Nikki Haley's Opposition to Anonymity in Social Media and the Public Square Is Disqualifying and Historically Ignorant

Red State ^ | 11/15/2023 | Jennifer Van Laar

[Trumpisourlastchance]

She’s a Satanist and should be at 0%. Faux News Murdoch Moloch gang elevates her.

[No name given]

I seriously wonder if she has ever even read the constitution!

[TomGuy]

If elites get away with this, it won’t be long before they demand users register their passwords.

[Reno89519]

Well, if they treat the first amendment like they do the second amendment. Then yes.

[lasereye]

I’ll say this for her: At least she’s not pretending to be a conservative. Unlike plenty of other Republicans over the years.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Haley is shrill and her face looks like the surface of the moon

[No name given]

And their devices!

[Dr. Franklin]

Let's not forget that the phenomenon of Americans using pen names or pseudonyms to publish their political speech isn't new.

No it's not. What is new is allowing foreigners abroad the same platform as American citizens at home. Typically, the globalists eff everything up, and then want to limit the constitutional rights of Americans. The solution is to limit foreigners from America, and American media platforms. Nikki can always run for office in India, where they have different traditions.

[Vermont Lt]

Every writer these days is breathless in their drama.

[alternatives?]

Remember she is the establishment and big donor candidate. She doesn’t care about anyone else. Romney with a vagina.

[freeandfreezing]

What is new is allowing foreigners abroad the same platform as American citizens at home

Books, pamphlets, letters and newspapers written by foreigners have been available here in North America since before our nation was founded. Do you really think nobody in 1776 had access to books and letters from foreigners?

Early Libraries in America

By the way, Ben Franklin started one of those libraries in 1731.

[crz]

“Speaking Monday, Hochul announced that the state is “very focused on the data we’re collecting from surveillance efforts [and] what’s being said on social media platforms,” admitting to government surveillance. What is more, Hochul said they have “launched an effort to be able to counter some of the negativity and reach out to people” when they see what they deem to be “hate speech being spoken about on online platforms.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023 ... ial-media/

What they might do is allow a web site continue on collecting money while they continue collecting data on you.
Good luck to you all.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

She was dead to me anyway, so I wouldn’t care except that there are .gov terrorists who would happily take this policy out of the shadows and make it the law of the land.

[Dr. Franklin]

Books, pamphlets, letters and newspapers written by foreigners have been available here in North America since before our nation was founded. Do you really think nobody in 1776 had access to books and letters from foreigners?

Social media is different from a library. It's more of a chat than a book. Americans in 1776 were far less likely to consider the opinion of anonymous foreigners about their social situation while the founders all read Rousseau's books and treatises. It's not the same.

[freeandfreezing]

Perhaps we should test our Nikki's idea by first requiring all government employees, with no exceptions, to register their actual name, home address, phone number, and place of employment in a public database, along with each of their social media accounts. Every 30 days all of their communications with anyone outside of the government will be released to the public.

Obviously that will make some federal jobs more difficult, because all federal employees will have to use their actual names, but we can see how a total lack of privacy works for some of our citizens before we consider Nikki's idea more generally.

Of course Nikki will have to start using Nimrata, since nobody will be allowed to use anything other than their legal name.

[freeandfreezing]

It's not the same.

You just adopted the argument that "muskets aren't the same as modern rifles".

Actually it is the same. Americans founded our nation in large part based on the ideas they learned from reading books written by foreigners.

What's wrong with reading the opinions of people from all over the world? How else can we understand what other people are thinking?

When it comes to Nikki's fear of "disinformation" from "bots" she apparently ignores that the most critical disinformation comes right from our own media, intellectuals, and government.

[Dr. Franklin]

You just adopted the argument that "muskets aren't the same as modern rifles".

Hardly.

Actually it is the same. Americans founded our nation in large part based on the ideas they learned from reading books written by foreigners.

The Federalist Papers were not written by foreigners pretending to be Americans. You missed the point.

What's wrong with reading the opinions of people from all over the world? How else can we understand what other people are thinking?

If Russians want to write their opinions of things, people prefer to know they are Russians, and presume they come from Russian troll farms. People call them trolls because they are simply trying to manipulate American opinion for Putin, and rightfully tune them out. The same is true of Chinese communist party operatives. Americans don't like to be manipulated by foreigners pretending to be Americans. Responsible social media would limit such accounts, or identify them as such.

When it comes to Nikki's fear of "disinformation" from "bots" she apparently ignores that the most critical disinformation comes right from our own media, intellectuals, and government.

Yes, but that doesn't mean we also aren't getting disinformation campaigns from foreigners. No serious person has time for that crap.

[escapefromboston]

She’s not even using her real name running for President and she wants to ban Americans from being anonymous on the internet ?

[MNDude]

She is a candidate going nowhere, but what is scary is that she is broadcasting the plans for the establishment, and establishment usually eventually gets what they want