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YouTube Disabled Comments On Livestreams Of A Congressional Hearing On White Nationalism Because They Were Too Hateful (buzzfeednews.com)
Tuesday's hearing was meant to examine the rise of white nationalism and white supremacy and the role social media plays in its spread. Then the comments got hijacked. From a report: YouTube moderators disabled comments on livestreams of the House Judiciary Committee's hearing about hate crimes the rise of white nationalism on Tuesday, deeming them too hateful for the platform. The comment sections quickly flooded with hate speech and white nationalist memes before the hearing had even started. The comments included derogatory remarks about women on camera, anti-Semitic slurs, far-right memes with references to "white genocide," and pro-Trump slogans. The channels' comments sections were deactivated within an hour. [...] YouTube's disabling of comments is ironic: House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from New York, made special reference in his opening statement of the role social media platforms play in spreading hate speech and extremism in his opening statement.
The removed comments are a lot more disturbing, stuff like Heil Hitler posts & death threats.
Marsh v Alabama.
and this "only the government" smug shit is retarded. You idiots will happily outsource totalitarianism to the private sector because you think they agree with you. and they might. for the moment. but you dumb fucks also thought that you'd have permanent electoral majority so were ok removing the judical filibuster and with obama's expansion of federal power. Your friends will not always be in charge. the rod you forge will be for your own back.
the principle of free speech needs to be defended, at all costs. it is the wellspring of everything we hold sacred.
Just the facts, man.
AhahahahahahahaNo. Your source is bad, and you should feel bad.
Just because they call themselves "non-partisan" doesn't mean that they actually are.
Just the facts, man.
AhahahahahahahaNo. Your source is bad, and you should feel bad.
Just because they call themselves "non-partisan" doesn't mean that they actually are.
Biased or not, his source cites the Washington Post, among others. Is that a right-wing rag to you?
Facts remain facts regardless of the bias of the person stating them.
Probably because comparing Che Guevara to Hitler is ridiculous, and because we don't have a problem with Marxist revolutionary terrorism right now.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
The facts, huh? Your link is an inaccurate summary of a WaPo story, which it actually links to but I'll repeat it here: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
As anyone can read for themselves, it does not say that the Democrats want totally open borders. That is simply false, and in fact as the article notes they are willing to fund ICE.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Does someone's gender identity or sexual preference actually affect you? The answer is: it doesn't.
It doesn't until it does. I don't give a damn how you dress or who you sleep with. I care a lot when you start passing laws saying that I have to let you into whatever washroom you decide you want to use, or forcing me to call you something which you clearly are not. Don't be a totalitarian cunt and I'm quite happy to ignore you.
You know why the Nazi's of WWII are regarded more evil than Stalin or Mao? The Nazi's where better record keepers. It's easy to gloss over 20 to 80 million that Stalin had murdered, and the 80 to 200 million that Chairman Mao red revolution slaughtered, when it's all anonymous numbers on a ledger.
But the Nazi's, now they new how to keep records over who they butchered. They had names, addresses, and a count of every item the took from jews before they gassed them.
Yes, the nazi's where just better record keepers, but communist stand way taller on a mountain of anonymous dead.
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.