Posted on 08/14/2018 6:17:21 PM PDT by OddLane
Hot off the wires. It turns out that they're not going to stop at purging Alex Jones. Who would've thought?
“This whole spectacle is sickening.”
What’s coming will be far, far worse. Of that I assure you.
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I had hoped that Ms Gellar could become a part of the Trump Team, but there is still time. Of course, if she did join Pres. Trump as a matter of outreach to the Arab Community, she could place her life in danger even more than it already is. At least that is the common belief. Might not be true.
Given the ramp-up since 2016 (and escalation from 2013), I’d believe those days are already here.
They’re already able to make digital purges stick across multiple providers and services. Where purges initially fail, leftists attack until they get their scalp.
That’s why I asked my initial question - what places in tech are significantly conservative if not dominant?
Wait until they start shutting down domain names. Coming soon.
First they came for Alex Jones, but I didn’t speak up, because I rarely looked at his website.
Then they came for Pamela Geller, and I didn’t speak up, because I only looked at her website sometimes.
Then they came for Rush Limbaugh, and I didn’t speak up, because I DO listen to Rush Limbaugh, very often.
Then they came for me, but I don’t even have a website, and now no conservatives do either.
That was their plan all along. Set the precedent with Alex Jones, then extend it to the rest of the non-globalist universe.
https://www.scribd.com/document/383918384/The-Censorship-Master-Plan-Decoded
Yeah, a vile wretch from The Daily Beast-the biggest rag online-named Taylor Lorenz spearheaded that witch hunt.
Jeff Deist discussed this at length for Mises.
I was here for the impeachment wars.
The Left was embarrassed by Rapin Bill, and there was only a handful of people willing to go to the wall for him. Larry Flynt was one of the few.
President Trump has MILLIONS of people willing to go to the wall for him
The Lefties are provoking our wrath.
They will reap the whirlwind.
I don’t think he would appoint her to a position in his administration. The closest he came is John Bolton’s appointment as NSA
They're going to use what they did to The Daily Stormer as a template.
Ideally, there should be McCarthy style hearings about the anti Americanism of you tube; etal; but, Congress is too cowardly for that. They'll quake at the first criticism by CNN. The only other way to handle these thought control demons is to sue them as publishers, which is what they really are. This idea was associated with Sen. Ted Cruz.
I think his comment was if they are editing the content then they are more than platforms.
A lot of others think the right to free speech means a right to be heard - even if it means riding on the work and investment of others.
There's a reason people who want to get their messages out have built or bought their own newspapers - for as long as our Republic has existed.
Conservatives would never dream of nationalizing private web sites.
There are two perfect design models to copy. Investors would beat down the door at the IPO.
Excellent.
This is a conservative approach to the problem.
Not sure which article(s) you had in mind. He’s spoken about plenty in tech, including the Damore case.
Nailed it.
If they don't want the public to communicate on their system, they should stay out of the communications business, or not solicit public participation.
Since their business model REQUIRES the public to make it work, protections for the public should apply to them too. There are few greater protections for the public than "Freedom of Speech", and it should absolutely be a requirement for any industry that relies on public communications to earn it's money.
They have built an information highway of great public interst, and it has become so critical to the public's needs, that it must be eminent domained, at least to the point necessary as to insure all the public is permitted to travel it.
There's a reason people who want to get their messages out have built or bought their own newspapers - for as long as our Republic has existed.
Comparing newspapers to internet mega corporations is like comparing a lightning bug to lightning.
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