But I am no humblegunner.
Posted on 11/23/2020 6:42:59 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Such is the era we live in that we are now being treated to the absurd spectacle of supposed journalists coming out strongly in favor of censorship. One such journalist is Politico's White House reporter Tina Nguyen, who on Sunday castigated the Twitter alternative, Parler, for their lack of censorship.
Nguyen's outrage at Parler for daring to permit free speech appeared in "On Parler, MAGA’s post-election world view blossoms with no pushback."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Ler’s all send a note to ms wen telling her to shut up, and see what she dors with that!!
The left is:
Anti-free speech
Anti-free debate
Anti freedom
Anti American
Resist loud and long - your children and grandchildren are depending on you.
Biden is a liar,
Biden is a thief
Biden is a liar,
Biden is a thief
Biden is a liar
Biden is a thief. . . .
PJ, your entire blog post is a cut and paste of another source, posted on your blog, under your byline, and then posted here as clickbait. Seriously, you know better, PJ.
And most of the content is a repost of a Parler post that neither blog owns.
Just post it here.
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No Pushback! Politico Criticizes Parler for Lack of Censorship
P.J. Gladnick
November 22nd, 2020 7:59 AM
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Such is the era we live in that we are now being treated to the absurd spectacle of supposed journalists coming out strongly in favor of censorship. One such journalist is Politico’s White House reporter Tina Nguyen, who on Sunday castigated the Twitter alternative, Parler, for their lack of censorship.
Nguyen’s outrage at Parler for daring to permit free speech appeared in “On Parler, MAGA’s post-election world view blossoms with no pushback.”
Since the election, President Donald Trump and his allies have faced fact-checks, condemnation and restrictions when trying to spread inconclusive evidence of voter fraud and leftist violence on social media.
But over on Parler, there’s a new, millions-strong MAGA universe where conservatives are freely spreading these claims and reinforcing their belief that Democrats have stolen the election from Trump.
Hashtags on Parler denoting Trump’s favorite conspiracy theories — #Dominion, #Sharpiegate, #QAnon — trend freely, without the restrictions Twitter and Facebook have instituted to suppress them.
Wow! A reporter actually writing approvingly of restrictions on social media. There are crazy conspiracy theories out there, and then there are conspiracies that are quite obvious — like Big Media wanting to suppress everything that they they feel is “out of context.” Entire topics, like the Biden family’s lobbying, are “out of context.”
Last time we checked, expressing a political opinion is not a crime even if you might wish it to be otherwise. And the lack of such restrictions (censorship) at Parler seems to upset MAGA-gagging Nguyen quite a bit:
Mediavine
The set-up gives MAGA conservatives an easy way to simply dismiss the post-election beliefs of the public at large, the widely accepted reports in mainstream news outlets and the word of experts and even some government officials. There is now a robust, consequence-free echo chamber for them that confirms a worldview in which a rigged election system falsely gave Biden a victory, and leftist thugs are taking to the streets to ensure the outcome isn’t overturned. And with over 4 million new downloads since Election Day — nearly doubling the site’s user base — that echo chamber is expanding rapidly.
“Robust, consequence-free echo chamber,” aka free speech. Or would you prefer there should be “consequences” for expressing opinions you don’t like, Tina?
“Parler’s positioning as a receptacle for Trump’s MAGA supporters is part of a longstanding trend of conservatives threatening a Twitter exodus over claims of censorship and persecution,” said Karim Zidan, a journalist with the left-leaning watchdog group Right Wing Watch. “Twitter’s heavy moderation of posts involving election-fraud conspiracy theories and disinformation has caused MAGA supporters to slowly transition to Parler under the guise of free speech.”
People are transitioning to Parler not just under the “guise of free speech,” but under the reality of it.
Unfiltered speech is dangerous!
Oh, and one reason for the excerpt is that it is much easier on the eyes to read it in the original format, especially when it contains videos and graphs.
These are dog whistles to Apple and google to ban Parler from their app stores.
Most of the information was cut and pasted from other sources. There was no need to hide that behind “Excerpted...”
This isn’t clickbait central. We’re all paying for use of this site. If you want to be stingy with your excerpts, fine. But 1) it’s your own column and 2) you don’t own the part of your column that is pasted from Parler.
And another reason for posting it as you did is that due to the LACK of formatting, it is hard/impossible to distinguish what I wrote and the quotes of Nguyen at Politico. Reading your version lacking the proper formatting, one could easily think that I wrote what Nguyen wrote. Thanx for that.
Maybe you could have posted it yourself in the original post then.
Gonna have to get on Parler
This isn’t clickbait central. We’re all paying for use of this site. If you want to be stingy with your excerpts, fine. But 1) it’s your own column and 2) you don’t own the part of your column that is pasted from Parler.
First of all, NONE of my column is "pasted from Parler" so know what you are talking about when you make a claim not based on fact. Secondly, I have been posting articles from NEWSBUSTERS (note: Not Parler) for years exactly the same way without complaint except for you and Humblegunner so if you want to be in that company, you are welcome to it.
Maybe I should post it the way I have been doing it for almost 15 years now.
Oh, they hate any communication channel they can’t control.
On another note, does Newsbusters pay its contributors? I’d be interested in applying for a writing position. Probably not considering American Thinker doesn’t pay.
Larry is trying to be as annoying as Humblegunner lately for some reason.
The censorship is only beginning. The Left knows they have to control speech to control us.
We should all enjoy freely expressing ourselves while we can because that right will be under heavy assault for years to come.
You are correct. It’s not from Parler. You re-post the following from Tina Nguyen’s screed, “On Parler, MAGA’s post-election world view blossoms with no pushback” from Politico.
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Since the election, President Donald Trump and his allies have faced fact-checks, condemnation and restrictions when trying to spread inconclusive evidence of voter fraud and leftist violence on social media.
But over on Parler, there’s a new, millions-strong MAGA universe where conservatives are freely spreading these claims and reinforcing their belief that Democrats have stolen the election from Trump.
Hashtags on Parler denoting Trump’s favorite conspiracy theories — #Dominion, #Sharpiegate, #QAnon — trend freely, without the restrictions Twitter and Facebook have instituted to suppress them.
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The set-up gives MAGA conservatives an easy way to simply dismiss the post-election beliefs of the public at large, the widely accepted reports in mainstream news outlets and the word of experts and even some government officials. There is now a robust, consequence-free echo chamber for them that confirms a worldview in which a rigged election system falsely gave Biden a victory, and leftist thugs are taking to the streets to ensure the outcome isn’t overturned. And with over 4 million new downloads since Election Day — nearly doubling the site’s user base — that echo chamber is expanding rapidly.
(snip)
“Parler’s positioning as a receptacle for Trump’s MAGA supporters is part of a longstanding trend of conservatives threatening a Twitter exodus over claims of censorship and persecution,” said Karim Zidan, a journalist with the left-leaning watchdog group Right Wing Watch. “Twitter’s heavy moderation of posts involving election-fraud conspiracy theories and disinformation has caused MAGA supporters to slowly transition to Parler under the guise of free speech.”
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Interspersed with nine sentences and sentence fragments of your own that add up to an “article.”
I’m just saying the cut and pasted portion can be posted here even if you don’t want your nine sentences and sentence fragments posted here in full. No need to send paying FReepers to some other site to read it, clickbait style. Don’t like my formatting when I post the part you didn’t write? Don’t complain. You had your chance to format it the way you would have wanted.
But I am no humblegunner.
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