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Best Buy censoring FR.
Self | 9/18/2018 | Self

Posted on 09/18/2018 6:06:51 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian

Edited on 09/18/2018 8:00:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Recently I spent some time at NJ Best Buy store waiting for service at cell phone department. Loged to their Network and internet access. Loaded FReerepublic page, when trying to load second page, my access got blocked with message about "innapropriet" content. That was it! Looks like communist fingers are getting long.

We are [bleeped]!


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KEYWORDS: achillwind; belongsinchat; bestbuy; blacklist; blacklisted; censorship; chat; corporateliberalism; minnesota; newjersey; reportittobestbuy; vanity
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To: SkyDancer

https://youtu.be/nFOe-KrxRDs


41 posted on 09/18/2018 7:13:23 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Haiku Guy

Post of the day !


42 posted on 09/18/2018 7:17:58 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Leo Carpathian

Their web appliance probably uses some generic black list by another company. Best Buy has no idea what freerepublic is or that it even exists.


43 posted on 09/18/2018 7:19:02 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: SkyDancer

I’d like to feel some sort of guilt for brick-and-mortar stores, but I really can’t.

They need to jack up their prices. I get it. But I’m finding the same stuff online for sometimes 1/4 the shelf price. And that’s crazy.

The mark-ups go beyond “I have to pay employees well and pay my rent and bills”


44 posted on 09/18/2018 7:20:02 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: DoughtyOne

We started hearing rumors about their Geek squad, too, and then a friend of my son’s from high school got a job there and worked there for a bit and started warning us to not bring our computers in.

My kids know their stuff and some of the things the Geek Squad members were doing was weird and they didn’t trust them any more.

Plus their prices were going up too much.


45 posted on 09/18/2018 7:21:39 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Leo Carpathian

You are giving Best Buy your freepname AND password. Please get a VPN and learn how to use it.


46 posted on 09/18/2018 7:26:33 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: metmom

I am not privy to that sort of information, but businesses have problems like this. It’s hard to keep the staff under control. That doesn’t mean it’s right, and it doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good idea to avoid them either.

Glad you were able to be warned.


47 posted on 09/18/2018 7:26:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Leo Carpathian

One of the reasons I started going with unlimited access. (That and I wind up working weird hours when stuff crashes at work.)


48 posted on 09/18/2018 7:28:34 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 - put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true)
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To: Rebelbase
And here I thought I was on a Lone Mission😀
49 posted on 09/18/2018 7:34:13 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: SkyDancer

I use my local best buy regularly. Ink jet cartridges competative. Bought 2 roku streaming sticks after downgrading my spectrum service


50 posted on 09/18/2018 7:48:13 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: palmer

Amen!


51 posted on 09/18/2018 7:53:51 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Fred Hayek
I'm with you. I avoid anything Minnesota like the plague and their accent makes me want to puke.

I've also never met anyone from there worth a damn.

52 posted on 09/18/2018 8:08:56 PM PDT by sailor76 (Trump is our last hope!)
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To: sailor76

I have a very good customer who owns plants in MN and TX. MN accents and major league conservatives.

They have a pretty low regard for the state’s leftism.


53 posted on 09/18/2018 8:39:06 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
I have a very good customer who owns plants in MN ........They have a pretty low regard for the state’s leftism.
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That's nice. What's he make......I'll make sure I never buy it.

54 posted on 09/18/2018 8:46:00 PM PDT by sailor76 (Trump is our last hope!)
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To: Celerity

“They need to jack up their prices. I get it. But I’m finding the same stuff online for sometimes 1/4 the shelf price. And that’s crazy.”

Yea. At Alibaba for an order of 10k units.


55 posted on 09/18/2018 9:04:24 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: TexasGator

Frankly, eBay is still the best bet I the internet. I even get Betsey response with shipping than i do from Amazon.

Plus they aren’t the enemy like Amazon and alibaba.


56 posted on 09/19/2018 5:09:09 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Leo Carpathian

Could be much more related to the blocking software they employ than the store itself.


57 posted on 09/19/2018 5:11:00 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, ViI suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: Leo Carpathian

Ha, I used to go into Best Buy years ago. I always loaded up FR on any PC that had internet and left the page up.


58 posted on 09/19/2018 5:15:45 AM PDT by VastRWCon (LARGE PRINT GIVE IT, small print take it away.)
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To: sailor76

That comment makes no sense.
Boycotting good conservatives because they live in MN?
They also own plants in TX. Does that make you feel better.


59 posted on 09/19/2018 4:49:03 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Nope, if it comes from MN, I don’t want it. They are useless.


60 posted on 09/19/2018 6:13:00 PM PDT by sailor76 (Trump is our last hope!)
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