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Chrome Extension Offers Trump-Free Browsing (usnews.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the out-of-sight dept.

Earthquake Retrofit writes: A new Google Chrome extension lets you remove mentions of Donald Trump from your browsing experience. Trump Filter scans websites for references to the Republican presidential candidate, showing a blank void in the place of Trump-related content. "I am doing this out of a profound sense of annoyance and patriotic duty," the extension's creator, Rob Spectre, writes on the Trump Filter website. "[I was not] put up to this by the Republican or Democratic Parties, the Obama Administration, my mother or any other possible sphere of influence." Trump Filter's code is open source and can be found on GitHub.

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  1. Liberals and willful ignorance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Blocking out the opposing point of view. How Liberal

    1. Re:Liberals and willful ignorance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      Actually, the Republican echo chamber is much more effective than anything the Libs have. The only way conservative ideals make any sense at all is if you have a bunch of other idiots that are as stupid as you are pumping their fists in agreement with you. The moment logic is applied, it all falls apart. The solution? Don't try to apply logic.

    2. Re:Liberals and willful ignorance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Right... and the Liberals aren't responsible for doubling the debt in the last 7 years

      Well, the Republicans control Congress and the purse strings, so you tell me who's responsible? We had surpluses under Clinton. As soon as Bush took office, that changed quickly.

      the complete mess that the Middle East became with premature pullout of troops

      We never should have had troops there to start with. Thanks, Conservatives.

      the mess that the healthcare industry is in

      The only people that are complaining are on the far right.

      It's all obviously Bush' fault.

      No, it goes all the way back to Reagan, and probably much further. Bush was a moron but he didn't mess it all up himself.

      Hillary? The epitome of Rich White Corrupt Career Politician?

      I don't really care for her either, never have. We don't need any more Bush's or Clintons in the White House.

    3. Re:Liberals and willful ignorance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Actually, the Republican echo chamber is much more effective than anything the Libs have. The only way conservative ideals make any sense at all is if you have a bunch of other idiots that are as stupid as you are pumping their fists in agreement with you. The moment logic is applied, it all falls apart. The solution? Don't try to apply logic.

      Greece.

      Venezuela.

      Detroit.

      Do tell us about "liberal" and "socialist" logic: tax and spend your way to prosperity.

      Explain to us how it wasn't a "liberal" in NY that tried to ban large sodas - all because it isn't a "liberal" idea that the government knows what's best for everyone. Oh no, "liberals" don't know what's best for everyone, nor do they think they're better then everyone because "they care".

      Tell us that the stupidity of "microagressions" and "check your privilege" and campus speech codes aren't from "liberals".

      Or are you going to pull the "no true liberal" bullshit?

      After you've arrogated to yourself what "caring" means? Such that anyone who has any type of policy difference is a "racist" or "sexist" or some kind of "hater". Because "liberals" are better then everyone, right?

      Echo chambers? Do you have the balls to tell us what happened to the 2000 Democrat VP candidate after he expressed some policy differences with "liberal" orthodoxy?

      It's "liberals" who want to pitch the First Amendment overboard because someone had the temerity to actually criticize Hillary! before an election - all the while lying about it by saying all they want is "money out of politics" - while hypocritically taking hundreds of millions of dollars a year in campaign contributions from forced-membership public employee unions.

      Nah, you're a "liberal". You don't have any balls. That's why you're willing to utterly ignore the Constitution - guns are skeery to "liberals".

  2. Safe spaces... by Karmashock · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... Who is blocking trump but not blocking ISIS? Who would sit there and say "I can deal with people that nail children to the wall while their mothers are raped behind them... but Trump... Too much."... Who does that?

    The term "safe space" referred to offering a safe harbor to emotionally unstable people so they could calm down and then go back out and deal with the real world. The term has been coopted largely by dishonest hipster idiots that think they can apply the term to anything.

    The world is the way the world is... Trump is admittedly very unusual and quite obnoxious. But on the grand scale of shit in this world... if you need a safe space from him... then you're not ready to leave your parents basement.

    Just let it go.

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    1. Re:Safe spaces... by N1AK · · Score: 4, Insightful

      ... Who is blocking trump but not blocking ISIS? Who would sit there and say "I can deal with people that nail children to the wall while their mothers are raped behind them... but Trump... Too much."... Who does that?

      Me for starters, even when you poorly try to misconstrue the position like a true keyboard warrior. Nothing about the coverage of Trump is news; it can all be summed up as "Populist ideologue says something half-considered and offensive" (depressingly similar to what a lot of ISIS's populist ideologues spout I imagine, though admittedly with less calls for beheadings). You don't appear to be responding to someone who mentioned safe spaces, or a summary that mentions safe spaces, so god knows why you went on a rant about hipsters. You also got the origin of the term wrong, which is odd given how much its imagined misuse bothered you.

  3. Re:good but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Well... the Hillary one shouldn't remove her name... it should replace it with "Dirty Lying Rich White Career Politician"... or "Bitch" for short.

  4. Re:good but.... by will_die · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No need for one for Bernie since the press is already ignoring him. He gets more coverage on fox news than sites pushing for a democrate president.

  5. Re:good but.... by jellomizer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The problem with trump is if you ignore him, he won't go away.

    The problem is the GOP had branded themselves to the following statements.
    Liberal Media (meaning you shouldn't trust the news as its bias will overstate all issues)
    Democrats who favor government interaction = socialism which is detailed government controls on businesses = Communism the lack of property (so any approach giving additional government funding means they are just not conservative enough and are a PinkoCommy)
    Gun Controls = No Guns
    That there exists this uniformed religion called christianity, not a large collections of sects with a varied interpretations.
    Any Science that states bad news is a myth and part of the conspiracy of the leftists.

    This had made its base close minded and fearful. Thus a blowhard like Trump will just play right into their beliefs.

    Just censoring him, will play into the conspiracy logic. What is needed is a wider program to challenge the GOP points, Reduce fear from media overload, and show that the people can be part of a compromise and it means they will not loose everything if they loose.
       

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  6. Re:good but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When Bernie said that the illegal Clinton email server and the illegal use of a private (and illegal) server wasn't anything of importance, Bernie signed his defeat statement and gave it to Hilliary. Bernie is only in for the drama and the show. Bernie has already given up.

    Regrettably, the Bern-ites haven't figured that out yet. Are they in denial?

  7. Re:good but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Of course they don't have that. Liberals are hypocrites who tell those they feel are below them to "open your mind and listen to opposing views"... but while we force you to do that, we're going to block out all the opposing views we don't want to hear. Total elitist mentality, and it truly exposes their hypocritical views. Pigs, the entire liberal bunch.

  8. Re:good but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Dirty Lying Rich White Career Politician"

    Just a FYI but that also applies to most of the republican field of candidates.

    Three of the top 4 Republicans aren't white.

    That's gotta hurt, doesn't it?

    I guess you're going to go all superior and claim they aren't "authentic" blacks or Hispanics?

  9. Re: good but.... by indy_Muad'Dib · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you want to see liberals acting stupid the comments on Huffpo are the best place.

    you've never been on reddit have you?