Are the women of that list current being sued and will he probably win because the law is on his side? Yes. Do they totally deserve it for acting like high school children putting together a slam book instead of going to the cops? Yes. Do we punish people in our society for talking shit without backing it? We sure do. Just because this is "right scented" doesn't mean you skip the process.
How dare he not ignore someone talking shit about him. As a man, he's suppose to let anybody say anything about him he wants. Hell, accuse him of anything. He should just quietly sit there and take it. Doesn't he realize he's already guilty?
That the VERY FIRST CLUE something was fake was a complete and total lack of evidence, but a pile of very adamant witnesses. I mean, our brains would see that and IMMEDIATELY do the math and say "Oh, they've got nothing. This is a con. All they have are witnesses and no evidence."
When did that change? I swear, I can remember that being normal.
We now have a good 8 working examples of completely fabricated yet fantastical stories that were pushed hard by our Media over the past two years. It's unprecedented. I used to joke that the Pulitzer was the "yellow journalism" award because Pulitzer is credited with creating fake news. Funny he's a hero for it. Now it's like they are competing to see how big of a lie they can get America to believe with no evidence.
So yeah, we really can't blame Bloomberg for trying to fabricate a story out of thin air. They learned it from watching mom and dad.
The problem the AG is going to run into is EVERYBODY is using these fake PR firms now to try to control the narrative. And nobody wants to give them up.
Most of us use Google. Google uses unethical herding tactics to then get you to click on their news articles, then leading you into Google News, one of their most profitable products that they won't talk about. Wonder Why? A big part of it is User Control is an illusion. They pretend you can block a news source, then bring it back because they are paid to.
There are no real journalists left anymore. Everybody works for a corporation or political party now. Opinion Control is big business. We live in an age where Google helps set up news repeaters for NYT and CNN and WaPo so that if you block them as a news source on Google News, they are instantly replaced by one of 30,000 news repeaters telling the story Google wants to make damn sure you get.
Opinion Control, Tech by Google. All those eyes being literally forced to see what Google is being paid to show you.
And most of us use Google News. Yet nobody is talking about that. When a Techdirt or an ExtremeTechNews does a ballsy story about how the information we are being fed is being controlled by about 5 corporations and 200-300 top level corporate officers...
I'll start believing you aren't part of the problem here at Techdirt dot com.
They literally would have researched the data before writing the story, so they literally misrepresented reality on purpose. There's no benefit of the doubt here.
About all the fake news lately. And I don't want any childish complaints or semantics arguments. This story is clearly discussing fake news being paid for by Boeing.
The most annoying thing about all this fake news is it's painfully obvious. So you find yourself in a position where you lose all respect for the Media for being so incredibly bad at it. That's why our orange president is still more trusted than our media. Consider that. That he has essentially double the trust rating of our media. That's amazing to me.
You didn't have to tell me he was a Russian spy. And that woman at the gym that won't talk to me. She's definitely a Russian spy. And anybody that disagrees with me is a Russian spy. I banged my head on the kitchen cabinet earlier. Clearly designed by Russian spies.
I run AWS processes against my twitter account with a VPN API. The difference is they aren't logged in. I have a simple shadowban detector that let's me know when a post gets shadowbanned despite twitter "not doing that" according to zealots. Clearly that's not a bot.
Further, you'd assume even if your elaborate "bot" that does twitter things for you is very active, it's not posting for you is it? Then it would be pretending to be a human.
I'm not sure what's hard to understand here. You aren't going to be able to fabricate a gray area here. It's very cut and dry.
Google already broke themselves up. You'd have to be a complete moron to forget that. They saw what the haters were planning well in advance and prepared because Google is smarter than their critics.
If everybody just admitted it when they were wrong. But we don't. Instead we created The Law so wrong people can be right if they have good lawyers. Humans hate being wrong so much we made up imaginary negotiating rules so we can be right with enough money.
The free exchange of ideas is crucial to formulating opinions and developing logic. It's ridiculous to censor learning.
Counterpoint:
Yet we do it. A lot. I'll let the schools know they can now start talking about religion openly. And firearms and explosives manufacture. And BSDM. Oh, that's right. We ban certain topics from schools because they cause serious problems in a learning environment. It's like how schools ban cell phone usages, and sex on desks for the same reason. So banning political speech in an environment that already bans disruptive activity doesn't seem silly now does it?
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Re:
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Counterpoint (since there isn't one)
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It used to be...
When did that change? I swear, I can remember that being normal.
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I can't blame them
So yeah, we really can't blame Bloomberg for trying to fabricate a story out of thin air. They learned it from watching mom and dad.
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The problem....
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Re: Re: Point/Counterpoint
Most of us use Google. Google uses unethical herding tactics to then get you to click on their news articles, then leading you into Google News, one of their most profitable products that they won't talk about. Wonder Why? A big part of it is User Control is an illusion. They pretend you can block a news source, then bring it back because they are paid to.
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Point/Counterpoint
That shit the story said.
Counterpoint:
There are no real journalists left anymore. Everybody works for a corporation or political party now. Opinion Control is big business. We live in an age where Google helps set up news repeaters for NYT and CNN and WaPo so that if you block them as a news source on Google News, they are instantly replaced by one of 30,000 news repeaters telling the story Google wants to make damn sure you get.
Opinion Control, Tech by Google. All those eyes being literally forced to see what Google is being paid to show you.
And most of us use Google News. Yet nobody is talking about that. When a Techdirt or an ExtremeTechNews does a ballsy story about how the information we are being fed is being controlled by about 5 corporations and 200-300 top level corporate officers...
I'll start believing you aren't part of the problem here at Techdirt dot com.
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Re:
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LOL
Let's translate that into reality.
"News outlets have no ethics and like money."
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The most annoying thing
The most annoying thing about all this fake news is it's painfully obvious. So you find yourself in a position where you lose all respect for the Media for being so incredibly bad at it. That's why our orange president is still more trusted than our media. Consider that. That he has essentially double the trust rating of our media. That's amazing to me.
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This guy cut me off in traffic
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Re: Re: Should be easy
Further, you'd assume even if your elaborate "bot" that does twitter things for you is very active, it's not posting for you is it? Then it would be pretending to be a human.
I'm not sure what's hard to understand here. You aren't going to be able to fabricate a gray area here. It's very cut and dry.
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Should be easy
If a bot is discovered faking it, the account is deleted.
I love the idea. Let's do it.
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"His Account Is Limited"
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Hasn't it felt...
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The Irony Of Course Being...
Clearly
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It has been fascinating
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Imagine How Great It Would Be
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Shocking
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Point/Counterpoint
The free exchange of ideas is crucial to formulating opinions and developing logic. It's ridiculous to censor learning.
Counterpoint:
Yet we do it. A lot. I'll let the schools know they can now start talking about religion openly. And firearms and explosives manufacture. And BSDM. Oh, that's right. We ban certain topics from schools because they cause serious problems in a learning environment. It's like how schools ban cell phone usages, and sex on desks for the same reason. So banning political speech in an environment that already bans disruptive activity doesn't seem silly now does it?
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