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To: Steely Tom
Whoever owns the books is free to burn them.

I never understood why conservatives had any interest in Facebook and Twitter as political tools. These are owned by someone else who has full control over the content.

50 posted on 02/21/2018 9:53:55 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: Alberta's Child

That’s true, but the left controls virtually ALL of the mass media. All of it.

They are now actively using that power to silence conservatives so they control the narrative.

I’ve never seen the “press” as bad as it is right now. The stories are pure propaganda, not news or information. So how do you get the other side out there if they control all of it?


56 posted on 02/21/2018 10:00:44 AM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: Alberta's Child
I never understood why conservatives had any interest in Facebook and Twitter as political tools. These are owned by someone else who has full control over the content.

You haven't thought this through. Those methods of communication are going to get used to reach the public. They will affect elections, and the public will make bad decisions because they won't be able to hear the opposition side of the discussion.

For our system of governance to work, we cannot allow monopolies to exist in the communications systems. Already the left owns and controls virtually all means of communications. Communications is necessary to the function of this Republic, and controlled communications is a threat to it.

It doesn't matter who owns the communications infrastructure. Our system of government cannot survive one party control of communications.

120 posted on 02/21/2018 11:16:53 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Alberta's Child
I never understood why conservatives had any interest in Facebook and Twitter as political tools.

Wouldn't it be the same interest that conservatives have to place political ads in the New York Times or the Washington Post?

Do these newspapers have unilateral power to reject ads from candidates they don't like?

-PJ

152 posted on 02/21/2018 11:42:40 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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