Silicon Valley goes full Orwell, ADL and SPLC now official Google/Facebook/Twitter censors

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Greenman

Lifer
Oct 15, 1999
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I've really enjoyed all the feigned butthurt over the purging of Russian & Alt-right bots. I seriously doubt that any of our usual ravers were purged & if they're real people getting re-instated is easy.

OTOH, what does it mean when your posting style is indistinguishable from mindless bots?

Just stand there, look down at your shoes & think up some sort of answer...
Wouldn't it mean you use correct grammar and spelling? Unless the the bots came from a Chinese programmer.
 

WelshBloke

Lifer
Jan 12, 2005
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What do you think the barrier of entry is into the market of building data centers, deploying thousands of miles of fiber cable, and switching networks? I'll run down to my local credit union and get a loan to pay for that setup. You do understand that those large tech companies own large portions of the physical structure for the internet? What is to stop them from controlling any and all bits of information?
Except that you don't need to do any of that to host a social media site.
I'm pretty sure that reddit, or 4chan, or voat, or whatever wretched hive of scum and villainy the OP dredges his crap from don't have their own fiber or data centers.
Rent some server space and host your own.
 

Jhhnn

IN MEMORIAM
Nov 11, 1999
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Wouldn't it mean you use correct grammar and spelling? Unless the the bots came from a Chinese programmer.

It means you behave like a bot, at least insofar as Twitter, Facebook & the rest can ascertain.

"Wow, man, they temp-banned me & a bunch of my followers disappeared!" means more than what the whiners even comprehend.
 

justoh

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Jun 11, 2013
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Only saw like one dude, dyna, talking about actually coercing these companies into not censoring their platforms. The mainstream left have turned into fascists if all they can say is legal, legal, over and over, while censoring minorities. It's mostly just people taking their cues.

Have you ever seen a child, say, in a mall, fall down behind its mother, and then calmly look up and wait for her 180, her attention and concerned expression before crying? It's not entirely unlike that. What it means to be a liberal these days.
 

brycejones

Lifer
Oct 18, 2005
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Only saw like one dude, dyna, talking about actually coercing these companies into not censoring their platforms. The mainstream left have turned into fascists if all they can say is legal, legal, over and over, while censoring minorities. It's mostly just people taking their cues.

Have you ever seen a child, say, in a mall, fall down behind its mother, and then calmly look up and wait for her 180, her attention and concerned expression before crying? It's not entirely unlike that. What it means to be a liberal these days.

If you were in the US. Go to a mall, stand in the middle of it and start yelling racist slogans. See how long it is before they remove you physically from the mall.

It isn't being fascist, its actually understanding what the 1st amendment means and how it works.
 

Meghan54

Lifer
Oct 18, 2009
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If you were in the US. Go to a mall, stand in the middle of it and start yelling racist slogans. See how long it is before they remove you physically from the mall.

It isn't being fascist, its actually understanding what the 1st amendment means and how it works.


Again, it's hard for Eastern Europeans to grasp the concept of our Constitution and its amendments......Am. English is just too hard to fully grasp when translated it seems.
 

bshole

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My biggest issue with youtube is that in the past year it has heavily slanted its news search results to point to corporate media. Alternative news sites that talk extensively about corporate influence on politics and the media are getting blackballed. youtube has definitely gotten worse in the past year.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71pjX0ZtJ-g&t=403s
 

SNC

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Jan 14, 2001
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The SPLC and ADL are now censoring social media for big brother. Years ago I warned that Silicon Valley was not what people thought it was, and now its proven true. This is the Silicon Valley left demonstrating they hold to none of the principles of the founders, freedom of speech is to them a mere inconvenience as they cannot compete on the marketplace of ideas. For all the talk of russian interference and fake news, these people prove they are not concerned with the principle, just who is doing the rigging. Proving the case, they are not to be trusted with the 1st let alone the 2nd amendment, and are unfit to lead.

Zero strike account Sargon of Akkad taken down simply out of spite, all part of a wave of censorship in the wake of the Florida shooting.


The SPLC is an organization so biased and deranged it went after Ayaan Hirsi Ali because apparently blasphemy is now a hate crime, of course only if done against Islam.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/s...-and-responsible-organization/article/2650327

This is what the left trusts to be the arbiter of what is legitimate in today's society, these are your best and brightest in power, and again, it proves the left have become unfit to lead. You have proven how you behave when you have power.


http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/27/google-youtube-southern-poverty-law-center-censorship/
https://cis.org/Immigration-and-SPLC
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/...ideos-as-conservatives-increasingly-censored/

Anyone who isn't part of the radical left wing agenda is labeled hate "hate" by the SPLC, smears have included the likes of Christina Hoff Sommers who is about as moderate as it gets.
https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/southern-poverty-law-center-smears-female-critics-radical-feminism

and for all the talk of the NRA and money
Southern Poverty Law Center Transfers Millions in Cash to Offshore Entities
http://freebeacon.com/issues/southe...nsfers-millions-in-cash-to-offshore-entities/


TLDR the responses you received from this steaming pile of horse shit. If you think this is troubling to you imagine how the rest of us who actually understand what the 1st amendment actually means feel about you and this pile and the fact that there is a segment of the population who agree with you. Before running your trap about this amendment and that, perhaps you should actually read what it says and if you have a hard time understanding the bigger words there are folks here who can help.

none of those business listed are a part of the government.
 

Commodus

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Oct 9, 2004
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Only saw like one dude, dyna, talking about actually coercing these companies into not censoring their platforms. The mainstream left have turned into fascists if all they can say is legal, legal, over and over, while censoring minorities. It's mostly just people taking their cues.

Have you ever seen a child, say, in a mall, fall down behind its mother, and then calmly look up and wait for her 180, her attention and concerned expression before crying? It's not entirely unlike that. What it means to be a liberal these days.

You do realize that having the government dictate the ideology companies must publish, which is what you want, is a key tenet of fascism... right?

The first Amendment is there not just to protect individuals, but to protect content publishers from being forced to publish things against their will. Do you want Fox News to be forced to broadcast 50 percent liberal content? No? Then you will stop insisting that YouTube or Twitter be forced to carry content from loony conspiracy theorists and Trump-worshipping neo-Nazis.
 
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SNC

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I guess freedoms only apply to you and your group-think totalitarian buddies? I'm not surprised that you sign off on companies, that control vast portions of the internet and digital information exchanges, getting into the censorship business with questionable entities.
Dude, Facebook and or YouTube has never had the power to provide you with a single solitary right of, or to anything. No matter any decision they make, it has ZERO effect on your freedoms or rights.
I am a looooong time Conservative (note the upper case c) and I have zero fucks to give on theses decisions - even if they were carried to the absolute extreme. When people open their traps before thinking they sound really stupid.
 

SNC

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What do you think the barrier of entry is into the market of building data centers, deploying thousands of miles of fiber cable, and switching networks? I'll run down to my local credit union and get a loan to pay for that setup. You do understand that those large tech companies own large portions of the physical structure for the internet? What is to stop them from controlling any and all bits of information?
SO you WANT the government telling businesses what to provide? I'm confused...
 

ch33zw1z

Lifer
Nov 4, 2004
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SO you WANT the government telling businesses what to provide? I'm confused...
No, you are not. They are.

On one hand, they don't want regulations. But the double edge sword quickly swings back to cut those cupcakes in half, and it's tough to think about it rationally, but you seem to get it just fine.
 

SNC

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The hilarity here? I am a true free market conservative, and the only conservative in this thread arguing for businesses to have the right to not carry material they, or the majority of their customers find objectionable.

Not really the only one.
 

justoh

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It's still unclear. Is it legal or not for them to be doing this? Is twitter the government?
 

brycejones

Lifer
Oct 18, 2005
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It's still unclear. Is it legal or not for them to be doing this? Is twitter the government?

It isn't even remotely unclear. These companies have a 1st amendment right to decide what can and cannot be published by their users on their privately owned platforms.

The fact that you think it is unclear means you really don't understand the 1st amendment and what it means despite several posters in this thread attempting to explain it to you.
 

Mxylplyx

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Mar 21, 2007
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Only saw like one dude, dyna, talking about actually coercing these companies into not censoring their platforms. The mainstream left have turned into fascists if all they can say is legal, legal, over and over, while censoring minorities. It's mostly just people taking their cues.

Have you ever seen a child, say, in a mall, fall down behind its mother, and then calmly look up and wait for her 180, her attention and concerned expression before crying? It's not entirely unlike that. What it means to be a liberal these days.

Did you just classify alt-righters as minorities?
 

Jhhnn

IN MEMORIAM
Nov 11, 1999
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It's still unclear. Is it legal or not for them to be doing this? Is twitter the government?

Don't be obtuse. Of course it's legal. Social media providers are just waking up to the idea that they have social obligations.
 

WelshBloke

Lifer
Jan 12, 2005
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No, you are not. They are.

On one hand, they don't want regulations. But the double edge sword quickly swings back to cut those cupcakes in half, and it's tough to think about it rationally, but you seem to get it just fine.

So they really are special snowflakes that want the rules to apply differently to them?
 
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