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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.
Fuck "most Americans". They've already proven they're a little less aware than flatworms, and can't be trusted with self-government. Thank goodness we have an Electoral College to keep us from making any big mistakes, right?
You are welcome on my lawn.
The american left is nothing even close to liberal at the moment, which is why reality is punching it down to death.
When you need the fucking right to defend freedom of speech, something is really, really wrong with the left.
In all fairness, the batshit coming from the left these days is just the bastard child of the right's batshit birthers screaming that Barak Obama was a secret Muslim born in an al-quaida training camp. But I have to hand it to the Antifa crowd; they've really taken the batshit insanity to new heights of late. If we can get through the next Presidential debate without someone in the crowd running up on stage, dropping trow, and taking a giant shit in front someone's podium then I'll consider it an heartening victory for political civility.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I keep hearing a lot about how terrible Antifa is, but have they actually murdered anyone? Do they drive cars into crowds? Do any of them honestly think that there is a war on and that killing the other side is justified?
Because that's the level of batshit we have from the far right. It's another level entirely, and order of magnitude away from the worst I've ever seen Antifa do.
When people are trying so hard to equate clearly very different things like this, you have to ask what they are trying to hide. And in this case it's not even a difficult question to answer, because the violence and murders and Nazism are overt and well publicised. It's not distraction, it's gaslighting.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC