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Initech

(100,083 posts)
Sat May 4, 2019, 12:09 AM May 2019

On Conservatives And "Shadow Banning"

Shadow banning isn't a thing! It's just another way Trump and his hateful minions try to play the victim. They say James Woods is innocent? Fuck no! He threatened to hang all of Trump's detractors! Alex Jones is innocent? He threatened to kill mass shooting victims! Laura Loomer is innocent? She went batshit crazy outside of Twitter's headquarters.

Hey republicans - you're not getting banned because you're conservatives posting on websites. You're getting banned because you're hateful dicks! See, companies like Facebook and Twitter have these things called "terms of service agreements" that you most likely didn't read when you signed up.

If you have read them you would know that they have rules and conditions about posting. And one of them is don't be hateful, which is what you are doing. So you what? It's not Facebook or Twitter that's the problem, it's you.

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gldstwmn

(4,575 posts)
5. It should not but he and
Sat May 4, 2019, 01:06 AM
May 2019

His follwers cannot grasp that concept. He thinks free speech applies to social media. He is most certainly the president with the lowest IQ we've ever had.

ck4829

(35,077 posts)
8. Passive ignoring doesn't work, they're a train wreck. It's time to begin actively ignoring them.
Sat May 4, 2019, 02:27 AM
May 2019

AKA deplatforming.

Midnight Writer

(21,770 posts)
6. This reminds me of attacks on "liberal media" which gained traction late in Viet Nam "police action"
Sat May 4, 2019, 02:10 AM
May 2019

We had a totally establishment news structure, as well as a totally establishment entertainment culture. But the war and civil rights struggles allowed a counter culture to grow, and make inroads into mainstream thought. Of course, this was an anti-conservative movement, and the conservatives, as snowflakey then as they are now, began to screech. Big money latched on to the conservative movement, and to this day fund and direct the rightwing media. This is a relatively cheap thing to finance; I am surprised liberals haven't given it a more serious go.

Complaining about hit numbers and followers is just playing the refs.

ck4829

(35,077 posts)
7. Here's the thing, these guys are fascists. Fascists have what is known as "depressed vocabulary"
Sat May 4, 2019, 02:25 AM
May 2019

That's just a short way of saying, the fascist has nothing of substance to say. Both the fascists of the past and today call everyone they don't like "liberal" or some variation of it, "parasite", "jew", "globalist", "socialist", etc.

Filters don't like spam, spam is also saying nothing.

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