My favorite are the tools that try to shame people for using ad blockers. Like businesses have a god given right to succeed in their advertising attempts. Ad blocking is normal. Not wanting to see ads is normal. Shaming people for blocking ads? That's mental.
All you do is launch childish personal attacks and offer no actual value. You seem to exist for no reason at all. Try mattering. It starts with contributing.
The fake vaping is going to kill you stories? One firm paid by Michael Bloomberg. Yes, websites knowingly published outright lies and health scares about vaping because Michael Bloomberg paid for it. It was all THC related and had absolutely nothing to do with the vaping everyone has been doing for over a decade.
The fake hate stories against Elon Musk with fake science? That's a PR firm paid by Warren Buffet to attack Elon Musk. That's how you get 12,000 satellites messing up space photography when there are literally 12,000 airplanes in the air at all times. If you see junk science being used to attack Elon Musk, Warren Buffet paid for it.
The fake stories supporting Google's unethical search rigging? Yet another K street PR firm. The same firm churning out ad copy defending the unethical use of section 230 for political censorship.
Can I list any of these firms? Sure. If I want to get sued to death. If I want fake copyright strikes made against me on social media platforms. If I want Google to declare me a "nazi" and algorithm me to death.
The point is, the wealthy 1 percenters are buying so much "news" now that hardly any of it is real. Just the delusions of wealth sociopaths with serious mental problems.
Addendum: Try to block any Bloomberg source. Google won't even give you the options. Apparently it's very important to Google that you listen to Michael Bloomberg.
Every day you see something new and unethical that someone will be explaining away. Example: on Google News I noticed that The Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times were back despite me having blocked them. That freaked me out. I checked if Fox and MSNBC were still blocked. They were. So I added wapo, cnn, and nyt back to my "don't show these" list on Google News. And Google ignored my settings. Now Google isn't even trying to hide their bias. You simply can't block CNN, Wapo, or NYT anymore at all.
But some unethical piece of garbage will explain it away I'm sure.
When outright lies were spread about Vic by the nutball brigaded from twitter, he decided to sue the everloving crap out of them. Apparently, he's winning. So remember folks, the only way to stop real slander and real lies is to frame it as a financial loss, and present evidence. They won't have any because they are just morons calling you names that went too far. What they needed to do was prove a financial loss, or potentially tortuous interference. Courts love it when you can show actions lost you money. Good to see Vic winning.
And making fake dossiers is legal too. And cheating at your golf game is legal too. And every unethical piece of garbage on Earth talks about legality when they know they are doing something wrong they should be ashamed of.
"The legacy industry are very much in the game of deciding winners and losers, and keeping as much of the income generated by the winners to themselves as they can."
And YouTube works for them now. CBS and NBC and ABC and MSNBC and even Fox sometimes get their content promoted over actual content providers that helped build the platform. You'll click on one one of these pointless videos from CNN, see it has all of 200 views and 30 upvotes on YouTube. Meanwhile they aren't promoting videos from content providers with millions of views.
We've got Tech Companies bragging about rigging elections...
That's much more important than some NPC's getting their feelings hurt. We have a legitimate threat to the democracy in Google, and we have to do something about it. We have no choice. If only they hired just liberal folks, we'd have never found out how racist they are towards conservatives. I mean, imagine your company CEO standing up in front of you, telling you that you are a bad person if you voted for the winner of a presidential election. Imagine that.
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Or recognizes that our media is out of control, and just tried a Russian strawman argument against us for two years and declares that a national emergency and shuts them down.
The one that had been doing click-spam for years on Facebook. That's based in the Ukraine. The folks Mueller tried to pretend were "russian state actors" but weren't. I mean, not unless buying ads after the election was supposed to influence it. Most of the ads they bought were after it was over.
Kinda hard to influence something after it's over. Aren't you folks done with this fake nonsense yet? You get that nobody buys it now that Mueller admitted it was all a hoax on CSPAN right?
Most Journalists Are Compromised Garbage These Days
Most tech journalists are taking either Google or Apple money, or both.
Most "entertainment" journalists are taking the kind of money that gets Epstein 10th page coverage.
Most "TV" journalists are pretending America cares about Joe Biden, because that's who the rich people want.
And America is still getting over figuring out 99 percent of their media outright and openly participated in a fake Russia hoax for two years, whether the Media likes it or not, people noticed. That childish nonsense probably just got the orange one reelected, and Google totally deserves it for being so incredibly stupid.
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My favorite are the tools that try to shame people for using ad blockers. Like businesses have a god given right to succeed in their advertising attempts. Ad blocking is normal. Not wanting to see ads is normal. Shaming people for blocking ads? That's mental.
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Do you have actual value?
All you do is launch childish personal attacks and offer no actual value. You seem to exist for no reason at all. Try mattering. It starts with contributing.
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News Sites Need To Do News Again
Pick any "news site" now.
You can literally list the PR firms.
The fake vaping is going to kill you stories? One firm paid by Michael Bloomberg. Yes, websites knowingly published outright lies and health scares about vaping because Michael Bloomberg paid for it. It was all THC related and had absolutely nothing to do with the vaping everyone has been doing for over a decade.
The fake hate stories against Elon Musk with fake science? That's a PR firm paid by Warren Buffet to attack Elon Musk. That's how you get 12,000 satellites messing up space photography when there are literally 12,000 airplanes in the air at all times. If you see junk science being used to attack Elon Musk, Warren Buffet paid for it.
The fake stories supporting Google's unethical search rigging? Yet another K street PR firm. The same firm churning out ad copy defending the unethical use of section 230 for political censorship.
Can I list any of these firms? Sure. If I want to get sued to death. If I want fake copyright strikes made against me on social media platforms. If I want Google to declare me a "nazi" and algorithm me to death.
The point is, the wealthy 1 percenters are buying so much "news" now that hardly any of it is real. Just the delusions of wealth sociopaths with serious mental problems.
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Re: It's impossible to be optimistic.
Addendum: Try to block any Bloomberg source. Google won't even give you the options. Apparently it's very important to Google that you listen to Michael Bloomberg.
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It's impossible to be optimistic.
Every day you see something new and unethical that someone will be explaining away. Example: on Google News I noticed that The Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times were back despite me having blocked them. That freaked me out. I checked if Fox and MSNBC were still blocked. They were. So I added wapo, cnn, and nyt back to my "don't show these" list on Google News. And Google ignored my settings. Now Google isn't even trying to hide their bias. You simply can't block CNN, Wapo, or NYT anymore at all.
But some unethical piece of garbage will explain it away I'm sure.
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The Right Way Is Do What Vic Mignogna Did
When outright lies were spread about Vic by the nutball brigaded from twitter, he decided to sue the everloving crap out of them. Apparently, he's winning. So remember folks, the only way to stop real slander and real lies is to frame it as a financial loss, and present evidence. They won't have any because they are just morons calling you names that went too far. What they needed to do was prove a financial loss, or potentially tortuous interference. Courts love it when you can show actions lost you money. Good to see Vic winning.
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Shame On Google
What trash they have become.
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And making fake dossiers is legal too. And cheating at your golf game is legal too. And every unethical piece of garbage on Earth talks about legality when they know they are doing something wrong they should be ashamed of.
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Re: Re: "AC", if actually believe what you wrote, you are insane
Well said
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"The legacy industry are very much in the game of deciding winners and losers, and keeping as much of the income generated by the winners to themselves as they can."
And YouTube works for them now. CBS and NBC and ABC and MSNBC and even Fox sometimes get their content promoted over actual content providers that helped build the platform. You'll click on one one of these pointless videos from CNN, see it has all of 200 views and 30 upvotes on YouTube. Meanwhile they aren't promoting videos from content providers with millions of views.
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Isn't Political Correctness Fun?
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We've got Tech Companies bragging about rigging elections...
That's much more important than some NPC's getting their feelings hurt. We have a legitimate threat to the democracy in Google, and we have to do something about it. We have no choice. If only they hired just liberal folks, we'd have never found out how racist they are towards conservatives. I mean, imagine your company CEO standing up in front of you, telling you that you are a bad person if you voted for the winner of a presidential election. Imagine that.
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Is it really that surprising...
That someone that pushes censorship is trash? Everyone that pushes censorship is trash.
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Pretending Censorship Is Free Speech
To placate perhaps 4 percent of us. Brilliant. No wonder so many folks are leaving the US that can afford it. It's turning into a fascist nightmare.
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Re: Can't Wait for a Democrat President Is in Power
Or recognizes that our media is out of control, and just tried a Russian strawman argument against us for two years and declares that a national emergency and shuts them down.
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Oh and, the NYT doesn't care about free speech
They care about Yellow Journalism, and selling war.
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In an era of thought control...
Free Speech is criminalized. Yup, you will literally get called a nazi now for advocating for free speech.
Yeah. That's how mental our Media have become. That's your world now.
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I haven't seen such a fake pursuit....
Since that childishly fake Russia hoax the media pushed on us for three years
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This is the spamming company
The one that had been doing click-spam for years on Facebook. That's based in the Ukraine. The folks Mueller tried to pretend were "russian state actors" but weren't. I mean, not unless buying ads after the election was supposed to influence it. Most of the ads they bought were after it was over.
Kinda hard to influence something after it's over. Aren't you folks done with this fake nonsense yet? You get that nobody buys it now that Mueller admitted it was all a hoax on CSPAN right?
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Most Journalists Are Compromised Garbage These Days
Most tech journalists are taking either Google or Apple money, or both.
Most "entertainment" journalists are taking the kind of money that gets Epstein 10th page coverage.
Most "TV" journalists are pretending America cares about Joe Biden, because that's who the rich people want.
And America is still getting over figuring out 99 percent of their media outright and openly participated in a fake Russia hoax for two years, whether the Media likes it or not, people noticed. That childish nonsense probably just got the orange one reelected, and Google totally deserves it for being so incredibly stupid.
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