How Conservatives Are Being Destroyed by Facebook, Twitter and Google Without Even Realizing It

Townhall.com ^ | Jan 13, 2018 | John Hawkins

[Peesypie]

I have a very large family, and many friends. I use Facebook to keep in touch with them, spread all across the United States, mostly. I DON’T use FB for my political news, relying on online websites and television news I trust on both sides of the issues.

I don’t believe that social media sites, Facebook, but especially Twitter, reflect the views of many people in America. Twitter, for one, seems to be a place where the perpetually outrageously outraged (!!11!) spit and fume about things of which I hear little from the IRL people with whom I interact.

[dr_lew]

My wife is on Facebook, so that’s my excuse ... if there’s anything I need to know, she’ll tell me.

Beyond that, its attraction is a mystery to me.

[Impy]

No one needs to or should rely on Facebook for news.

[Pajamajan]

Absolute MUST-READ article about these would-be tyrant techbillionaires and their plans to control everyone and everything.

They would not have anywhere near the wealth and power they enjoy had they been born into the mind numbing oppression of Cuba or the chaos of Venezuela.

[Yosemitest]

That's not NEARLY AS BAD as the real threat to conservatives.
Read this actual proven attack on our elections.

DemocRATS will NEVER leave elections in the hands of the voters again, after Trump won !

STEALING ELECTIONS WITH COMPUTERS and Technology Cybercrimes, watch Bloomberg's Digital Defense November 3, 2016 (19:40).

To better understand "THE MASTER KEY" to stealing elections with computers, watch:

Fraction Magic - Detailed Vote Rigging Demonstration ( 24:40 )
Bev Harris
Published on Oct 31, 2016

I'LL NEVER TRUST ANOTHER COMPUTER COUNTED ELECTION AGAIN !

Election Fraud Against Moore Confirmed, Shills BTFO ( 24:29 )

Things have changed!

Bennie Smith, a Memphis computer programmer, discovered HOW this is done through a

" ... a GEMS tabulator—for Global Election Management System—which is a personal computer installed with Diebold software that sits in a windowless room in the county’s election headquarters.
The tabulator is the brains of the system.
It monitors the voting machines, sorts out which machines have delivered data and which haven’t, and tallies the results.
As voting machines check in and their votes are included in the official count, each machine’s status turns green on the GEMS master panel.
A red light means the upload has failed.

At the end of Memphis’s election night in October 2015, there was no indication from the technician running Shelby County’s GEMS tabulator that any voting machine hadn’t checked in or that any votes had gone missing, according to election commission e-mails obtained by Bloomberg Businessweek.
Yet as county technicians followed up on the evidence from Smith’s poll-tape photo, they discovered more votes that never made it into the election night count, all from precincts with large concentrations of black voters. ... "

Diebold Election Systems changed its name in 2006 to Premier Election Solutions.
Bloomberg's article titled How to Protect Against Election Day Hacking gives more proof of this by Memphis computer programmer Bennie Smith.

"... The method Smith used to catch the problem should be a playbook for any candidate, party or concerned citizen worried about the accurate tallying of their votes:
Smith snapped some pictures of printed voting tallies (known as poll tapes) at a high-turnout polling location and then compared the results there to the electronic tabulations.
This is a very good, if labor-intensive, way to check to ensure that votes are being counted correctly.

Smith has created a proof-of-concept program called Fraction Magic, showing how corrupt officials could tamper with GEMS to manipulate election outcomes.

[Chickensoup]

This is true.

I used to be able to search Free Republic via google and find the phrase or post I wanted to reference.

Google no longer indexes FR posts.

Except for a couple of pages, it has disappeared from the search engines.

[jazzlite]

...”Please explain to me why Facebook is so powerful. I really do not understand.”...

I realized a couple of years ago what FB was doing and how it was luring the naive into it’s net. I disabled my account upon being hacked for the third time after putting in all the available safeguards. Of course, when active, I entered into FB political discussions with friends from my traditional and conservative point of view. When I alerted my friends that I was disabling my account, one told me he had done his own research with his more than 400 friends and discovered that his conservative posts never reached them, and guessed that it was the same with mine. I suspect he was right. Mr. Zuckerberg is the 4th richest person on the earth and is very young to be so successful, solely, because of the appeal of FB. Needless to say, he has to understand the power he holds to manipulate the kind of information out there which has the best chance to reach the eyes of his FB users. The ads are powerful, as well. Someone has said that, “in every progressive is a dictator trying to get out.” If it is the goal of FB, Google and Yahoo or whomever else is richer than most nations, to form and shape this world into their image, they can do it largely through censorship. Most of us fear terrorism, nuclear war, an Electromagnetic Pulse, illness or disease, or violence against us in some other way. However, for me, I fear FB, Google, and, to some extent, Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world. He owns Amazon which I love. What I do not love is his purchase of the Washington Post in his effort to do the same thing FB and Google are doing, through unfair propagandistic news reporting. Out here in the land of real people, most of whom feel that they are sure which gender they are, will be found much naivete and lack of understanding about the #1 danger to us, which, in my view, is the monopoly of big tech to take over and ruin our freedom, our lives and the hope of the future and humanity for a long, long time to come. One more thing about FB. The years I tried to keep up with it showed me one of the charms about it for some heavy users. It was simply a way to rewrite one’s own history. I saw this over and over again just from the postings and photos of the people I personally knew. It was a way to be one’s own publicist. I do not like big government, but just as in the monopoly of Standard Oil in the old, old days, the dangerous tech monopolies need to be broken up. Another thing which makes us pause when we hear of Zuckerberg’s political views is this..Why has he built himself such a high wall and fortress around his home, to live behind? Is he for or against a wall to protect our nation which is our home or does cheap labor and Democrat votes “trump” that idea? Just wondering.

[SkyPilot]

The same people that are killing off Conservative websites are the ones the GOP wants to reward with 55,000 extra visas for cheap labor coders.

And we just gave them a tax cut from 35% to 21% and stuck the tab to individual Americans.

[Haiku Guy]

I have removed myself from Facebook and Twitter. Why should I produce content for people who want me dead?

If it were an even playing field, I would engage. But it is not.

So, here I am. Pockets stuffed with money and looking for somebody who will play it straight. Who will take my money?

[JudgemAll]

Yes, facebook is a chainmail system, akin to ponzy scheme networking machine

[yldstrk]

nope, dude, you are wrong. The power of Facebook is that millions of people start looking for others by name on Facebook, find them, connect with them and then, if its a business, find their contact information,website and location with it

[Mrs. Don-o]

leftist fascism bump

[jmaroneps37]

I don’t feel destroyed Republicans are finally doing what we demand of them and Trump will be the oldest man elected to the presidency in 2020 so what’s the point here?

[Bryanw92]

>>Leftists have made social media such a vile cesspool since Trump won. Why would any conservative with a life to live want to swim in that?

Because a percentage of Democrats are Progressives and their lies must be countered. Another percentage of Democrats are actual Liberals, but not ideological Progressives, and they need to hear the truth from Conservatives.

When your only contact with online Realpolitik is FR, you only get a small part of the picture.

Don’t think of it as “swimming in a cesspool”. Think of it as reaching in with a hook to rescue things.

[Pajamajan]

MUST READ article.

[kearnyirish2]

Low-information people use Facebook the way some of us use Free Republic (for news and discussion); there are a lot of them, and they are low-information. If Facebook had 10,000 users it would be a non-issue; it is a primary news source (under the guise of social networking) for many people.

[kearnyirish2]

“DemocRATS will NEVER leave elections in the hands of the voters again, after Trump won!”

They know he won because of the relative freedom of the internet, and are focused on removing that obstacle to their complete control of the media.

[redtetrahedron]

Hmmm. Just tried it. Works for me.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

*This*

[IrishBrigade]

‘My guess is that most Facebook users are airhead women who exchange cat pictures with their friends.’

exactly so, though I must admit to being a tabbyphile, and like all pictures of cats...but yes, fuzzythinking women dominate FB, and are extremely vocal and jugdgmental, leading to what I call ‘Facebook nation’, where an echo chamber of ‘correct thought’ predominates, and hatreds and contentions are fostered where they don’t need to be...