Silicon Valley is rushing us toward Civil War II by Twitter not only banning Trump but many other conservatives, with their Big Tech allies following suit. After the next Civil War, and I pray it may never come, and the survivors are contemplating the millions of dead that resulted from it, they should mark January 8, 2021 as the date that the Tech Lords fired the opening salvo. May God forgive the blind fools doing this because I cannot.
Time for the Free States to pass laws banning ideological bans on social media and subjecting the Tech Lords to huge monetary fines if they do engage in ideological bans. And the time may be drawing near for the Free States to begin taking steps for their mutual aid and protection, and yes I am fully aware, and sickened, by what this likely means. May cooler heads prevail, but I think cooler heads will be in short supply in these United States for a very long time to come. The calendar reads 2021 but it looks like 1861 or 1984.
Ye. Newton’s third law is: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The Democrats antagonistic behavior is insane. We need some Republican senators to stand up for the country.
No amount of tech titan censorship, main stream media lying, or CCP/socialist propaganda will assuage the huge SUCK that the Idiocracy will inflict on America.
My bread is sorrow and my drink is tears.
I know my Redeemer lives.
Freedom of Speech will not be allowed.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/08/google-play-suspends-parler-apple-threatens-to/amp/
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The app for a favorite social network of President Trump supporters will no longer be sold on Google Play — and Apple is also threatening to pull it, according to reports.
Parler, which bills itself as “an unbiased social media focused on real user experiences and engagement,” can’t be sold on Google Play until the platform develops some moderation policies,”
Totalitarians know that a popular movement cannot exist without access to mass communications and free assembly. That’s where we are now.
Now, disabuse yourself of the idea you live in a free country.
I don’t think you need the apps to join Parler. It seems to me, though, that the extortion being practiced by Google and Apple is so distinct that there might actually be an antique technical term for it in anti-trust law. Not that the Dept. of Justice will be enforcing anti-trust law contra the Democratic Party’s components and allies. Note, a succession of administration dozed while Alphabet bought up a mess of companies. Not also, the blatant collusion which knocked Alex Jones off his platforms met with no action from the Anti-trust division.
We have a shirt-tail who was crowing about Trump being banned from Twitter yesterday. The troublesome aspect of this is fairly obvious, but my previous experience of trying to explain fairly obvious things to him leads me to believe it would be futile to point out what is wrong. Earlier this year I had to explain to his 16 year old daughter that she was not at mortal risk from COVID and neither was her father. Her grandmother was at risk. Her father was not. Her father spent $1,200 dollars on protective equipment before returning to work in September at the local high school (which last he bitterly resented having to do). Now, if her father wanted to assess the risks, all he had to do was look at the CDC data for the number of total deaths and the number of COVID deaths in each age category and he would discover that for those under 25, the ratio of COVID deaths to non-COVID deaths was 0.01 and for those between 35 and 45 it was 0.063. So, the effect of COVID was to increase his chance of death in the next year from 0.271% to 0.288%. NB, in an ordinary year for him, he’d face that enhanced risk in the course of aging a single year – living through his 44th year as opposed to his 43d year. What we’re seeing is a phenomenon that I don’t think we’ve seen before, is that much of the mindspace that used to be devoted to thinking among our educated bourgeoisie is now devoted to emotional processing. Hence the rage at Trump, even though he doesn’t advocate anything notably unconventional.
When I was in the military someone told me that there are 3 important rules.
1. S*** happens
2. Life is not Fair
3. Timing is everything.
It seems that The Democratic Party wants to position itself as a hostile occupation force. When Biden faces challenges from many directions and requires the support of the governed, he will find himself isolated and hated. Many members of groups he declares war on will be watching and waiting.
His tech giant censors risk driving conservatives into means of communication that they are not monitoring. Perhaps risking a future political Sicilian Vespers type event.
It seems that The Democratic Party wants to position itself as a hostile occupation force. When Biden faces challenges from many directions and requires the support of the governed, he will find himself isolated and hated. Many members of groups he declares war on will be watching and waiting.
Oh, maybe. One of the things I noticed about 10 years ago (written about by the annoying Pete Spiliakos) was that Obama’s public approval rating seemed to have an abnormally high floor. I think at the time he left office about 3/4 of the public had had it with George W Bush, but Obama’s approval rating never sank below about 39% of the surveyed public. We’ve reached a point where nothing the Democratic Party does bothers its supporters. There’s a narrow sliver of swing voters that might be irritated, but that can be made up with vote fraud.
Patrick59, thanks for the allusion. I hope we never come to a War of the Sicilian Vespers although the subjugated Sicilians won after massacres of the ruling class French. Religion and the papacy figured prominently in that conflict also. I doubt that use of 25th Amendment and a second impeachment will come to pass. I am praying either will not. Nancy Pelosi who is a vicious, addled drama queen would be the first victim. She and others are playing a dangerous game.
Americans are a resourceful people. They, we, will find a way around the Tech Lords.
Why moderation.?
The moderation system today seems to be on a rampage. Our tech guru will look at it presently.
There will be ways around the current bout of censorship. But they will involve programs and techniques which are hard to use and to understand, or websites which are obscure. What the tech overlords are trying to do, and will probably succeed at, is controlling the normiefied speech channels. Like it or not most people are not going to look for something that they can’t install on their cell phones with one stop to the relevant app store.
That being said this might finally wake up the people who have been saying “only a few people are getting banned and they probably deserved it” for the last ten years. The freak out from many people along the lines of “you don’t understand, they banned me for POLITICAL REASONS” over the last few days is evidence of that.
I’m using a computer now w/o auto correct. Maybe using a tablet with it was the problem?
i doubt it. Other commenters were also being held for moderation, but it does not seem to be occurring now.
I repeat: time to affect the techno-oligarchs in the pockebook, where it might hurt them: boycott Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft. I closed my Microsoft Edge browser after they censored OAN during the DC demonstrations (Brave and Firefox did not censor). It is rank hypocrisy to continue to use the social media agencies while complaining about their bias.
Bob,
Firefox did not censor that particular time, but they are not to be trusted. Just ousting Brendan Eich is enough, but they have doubled down since then. See here for their views on full display:
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/
Brave is a good browser, as is Pale Moon. I know that some people won’t use them because they are a bit too far out of the “mainstream” and for those people Opera is acceptable. Avoid anything by Microsoft, Google or Mozilla.
I signed up on Parler today. Had no trouble. The app is not needed. You can even sign up on Google’s Chrome browser, which is what I did on my HP Chromebook.
My Bride did the same for us.
I’ve checked. Apple has about 12% of the world market for smart phones, so their prohibition might not be crippling. (Another 14% of the market share is Huwei’s, a company you also might want to avoid). I suppose the other smart phone manufacturers might collude. (Recall that five online companies banned Alex Jones simultaneously. That was the dry run). No clue how practical it would be to launch an anti-trust suit with it’s own counsel.
One thing that gets you is that all of Trump’s signature positions were quite unremarkable and have been favored by prominent Democrats at one time or another. George W. Bush, subject to an attenuated version of the hatred lobbed at Trump, was non-confrontational on domestic questions and (see his budget director on this point) was ever seeking deals with the opposition. What we’re looking at is a function of the emotional processing of the college-educated bourgeoisie. I don’t have any insight into it myself. See the controversies at the Dalton School for an example of teachers who have lost any sense of their own vocation (or even how to avoid unnecessary conflict at work).
Who knows something about the “undernet?” (All I can find is that it’s a collection of “IRC” networks used to enable chat groups. Is this a road to bypass the techno-oligarchs?
I received an email from a friend not to click on “Trump is arrested” headline as it is a virus.
Honestly what are your plans when Big Tech + Big Government comes after American Catholic??
Be happy to see them in Court.
I’m not sure what you mean by “free states”. Thank goodness we all MUST stay one big happy country though. The states had some awesome tools at their disposal once from various kinds of nullification to the threat of secession and several were used against slavery for the record. But that was all quashed by someone. Who was that again?
I’m not sure what you mean by “free states”.
Those states not governed by the Left. Also known as the states people flee to.