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Trump Accuses Social Media Firms of 'Silencing Millions' (reuters.com)
U.S. President Donald Trump accused social media companies on Friday of silencing "millions of people" in an act of censorship, but without offering evidence to support the claim. From a report: "Social Media Giants are silencing millions of people. Can't do this even if it means we must continue to hear Fake News like CNN, whose ratings have suffered gravely. People have to figure out what is real, and what is not, without censorship!" Trump wrote on Twitter, not mentioning any specific companies. Trump also criticized social media outlets last week, saying without providing proof that unidentified companies were "totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices." Mr. President's Friday remarks comes days after he expressed concerns over Twitter and Facebook regulating the content on their own platforms. He found such practice "very dangerous."
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regardless of your opinions, he is right. of course they have the right to do so, but people are being silenced
It looks as though you have someone who is completely out of control as president of your country.
Trump: People should be able to say whatever they want on private platforms that have no connection to the government.
Also Trump: Football players should be fined and fired for daring to take a knee.
So in one case he wants the First Amendment to apply to private companies, and in the second wants to force silence on non-govermental employees.
Heck if he just shut up I bet his approval ratings would go up 10 points.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Sadly, that even happens in real life. You don't have to like it, but it's pretty hard to stop unless you're wise enough to not need validation from cattle.
Why guess when you can know? Measure!
It looks as though you have someone who is completely out of control as president of your country.
That seems like accurate description of the situation. Though upon closer inspection, we also have a chickenshit congressional majority who refuses to do their duty to keep the president in check.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Diamond and Silk
Alex Jones
Candice Owens
3 of the above are black women, so I have to assume Zuck is a bigot, along with everyone supporting his censoring people.
Yeah, but bots and fake accounts are REALLY important to the right. Their whole self image is based on the idea that they are the majority, that they represent 'the real people'. Anything that threatens that belief by decreasing the raw numbers they can point to cuts them too their core.
And that means she is no longer relevant.
Trump, on the other hand, is in office, and that means he's fair game for criticism.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
I don't think DJT ought to be silenced. I think people should stop listening to him.
DJT is proof of Terry Pratchett's observation that hate and love are both forces of attraction, because people who hate DJT hang on his every word, even when it makes them sick with outrage and that makes his followers feel empowered, which of course shows the people who love him and the people who hate him are equally irrational.
Now I think Donald Trump is a miserable human being unworthy of the office. But I don't *hate* him; as far as I'm concerned if he goes back to being a successful reality TV star that's fine, because I don't feel compelled to pay attention to him. As long as he's president I do have to pay some attention to what he says, but since I don't hate him I have the luxury of not having to react emotionally to every bit of manipulative BS that comes out of his mouth.
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Trump senses a disturbance of the force. It felt as if millions of bots cried out in terror, and then were silenced.
Because like it or not, most of his base have a pretty deep-seated hatred for CNN (the "Communist News Network" as many call it). Any news of unfortunate happenings towards CNN is good news to much of the Republican base.
This isn't exactly shocking though or just a Republican thing. Whether they'll admit it or not a ton of Democrats would feel the same way if they heard that Fox News was having trouble.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
Diamond and Silk
Caught lying about what happened, basically a non-incident.
Alex Jones
On top of posting overtly racist content, he orchestrated harassment campaigns against the relatives of mass shooting victims. Would any conservatives like to argue that this should be allowed?
Candice Owens
Had to look up who this was. Her account was briefly locked due to a large number of reported violations, and then Twitter aplogized. OH THE HUMANITY!
So again, the supposed persecution of conservatives on social media is some combination of Nazis hiding unopposed under the "conservative" banner, and inflamed conservative persecution complexes leaping at shadows.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
This can be verified very easily by digging into the followers of Trump's Twitter account - even by hand. Pick a few, look at their posts, likes, friends, etc., and you can easily see that a high percentage are fake accounts. The likes are very inconsistent, the friends are also fakes, the comments are generic or inconsistent with what is being commented on, etc. One funny aspect is that it is astonishing how many muslims allegedly follow him :)
I've been watching them for a couple of years now and have been impressed with the technological development of some of them. There is a large mix that makes it obvious that multiple organizations with differing resource levels and sophistication are creating them. The best though are much less detectable by an algorithm now, but they are still easily discerned by a real person.
Seems odd to me. CNN basically stopped being a news network a decade ago and instead have talking heads. I don't consider it left or right, it's pretty much bland.
Fact checking would go more smoothly if Trump just bothered to check his facts before twitting.
"Trump is actually just another Russian twitter bot."
No. Those at least have artificial intelligence.
You're making sense AND you got voted up. Is this still slashdot, or am I in some alternate universe?
Why guess when you can know? Measure!
Or worse, he actually believes what he's saying.
Fox and the rest of the right wingnuts regularly get taken to the cleaners by repeating what some yahoo says because it gins up ratings. Then the truth comes out, they look like idiots...except to their viewers who by that time have moved on to the next faux outrage Fox, et. al. are promoting. And there is a never ending supply of molehills they can masquerade as mountains. It's the closest thing yet to a perpetual motion machine....a perpetual propaganda machine.
I hated him before he was president and cheerfully ignored him. He's the most powerful man on earth. His Supreme Court nominations are going to change American Politics for decades to come. We're probably not going to get Single Payer Health care because of that (the current court will shut it down). Heck, we might even lose Medicare & Medicaid when push comes to shove.
I hang on his words because they've got enormous power over me. It's not emotion, it's policy.
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I, on the other hand, do hate him for helping turn America to its darkest ideas that should have gone out of style with the KKK. And for what he's doing to environment. There is no forgiving dragging America down that dark hole.
he's still got his website. He was removed from YouTube & Twitter for repeatedly inciting direct violence. It's a wonder it didn't happen sooner. Go on YouTube and look up some videos from "Secular Talk" on Jones. He's been accusing Jewish journalists of blood libel (it's a belief that Jewish people drink the blood of Christians in religious ceremonies if you don't know what that is, I didn't until I saw the Secular Talk videos). That's against both YouTube & Twitter's guidelines.
The final straw came when he mimed shooting Robert Mueller to an audience he knows is mildly unhinged. It was a Jones supporter who showed up with a rifle at the "PizzaGate" restaurant (google it if you don't know what it is but be prepared to lose a little faith in humanity...).
Moreover Jones has admitted in sworn deposition during his divorce trial that everything he does is an act. So you can't say he isn't fully aware of the consequences of what he's doing. He's not a true believer or a kool aid drinker. He's manipulating a specific set of people and knows it and he knows the risks involved.
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Trump exceeds Obama growth. You also fail to mention loss of purchasing power under Obama or the general economic malaise of the country, and have fallen back on two propaganda sources -- Maddow and Politifact -- to make your argument.
And you fall back on no sources whatsoever: you just make up facts.
There was no particular change in purchasing power between Obama and Trump-- the inflation rate stayed about the same: CPI increased 2.9% year over year as of June. Oil prices have goine up 65% since Trump's election, though, so Trump's election has resulted in a net loss in purchasing power.
Leftists really do live in different worlds, don't you? Either that or you are honestly deluded (insane) or liars.
I'm not sure what your point is, since I'm not a leftist. I'm a guy who likes numbers.
I dom't watch either, but my initial searches are showing CNN to be overwhelmingly more reliable and factual than fox news, like 4:1. Can they honestly be compared? Genuinely asking, personally I trust AP articles and that's about it.
Who cares? And there's nothing to see here. So a website bans someone? Is this suddenly a problem? Do websites have to give up their rights so someone else can have their speech on this website? No. Websites have the same rights as we do, sorry. They definitely have to right to not be associated with your speech, with or without a reason.
Case in point, if you head over to ANY technical support forum from any computer manufacturer and start posting about rabbit breeding and showing, you'd be asked to leave, your posts would be removed. That speech is not the focus of the forum, and the forum's operations have no obligation to publish your speech.
Just stop this nonsense. If Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Granny's Cooking Website doesn't want you there, then you have to leave, you have no rights, period. You are a guest of the website operator and as part of your agreement you clicked on without reading, you relinquish any rights you thought you might have, when you signed up to that site. GTFO with this BS. You wanna speak? Head over to your favorite web hosting company and register a domain, publish whatever you damn well please on YOUR website.
You should be used to this by now. No one wants you around, so you find a community that doesn't understand what you are, take advantage of their hospitality, ruin it for everyone, and no one wants you around again. What's one more trip through the cycle? Or you could end it, by actually making the change and growing the fuck up, but of courseyou don't want to do that.
Failing that, build your own community. You've got everything you need for that. No one will stop you from leaving, and no one will miss you when you're gone. You may run into some trouble growing your community when no one wants to be around you, but so what? You should be used to this by now.
Trump is quietly dismantling Obamacare and with it protections for pre-existing coverage. He's cut the VA. 83% of his tax cut went to the 1% and it's causing run away inflation which the Fed will combat with rising interest rates making home, car and credit card debt more expensive for consumers. His Trade War has a net negative job effect and is itself a distraction from the effect of automation (we've doubled manufacturing output in 50 years while cutting 2/3rds of the jobs, we've lost more to robots than outsourcing).
I could go on. The beauty of Trump is that his outrageousness masks a lot of very real and very bad things that will hurt the American working class.
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I've listened to a lot of what comes out of the Trump Administration. Not Trump himself, his Administration. And it scares me. I'm most worried about how he's letting a challenge to the ACA's protection of pre-existing conditions go through. I've got friends and family who live and die by it. Nobody's talking about it. The lawsuit is quietly proceeding like nothing happened. Meanwhile his Supreme Court nominee will likely strike it down when it passes his desk. And on the off chance Bernie Sanders & the Dems get us Medicare for all ending the farce of our healthcare system once and for all that same nominee will likely kill it. In the process they might kill Medicare & Medicaid too...
The shouting isn't there because they're not being listened to. It's a distraction from what the ruling class is doing to the working class...
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Trump exceeds Obama growth.
Not even close. I think you are perhaps looking at the last reported quarter and assuming that is growth for the entire term.
Now, if the last quarter were to continue happening, yes, he would definitely decimate growth under the previous President's term. However, it should be noted that Obama had several 4% quarters, and even a 5% quarter.
Leftists really do live in different worlds, don't you?
Sigh, first off, leftists aren't a thing. I know Tucker and Sean tell you they are, but they just aren't. Stop using the word, it makes you look like a raving lunatic.
Second, no, your opponents are not living in different worlds, especially as long as you're using pure falsehoods to describe your world. You're literally accusing them of doing what you actually are doing. That's called projecting. It's a sign of intense insecurity. You could probably get help with that.
I voted for Hillary, and I fucking hate CNN. It's 90% clickbait racist garbage.
Twitter is a far-Left platform.
Yeha not hosting literal nazis makes you far left. Well, you're certainly living up to your usernaeme.
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