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[Vanity] ABCNews and Yahoo Banning Pro Trump Accounts

Posted on 09/08/2016 9:08:49 PM PDT by NathanBroom

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To: DoughtyOne

Nicely put.


41 posted on 09/08/2016 11:23:44 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: onyx

It’s good to be able to post some common sense or factual statements at sites inhabited by low info voters.


42 posted on 09/08/2016 11:34:27 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: thecodont

Thank you. I can think of several counter arguments that are also reasoned.


43 posted on 09/08/2016 11:39:06 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: thecodont

I have counter arguments against those too.


44 posted on 09/08/2016 11:43:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: virgil
Lefties need to breathe some fresh air.

I'd rather they breath some fresh Zyklon B or Sarin.
45 posted on 09/09/2016 12:00:58 AM PDT by farming pharmer (www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
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To: NathanBroom

Youtube keeps giving me warnings about something I posted but they never tell me what I did wrong.


46 posted on 09/09/2016 12:46:50 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: DoughtyOne

“ABC is issued a license to provide a public service with their disbursement of information for the public good.”

“What if I told you they are violating their license by doing what they are. They are providing false information to the public as an adjunct to their news organization.”

ABC News does not have a license. However, some local ABC network affiliates do have broadcast licenses. The network and the affiliates are entirely different entities.

To take it a little further, if pressed, ABC News would maintain that their online content and the content they offer to their affiliates are different entities.

Online content is not regulated by the FCC.


47 posted on 09/09/2016 12:55:18 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Talisker

“These entities receive all sorts of government funding for various things they do.”

ABC News receives government funding?


48 posted on 09/09/2016 12:57:28 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: NathanBroom
If you step back for a moment and consider how corrupt the so called “news” services have become in this country, it is shocking to say the least. It was an election or two back that Hannity was saying “This is the election when the news media died.” The amazing thing about what has happened is that they remain in operation. Where is all the funding coming from that supports the propaganda machine? They clearly are now nothing more than a unified fascist mouth piece front for the liberal left. They report on events with a total left bias, without a scintilla of concern of sticking to the unvarnished facts. Yet, there are those who by force of habit, or lack of access to other informational sources, continue to patronize them.
49 posted on 09/09/2016 3:01:02 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Timpanagos1
It is their right to do so and I have the right not to consume their product.

Except that they operate as a government sponsored monopoly via their broadcast license. This would not be a problem if there were a diversity of political view among the broadcast networks but they are all liberal. This needs to be challenged.

50 posted on 09/09/2016 3:26:02 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: onyx
STAY AWAY FROM SHEEPLE SITES!

ONLY THE DUMB ARE WELCOME!

The "sheeple sites" are where we need to be posting. It's a waste of time posting "Hillary is a crook!" on Free Republic. Everyone here already knows that. Nobody on Free Republic is voting for her.

Need to be hitting up the MSM sites, getting the message out there. Like it or not, that's still where most Americans (aka "swing voters") are getting their news.

51 posted on 09/09/2016 3:47:55 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Timpanagos1
It is their right to do so and I have the right not to consume their product.

Then stay away and let the adults wage the info war.

52 posted on 09/09/2016 3:50:14 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary's screeching voice is like the pipe organs of hell)
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To: DoughtyOne
While I get your point, are you comfortable with major news players banning any opposing views?

What is more frightening is the fact that news players have such a blatant bias as to invite opposing views.

We've always known it was there, but now they're not even trying to hide it, nor are they apparently ashamed to function as such obvious propaganda tools on behalf of what is a criminal enterprise.

53 posted on 09/09/2016 3:58:11 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: Timpanagos1
Does ABC News own their site?

Are you being forced to use the ABC News site?

If someone can be hounded and sued by the government for refusing to bake a cake, then it is the responsibility of the government to also hound and sue those who inhibit free speech while enjoying the Constitutional right for their own purposes.

What's yer point?

54 posted on 09/09/2016 4:02:21 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: NathanBroom

Once Disqus started allowing sites to simply ban people by their account name (along with wiping out every posting they ever wrote), which was about a month ago, sites both left and right take advantage of this and clear out us ‘troublemakers’.

But that doesn’t mean we cannot troll...which is what we have to do now, if we still want to be heard. So here’s an example - gun control:

What we would like to write:

“I agree with Trump that Hillary is gunning for the Second Amendment and will simply used Executive Orders, backed up by a totally compromised court system to take guns out of civilian hands. If she is elected, nothing short of civil war will be able to stop her.”

Here’s the same point, except by trolling:

“I cannot wait for Hillary to FINALLY rid this country of guns in the hands of people that do not need them. I have no problem with police, militaries, and other government entities having having guns, but the idea that any Tom, Dick, or Harry can own weapons so dangerous is just plain nuts. Trump is crazy saying that the Second Amendment allows private ownership of guns and Hillary will PROVE HIM WRONG, probably in her first 100 days, with her executive actions, backed up by a court system that finally acts in a rational way.”

I think that one can even make the case that the trolling approach is even more effective than just stating an opinion. If I were a Democrat-leaning gun owner, the second argument would scare the hell out of me (which is why Hillary is silent on guns).


55 posted on 09/09/2016 4:05:46 AM PDT by BobL (If Hillary wins, there WILL NOT be another contested election, for decades - AMNESTY)
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To: alexander_busek

She doesn’t know what Aggregation of Data is (neither does her followers), Original Classification Authority Responsibilities (neither does her followers) [...]

No wonder it was banned.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I does not wonder.


56 posted on 09/09/2016 4:27:20 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: DoughtyOne
" are you comfortable with major news players banning any opposing views?"

No, are you?

57 posted on 09/09/2016 4:54:36 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: Talisker
"These entities receive all sorts of government funding for various things they do."

I'd be interested in seeing some examples of that.

58 posted on 09/09/2016 4:58:29 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: NathanBroom

Traitors are showing their hands. Good.


59 posted on 09/09/2016 5:08:24 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: NathanBroom

The media exists to promote a leftist agenda.


60 posted on 09/09/2016 5:19:31 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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