davidsf
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Post by davidsf on Jan 9, 2021 9:29:02 GMT -8
As some have already said, people are only just now starting to jump to the other platforms like MeWe and Parler (which, by the way is now disappearing from the Apple Store and the Google store, but still accessed through their website).
The big boys counted on a few of us abandoning them, of course, so the only way to get the message across is for large numbers of us to defect.
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Post by vilepagan on Jan 9, 2021 10:37:06 GMT -8
On another tangent you have to enjoy what trump's Twitter ban has done to this site. Since many of the least intelligent members relied very heavily on Twitter to make their points for them, they're going to have to deal with many posts that make no sense at all without their accompanying Twitter link. Ah well, they were mostly dumbass posts anyway.
In all fairness I did try to warn you guys that relying on Twitter was a mistake.
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SK80
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Post by SK80 on Jan 10, 2021 7:11:56 GMT -8
Just a review of what has taken place.... one world order?
Not only has Donald Trump -- still the president of the United States -- been permanently banned from Twitter, its rapidly growing, open-to-all substitute Parler has almost simultaneously been de-platformed by Google.
You can’t get their app for Android anymore.
Apple threatens to be next, demanding Parler kowtow (by Saturday!) to Cupertino’s vision of what the world should be.
I suppose that’s a social-justicey-politically-correct totalitarianism led by left-leaning… or so they want us to believe… tech billionaires. [snip]
Josh Hawley’s forthcoming book… on Big Tech, no less… is “canceled” by Simon & Schuster. Senator Hawley had been among the most outspoken about investigating the possibility of election fraud.
Twitter permanently blocks General Flynn. I guess they don’t think he has had enough already.
Twitter permanently blocks Lin Wood, the well-known attorney working to unmask possible fraud. Ditto for the courageous Sidney Powell.
Not to be outdone, Facebook blocks President Trump’s account. (Not sure who was first -- Facebook or Twitter -- not that it matters.)
More insidiously, Facebook starts to delete groups or forums of people who publicly stepped away from the Democratic Party because of its scandals.
(Elsewhere it’s revealed that Facebook banned accounts at the behest of Hunter Biden.)
YouTube announces it will no longer distribute videos investigating election fraud and that producers of such videos will be punished if they do.
All this in a couple of days, the excuse being, in almost all cases, that the conservatives involved were instigating violence, the “outrage” that occurred at the Capitol.
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Post by vilepagan on Jan 10, 2021 8:28:23 GMT -8
All this in a couple of days, the excuse being, in almost all cases, that the conservatives involved were instigating violence, the “outrage” that occurred at the Capitol. That's not an excuse it's a valid reason. The conservatives who were involved were instigating violence and what occurred at the Capitol was an outrage. Just a reminder that trump and all the others who have been banned form one platform or another had violated the terms of service that they agreed to uphold when they signed up. Every website has them, even Parler. The reason that Parler is having problems is that they haven't been able to uphold those same terms of service that they agreed to with their web providers. |
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thefrog
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Post by thefrog on Jan 10, 2021 10:38:46 GMT -8
Trumps team has a novel (and pretty compelling argument) against the Big Tech...
First Amendment protections don’t apply to a Private company unless you’re acting as an agent of the Government...
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Post by vilepagan on Jan 10, 2021 13:03:51 GMT -8
Trumps team has a novel (and pretty compelling argument) against the Big Tech... First Amendment protections don’t apply to a Private company unless you’re acting as an agent of the Government... That's only a compelling argument if they have some sort of evidence that the companies were acting as an agent of the government, which is tricky since you'd have to convince the judge that trump's team (the people making the argument) isn't the government. Not really all that compelling...sounds like something Lin Wood came up with. |
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thefrog
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Post by thefrog on Jan 10, 2021 13:41:37 GMT -8
Trump's account removed for inciting violence.
Guess those "rules" don't apply to this post.
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Post by ProfessorFate on Jan 10, 2021 17:08:12 GMT -8
Got a kick out of Wikipedia's description of Gab.com:
In other words...A Banned of Brothers. This right-wing extremist just joined, and already I feel at home. Supposedly Trump is there now too.
Cue Vile Pagan for the left-wing extremist's point of view.
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SK80
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Post by SK80 on Jan 10, 2021 17:48:48 GMT -8
So you like GAB over PARLER?
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Post by ProfessorFate on Jan 10, 2021 19:19:35 GMT -8
I don't know yet. How about you?
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Credo
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Post by Credo on Jan 10, 2021 19:39:12 GMT -8
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Credo
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Post by Credo on Jan 10, 2021 19:46:50 GMT -8
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Post by vilepagan on Jan 10, 2021 19:56:55 GMT -8
Not that any of your arguments hold any water but just a reminder that Twitter and other platforms can censor the content on their platforms in any way they want. Just like this site.
You can demand they be "fair" all you want, but they are under no obligation to be fair or to give you equal time or to let you say anything at all.
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Post by vilepagan on Jan 10, 2021 19:58:12 GMT -8
I don't know yet. How about you? Do let us all know if you find a safe space...at least I know you'll like it better when you find a place where everyone agrees with you. |
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davidsf
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Post by davidsf on Jan 11, 2021 6:45:49 GMT -8
Parler is hosted on servers owned by Amazon.
Amazon has announced they are shutting Parler down this week... so no more Parler until or unless they can find a new hosting solution.
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