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Wait. The whole "broadcast to any TV screen through satellites" thing is literally the plot of the shitty new Wonder Woman film. Unless life is imitating (an attempt at) art, I think this one's goofing on them.
Trump Enslavement Syndrome - Orange man good. /r/The_Donald and any public demonstration of rabid pro-Trump enthusiasm in spite of all reason.
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Don't worry fellow MAGApedes. This is where President Retard reveals all five pieces of Exodia and the election is overturned and the humiliation conga is all proven an elaborate ruse.
Edit: In an update it seems like he was booted from the flight precisely because he can barely dress himself and has tantrums like an entitled faggot.
What is it with these people and not knowing how to just cover their faces with the mask? Who wants to fly with a moron like that?
Edit: In an update it seems like he was booted from the flight precisely because he can barely dress himself and has tantrums like an entitled faggot.
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To be fair, I can't think of a business right that's more fundamental than the right to refuse to do certain jobs for free. These tech companies aren't going after these conservatives and punishing them, they're refusing them a service. And they're not banning makeup tutorials for having conservative beliefs, they're banning political accounts. If you can't refuse service to people who are using your product in a way that damages it then you don't control your business.
And sometimes even that fundamental right should be abridged, but only in cases where it does undue harm. There's so much at stake that I think it should really be judged on a case-by-case basis, and the specifics of banning rightwing radicals from Twitter seems like it doesn't rise to the occasion of requiring government regulation.
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Why does the Space Force have jurisdiction on Earth? How does the Space Force have jurisdiction on Earth? What kind of particles? Why are particles interacting with waves in any way other than interference? What is the beam getting aimed at to allow "contact" with TVs in the U.S., never mind the entire globe? Why is Trump "contacting" TVs when most people use computers/mobile devices anymore? Why is this sentient ball of tinfoil misusing "contact?" Somebody go get @NotReallyHere so he can yell at him about grammar too. Huh, he must have changed his name, oh well.
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And when you consider that you apparently had to give them your driver's license and Social Security number before registering... oh boy...
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Just Trust the Plan, it all works out
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Beginning to see why some people called Parler a fed honeypot...
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Like refusing to decorate a cake for someone? Don't call it free, either - the engagement that Trump and the conspiratards in general brought to these platforms made them a lot of money, so it isn't free; the exchange is you waive your rights to that data and abide by their TOS. The two are fundamentally the same principle, which libertarians have been pretty steady on.
There's no line by which you can say one is fine and the other is not that isn't inherently arbitrary -- the 'proper' progressive argument would be that these tech monopolies are too concentrated and have a negative effect on people, and need to be regulated/broken up.
Now, suddenly, the ultraliberal line that magically defends and enshrines their actions is the way to go? No less, while they were under consideration for antitrust litigation? Anyone that buys that business discretion applies to twitter but not to the random baker in bumfuck is a sucker being taken for a ride by the megacorps.
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It's funny how the TES types treat Big Tech as this evil shadow government when the whole reason they're yetting far Right lunacy off their platforms is to give the coming Biden Administration as few reasons as possible to want to fuck them up the ass.
It's amazing to be able to see the mindset of a cult in Realtime like this.
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That suggests gross stupidity rather than a plot, Occam's Razor tingz. I thought the need to give a copy of a driving licence or similar for group chats was doxing, but probably the same stupidity, which could well be an issue if this reported hack is something. The replies note that this sort of stupidity extends to the State Department website, which could be changed with a javascript injection, I think. This suggests unless there was a Congressional aide or even a Congressman going all 'gas the juice, 14/88,' or saying creepy things to young men, most will escape the consequences of any doxing. Government can be oddly incapable of pressing their power against smaller targets, if the prospective target is obscure or canny enough. Parler was a freaking dressed up Wordpress site. If there is justice, whoever is responsible will be shamed into staying away from computers.
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And they act like they're getting yeeted off social media just for being right wing and not for repeatedly breaking the TOS they agreed to upfront that says you can't make direct calls for violence. Then they say that's a violation of the first amendment when inciting criminal activity already isn't protected under it.
>Florida.
Of course.
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It's why I don't take Rightwing cries of Cancel Culture seriously anymore because 9 times out of ten the canceling had nothing to do with politics but the dude either being a dick or sex pest.
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i cant wait for all the right wing fedposters/qtards to make the government ruin the internet. was fun laughing at idiots online while it lasted i suppose.
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I mean there is such a thing as nuance. There is a fundamental difference between “I refuse to service you because a book said you’re going to burn in hell” and “I’m kicking you off my platform because you’re using it to incite a violent uprising against the government.” Sure, you could argue that the line is arbitrary, but by that same logic one could argue that killing a spider and killing a human child are the same and any difference between the two is inherently arbitrary as the ultimate core of the act is killing a living being. Of course there’s an inherent moral difference between killing a spider and killing a child, just like there’s an inherent moral difference between discriminating against a person because of stupid and petty reasons and deplatforming somebody because they’re supporting domestic terrorism.
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I would have said this had to be a parody account before Lin Wood and Sidney Powell came along. Now I just can't tell.
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These things have a death wish anyway, sadly.
If you're ever in FL during the winter go visit like the most northwest point of Ruskin. You can go swim with 'em and nobody bothers you there.
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It's the line everyone is using right now because it pisses off conservatives the most, because it was a talking line of theirs not long ago. The libs saying Twitter should have a say in political affairs outside of the U.S., such as that Ugandan election coming up, are just as stupid as people saying free speech in the U.S. is dead because specific persons can no longer shitpost on Twitter. Those persons were kicked off because they helped incite and partook in a riot that lead to the death of two, technically three people; To me that is a reasonable excuse to ban a person from a major form of social media. Twitter banning specific Ugandan news sources because they might give "incorrect" news, however, is stupid. Why Ugandan news stations are using U.S. based social media is a whole other discussion. There's always going to be unrepentant corporate dick-suckers on either side of the aisle, the best thing to do is just keep making fun of them.
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Yeah, I don't think that line is arbitrary at all.
Scenario 1: I have decorated a fancy white cake. I have sold it to you. It is now your property. You are going to eat it at a party celebrating a legal union that I find immoral and wrong, but is still in reality a legal union. Unless I am very bad at making wedding cakes, my business logo is not branded onto the actual cake itself and is very unlikely to appear in any photos of your immoral, sinful, sodomite wedding. I am not obliged to include photos of your disgusting union on my business website. I can take your money and forget this whole thing ever happened.
Scenario 2: I am providing a platform for you to broadcast your thoughts and opinions. While your messages are your own words, they are hosted on my property, on servers that I pay for. Every time you use my service, the name and brand of my company appears alongside your statements. You are using it to incite violence and encourage people to commit actual crimes, which is against both the law and the TOS you agreed to when you signed up to use my service.
OTOH, while I do think bakeries that refuse to sell gay wedding cakes are dumb as shit, there's (usually) plenty of other bakeries where a gay couple can go and get a cake. There's nothing stopping gays from starting their own bakeries. And there's also nothing stopping conservatives from getting their own server space and coding their own SM sites. So either way, really, they can go ahead and stop being fucking babies about it.
This is true, and it would help improve a lot of things. But would it really prevent some people from being completely de-platformed? Even the KiwiFarms and the Parlers of the world have rules, and if you can't talk online for ten minutes without making actual, non-joking death threats, eventually you'll run out of places to post. De-platforming seems to be their main complaint, and not... like... the million other things that are fucked up about Twitter and Facebook.
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