trustbutverify
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Sue em back to the stone age. I don't care how many videos they release or apologies they offer.
Cont: Trump et al continued “2020 election” conspiracy theories
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Sue em back to the stone age. I don't care how many videos they release or apologies they offer.
Double think, they want you to think they aren't censoring, it's a very diabolical propaganda tool, by not censoring they make you think they don't censor!
Craig4
Penultimate Amazing
You mean like the legal actions to steal the election that Trump is backing? Heh heh heh...Those legal actions?
smartcooky
Penultimate Amazing
Its not censoring, its FB-Twitter-Google-youtube exercising their right to free speech by not hosting bat-**** crazy, and in the case of these false election fraud claims, dangerous content on their platform.
Those who pursue legal action against privately owned information platforms for exercising their free speech rights WILL fail.
smartcooky
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Absolutely, because those apologies will mean nothing... Trump supporter morons will just say that they don't really mean the apology, and are only doing so under threat.
What needs to happen is for the owners of these lying so-called news outlets to be sued into bankruptcy to send a clear message to any would-be "news" organizations to publish facts, not lies.
Matthew Ellard
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Wrong. You must not be aware of whats happened. They have waged wholesale war on conservative voices, since 2016 and ramped up to scorched earth in the few months before the election. No exaggeration. This is why there is the legal action coming.
The coming legal action is to rightly revoke their status because they are behaving like publishers, not neutral platforms.
Pixel42
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If 'conservative voices' want their contributions to social media platforms never to be removed maybe they should consider ensuring those contributions never consist entirely of potentially harmful lies. Just a thought.
Pixel42
Schrödinger's cat
Tell you what, Bubba: find examples from 'liberal voices' of contributions which consist entirely of potentially harmful lies which have been allowed to stand, and you might have a point.
The fact that their policy of removing contributions which consist entirely of potentially harmful lies disproportionately affects 'conservative voices' is not evidence of bias by social media platforms.
The fact that their policy of removing contributions which consist entirely of potentially harmful lies disproportionately affects 'conservative voices' is not evidence of bias by social media platforms.
Its not even about that. You obviously dont know what is going on. Simply being a trump supporter, like Diamond and Silk is enough to get you blocked.
I think you guys would be surprised if you knew the extent of it.
And yes, there are any number of cases where a double standard is the law. I just saw one reported today, where two sources, one conservative and one progressive, posted the exact same item on Twitter or FB. Only the conservative one got removed.
Elagabalus
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Cry more.
dudalb
Penultimate Amazing
Actually that is the problem with all these massive conspriacy theories: It requires so many people to be in on it that it impossible that it would not leaked out long before the conspiracy had taken place.
dudalb
Penultimate Amazing
Like Right Wing Media does not have a double standard.
You are really not very good at this, guy.
Pixel42
Schrödinger's cat
Link, please.
SezMe
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Hans probably doesn't know who Art Bell is so he highli9ghted all the weasel words. But I want to note the reference to Bell, who hosted every conceivable nut case the USA had to offer on his Coast to Coast overnight radio broadcast. Night owls like me sometimes listened to it for the hilarity that was regularly featured. Nobody - and I mean NOBODY - who had more than two brains cells ever took him or his guests seriously. To cite him in your post, Bubba, is just the perfect encapsulation of all the nuttiness that you and your co-conspirators subscribe to. Well done.
SezMe
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Gee, I sure don't remember Dems claiming 2016 was "fake" and certainly not for four years. But maybe I don't listen to the "right" media.
SezMe
post-pre-born
Let's continue this aspect of the conversation when we have the *results* of those actions. Trump, et. al. have amply demonstrated that any nutball can file nutball suits.
SezMe
post-pre-born
Any self-respecting media outlet would be D & S no matter who they support
Oh, good, a specific claim we can investigate. Links, please.
Pixel42 is thinking along the same line.
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The Great Zaganza
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-media companies don't have an obligation to give everyone a platform
-media companies do have an obligation to their shareholders not to give a platform to those who would negatively impact ad revenue
/case closed
-media companies do have an obligation to their shareholders not to give a platform to those who would negatively impact ad revenue
/case closed
smartcooky
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I am aware of what you imagine has happened.
Utter horsecock! Conservative voices have no problem getting their messages out on social media.
Extreme right wing racists and bat-**** crazy conspiracy theorists are a different matter. Platforms don't want to host their vile content because its bad for business
No they ramped up action on lies, misinformation and dangerous content. That why, Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Paul Nehlen, Kate Hopkins, Laura Loomer, and Louis Farrakhan got banned. These are people who encourage their followers to promote or engage in violence and hate.
This WILL fail for the same reason anyone would fail if they stood in my front yard and shouted racist obscenities at passers by, and then tried to sue me for making them leave..... "My House, My Rules". This concept applies to Google, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and every other social media platform.
If white supremacists, racists, conspiracy theorists and purveyors of misinformation are finding that there are a constantly shrinking number of platforms that will host their vile content, then I find that to be a cause for celebration!
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