Posted on 03/15/2018 9:02:32 AM PDT by MNDude
Niall Ferguson: The midterms are going to be worse, a lot worse. Because never again will the network platforms in Silicon Valley allow them to use them as Donald Trump’s campaign used them in 2016. The sound of heads exploding on November the 9th of 2016 was deafening in California. They couldn’t believe that Facebook advertising had been so vital to Trump’s success. Which it was. I don’t think he would have become president without Facebook. As people think more and more about this they will I think begin to grasp the power of the platforms. I think the Russia issue is a distraction from the real question.
— They are hiding conservative stories on Google — They are shadow-banning conservative news on all social media. In February Facebook launched a new algorithm to ensure that conservative news would not spread on the social media platform.
This was after Facebook announced it was losing 50,000,000 user hours a day in the previous quarter. The algorithm change caused President Donald Trump’s engagement on Facebook posts to plummet a whopping 45%.
In contrast, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) do not appear to have suffered a comparable decline in Facebook engagement.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
If Trump doesn’t get his people out to vote for Republicans then he’s going to be impeached.
They don’t WANT to win because they’re not on our side.
They all belong to the same ‘party’ as the dims.
Two party politics is for ‘our’ benefit.
They already get all the real benefits.
I thought Trump won PA-18 bigly in 2016.
Do we, or do we not, have a Justice Department?
On one hand, a black-robbed judge can force a baker to bake a cake for a group they are opposed to on religious grounds, yet Google, Facebook, et. al., are free to NOT “bake the cake” for groups they find offensive.
Again, I ask, where is the Justice Department?
Something needs to be done...this is the area where Bannon and Priebus were needed and useful before they went to White House. Eek!
So open a twitter account.
Tweet only conservative messages, pro-life, pro-self defense, etc.
Get banned.
Let’s run up the numbers til they can no longer lie about their actions.
We do need to fight back. They are bullies and we need to fight back.
Twitter, Farcebook, and Google have become de facto monopolies.
They need to be broken up into a thousand pieces—let a thousand voices speak—not a telephone booth full of billionaire lefty censors.
These theories are.....as usual....very much more along the lines of predictions. One the greatest things one can learn in life is that nobody can predict the future.
There is nothing at all good about the PA election in a Republican ++++ district.
I absolutely agree, there is a lot of of excuses being tossed around how this/that does matter. Let us not forget Trump has perhaps 15% support in Washington DC. This is where this so called “wisdom” comes from.
The answer is not to freak out. The out party ALWAYS wins seats in off years. The answer is to breathe deeply, and think, not react.
And where’s the Trump admin on this?
Trying to start a grassroots surge via Q on what was described as “AT&T’s” IBOR isn’t enough.
Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., at very least also need an antitrust breakup along the lines of when Ma Bell was broken up. Let different companies manage different chunks of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram accounts, for example, but force them to interface seemlessly and have them compete with each other for accounts.
And they also need an IBOR requiring such major edge providers to support all political persuasions. Let individual customers choose whether they want rated-X, racism, political persuasion or other filters curating their feeds.
This crap has to stop or the country is cooked. The same of course pertains to deporting illegals and assuring voter integrity.
“In February Facebook launched a new algorithm to ensure that conservative news would not spread on the social media platform.”
What sort of algorithm? Does it detect certain words, phrases, and then block them?
Grandma is on Facebook. Kids today are on sites their parents don’t even know exist.
Tech Companies in 2020 will probably block out all or most TRUMP news but it won't matter! They can't stop the TRUMP TRAIN!
Same. Got whacked with the censor on Twatter for linking to the video. Same video has been repeatedly censored off Golaag.
It’s available and hosted here though:
http://therightscoop.com/steven-crowder-gets-suspended-on-twitter-for-mocking-gender-fluid-conference-watch/
Man is it hilarious.
That's only 10 bus-loads of 60 'portable' voters.
President Trump doesn’t post on Gab or Mewe. He posts on Twitter. That’s where people are.
This was being discussed elsewhere, but there are other platforms out there - Gab.ai, DTube, and a couple others - but the problem is that the technology running those platforms isn't really up to snuff. This makes it tough to retain users, which of course will make it difficult for those platforms to survive.
Bottom line, the conservatives/Right need to up their game when it comes to technology and the internet. In the early days of the internet, the Right seemed to have the edge over the Left when it came to adopting that medium. But since the early 2000's, the Left has caught up and ultimately surpassed the Right in this area. The Left wanted to put a stranglehold on that internet edge via Net Neutrality, but Trump has saved the Right for the time being by putting the kibosh on NN. The Right needs to use this reprieve to make up ground, but I'm not seeing much happening so far, particularly from the GOP.
2018 much worse because of tech? No!
The GOP and conservatives have no ground game, no volunteer boots on the ground. The Democrats do.
In PA, when Lamb got up to give his first victory speech, the first thing he did was lavishly thank the hundreds of boots on the ground. If Republicans/Conservatives had had boots on the ground, Saccone would have won.
If Republicans start putting boots on the ground now, in the primaries, they will win in November...guaranteed.
Because the GOP is deader than a doornail.
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