Posted on 09/12/2018 10:18:18 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The social media giants don’t seem to be backing away from the exclusion of conservative voices. Instead, the strategy may be to wear us down, continuing a steady stream of bans. When the outrage is blatant, they may back down for a while, but the idea is to get us so used to this that we get tired and eventually accept the fate, when the bans keep happening.
This article, titled “9 Steps to Counter Jihad,” is what triggered Facebook’s totally opaque “community standards.”
The nine steps:
2. Scrap “Countering Violent Extremism.” 3. Stop “Partnering” With Muslim Brotherhood Front Groups. 4. Implement a Concrete “Countering-Jihad” Strategy. 5. Launch Our Own Counter-propaganda Campaign. 6. Affirm Sharia’s Assault on the U.S. Constitution as Seditious. 7. Put Pressure on Mosques, Islamic Groups and Schools. 8. Bring Counter-Jihadists into the Government. 9. Ridicule the Enemy. 1. Label the Enemy and Make a Threat Assessment.
There is absolutely no incitement to violence or hateful words used to describe human beings. Ridicule may well well violate sharia's penalties against "blasphemy," but why would Facebook support hsaria?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I posted the original article on my FB. We will see what happens.
Something very important about this first sentence...
“the strategy may be to wear us down, continuing a steady stream of bans. When the outrage is blatant, they may back down for a while, but the idea is to get us so used to this that we get tired and eventually accept the fate,”
This is EXACTLY what they are trying to do. And it works, and they know it.
Here’s the counter-strategy:
1) Abandon left-captured services like Twitter for liberty-inspired services like Gab.ai
2) Initiate full-scale antitrust actions against all the Big Tech companies
3) Use the SEC to prosecute the executives of Big Tech companies for the material representations in their public disclosures to investors.
4) Private parties should sue for damages at every opportunity.
We can wear them down too, and we can do it better. It just takes the will and resolve to win.
Did anything happen yet?
If Trump moves to start an anti-Trust suit that is completely justified by their actions, it will serve to rally their base and can be used as justification for all sorts of major or minor riots led by their AntiFa thugs.
If he doesn't act until after the mid-term elections (and I believe he will start an anti-Trust action sooner or later) they shut down a large portion of the information and commentary flow of their opponents from now until the mid-terms which they believe will help them hold on to and gain seats in Congress.
And the problem is (for social media), they are already operating as monopolies for the most part.
As an aside, their customer base is not just the Left. If everyone outside the Left starts giving social media the NFL treatment, I think they will notice. In fact, that opens them up to charges of financial malfeasance if their stock suffers because of their political leanings.
Not yet.
It has worked since the 60s. Conservatives and Christians are living within ever-shrinking demarcated boundaries.
I would hope no action or inaction would be based on any concern about this. If law enforcement can't or won't put a stop to it we do have National Guard. President Trump needs to make decisions based on their merit, not whether or not there may be protests or violence as a result.
Not losing control of either house of Congress and hopefully gaining a wider majority is in fact far more important than when a suit is filed especially when those who would be targeted by it can keep such a suit from moving along at anything other than a snail's pace.
I wasn't implying Trump was slinking away from any decision he feels it is important to make nor would I ever imply that. The fact is it's better to wait than to jump on such a suit right away unless there's some reason to believe that doing so won't help the democrat machine in November.
Of course, if you like the idea of the anti-Trump machine having their base turn out in larger numbers this November . . .
Absolutely... Actually since WWII, Goebbels did it, It’s called “conditioning”.
The problem is they push a drug they know the addicts cannot do without. Time for an intervention because the addicts will always be addicts until the drug is controlled.
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