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Facebook Owes You Nothing
Townhall.com ^ | May 19, 2016 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 05/19/2016 5:12:15 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Lisbon1940

“Breaking News on this site leans right.”

No. It leans to stuff like: What are the top 10 tunes about pets, and similar.


21 posted on 05/19/2016 5:42:47 AM PDT by Bertha Fanation
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To: Kaslin

So if progressives do something conservatives should disenpower themselves and not do the same thing if it’s a useful tactic.

Said every liberal republican.

Yes we should boycott, yes we should hold demostrations, yes we should stand up for our liberty.


22 posted on 05/19/2016 5:52:24 AM PDT by stockpirate (Flush Limbaigh a low information talk show host concerning Ted sCruz and Marco foamboy Rubio.)
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To: Kaslin

They claim to be all for fairness and diversity. Diversity of thought includes a conservative point of view. Do they “owe” us a conservative voice. No of course not. The whole article was shooting fish in a barrel. Will they provide more of a conservative voice so they appear more fair to conservatives? Maybe so, just to deal with their own internal desire to promote diversity, or to enhance their reputation? This is why pressure on them to show more of a conservative point of view is good. Not because they legally “owe it” to anyone, but because it may be in their own best self interests.


23 posted on 05/19/2016 5:52:25 AM PDT by Mark was here (Isn't attacking Trump's ex-girlfriends a "war on women"?)
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To: knarf
"exactly"

Not exactly. Not at all. The pearl-clutching Derek refers to constantly is a red herring.

The truth of it is that Suckerberg is a NPD multi-billionaire whose political dollars align mostly with Soros/Sanders. Thus disrupting is acceptable, including Thune subpoenas, whatever.

24 posted on 05/19/2016 5:52:58 AM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Too bad your overhauled unicorn start-up failed, Ted.")
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To: tanknetter
If children are taught proper English language construction in school and are tested during HS, when they get out, they will recognize such literary tricks for what they are

I use the old method of teaching bank tellers how to spot counterfeit bills as an example ...

When your eyes, hands and brain are so thoroughly saturated with what a real bill is, the moment a counterfeit shows up, you kust know something's wrong

You may not be able to identify what element is counterfeit, but your training and conditioning kicks in and you spot the counterfeit

Proper and good language instruction minimises the ability to be fooled but what or how people say things

25 posted on 05/19/2016 5:54:19 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: StAnDeliver
soooo ... don't use facebook
26 posted on 05/19/2016 5:56:04 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: HollyB
"So true. I enjoy FB, especially since I’ve been housebound quite a bit lately. It’s for personal use only and I do not use it to post any political stance good or bad. It’s a place to share pics and general life updates with friends. It takes some self control, because I’d love to share certain political findings. But, I don’t. Honestly, I wish more people would leave politics off FB."

It doesn't matter whether you leave politics off FB or not - Facebook knows every single preference you have, they know what you are most likely to click on, they know where else you go on the internet, and they sell every scrap of this information to any buyer who wants it (and give it to the government for quid pro quo).

If you think Facebook is "free", it is because you are the product being bought and sold...

27 posted on 05/19/2016 5:57:54 AM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Too bad your overhauled unicorn start-up failed, Ted.")
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To: Kaslin

It’s a sleazy, irresponsible company run by greedy liberal hacks who deserve to rot in Hell for all eternity.

But no, they don’t owe me anything.


28 posted on 05/19/2016 5:59:11 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin

The only people I know who are really, really into Facebook and other social media are all either former 60’s era hippies or former 70’s era punks who are all screaming, raging libs.

Everyone else I know is quiet, conservative, has a life and is living it w/O social media.

This might explain why these nuts think “everybody” agrees with them on extreme left issues and why they have such a bizarre view of the world.


29 posted on 05/19/2016 5:59:52 AM PDT by Southern Magnolia
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To: knarf
I don't. I never have, and I never will. But out of 1.65 billion active users, there are far too many Freepers who do, and don't realize the consequences of utilizing Facebook.

By far the easiest way to get off Facebook is to watch this movie.



30 posted on 05/19/2016 6:02:04 AM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Too bad your overhauled unicorn start-up failed, Ted.")
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To: StAnDeliver

My conservative friends that have been told FB is quietly warping things to the left and say they don’t really care as they avoid politics on FB tend to be RINOs. The same with the schools teaching sex ed to 6 year olds and the RINOs who say, ‘hey, I don’t care because we have the choice of opting our kid out of the classes, only to find out the following year that that option is no longer available. Then the bleat is, ‘hey what can ya do?’
This is the front line of a war on our values. It is sneaky how FB and Google are doing it. So sneaky that most RINO’s see no big deal here. It is more important to share snapshots of their lives than to worry about how millions are being manipulated into thinking the world is more to the left than it is...


31 posted on 05/19/2016 6:07:50 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Kaslin
There are not many people in the United States younger than 50 who don’t have a Facebook account.

I feel so left out.........../s

32 posted on 05/19/2016 6:08:14 AM PDT by Envisioning (4.13.15 - That awkward moment in history when 53 million racists became sexists...)
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To: Kaslin

Facebook will give a leftist administration anything they want, quietly, to help stem rebellion by lovers of America. A conservative administration trying to preserve and protect the Constitution, not so much.


33 posted on 05/19/2016 6:08:59 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: alloysteel
Nobody is compelled to use Fakebook, and to do so, is only to open no further than you wish to reveal.

If you wish to make comments on the website of our local Gannett newsrag you have to use Facebook. Needless to say, since that was instituted a few years ago, discussions on topics that used to get hundreds of responses now get a few dozen at most and others get very few. And they are skewed farther left than before, too, since more conservatives reject Facebook than liberals do.

34 posted on 05/19/2016 6:14:58 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: StAnDeliver

Old Zuck’s smart enough to know have the people in the United States are conservative...

He’s not stupid.


35 posted on 05/19/2016 6:15:53 AM PDT by GOPJ (Moms stripping daughters naked for strange men would be arrested EXCEPT in Target dressing rooms.)
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To: Kaslin

“Many conservatives have feigned outrage over this revelation, crying as though they have some infringed-upon right to something they don’t – equal access to someone else’s property.”

Being lied to is reason to be outraged.


36 posted on 05/19/2016 6:26:47 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

It sure is.


37 posted on 05/19/2016 6:36:59 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: knarf

Excellent point.


38 posted on 05/19/2016 6:39:50 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

The better alternative to “regulating Facebook” is to come up with a Right alternative, and let Facebook lose half its users.


39 posted on 05/19/2016 6:40:50 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
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To: Kaslin

After this election cycle, ClownHall.com is must don’t-read material.


40 posted on 05/19/2016 6:43:03 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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