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This is for all the people who insist Facebook, Twitter, Google, et. al. are private companies and should be allowed to run their business as they please.

The radical left agrees with you but for different reasons.

I was hoping we could get ahead of this before liberals took control of the narrative but the window appears to be closing.

I was never demanding government intervention. Frankly, I really don't know how to balance the rights of private social media companies and the demands of the left to take control of them and run them by their standards.

What I do know is if we as Republicans and Conservatives keep insisting these social media companies can run their businesses as they see fit the radical left will be sure these businesses run them according to their rules.

Again, I'm not asking for government control but if we don't speak up the radical left will and we will be shut out.

imho.

1 posted on 08/03/2018 1:26:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Paging Dr. Goebbels.


25 posted on 08/03/2018 3:05:16 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Liberals have already claimed the words love, smart, educated, tolerant.
By their OWN definitions already reinforced in media and academia, they’re the only ones who act out of love.
By their own standards, everyone else is guilty of hate speech and so could be shut down under a “hate speech” law.
I had a liberal bully tell me FBI crime stats by race were hate facts. Government data that didn’t fit their narrative was equated to a hate crime, assault.
Even when the discourse is civil, liberal bullies discriminate against it as poor quality content (Twitter’s quality filters), stupid and irrational (fake news filters that censor any conservative source).
It is fascism in the name of feelings. It is warm and fuzzy branding that seeks totalitarian control. But Big Brother is Big Nanny, an overbearing mother who at first seems comforting and caring but is just as oppressive.


27 posted on 08/03/2018 3:42:36 PM PDT by tbw2
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Sarah Jeong of NYTIMES first


29 posted on 08/03/2018 3:50:37 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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Censorship is the tool of tyrants.

Time to boycott the left’s attempted takeover of the social media platforms.

This is America, and substitutions via competition are the American Way of doing things.


30 posted on 08/03/2018 4:01:10 PM PDT by elbook
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Freedom.

Bitches can’t take it.


31 posted on 08/03/2018 4:04:43 PM PDT by The Toll
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The white supremacists and neo-Nazis are also socialists.

Yet the old saying about freedom of speech still rings true.

“I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it”

Freedom of speech, you either have it or you don’t.


32 posted on 08/03/2018 5:00:38 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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This is fascism: Business colluding with bureaucracy to control markets and competitors.


33 posted on 08/04/2018 3:30:59 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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