Those who fling around the word conspiracy are discredited. The term conspiracy theory was promulgated by the CIA in 1967 to tamp down on JFK questions (later proved true by the Church Commission 10 years later). Anyone who uses that phrase is a tool.
Ask yourself, what's the problem with questioning an unmotivated murder? A victim that Julian Assange put out a reward for solving it?
Questioning strange things that make no sense is now not OK in your version of America?
It is pieces like this that you write that cause me to question what has happened to you. Question Seth's murder. It's what Americans do.
I can just see Ben Franklin, Madison, Jefferson, and the others going:
We went to a fortune teller and she told us that in 250 years there was going to be this new word invented out of nothing called bullying and it would be used to destroy the 1st Amendment. What should we do?
Ok, we got it. Make it God-given so that it can never be taken away by any government or citizen or business. There that should fix it.
"You may recall that, last year, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard decided to file a ridiculously silly lawsuit against Google, claiming that the company had 'violated her First Amendment rights'"
You have a real distorted idea of "silly."
Google deliberately hurt Gabbard's ability to fund raise by censoring her. It's tortuous interference and it's un-American.
Your stout defense of this totalitarian evil, while snidely and snarkily putting down anyone who makes an effort to fight it and prevent it, exposes a fundamental defect in your thinking.
They coming for you next, Mike and Tim and Tech Dirt, they coming for you, by and by.
"Living in this country while undocumented is a civil violation, but ICE (and the Administration) treats it as one of the most severe threats to the nation."
It is irrefutable that illegal immigration severely impacts black employment and black wages in the most negative way. In fact, any American at the low end of the skill set.
Thus it does not matter whether the violation is civil or criminal. And it is one of the most severe threats to the nation.
If by "safe" voting you mean fraudulent mail in ballots? You are a truly deluded soul.
Trump is completely correct in fighting the rampant voter fraud inherent in indiscriminate mail in ballots. Thousands of stories are surfacing of multiple ballots arriving at people's houses, some addressed to people who are dead or the same person under several different name variations or even the house cat. In 2016 there were 100s of videos of female poll workers dumping hundreds of ballots into the voting tabulators after the polls had closed.
Several elections have been disqualified due to mail in ballot fraud.
Why would any sane person support ballot harvesting and mail-in ballots?
And Trump is right again. This crazed female lunatic was directly defaming the presidency. She was interviewed and national tv and was so clearly lying how could any person believe in this nonsense. Another horrid goblin needing to be repelled.
This a great article. Informative, incisive. The attacks on Back Page started with Kamala Harris as Cal AG and claimed to be all about sex trafficking. Instead it was just adult sex workers doing business. This fake nonsense from Harris and others is all you need to know to not vote for her.
I wonder if one day the phrase sex trafficking will be discarded and we'll just call it what it really is, prostitution.
It's really tough when an individual reacts to blatant discrimination and censorship. It matters not if that is Trump or anyone else. Because anyone with an ounce of sense and a half pound of humanity would know that Trump is right. Tech censorship is totalitarian. There's no justification for it. There's no excusing it.
Truly difficult to understand all of the nonsense in this article. Dude, wake up. Big Tech should adhere to the 1st Amendment. What are you? Stupid? Don't give me any nonsense about what you don't or do like. Who cares? Let people speak their speech!
it's the American thing to do. Can you do it, and just stop with your hysterics?
QAnon is not a conspiracy theory, and is no threat to anyone anywhere. Both you and Graham are spreading poisonous nonsense.
The thought that someone inside the government somewhere is putting out cryptic messages is a big "Who Cares?" for everyone or should be.
Maybe QAnon is real; maybe it's all made up. But so what? it's just speech. There's no hate there (whatever that even is), and there is certainly no threat or danger.
Lindsey Graham needs to be voted out. He's a warmonger and talks big about crooked FBI techniques then does nothing. Now with this QAnon lunacy he's just diverting his energy away from the work he should have been doing starting 4 years ago.
Similarly, your article reminds me of the old cartoon where the lady of the house sees a mouse and jumps onto a chair screaming.
Puleez. Calm down.
Your emotional hysterical essay mentions "stupid" so many times I started laughing. Anyone who writes on RFK, Jr. and says he is anti-vax is obviously stupid. Bobby has said every day in every way he is not against vaccines and has had his kids vaccinated.
This is just more of this "1st Amendment is only applies to government" nonsense coming from certain writers at Tech Dirt. Ok, I'll grant you: the Founders were wrong. They should have added "and all tech monopolies" to the 1st Amendment. That's obviously what needs to happen.
Otherwise, what's next? The phone company won't allow you a phone line if they don't like your conversations? That's what this is.
In the meantime, Bobby is on to something with these actions. And it's real stupid to call him and his actions stupid.
Floyd was not killed, but instead died of a fentanyl plus meth overdose. So, saying he was killed is just a lie.
Blacks commit violent crimes at 8 times the rate as any other race, so the cops rely on their experiences on the street in approaching people of any race.
Blacks also often resist arrest, refuse to comply. Very very very often. We've seen this with every recent famous instance of fatal or near fatal encounters with police. Thus it has nothing whatsoever to do with police brutality.
Defunding the police is suicidal. The simplest and best way to end almost all of this nonsense would be to legalize the use and sale of all drugs. Completely. The police would then be freed up to pursue violent crimes. This would also end the no knock warrants, so no more deaths there either.
With drugs legalized, less arrests, thus less prisons, thus less need for police personnel. Also less possibility for sentencing disparities.
There also should be programs taught in high school to all on how to behave in encounters with the police. There is an excellent YouTube video done 10 years ago narrated by a famous black criminal attorney in Baltimore that explains in interesting and intricate detail how to act in 3 situations: your house, your car, on the street. It uses actors both black and white, and also takes questions from those in the auditorium where the documentary is being filmed.
Educating people especially young black men, would make a huge difference. Spreading hysterical nonsense, like Floyd was killed, just makes it worse.
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Cliff Notes
Can you give me the Cliff Notes on why you believe it unconstitutional to promote free speech from tech totalitarians?
All of us want to know your latest leap of logic and truth.
On the post: Ted Cruz Once Insisted That Net Neutrality Was The Gov't Takeover Of The Internet; Now Demands That Twitter Host All Nonsense
Nonsense
Change your headline to read....."now demands that Twitter all Free Speech."
There, fixed it for ya.
On the post: Court Says Twitter Must Unmask User Whose Bogus Document Jumpstarted Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory
Conspiracy
Those who fling around the word conspiracy are discredited. The term conspiracy theory was promulgated by the CIA in 1967 to tamp down on JFK questions (later proved true by the Church Commission 10 years later). Anyone who uses that phrase is a tool.
Ask yourself, what's the problem with questioning an unmotivated murder? A victim that Julian Assange put out a reward for solving it?
Questioning strange things that make no sense is now not OK in your version of America?
It is pieces like this that you write that cause me to question what has happened to you. Question Seth's murder. It's what Americans do.
On the post: Facebook Internal Memo Reveals Challenges Social Media Companies Face In Protecting Democracy
New Memo
Internal Facebook memo reveals belief that the fox can protect the hen house.
As PT Barnum said: there's a sucker born every minute.
As Ron White said: You just can't fix stupid.
On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: Suppressing Content To Try To Stop Bullying (2019)
1787
I can just see Ben Franklin, Madison, Jefferson, and the others going:
We went to a fortune teller and she told us that in 250 years there was going to be this new word invented out of nothing called bullying and it would be used to destroy the 1st Amendment. What should we do?
Ok, we got it. Make it God-given so that it can never be taken away by any government or citizen or business. There that should fix it.
On the post: Reps. Gabbard And Gosar Introduce Ridiculous House Companion To Ridiculous Anti-230 Senate Bill From Senator Kennedy
Distsorted
"You may recall that, last year, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard decided to file a ridiculously silly lawsuit against Google, claiming that the company had 'violated her First Amendment rights'"
You have a real distorted idea of "silly."
Google deliberately hurt Gabbard's ability to fund raise by censoring her. It's tortuous interference and it's un-American.
Your stout defense of this totalitarian evil, while snidely and snarkily putting down anyone who makes an effort to fight it and prevent it, exposes a fundamental defect in your thinking.
They coming for you next, Mike and Tim and Tech Dirt, they coming for you, by and by.
On the post: Josh Hawley Is A Lying Demagogue Who Has Built A Fake Fantasy World About 'Evil Big Tech'
Fantasy
You think that it is a "fake fantasy" that there is rampant censorship by big tech? Are you serious, right now? What have you been smoking?
This stance is refuted all day and all night for the past several years. There now thousands of examples. This stance is utterly delusional.
On the post: ICE Is Hauling In More Data Than Ever And Palantir Is Helping It Turn Data Into Detainments
A threat
"Living in this country while undocumented is a civil violation, but ICE (and the Administration) treats it as one of the most severe threats to the nation."
It is irrefutable that illegal immigration severely impacts black employment and black wages in the most negative way. In fact, any American at the low end of the skill set.
Thus it does not matter whether the violation is civil or criminal. And it is one of the most severe threats to the nation.
On the post: 'Make Him A Suspect:' Documents Show Rochester PD's Response To Officers' Killing Of An Unarmed Black Man
Killinig
Tim, Tim, Tim.
Floyd died from an overdose. The autopsy was clear. He wasn't killed. Why, Tim? Why are you so unable to speak truth to power?
On the post: Trump's Campaign Is Engaged In Lawsuits All Over The Country To Try To Make Safe Voting More Difficult
Safe
If by "safe" voting you mean fraudulent mail in ballots? You are a truly deluded soul.
Trump is completely correct in fighting the rampant voter fraud inherent in indiscriminate mail in ballots. Thousands of stories are surfacing of multiple ballots arriving at people's houses, some addressed to people who are dead or the same person under several different name variations or even the house cat. In 2016 there were 100s of videos of female poll workers dumping hundreds of ballots into the voting tabulators after the polls had closed.
Several elections have been disqualified due to mail in ballot fraud.
Why would any sane person support ballot harvesting and mail-in ballots?
On the post: Trump Nominates Guy Who Wants To Police Speech Online To Be The Next FCC Commissioner
Idiots
"...it clear what he thought of idiots calling for the government to force websites to host content"
Let's fix that for you.
"it clear what he thought of Americans calling for the government to enforce free speech on websites that have monopolies on the Civic Square..."
There. That's so much better. And of course, so much truer.
Wake up. Websites need to be forced to allow free speech. Total free speech. It's coming.
On the post: DOJ Tries To Step In To Trump Defamation Case To Get It Dismissed; Claims His Statements About Alleged Rape Were Part Of His Presidential Duties
Right
And Trump is right again. This crazed female lunatic was directly defaming the presidency. She was interviewed and national tv and was so clearly lying how could any person believe in this nonsense. Another horrid goblin needing to be repelled.
On the post: Actual Facts Undercut Media's Narrative That Law Enforcement Task Force Broke Up A Multi-State Sex Trafficking Operation
Informative
This a great article. Informative, incisive. The attacks on Back Page started with Kamala Harris as Cal AG and claimed to be all about sex trafficking. Instead it was just adult sex workers doing business. This fake nonsense from Harris and others is all you need to know to not vote for her.
I wonder if one day the phrase sex trafficking will be discarded and we'll just call it what it really is, prostitution.
We can only hope.
On the post: Trump Gets Mad That Twitter Won't Take Down A Parody Of Mitch McConnell; Demands Unconstitutional Laws
Tough
It's really tough when an individual reacts to blatant discrimination and censorship. It matters not if that is Trump or anyone else. Because anyone with an ounce of sense and a half pound of humanity would know that Trump is right. Tech censorship is totalitarian. There's no justification for it. There's no excusing it.
On the post: AT&T Is Astroturfing The FCC In Support Of Trump's Dumb Attack On Social Media
Cancer
Since social media has turned into totalitarian cancer against key American values, how is it dumb to attack them?
On the post: Trump Wants To Replace FTC Chair Whom He Can't Replace, Because The FTC Is Reluctant To Go After Trump's Social Media Enemies
Oh?
Truly difficult to understand all of the nonsense in this article. Dude, wake up. Big Tech should adhere to the 1st Amendment. What are you? Stupid? Don't give me any nonsense about what you don't or do like. Who cares? Let people speak their speech!
it's the American thing to do. Can you do it, and just stop with your hysterics?
On the post: Federal Court: No, You Fucking May Not Force Your Way Into A Home And Strip Search Six Very Young Children
CPS
CPS has overstepped its authority starting at least 15 years ago. It is authoritarian and ineffective. It should be disbanded and/or reformed.
On the post: Lindsey Graham Says We Need To Get Rid Of Section 230 To Sue 'Batshit Crazy' QAnon. That's Not How Any Of This Works.
Q
QAnon is not a conspiracy theory, and is no threat to anyone anywhere. Both you and Graham are spreading poisonous nonsense.
The thought that someone inside the government somewhere is putting out cryptic messages is a big "Who Cares?" for everyone or should be.
Maybe QAnon is real; maybe it's all made up. But so what? it's just speech. There's no hate there (whatever that even is), and there is certainly no threat or danger.
Lindsey Graham needs to be voted out. He's a warmonger and talks big about crooked FBI techniques then does nothing. Now with this QAnon lunacy he's just diverting his energy away from the work he should have been doing starting 4 years ago.
Similarly, your article reminds me of the old cartoon where the lady of the house sees a mouse and jumps onto a chair screaming.
Puleez. Calm down.
On the post: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Insanely Stupid Lawsuit Against Facebook
Stupid
Your emotional hysterical essay mentions "stupid" so many times I started laughing. Anyone who writes on RFK, Jr. and says he is anti-vax is obviously stupid. Bobby has said every day in every way he is not against vaccines and has had his kids vaccinated.
This is just more of this "1st Amendment is only applies to government" nonsense coming from certain writers at Tech Dirt. Ok, I'll grant you: the Founders were wrong. They should have added "and all tech monopolies" to the 1st Amendment. That's obviously what needs to happen.
Otherwise, what's next? The phone company won't allow you a phone line if they don't like your conversations? That's what this is.
In the meantime, Bobby is on to something with these actions. And it's real stupid to call him and his actions stupid.
On the post: It's Time To Start Dismantling One Of The Nation's Oldest Racist Institutions: Law Enforcement
Floyd
Floyd was not killed, but instead died of a fentanyl plus meth overdose. So, saying he was killed is just a lie.
Blacks commit violent crimes at 8 times the rate as any other race, so the cops rely on their experiences on the street in approaching people of any race.
Blacks also often resist arrest, refuse to comply. Very very very often. We've seen this with every recent famous instance of fatal or near fatal encounters with police. Thus it has nothing whatsoever to do with police brutality.
Defunding the police is suicidal. The simplest and best way to end almost all of this nonsense would be to legalize the use and sale of all drugs. Completely. The police would then be freed up to pursue violent crimes. This would also end the no knock warrants, so no more deaths there either.
With drugs legalized, less arrests, thus less prisons, thus less need for police personnel. Also less possibility for sentencing disparities.
There also should be programs taught in high school to all on how to behave in encounters with the police. There is an excellent YouTube video done 10 years ago narrated by a famous black criminal attorney in Baltimore that explains in interesting and intricate detail how to act in 3 situations: your house, your car, on the street. It uses actors both black and white, and also takes questions from those in the auditorium where the documentary is being filmed.
Educating people especially young black men, would make a huge difference. Spreading hysterical nonsense, like Floyd was killed, just makes it worse.
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