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Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views (bloomberg.com)
According to a new Pew Research Center study, 72 percent of those polled (from a sample of 4,594 adults) think it's likely companies such as Facebook and Twitter actively censor political views that they consider objectionable. The study finds that Americans don't trust those companies to be impartial when it comes to partisan politics. Bloomberg reports: Republicans, more than their Democratic counterparts, displayed concern over perceived political bias. Eighty-five percent of Republicans and those who labeled themselves conservative independents said it's likely that social media platforms censor political speech. And 64 percent of Republicans think technology companies support the views of liberals over conservatives. The majority of Democrats, meanwhile, think it's likely that social media platforms censor political viewpoints, coming in at 62 percent. But only about a quarter of Democrats worry that these companies support the views of conservatives over liberals.
Tech companies aren't biased against Republicans
How many times has Obama's Twitter account been deleted compared to Trump?
I follow a lot of people who are both liberal and conservative, on Twitter and Facebook. I have see tons more conservatives being hit by things like shadow bans or outright bans on Twitter than I have seen any liberals affected.
It's pretty obvious Twitter hires quite a few people to police abuse on Twitter, and some themselves abuse that power to moderate that which they do not like reading.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
As an American it saddens me to truthfully say that most Americans today are dumbasses. ...
You might enjoy this from a few nights ago. The Daily Show interviews Trump supporters about Space Force
(Note: The above snippet on Twitter is an excerpt from a longer segment about the recent Trump South Carolina rally.)
Some excerpts from an article on the segment:
But when Kosta asked a series of Trump supporters what “Space Force” is, all he got were answers like “something we’ve been missing for a long time,” “a little bit of everything” and, in the words of one older gentleman, a “cloud computer.” That same man was worried that “terrorists” might threaten our “freedom” from space. “I think Space Force could help us prevent the next 9/11,” he said.
While NASA is “only going to tell us what they want us to know,” these Trump fans believe that the president will “tell us the truth about what’s out there.”
And then there was the guy who thought the formation of “Space ISIS” was a real possibility. “It doesn’t make a lot of sense and would be wasting a lot of dollars,” he said. “But at the same time, it’s going to be cool.”
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
8 Miserable Years of Prosperity.
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Obama was partial to making executive orders and that is not always a bad thing. Relying on executive orders for the country's immigration policy is not a good solution
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If Obama was indeed partial to making executive orders what would that make all the other presidents prior to him in the last hundred years? Wikipedia shows that they either did more executive orders or did more per year spent in office than Obama. Of the more recent presidents, only H.W Bush had less executive orders, but he only spent 1 term in office.
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