Posted on 10/16/2019 8:54:28 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
According to a Tuesday POLITICO report, there is a massive and coordinated effort on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), federal law enforcement agencies, and social media outlets like Twitter to monitor and remove “disinformation” from the internet during the 2020 election cycle.
In principle, this effort is an authoritarian effort to control the free flow of information which will almost certainly be used against conservatives on behalf of the leftist political establishment. To wit, the aforementioned organizations, which include the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are working to tackle what they view as a disinformation tactic called “dogpiling,” which is when a group of people band together to swarm a candidate’s social media profile.
Candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke has been a “victim” of this tactic.
The “Beto is a furry” meme has been a longstanding troll for the candidate, who used to dress in a skintight sheep costume and rock out during his jam band days.
A furry, for those who are unfamiliar, is “an enthusiast for animal characters with human characteristics, in particular a person who dresses up in costume as such a character or uses one as an avatar online.”
O’Rourke fits the definition, but according to POLITICO, the established order has not taken kindly to the Twitter troll.
“After the September debate, DNC Tech sent out a summary of suspicious activity it spotted by monitoring Twitter,” the report said. “The party found that a Twitter thread by Beto O’Rourke was the target of ‘dogpiling,’ the technical term for when trolls coordinate on one thread to dominate the candidate’s mentions. The Beto dogpile concerned a popular meme that says Beto is a furry.”
DNC Tech is an organization setup specifically to monitor such things, from actual disinformation to Twitter trolling, and to protect its candidates from the internet at large.
Policing the “Beto is a furry” meme is a funny example of how our overlords have been trolled into oblivion, and how they are obviously upset about it.
But there are more serious ramifications to this overbearing thought police system. In fact, the thought police were out in full force during Tuesday night’s debate.
“In its note to campaigns, the DNC explained that as with previous debates, on Tuesday night Twitter would also have its own cyber war room set up to monitor ‘debate-related discourse for coordinated manipulation,'” POLITICO said. “Campaigns were instructed to ‘forward any hashtags your campaign expects to use or expects to be used against you (‘hatetags’) during the debates; to the DNC for monitoring.”
Obviously, no sane person is advocating on behalf of misinformation. But consider what’s actually happening here. Very powerful, historically left-wing entities are aligning to decide what can and cannot be said about particular candidates, and what qualifies as “disinformation” is totally subjective and up to those powerful left-wing entities. It’s a power mechanism designed to benefit the political left. That’s why they’re putting memes in the same category as intentional lies.
Worse still, POLITICO said that 4,000 social media accounts were removed after the September debates, based on the discretion of this power mechanism.
We’ve seen over and over that conservatives get banned from social media for vague “terms of service” violations. Does anyone really trust the DNC, the high-level law enforcement entities who tried to stop Trump from becoming president in 2016, and far-left Twitter to give conservatives a fair shake and allow them to speak freely during the 2020 cycle? Or is it more likely that conservative speech will be deemed to be “disinformation,” and those conservatives will be barred from political discourse?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n1r13gVPmLA
Joking about Party members and forms of disrespect will not be tolerated.
But what does the fox say? /Ylvis
Can’t stop laughing! That video is a riot. I am now of the opinion that Beto (Sheepo?) is the most bizarre of the twelve Dem candidates.
Beto needs a little salt?
I sing along with the Cookies. It works wonders for those of US in the KISS age group.
Chainge, the democrats got me locked up in chainge
And they ain’t the kind that you can see
Whoa, their chainge of lies got a hold on me, yeah
Chainge, well I can’t break away from their change
Can’t breakaway my minds not free
Whoa I’m chained to their lies about democracy, yeah
Now believe me when I tell you, freedom is Divine
I’d like to live it but Donald I’m imprisoned by their change
Democrats got me locked into change
Their group think ways are stifling me
Whoa their chainge has coaxed US into tyranny, yeah
I wanna tell you, Mr. President, you are doing fine
I support your agenda but I can’t break away from all of their change
Progressives got me locked up in change
And they ain’t the kind easy to break free
Whoa these are chainges forged in democracy, yeah.
Chainge chainge of lies chainge of lies
He's a Brony
A fan of the show "My Little Pony:
Friendship is Magic". Often male, but female fans are not uncommon. (plural: bronies) Bronies usually show a want to be accepted as normal people, but don't appear to realise that to be treated the same as anyone else, they need to stop making sure everyone knows and remembers that they are a brony at all times, without fail.
Nah Bubba started Project Echelon 1st
You know 0 is too stupid to have done this alone
A ha ha ha !
You mean I can’t say Beatoff said to
wax his @ss and buff his b@lls?
A technical term for O'Rourke's campaign platform...
If the dems ever get their way, I bet they will give themselves the power to restrict internet access to those who give offense.
What about NOW?
“Beto” cannot pull the wool over our eyes. No matter what the FBI and DHS do, these facts will dog his campaign forever. And why shouldn’t they? “Beto” loves being on the bottom of the dogpile; he always hops back up with a suspiciously sheepish grin.
Good one!
Evidence? Why would you need that when you have a whistleblowr like me who "heard it from a friend, who heard it from a friend, that he's been messin'around."
Oh trust me between outright bans demonetization
and other (IMO illegal) discrimination its being done
In this area, as in the area of cracking Antifa and illegals heads
With federal resources trump is lacking. He may be tolerating the
illegal behavior to show he is not a Nazi, which of course
he isn’t, but he will be hated and conspired against anyway
so he might as well do what’s right by not only his acolytes
but the nation before normal people really get fed up and
take matters in their own hands
Brony... word of the day for me. Thanx, I had no idea.
Also, I said “he is a furry” just to defy any monitoring agencies, regardless of actual finer definitional distinctions.
There actually is a brony in the division where I work, complete with pony belt buckle.
He is surly and has mommy issues. He is also why I don’t mind participating in active shooter drills if you know what I mean.
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