Posted on 05/21/2019 2:10:44 PM PDT by WWII_Historian
The year is 2029. The most popular social networking site in the world, “Rightbook,” has de-platformed most Left-wing propagandists (formerly known as journalists). Rightbook was founded by a group of Conservative students shortly after their candidate won the 2020 election. The site overcame Left-leaning social platforms such as Facebook in 2024, and Twitter in 2023.
It would be an understatement to mention that the Left-wingers did not like it.
Leftists created several hashtags on their tiny Twitter platform, which purged most of the Right-wingers a long time ago, from 2018-2020. Since then, Twitter has become a cesspool of neo-Marxists of various types (from moderate Socialists to Fascists and Communists), intolerant to any form of dissenting thought. However, due to the low-popularity of Twitter, nobody paid attention to these hashtags.
A lot of accounts got created on the even smaller Facebook platform, protesting the purge of the Leftists. Russia, as usual, decided to sow chaos in American political life and purchased a whopping $1,984 worth of political advertising on Facebook. However, this amount was about 1/1024th of the total Facebook ad revenue, so practically nobody clicked on them.
After the purge of Leftists, some Right-wingers enjoyed the party. The prevailing mood among them was: “It is payback time!” The House Judiciary Committee, with Democrat Socialist majority, conducted a series of hearings on the matter. The representatives blamed the Rightbook for violating the First Amendment; they also attempted to revitalize the Fairness Doctrine, abolished in 1987.
The issue in due time reached the Supreme Court, and the Court ruled 8-to-1 that private company Rightbook, like Facebook and Twitter before, has a right to de-platform any user for any reason rather than solely based on race, place of birth, or nationality. The only opposing vote was Justice Ruth Ginsburg’s; she is still alive.
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And why exactly did you think this belonged in News/Activism?
Ruth Buzzy can’t be alive in 2029. She’s already dead.
Time warp news
academia, historians, journalists, and entertainers are still weeweed up about the blacklisting of card carrying Communists in Hollywood. The blacklist was a boycott by the public. Studios still employed some of the “blacklisted” names using pseudonyms, it’s just that the public was not wise to it.
Red Channels was not a government publication.
The case may be argued that Lucille Ball was an ineffective Communist but even her own story is that she joined the party to please her Grandfather. She was in the Party. Now imagine if “you’d” become a Klansman, because Grandpa wanted it. Would that be sufficient excuse to drop the subject?
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