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Discussion in 'West Mall' started by Joe Fan, Jul 25, 2016.

  1. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    This guy has a blue check and 58,000 followers

     
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  2. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    I see so many nobodies with blue check marks. Doesn't seem like a worthwhile designation.
     
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  3. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Big Tech is probably the single biggest source of election interference

    Comparison of Google traffic to conservative sites vs. left-wing sites.
    Clear pattern
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    (Data via Alexa)
     
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  4. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Google did a "Core Search" update in May
    This show what happened up to the update and then after for searches for "Biden" and "Joe Biden" that directed to Breitbart
    They literally flatlined the results
    This is some evil election year shyte
    The time to break up big tech is here

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  5. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

     
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  6. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    The libertarian viewpoint

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  7. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    If the corporations are so bad, which I agree they are, then we have the choice to not use them. We can go to one of several alternatives. If people aren't willing to switch, then they are the problem not Big Tech.

    What Libertarians recognize is that increasing the scope and power of government leads to bad unintended consequences and further abuses of power down the road.

    Now if the government has somehow subsidized any of these corporations, they could ask for a repayment if they don't comply with some sort of fair play guidelines. Or there might be regulations that prevent other companies from being created or from being used en masse. Those types of things could be removed. But breaking up companies usually gets twisted around to actually support the big companies and hurt the small ones. Not the other way around.
     
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  8. Dionysus

    Dionysus Idoit Admin

  9. theiioftx

    theiioftx Sponsor Deputy

    Trump needs to quit Twitter and sign up for Parler. Instantly, Parler becomes very powerful.
     
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  10. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    iis, he probably isn't smart enough to do that. He wants be a celebrity and all the celebrities are on Twitter.
     
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  11. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    I agree with this. However, I also think that a government that doesn't feel the need to censor because its subjects will self-censor is almost as dangerous as a government that censors. We may still have liberty in this country in the literal sense that the government isn't jailing people for their beliefs and statements. However, we're very quickly losing what I would call our "culture of liberty." The big tech companies certainly enable this problem and make it worse. However, bringing government coercion to bear wouldn't fix the problem. It would only reinforce it further, because this is ultimately a cultural flaw.
     
  12. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

    I've been thinking about this a long time. Freedom of speech in this country is gone. The Left thinks it's ok because it's not the government doing it as you say. But we know that's not true. The government is doing it by proxy. Their leaders signal and their minions through-out the land take advantage of the open information flow to destroy people's lives.

    And these are the same people who accuse Trump of subverting our democracy (never mind either the open borders and rights given freely to non-citizens).
     
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  13. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    I agree about the culture statement. I just don't know how your change that. If corporations stood up to social media mobs it could change. But I am not sure that the CEOs want it to change. I think they agree with the mob. Not sure how to change that.
     
  14. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Do the CEOs really agree with the mob, or do they just pander to them?
     
  15. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    Deez, I think it is both. Some pander. Some agree.
     
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  16. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    I bet it would be more than 20% if phone owners were fully aware of the safety concerns

     
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  17. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    Don't know if that has anything to do with Twitter. But I have noticed that too. I use DuckDuckGo on computer but my phone is all Google.
     
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  18. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

  19. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    haha, sort of the ultimate street cred here

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  20. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

  21. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

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  22. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Twitter also took out the following in a wave of Brownshirt-like pre-election censorship on the very first day of the DNC Convention

    They seem really scared

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  23. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    Total BS.
     
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  24. Run Pincher

    Run Pincher 2,500+ Posts

    Like I said in another thread, Lenin is coming, Goebbels is coming. If the Dems win the WH, look out. How long will it be before conservatives are rounded up and put in concentration camps?
     
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  25. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    And for all of the people saying "go to Parler" -Apple threatened to remove Parler from the store and to deny future push updates unless certain people were 'removed' from Parler.
     
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  26. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    At least this time, there will be a massive fight. Unlike the German efforts, the conservatives are well-armed and won't just go quietly into that good night.
     
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  27. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    This is interference with an election
    I am so old, I rmbr when Democrats pretended to care about such things --- all the way back in 2017, 2018 and 2019

     
  28. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    That is amazing
     
  29. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    Do you have to go through the play store to download the App? Can you get it straight from a browser?
     
  30. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    As if there was not enough nonsense...Laura Loomer has managed to push Jack into a corner. She is a candidate for the position, having won the primary in SPITE of Jack and the Twitter brigades. If they don't reinstate her account, then it is actual interference in an election through the silencing of one of two candidates in the coming election...
     

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