Posted on 03/05/2018 7:07:53 AM PST by MNDude
Further, per 15 USC § 3 any such act committed in the District of Columbia is a violation regardless of whether it was otherwise "interstate commerce."
I don't see Jeff Sessions' DOJ stopping any purges by the Deep State.
I’ve never joined Fakebook or Twitter and never will.
It’s not that easy. Start a “conservative internet” and Google will just make sure nobody will be able to find it.
Imagine if Google owned all the highways and said people with views they didn’t like couldn’t use them. “But it’s a free country so you conservatives can build your own highways!” They’ll offer. “Only one problem; we own all the asphalt, pavers, tools, equipment, and you can’t use any of it.”
About 20 years ago the libertarians slowly started ceding control of a then-lawless internet to liberals who established rules. Conservatives didn’t do much more than send emails and watch cat videos and so they didn’t notice.
And that’s where we are now.
And that’s how we cede the internet to liberals, by thinking it’s somehow virtuous to disregard the most powerful social networking tools there are. Donald Trump tweeted his way to the White House. Do you think he would have gotten anywhere if he just posted here on Free Republic?
there are competitive services, vimo, gab, mind.com, 4chan to name a few.
If freeREpublic was smart, they would pool monies and become a big provider of services (instead of driving people away).
They would upgrade their board, provide a FB style of interface, and have a video competitor to youtube. or join forces with vimeo, and others to provide upgraded smooth transitions.
There are a ton of conservatives over on reddit waiting for the ax to drop on them. We could make a difference.
Yeah, it’s crazy. I recently wrote to Rush and Buck to let them know that FB had shadow-blocked the both of them on the same day. I had to go in and tinker with a bunch of settings to get their stories to re-appear on my newsfeed where they’d been for years.
But now they are censoring conservative views. Conservatives should create their own social media.
For me subscribing to Fakebook is like subscribing to the NYT.
I understand that it’s important for us to have a presence in the public square, but what do you do when you are excluded from that public square?
Before that were recording like records that played with a needle just like an LP. I used to have one of those.
Totally correct. I mean even conservatives use Google obviously. It works well. They have us by the short hairs.
The only thing that could be done is for DJT to see this as a war and take the war to Google and Facebook.
We used to have Anti Trust Laws to prevent these types of illegal, restrictive, anti-competitive practices
Agreements to restrict advertising
Truthful advertising is important in a free market system because it helps consumers compare the price and quality of products offered by competing suppliers. The FTC Act itself prohibits advertising that is false or deceptive, and the FTC vigorously enforces this standard to empower consumers to make choices in the marketplace. Competitor restrictions on the amount or content of advertising that is truthful and not deceptive may be illegal if evidence shows the restrictions have anticompetitive effects and lack reasonable business justifications.
Example: The FTC challenged a professional code adopted by a national association of arbitrators that banned virtually all forms of advertising and soliciting clients. In a consent agreement with that organization, the rules were changed so that individual members were not barred from advertising truthful information about their prices and services.
Group Boycotts
Any company may, on its own, refuse to do business with another firm, but an agreement among competitors not to do business with targeted individuals or businesses may be an illegal boycott, especially if the group of competitors working together has market power.
Two observations to that:
1) I am not certain it is healthy long term for folks with common sense, liberty loving normal folks, and traditionalists to remain inside their own echo chamber. We routinely deride the lefties for pretty much sounding like a pack of parrots and beyond that, the self-reinforcing feedback of the same ideas being endlessly left unchallenged and amplified has pretty much created nut cases out of the left. I do not want that to happen with us over another generation.
2) Any of the 'useful idiots' on the other side that get mugged and start rethinking their assumptions ought to be able to know that there are other dissenting views around and be able to easily find them. Those lefties with any brains are going to be converting over to our way of thinking after life knocks them around a little bit. We should be readily available to welcome them and tutor them in the ways of the light side...
“Any of the ‘useful idiots’ on the other side that get mugged and start rethinking their assumptions ought to be able to know that there are other dissenting views around and be able to easily find them.”
But what’s happening now is that Facebook, Google and Twitter are beginning to make sure that the useful idiots never see the dissenting views. And without conservative social media they will never see it - they won’t have any place to go.
BTW I’m not for living in an echo chamber either, but neither am I for letting the left have an unchallenged monopoly of the media.
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