 PM (6qErC)
distasteful someone finds Alex Jones or Trump always read to me as
"first of all, I'm a faggot"
Posted by: x at August 07, 2018 01:26 PM (nFwvY)
Apparently coffee burns the nose too. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2018 01:33 PM (9Om/r)
I wondered what the redux would be. The Left, of course, will never give up on the quest to resurrect the gatekeeper status they enjoyed with the Big Three and the Fairness Doctrine.
Now I know. Worst of all, the new censorship scheme will be much more effective and easy to implement than Net Neutrality. Retro-fitting the existing friendly tech firms as a ready-made Ministry of Public Enlightenment obviates of all of the technical hurdles.
All they have to do, is pick up a phone, or send an email, and the wrongthinker is finished.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2018 01:33 PM (AzW6q)
https://tinyurl.com/yc9agvr2
Link to map showing hearings to be held over net two weeks by province. Hover over each province to get a list.
I have no ideas what the hearings will cover. The link is to an apparently communist newspaper.
Posted by: Off the reservation at August 07, 2018 01:33 PM (vWMNq)
I've had folks 'splain to me that "Democracy" meant that "everyone agreed" to whatever it was...
El Sigh.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:32 PM (6qErC)
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Did you explain that we don't live in a democracy?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:33 PM (X+Lmq)
El Sigh.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:32 PM (6qErC)
Well, everybody DOES agree, after you've killed off all of the dissenters.
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 01:33 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: @JRandomMoron at August 07, 2018 01:29 PM
Such heresey does not fly in my kitchen.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2018 01:33 PM (p+Wdc)
Don't blame me, it's in that Nostradamus book. Look it up.
Posted by: Burger Chef at August 07, 2018 01:33 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 07, 2018 01:34 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: A Lincoln at August 07, 2018 01:34 PM (Co9e8)
I've had folks 'splain to me that "Democracy" meant that "everyone agreed" to whatever it was...
El Sigh.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:32 PM (6qErC)
Speaking of classic "Trek":
"Yeah, we gotta have unity of authority on this planet. But I gotta be the unity!"
- - Bella Oxmyx
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:34 PM (G4W16)
Funny how they got that "freedom of the press" thingy to not apply to "public airwaves", huh?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:34 PM (6qErC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xoKPZ3Jwow
Warning. It's a weird video. Author likes to use bird pictures as avatar.
Posted by: Off the reservation at August 07, 2018 01:34 PM (vWMNq)
Jackasses one and all.
As for Murphy, eh. Nothing someone of his ilk says ever really surprises me.
Posted by: Blake - used elite salesman at August 07, 2018 01:35 PM (qC1Sy)
We had to destroy free speech in order to save it.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2018 01:31 PM (NWiLs)
I'M STEALING THAT!
Posted by: Chris Murphy at August 07, 2018 01:35 PM (ymnmz)
They couldn't comprehend "democracy". I wasn't about to waste time explaining "Representative Republic"...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:35 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: x at August 07, 2018 01:36 PM (nFwvY)
https://bit.ly/2OjZhHo
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, 3-D Printed Version at August 07, 2018 01:17 PM (+y/Ru)
And then Trump named the next aircraft carrier USS Bismarck! It was so obvious! Why didn't we see it?
Posted by: Mikey NTH -Insanity and Delusion Clearance! 50% Off Fashionable Lunacies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 07, 2018 01:36 PM (hLRSq)
As Khrushchev once famously said, " We have complete freedom of speech in the Soviet Union; we just don't allow people to tell lies."
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 07, 2018 12:49 PM (10vO4)
That's basically the same as "Hate speech is not free speech", which is so popular on campus these days.
Posted by: rickl at August 07, 2018 01:24 PM (xjiRE)
And, of course, they get to define what constitutes hate speech. There's more than one way to skin a Constitutional right.
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at August 07, 2018 01:36 PM (RD7QR)
never thought were possible. They're sociopaths just for the lulz."
This is how I feel too. I've never been so cynical, but I'm probably still not cynical enough. People. Are. Awful.
Posted by: Chris M at August 07, 2018 01:37 PM (eAZVt)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 01:37 PM (LiyEm)
Well the argument isn't that we never need a law or that government has no value whatsoever. Only that we should be the last people on earth to immediately and by default call for laws and government to solve things.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 01:37 PM (39g3+)
They couldn't comprehend "democracy". I wasn't about to waste time explaining "Representative Republic"...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:35 PM (6qErC)
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Constitutional republic. Representative republic is repetitive.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:37 PM (X+Lmq)
So Fakebook is a private business and free to ban anyone.
But the NFL, also a private business, cannot tell its employees not to take a knee for the Anthem?
I think I get it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:37 PM (G4W16)
never thought were possible. They're sociopaths just for the lulz."
This is how I feel too. I've never been so cynical, but I'm probably still not cynical enough. People. Are. Awful.
Posted by: Chris M at August 07, 2018 01:37 PM (eAZVt)
Or, as the song goes :
People = Shit.
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 01:37 PM (UnA8+)
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Nah bruh.
Socialism never works.
Because its tenets go contrary to human nature. People do not willingly toil for the benefit of complete strangers. People toil for their own interests firsts. Socialism requires putting the interests of others ahead of yours. Not gonna happen. There are some exceptions, and we generally call those people saints.
Posted by: fixerupper at August 07, 2018 01:37 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: David "Little Caesar" French at August 07, 2018 01:37 PM (X00x7)
"The modern Democrat makes me disgusted with humanity to the level I
never thought were possible. They're sociopaths just for the lulz."
This is how I feel too. I've never been so cynical, but I'm probably still not cynical enough. People. Are. Awful.
Posted by: Chris M at August 07, 2018 01:37 PM (eAZVt)
I know, right?
Posted by: Sarah Jeong at August 07, 2018 01:38 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Carpe Manana at August 07, 2018 01:38 PM (PbH71)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY-i04GqDfY
For context, Orania is in the Northern Cape Province. It's reasonably near Kimberley. See map link above re 139 farms.
Posted by: Off the reservation at August 07, 2018 01:38 PM (vWMNq)
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Otherwise known as a mass grave.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:38 PM (G4W16)
Posted by: Your Unironic Media at August 07, 2018 01:38 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Blake - used elite salesman at August 07, 2018 01:35 PM (qC1Sy)
I think the point is that now they say it out loud and are proud of it.
Murphy knows what it takes to get elected in Connecticut. His constituents like this fascist shit.
Make of that what you will.
Posted by: blaster at August 07, 2018 01:38 PM (Q6ISu)
Me too. Secure team 10 for the win!
Posted by: Lowfibass at August 07, 2018 01:38 PM (BrqlK)
And should. And should win.
I am not a Jones guy, but Infowars does reporting that others won't. I suppose that is true of the Weekly World News and Zombie Art Bell, too.
Which one was it? The National Enquirer or Weekly World News that was correct on the biggest story of their existence?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2018 01:38 PM (Q1QrS)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at August 07, 2018 01:38 PM (9acFt)
So Fakebook is a private business and free to ban anyone.
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Wait. Cakebakers and wedding planners. Are they not private businesses also??
Posted by: fixerupper at August 07, 2018 01:38 PM (8XRCm)
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Nah bruh.
Socialism never works.
Because its tenets go contrary to human nature. People do not willingly toil for the benefit of complete strangers. People toil for their own interests firsts. Socialism requires putting the interests of others ahead of yours. Not gonna happen. There are some exceptions, and we generally call those people saints.
Posted by: fixerupper at August 07, 2018 01:37 PM (8XRCm)
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That's the implied point.
What individual would be 100% on board with the experiment 100% of the time? What group of people? What population of people?
You'd have to change human nature to make it work.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:39 PM (X+Lmq)
Posted by: Your Unironic Media at August 07, 2018 01:39 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:39 PM (6qErC)
Make of that what you will.
Posted by: blaster
CT is just New Yorkers that got out.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2018 01:39 PM (Q1QrS)
A pretty safe bet since we don't do much of that. For example, Jefferson Davis only got a prison term and it wasn't life, let alone a hanging.
Posted by: Mikey NTH -Insanity and Delusion Clearance! 50% Off Fashionable Lunacies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 07, 2018 01:39 PM (hLRSq)
And alliterative. I adore alliteration.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:39 PM (6qErC)
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Representative republic reads repetitively.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:40 PM (X+Lmq)
Posted by: Your Unironic Media at August 07, 2018 01:40 PM (vDqXW)
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For classification purposes, is Communist China socialist, Randian, capitalist, mixed,, or third way?
Posted by: RioBravo at August 07, 2018 01:40 PM (5NMZN)
But a cake baker is, and is legally required to do it to your order.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 07, 2018 01:40 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2018 01:38 PM (Q1QrS)
Enquirer. They broke the John Edwards story.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2018 01:40 PM (NWiLs)
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Ha. Ha. Ha. Even if he had a legal leg to stand on, it wouldn't matter. Rule of Law, along with Free Speech, and a Representative form of Government are effectively dead.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2018 01:40 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:40 PM (6qErC)
All while calling anyone who dissents a Nazi.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2018 01:40 PM (/tuJf)
So Fakebook is a private business and free to ban anyone.
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Wait. Cakebakers and wedding planners. Are they not private businesses also??
Posted by: fixerupper at August 07, 2018 01:38 PM (8XRCm)
There's only ONE Facebook. Cakebakers and wedding planners are some number more than one, IIRC.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:40 PM (G4W16)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 01:41 PM (LiyEm)
479
"The modern Democrat makes me disgusted with humanity to the level I
never thought were possible. They're sociopaths just for the lulz."
This is how I feel too. I've never been so cynical, but I'm probably still not cynical enough. People. Are. Awful.
Posted by: Chris M at August 07, 2018 01:37 PM (eAZVt)
I was taught about the "Social Compact" when I was young.
Give a little get a little; balance of freedom and security blah blah blah.
That only works when the other side thinks you deserve a modicum freedom, not being put up against a wall and "deplatformed" if the disagree with you.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 07, 2018 01:41 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Shane McGowan's Liver at August 07, 2018 01:21 PM (E1ETU)
This is true. We don't want government to intervene. The best outcome would be if conservatives and libertarians simply decamped to actually free services. The problem is that that is a win for the left anyway because the services we abandon are the most popular venues.
Once again the left proves that it will play chicken with the nation and it isn't going to swerve. What do they care? They hate the nation anyway.
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at August 07, 2018 01:41 PM (RD7QR)
Now the Trump administration wants to limit citizenship for legal immigrants
The most significant change to legal immigration in decades could affect millions of would-be citizens, say lawyers and advocates.
.. did I miss something ? This is new ?
Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2018 01:41 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2018 01:40 PM (AzW6q)
"Rule of Law" has been replaced by "Whim of Judges (and sometimes loaded juries)"
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 01:41 PM (UnA8+)
Make of that what you will.
Posted by: blaster
CT is just New Yorkers that got out.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2018 01:39 PM (Q1QrS)
You can check out any time you like, but Metro North makes sure you can never leave...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:41 PM (G4W16)
People = Shit.
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I like that old Doors song.
People are shit
When you're a shitter . . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, 3-D Printed Version at August 07, 2018 01:42 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2018 01:42 PM (kXPT5)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:37 PM (X+Lmq)
So is cleaning the crapper in the re-education camp comrade
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 07, 2018 01:42 PM (Lg2h/)
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So Fakebook is a private business and free to ban anyone.
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Wait. Cakebakers and wedding planners. Are they not private businesses also??
Posted by: fixerupper at August 07, 2018 01:38 PM (8XRCm)
There's only ONE Facebook. Cakebakers and wedding planners are some number more than one, IIRC.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:40 PM (G4W16)
IT'S NOT ABOUT THE CAKE!
Posted by: Chris Murphy at August 07, 2018 01:42 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Your Unironic Media at August 07, 2018 01:42 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 01:29 PM
This comment is evil in its imposition of harmful and hurtful sizeist stereotypes, and are evidence of the Commenter's patriarchal bias that seeks to oppose the entirely virtuous progressive efforts to teach everyone is beautiful in their own way, and that they would be far happier if they eschewed toxic masculinity in favor of porcine promiscuity.
Posted by: Brattleboro Wymyn's Feline Health Cooperative at August 07, 2018 01:42 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Your Unironic Media at August 07, 2018 01:40 PM (vDqXW)
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"Dearest Martha,
Today marks day 432 of our great war with the tyrant Trump. Alone in my roomy apartment in D.C., I find myself squeezed by the clutches of oppression when I walk out my door and someone sneered at me as I made my way to the local Whole Foods to purchase supplies.
When this war is done, and my kind are no longer trampled on ever so forcefully, we shall be one again and happy.
Yours in times of great strife,
Jim Acosta"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:42 PM (X+Lmq)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 01:27 PM (c+2jX)
That's a funny sock.
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 07, 2018 01:42 PM (y7DUB)
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Ha. Ha. Ha. Even if he had a legal leg to stand on, it wouldn't matter. Rule of Law, along with Free Speech, and a Representative form of Government are effectively dead.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2018 01:40 PM (AzW6q)
He needs to get a Judge Ellis in a Texas courtroom.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:43 PM (G4W16)
Why are the neocons and check mark cons making jokes about, dismissing, and excusing this.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at August 07, 2018 01:43 PM (9acFt)
Prodigy and CompuServe
Posted by: Anon a mouse
So glad I kept my account!
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2018 01:43 PM (Q1QrS)
Only one has been impeached - William Blount.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at August 07, 2018 12:28 PM (tVWQB)
Article II is the article that establishes the Executive branch and reads, "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.". I believe "civil officers" means Secretaries or other officers of the executive branch.
The Senate (and House for that fact...see Traficant, James) can expel one of its own members, which is what they did to William Blount.
Posted by: Robert at August 07, 2018 01:43 PM (Zogyx)
Posted by: RioBravo at August 07, 2018 01:43 PM (5NMZN)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 01:43 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 07, 2018 01:44 PM (oVJmc)
If you let me live, I'll rat out some others.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2018 01:44 PM (gdP3k)
Why are the neocons and check mark cons making jokes about, dismissing, and excusing this.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at August 07, 2018 01:43 PM (9acFt)
More Yang. Less Con...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:44 PM (G4W16)
That's tidying up the toilet, tvarish...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:44 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: Zod at August 07, 2018 01:45 PM (Bdeb0)
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There's a difference expressed by Mike Lee of all people. These social platforms hide behind the legal definitions of public forums to deflect law suits against the content that they "publish".
Thus they are trying to both claim to be a "neutral forum" and so aren't responsible for the content on it, and ban voices they don't like because it's a "private concern" and they can control content.
Posted by: Your Unironic Media at August 07, 2018 01:45 PM (vDqXW)
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We're a little late for that sentiment. This is Late Weimar 2: American Boogaloo.
All that's left to see is whose mob picks up the pieces.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2018 01:45 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 07, 2018 01:45 PM (Lg2h/)
388 There is wishcasting, and there is reality. Here is reality:
Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, and Instagram (owned by FB) are private
companies. They charge nothing for their services. They can make
whatever decisions they want as to hwo they allow on their platforms.
They can ban people for speech they consider offensive, they can ban
them for wearing the wrong color shirt. They can ban them because their
name ends in G. We can botch and moan about it all we want, but we can't
be framing this as a pure free-speech issue in the way we would if the
government were doing this. By far our best option is ti flex our
economic muscle by abandoning the platforms. We certainly don't want to
talk about giving the state the power to impose or enforce "equal time"
regulations. We just got through fighting - and winning - that battle
from the opposite position.
Posted by: Shane McGowan's Liver at August 07, 2018 01:21 PM (E1ETU)
Are you suggesting that since the courts found in favor of the now bankrupt cake bakers that the rule of law won and the left has "stood down" on this matter?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 07, 2018 01:45 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2018 01:40 PM (AzW6q)
Instapundit knows a thing or two about the law, he suggests - in a blog post, not in a civil suit, so YMMV - that he has an anti-trust suit (I bet that can get some mileage even, perhaps especially, with Leftist judges) and conspiracy to violate civil rights. I would not be surprised to see Insty and/or Volokh or some of the other legal eminences on the right get in on this - because they know for whom the bell tolls.
Posted by: blaster at August 07, 2018 01:45 PM (Q6ISu)
Even if people were completely selfless, who didn't care if they were working for the benefit of others rather than themselves it still wouldn't work because some would just be better or luckier than others, and would end up with more anyway. Some would just be more worthless than others and have less. You still never would have the utopian equality of outcome that is intended.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 01:45 PM (39g3+)
LMAO
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 07, 2018 01:45 PM (Lg2h/)
I think I have an idea for tomorrow's graphic...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:45 PM (G4W16)
Info Wars had the name right.
Playlist of 6 or might be more later videos
Click nic
Posted by: mindful webworker - click here at August 07, 2018 01:46 PM (2hlqN)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 07, 2018 01:46 PM (6qErC)
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Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Nobody knows but Jesus
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, 3-D Printed Version at August 07, 2018 01:46 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2018 01:46 PM (Evws/)
Posted by: Javems at August 07, 2018 12:22 PM (hKXB0)
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Why just the bestest and brightestest elites will put their brainpower to work for you to do that.
Posted by: Your Unironic Media at August 07, 2018 01:46 PM (vDqXW)
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Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Nobody knows but Jesus
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, 3-D Printed Version at August 07, 2018 01:46 PM (+y/Ru
Jesus = Hey-Soose?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:47 PM (G4W16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0yhtgdZYDI
Posted by: kallisto at August 07, 2018 01:47 PM (DJFLF)
I'm not clear on all the rules or differences, but it is not the same as "privately held" companies. imo a publicly owned company must preserve shareholder value, so pursuing a political agenda that attacks half the customer base would be a bad thing.
So they are trying the "just trying to minimize complaints" approach, even if the complaints are actually coming from Soros funded SJWs in some cubicle, or 10,000 other sjw's motivated by the college prof's diatribes. Or the company might us the SPLC to justify their (actually leftist based) attacks and censorship.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 07, 2018 01:47 PM (bT8Z4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, 3-D Printed Version at August 07, 2018 01:47 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 07, 2018 01:47 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: Javems at August 07, 2018 12:22 PM (hKXB0)
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Why just the bestest and brightestest elites will put their brainpower to work for you to do that.
Posted by: Your Unironic Media at August 07, 2018 01:46 PM (vDqXW)
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Well, right now it would be Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan, and Neil Gorsuch.
Is the left sure they want to play this game?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:47 PM (X+Lmq)
"Dear Mr. Jones,
After reviewing your opinions, your contacts, your internet history, your credit history, your school transcripts, your bank records and medical records, me and my fellow giant corporations have decided you are a threat to the American Way of Life.
Have a nice day,
"Tail-gunner Mark" Zuckerberg
ps: We will also be contacting your phone, power and water companies. Also local restaurants and grocery stores. Stock up!"
In Winter Soldier, Sitwell explains the algorithm to Captain America:
"How could it know?"
"How could it not?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGpz8Q4Jq6A
Posted by: barbarausa at August 07, 2018 01:47 PM (ru28e)
Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at August 07, 2018 01:47 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Axeman at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM (vDqXW)
LMAO
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 07, 2018 01:45 PM (Lg2h/)
Didn't you hear, we're about protecting minorities now, not condoning hate speech.
Posted by: The ACLU at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM (X00x7)
Prodigy and CompuServe
Posted by: Anon a mouse
So glad I kept my account!
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2018 01:43 PM
Everything old is new again. AOL was once something. Then nuttin'.
A bunch of months back Verizon bought up the shell. Then told AOL to handle all of their email accounts for them.
So technically I have AOL email address. Something which I once looked upon with disgust.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2018 01:16 PM (c+2jX)
I think "leftist overlord" and "big manly member" is an oxymoron.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM (9BLnV)
I'll have to use Dogpile to perform an internet "word search" about them.
Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM (Evws/)
In the past, they were franchised by the govenment and had monopoly power in their wireline business. Now, wireless is fully competitive and wireline is somewhat competitive.
If facebook or youtube or twitter, which are less competitive than the wireless companies, why can they block content they don't like, but sprint and att can't ?
Posted by: sparks at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM (aWD5H)
LMAO
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 07, 2018 01:45 PM (Lg2h/)
Just yesterday they tweeted their support of France outlawing catcalling
Posted by: josephistan at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM (dNzKv)
Now the Trump administration wants to limit citizenship for legal immigrants
The most significant change to legal immigration in decades could affect millions of would-be citizens, say lawyers and advocates.
.. did I miss something ? This is new ?
Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2018 01:41 PM (e8kgV
Speaking of NBC news, last night, I had Fox Business News on and during the commercial break, a commercial came on for Lester Holt, and NBC news. I was stunned. Why in the world would FBN accept and run a commercial touting the great journalistic skills of Lester Holt and NBC Nightly News? This ran around 6:30 pm.
Posted by: Jen the original at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM (F/8FR)
LMAO
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 07, 2018 01:45 PM (Lg2h/)
Didn't you hear, we're about protecting minorities now, not condoning hate speech.
Posted by: The ACLU at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM (X00x7)
Henry Gibson in a Hugo Boss Outfit Hardest Hit!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM (G4W16)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (xfb67)
I'm torn between thinking they're all in on having some slices on occasion... and thinking they are just afraid of being labeled as crazy by the people they most wish to like them (who eat Cheese Pizza by the pie).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (39g3+)
Prodigy and CompuServe
Posted by: Anon a mouse
So glad I kept my account!
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2018 01:43 PM
Everything old is new again. AOL was once something. Then nuttin'.
A bunch of months back Verizon bought up the shell. Then told AOL to handle all of their email accounts for them.
So technically I have AOL email address. Something which I once looked upon with disgust.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM (LOgQ4)
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I remember when people thought IBM was going rule the world.
And then it was Wal Mart.
And then it was Amazon.
And now it's Facebook.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (X+Lmq)
Polanski?
Kevin Spacey?
OJ?
Michael Jackson?
Wallace Beery?
If they start weeding out the scumbags in Hollywood, they'll cease to exist.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (oVJmc)
Not excusing the totalitarian behavior of our enemies but this was predictable years ago.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (9acFt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (W0Oy7)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (LiyEm)
I propose an emergency Executive Order. Too many citizens have seen
their personal data breached and sold by nefarious actors, and that data
must be protected! So this is my proposal :
1) No corporation "owns"
the personal data of U.S. citizens. Every single citizen must
specifically and explicitly opt-in to any data collection and-
separately - must also agree to any use of the data.
2) Any firm
possessing or using personal data belonging to U.S. citizens takes joint
and several liability for any misuse of that data.
The reason I propose this is because the mere idea this might happen will cause a traumatic reaction from the FANG companies and an immediate panic amongst them. Just throw this out there as a possibility and ask them for comment, and watch what happens. They will freak.
And this fascist lefty crap will stop immediately.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, The third cup still tastes good! at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (ULoJS)
Fabulous. Thanks for that. Because it is only a bit too real.
Second look at 80% lowers?
Posted by: blaster at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (Q6ISu)
After years of Jones Be Crazy, why they dump him now???????????
Posted by: the wrapper dude at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (Co9e8)
Posted by: The Democratic-Ruled House of UnAmerican Activities Committee - before and AFTER "McCarthyism" at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (W0Oy7)
Wait until Amazon controls all food stores/
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:50 PM (G4W16)
So technically I have AOL email address. Something which I once looked upon with disgust.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic
Her Majesty still uses hers as her primary e-mail. Naturally whenever something goes wrong I'm the one who has to sort it out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2018 01:50 PM (BWL+E)
And then it was Wal Mart.
And then it was Amazon.
And now it's Facebook.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today!
can I get in on this?
Posted by: Blockbuster at August 07, 2018 01:50 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Undocumented at August 07, 2018 01:50 PM (5NMZN)
These platforms have become political sites. That is their right. Fine. But since they chose to become political machines, they are subject to Federal Election Commission laws.
And the going rate for an electronic impression is what, a penny, two cents? How many billions of hits does Twat and Face get? So hundreds of millions of dollars of measurable value is given to the Dems by Twat and Face.
Twat and Face have broken laws, and it is time to pay up. Someone needs to go to jail for such extreme lawbreaking.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 07, 2018 01:51 PM (UsCnO)
Posted by: IP at August 07, 2018 01:51 PM (IVFy0)
West Hollywood City Council Votes To Remove Trump Star, Cosby And Weinstein Stars
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, 3-D Printed Version at August 07, 2018 01:47 PM (+y/Ru)
It's pointless because West Hollywood is a different city from Hollywood, which is where the Walk of Fame is.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 07, 2018 01:51 PM (10vO4)
571 Grocery stores could refuse Alex Jones service and starve him.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (W0Oy7)
Wait until Amazon controls all food stores/
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2018 01:50 PM (G4W16)
STOP AND SHOP WHY YOU SUPPORT HATE. THE ICEBERG MUST BE STARVED!
Posted by: Chris Murphy at August 07, 2018 01:51 PM (ymnmz)
Well, Google has DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. In the past I pointed my AP to those and not my ISP's DNS servers. They were better maintained, and faster.
Google wouldn't have to find a way, they'd just edit infowars out of their DNS server. Fortunately, Google doesn't run the internet, yet. So we still have other well maintained DNS servers to point to. Cloudflare is a good one. Norton actually maintains several good DNS servers with different levels of filtering.
They've got a basic one that filters out janky spyware websites. They've also got one that has content filters (like porn).
I'd recommend taking a look around. All you have to do is set your access point to use one of these for your default and another one for your fallback. Then anyone on your home network automatically uses it.
Might speed up internet, also might save you from some spyware crap.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2018 01:51 PM (9qZ3S)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 01:52 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (39g3+)
I'm starting to think even the ones who would be otherwise disgusted by taking part in the pederasty... they want in anyway, they want initiated by those who are powerful enough to get away with it, to be inducted into the "we can get away with anything" caste themselves.
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 01:52 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM
Just don't try to sign up if your last name is Blazer.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 07, 2018 01:52 PM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: robert farrow at August 07, 2018 01:52 PM (wyXgY)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 01:52 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at August 07, 2018 01:47 PM (a0IVu)
Ace doesn't use Facebook and refused to give Twitter a phone number so they can't touch him.
I'm sure his Twitter helped get some new people to the site, but Ace predates social media by several years so he built up his following without having to do shares and likes, etc.
I believe the only way they could get to Ace is through his ad network or his ISP. Doesn't Ace have his own server? How could they take you down if you run your own server?
Google could de-index his site on searches, though.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 07, 2018 01:53 PM (4ErVI)
There will always be a place set for Alex at the local Scientology org. Even fascist thought-criminals deserve to have their thetans purged.
Posted by: Zod at August 07, 2018 01:53 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2018 01:53 PM (Evws/)
After years of Jones Be Crazy, why they dump him now???????????
Posted by: the wrapper dude at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (Co9e
This is the common thread of all people being targeted by the Derp State and MSM. Every single time.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at August 07, 2018 01:53 PM (9acFt)
Posted by: Off the reservation at August 07, 2018 01:53 PM (vWMNq)
Even if people were completely selfless, who didn't care if they were working for the benefit of others rather than themselves it still wouldn't work because
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
The top dogs always eat better, live better, etc. than the proles. Equality isn't equal.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2018 01:53 PM (Q1QrS)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 01:52 PM (LiyEm)
Galt's Ghetto.
Posted by: Zod at August 07, 2018 01:53 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 07, 2018 01:53 PM (7ZVPa)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at August 07, 2018 01:54 PM (9acFt)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2018 01:54 PM (Evws/)
...that's the Alarm Bells ringing (while you can still hear them above the sound of the Muezzin chanting through the loudspeakers atop the Minarets)...
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 01:54 PM (UnA8+)
I was wondering what triggered the eviction. Yesterday I commented that I'm not a regular AJ viewer, however I did know he went at pizzagate like a pit bull.
DS doesn't "get" that they validated his conspiracy theories by attempting to silence him.
Posted by: kallisto at August 07, 2018 01:54 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2018 01:52 PM (LiyEm)
Trust-busting?
Posted by: Surfperch at August 07, 2018 01:55 PM (X00x7)
And then it was Wal Mart.
And then it was Amazon.
And now it's Facebook.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Pre-Order The Battle of Lake Erie Today! at August 07, 2018 01:49 PM (X+Lmq)
Comrade, you are not displaying the proper amount of revolutionary paranoia and fear, I do not believe you are politically reliable.
Posted by: Mikey NTH -Insanity and Delusion Clearance! 50% Off Fashionable Lunacies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 07, 2018 01:55 PM (hLRSq)
Twat and Face have decided to actively support the data of the Democrat
party, and have decided to actively eliminate or censor those sites that
offer other opinions.
These platforms have become political
sites. That is their right. Fine. But since they chose to become
political machines, they are subject to Federal Election Commission
laws.
And the going rate for an electronic impression is what, a
penny, two cents? How many billions of hits does Twat and Face get? So
hundreds of millions of dollars of measurable value is given to the Dems
by Twat and Face.
Twat and Face have broken laws, and it is time to pay up. Someone needs to go to jail for such extreme lawbreaking.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 07, 2018 01:51 PM (UsCnO)
Ding. At some point they cross the line not political advocate don't they?
If you are going to say that you are simply a public bulletin board (Don't regulate me!), then you have to act like it. If you then edit your board in such a way to present only one opinion , you are not a public bulletin board anymore and I would argue subject to some FEC regulation, no? Said not a lawyer.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 07, 2018 01:55 PM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Undocumented at August 07, 2018 01:50 PM (5NMZN)
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Well.... who gets to decide what is racist??? There are some pretty innocuous ideas and words that get labeled "racist" by my betters. This a is common occurrence and is not an outlier. PBJ sammiches have been deemed racist fer chrissakes. Simply criticizing a black president was construed as 'racist" by not a small number of people.
I hope your being being ironic, but banning sites is a stupid idea and give in to the inner facists. Words and ideas should be freely bantered about in the marketplace of ideas. And that especially includes controversial, even despicable ones.
Posted by: fixerupper at August 07, 2018 01:56 PM (8XRCm)
This is incorrect. We can't frame it as a First Amendment issue because the First Amendment is clearly limited to stopping the government from restricting speech.
However, we absolutely can frame it as a free speech issue, because like it or not, these companies have become the forums on which people gather to express their ideas and contribute content.
Right now, they're not legally classified as common carriers, but I'm mostly convinced they should be. People communicate on Facebook much more than they did on the phone when the telephone became a common carrier.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2018 01:58 PM (9qZ3S)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM (dNzKv)
I sense a great disturbance in the force. A million hamsters cried out in fright and were suddenly silenced.
Posted by: G. Gnome, BAHT y'all at August 07, 2018 01:59 PM (al6UK)
1) tyranny through the internet, where our dependence upon it and the incredibly detailed information about everyone results in overlords who rule us by controlling what we receive and can do
2) A possibly violent revolt against those who would control us, and a movement to freedom on the net.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2018 02:01 PM (39g3+)
It's totally disgusting that Big Social Media colluded to blacklist him, though. Can't they just ignore him, like *I* usually do?
The answer actually is NO. The left always argues that damage is being done if people are allowed to distribute unapproved opinions and adopt political opinions unlike theirs.
Conservatives understand economy and know limited markets when we see them. The Dems are all about *imagining* what would happen if this forever-fringe, minority opinion were to become the MAINSTREAM!!! (because they don't understand how markets work--and that most people are "buying" the viewpoint they already subscribe to)
IN HAPPENED IN GERMANY!!!
Just alarm. No real analysis of whether or not we're like Germany. Just hair-on-fire extrapolations from mere-patriotism and pride in country to NATIONALISM!! And conclusions from whatever remnants of traditional German culture the Nazi New Men allowed to hang on to express the longstanding superiority of German culture.
The real alarmists on the left. The real reactionaries are on the left. The real blacklisters are on the left. The real threat to "democracy", which is really a self-rule representative republic, are on the left--the elite left that think it's reckless to serve a large enough contingent of hoi polloi that don't think like they do.
Fuck. every. pseudo-intellectual. one. of. them.
They won't debate in open, honest fashion, they have to co-opt words and form crowd reactions to their warped re-definitions. Because THEY know HOW to do this. Knowing how to manipulate people is what makes the elite really good at their profession--not knowing how opinions work, and that a clash of opinions is inevitability of a republic.
Posted by: Axeman at August 07, 2018 02:02 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Hikaru at August 07, 2018 01:29 PM (UnA8+)
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lol
Even at 5'9"?
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 07, 2018 02:02 PM (LZJOv)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 07, 2018 01:48 PM (dNzKv)
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Sued immediately for content--and confirmed by the judges wearing the skins (Burge) of our court system.
Posted by: Axeman at August 07, 2018 02:04 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: wrg500 at August 07, 2018 02:14 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: irongrampa at August 07, 2018 02:15 PM (S/hVx)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 07, 2018 02:16 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 07, 2018 02:16 PM (yQpMk)
I loath the French's and Kristol's almost more than I loath the Left-Wing Dictators. At least the latter is mostly honest about their pursuits. The former wants to infiltrate us, and help them pick who goes to the gallows.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 07, 2018 02:17 PM (VpIIl)
One plaintive question--when was it we became a democracy instead of a republic as we were created?
Posted by: irongrampa at August 07, 2018 02:20 PM (S/hVx)
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There's a difference expressed by Mike Lee of all people. These social platforms hide behind the legal definitions of public forums to deflect law suits against the content that they "publish".
Thus they are trying to both claim to be a "neutral forum" and so aren't responsible for the content on it, and ban voices they don't like because it's a "private concern" and they can control content.
Posted by: Your Unironic Media at August 07, 2018 01:45 PM (vDqXW)
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THIS.
You cant have it both ways.
You are either like a phone company, which cannot be sued if a customer slanders or even conspires murder against someone.
OR, you are like a magazine, which CAN be sued for content.
The minute you decide to monitor content, I think you have made the magazine decision.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 07, 2018 02:27 PM (0jtPF)
Hmmm, seems incompatible with his oath of office. Seems like he either needs to resign or be resigned. Plus, since he's clearly doesn't believe in constitutional protections, a Bill of Attainder should be imposed on his family.
Posted by: FaCubeItches at August 07, 2018 02:29 PM (rznWS)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2018 02:37 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2018 02:38 PM (bUjCl)
46 Posted at 12:20 pm by Glenn Reynolds
Posted by: andycanuck at August 07, 2018 12:51 PM (Evws/)
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Farcebook is a publicly traded company, they are not a private entity, and as such they have to abide by certain rules. If the baker has to bake the cake for the stool pushers, Farcebook, Youtube, and Gargoyle have to allow people to post what they want - because they are publicly traded companies. Viewpoint discrimination is the same as race discrimination, ILLEGAL!
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 07, 2018 02:52 PM (JNTt1)
Should this happen it will be necessary to pursue anti-trust litigation to get that connectivity back. It would be nice if Attorney General Sessions could do this for us, but he seems reluctant to do anything at all these days, so perhaps that lawsuit will need someone like Peter Thiel to step in and fund it again.
Posted by: jdgalt at August 07, 2018 02:54 PM (3SFo/)
Posted by: irongrampa at August 07, 2018 02:20 PM (S/hVx)
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I think it's during the 40-year reign of Dems, when the Dems decided that people who know it's a republic might be too smart for their manipulation, and that you know if you've suckered somebody when you sell them "democracy".
Posted by: Axeman at August 07, 2018 02:56 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Axeman at August 07, 2018 02:58 PM (vDqXW)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/3/senate-democrats-look-to-rewrite-first-amendment-i/
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