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Offline CC27

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I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« on: September 21, 2021, 08:05:45 AM »
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I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?

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Misinformation at large.
Why is this stlll being allowed?
Why can we not stop Fox? Murdoch?
Why is this still being allowed?
Fairness Doctrine be damned!

Why is this still happening?

And still we have to listen to TRUMP!

I'm losing it here in Texas!

Abbott and the Border Control on horses with WHIPS!!??

I don't want to live here anymore.

It is 4:30 am in Dallas and I have to get a couple hours of sleep. Please forgive for lack of response.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215879246

Get some sleep DUmmie. You sound demented.

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Re: I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2021, 08:27:36 AM »
What is with all these violations of NanceGreggs' copyright on posting drunken semi-coherent word-salad rants!

DUmmies really cannot handle people being able to express ideas, :rotf:  :tongue: .

As for real censorship by FB (they aren't government, so "censorship" is imprecise usage), several weeks ago I stated openly in a post that then-current Covid stats did not justify re-masking, etc.. Even though I linked (my usual) data source in support of my statement, FB hid my post. I assume one could not even post on FB the anti-vax ravings of the deceptively-named Children's Health Defense or Joseph Mercola (not that I'm going to test my assumption).
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2021, 08:35:27 AM »
This DUmmie asked the question I wanted to ask:

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27. But what do you mean by "Why is this still being allowed?"

And why do you cretins think you have any power to do anything about it? 

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Star Member brooklynite (72,697 posts)

34. Perhaps the fact that you're getting worked up at 4:30 in the morning is the problem here...

 :lmao:

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Star Member CrackityJones75 (848 posts)

56. Exactly this.

Sometimes I think people are completely insane here.

 :lmao:


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Re: I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2021, 08:45:32 AM »
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Why can't we pull the BUTTplug on FaceBook?

What he actually meant.


Oh, this it too good not to bring over:

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7wo7rees (4,490 posts)

2. I don't believe it is Biden or Abbott.I believe it is systematic racism in CBP.

The CBP are out of control.
Abbott just feeds them

Texas cops loves their horses! They are intimidating as all hell!! I rounded a corner in downtown Dallas at a protest against war in downtown Dallas and ran right into them. I was only on my way to a McDonalds for coffee for friends.I had friends protesting Exxon in Houston who were hurt by them. Most people have no idea hiw frightening it can be. Or how very dangerous.
I'll never forget the day I ran into them in downtown Dallas!!




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3. Facebook was largely instrumental in the election of Donald Trump

A lot of the crap against Covid-19 vaccines comes from Facebook. Russian disinformation that favored Trump was rampant on Facebook.


https://www.thewrap.com/ken-burns-calls-mark-zuckerberg-an-enemy-of-the-state/

Historian and documentarian Ken Burns was asked about his opinion of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg by the New York Times this week and he didn’t mince words. Zuckerberg, Burns said, is “an enemy of the state” who deserves to be in jail.

Zuckerburg is a big lefty who donated $100M to dem ballot harvesting efforts.

If his ideological peers want to tear him apart I have no inclination to stop them.

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5. I agree with Burns.

They, along with Twitter are responsible for Trump, the rise of the hate party and need to be cut down.

I had a small glimpse of just how vicious a mob could be on the net when a group went after a woman I know who had a Poetry site. It grew like mushrooms, as it went from board to board. She had to shut her Poetry site because of the attacks. All this from a single post that was not even what they said.They even tried to go after me, then deleted their post. But a Republican friend saw the post before it was deleted and defended me.

All this was before we reached the hate filled stage we are in now.

Go ahead, savage more of your own.

These stupid animals live by hate. They're running out of things to hate, so they're turning on each other.

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24. I left FB in 2012 because of the shit allowed to be posted about Obama

This is how the Republic slow simmers to a dry pan. Hate groups get to invent their own facts, about everything. And then claim they are sitting at the right hand of god. But now they have a wide audience.

In another time, these freaks would mostly keep to themselves. They'd occasionally call late night radio with their kooky theories of this or that. But they could be contained.

FB, and technology in general, gives them an outlet. Their tales, their lies, are just speculative science fiction. And like most science fiction, the stories are lazy, poorly written, the internal links to their arguments are missing, and yet millions continue to eat this shit up.


It'll be interesting to see how this ends. I think the right will end up destroying itself, will break apart into different extremist groups. But the rest of us will have to suffer while this happens.

DU literally has a sub-forum called, "Creative Speculation."

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28. Because some people will be inconvenienced if we remove this very credible threat to American

Democracy.

And they just aren't willing to be inconvenienced.

That's where we are.

Ever the totalitarians.

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46. "Why is this stlll [sic] being allowed?" The answer is simple.

Unlike Trump and cronies, we're not fascists.

This thread proves you wrong.

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63. I remove things I don't like from my personal universe whenever I can.

Television news and opinion was banished from my universe years ago, followed by commercial television. There's no cable, no satellite, no broadcast television in my world.

I recently added twitter to my personal media blacklist and this has improved the signal to noise ratio here on DU considerably.

If I stare at enough people like they are aliens from another planet when they start blathering on about some bullshit they saw on Fox News or Facebook maybe they'll take the hint.

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Re: I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2021, 08:50:02 AM »
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34. Perhaps the fact that you're getting worked up at 4:30 in the morning is the problem here...

I dunno, I got up at 4:30 this morning to do a workout at the gym, :rotf: .

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56. Exactly this.

Sometimes I think people are completely insane here.

1. Only "sometimes"?

2. MIRT Alert! MIRT Alert! MIRT Alert! :tongue:
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2021, 09:04:35 AM »
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I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook? The First Amendment

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Misinformation at large.   The First Amendment
Why is this stlll being allowed?  The First Amendment
Why can we not stop Fox? Murdoch?  The First Amendment
Why is this still being allowed?  The First Amendment
Fairness Doctrine be damned!  The First Amendment

Why is this still happening?  The First Amendment

And still we have to listen to TRUMP!  The First Amendment

I'm losing it here in Texas! I think you lost it a long time ago

Abbott and the Border Control on horses with WHIPS!!??  Border Control is a federal agency, not state.  Talk to the guy who is head of all federal agencies.

I don't want to live here anymore. I hear they have a good handle on controlling what you see on facebook in china and north korea.  You should move there.

It is 4:30 am in Dallas and I have to get a couple hours of sleep. Please forgive for lack of response. Why?  It's not like you have to get up in a few hours to go to a J-O-B...
Biden is an illegitimate President.  Change my mind.

Police lives matter.

Basking in the glow of my white privilege

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Re: I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2021, 09:32:49 AM »
No one is forcing that poster to listen to Trump, and I would guess many Texans don't want them to live there anymore either.
« Last Edit: September 21, 2021, 10:54:58 AM by ADsOutburst »

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Re: I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2021, 09:40:52 AM »
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I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?

1.  FB covers, buries, and slaps warning labels on "misinformation", i.e, anything off the plantation. 

2.  No one is forcing you onto FB.  Delete your account and don't look back.  Oh, wait, it's not about what you want or even protecting you.  It's about control of information, and the great and mighty proggies, who know exactly what all us plebs need more than we know ourselves, only feeding us what they want us to know.  Like all the doo doo hitting the fan in Afghanistan, and at our border, but suddenly we are all supposed to be focused on some woman who disappeared, like many others sadly do every day. 
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Re: I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2021, 10:07:06 AM »
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Texas cops loves their horses! They are intimidating as all hell!! I rounded a corner in downtown Dallas at a protest against war in downtown Dallas and ran right into them. I was only on my way to a McDonalds for coffee for friends. I had friends protesting Exxon in Houston who were hurt by them. Most people have no idea how frightening it can be. Or how very dangerous.
I'll never forget the day I ran into them in downtown Dallas!!

This primitive has me sorta convinced that JFK was shot by a horse.

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Re: I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2021, 10:20:42 AM »
This primitive has me sorta convinced that JFK was shot by a horse.

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:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

 from the grassy knoll or the 6th floor?
Biden is an illegitimate President.  Change my mind.

Police lives matter.

Basking in the glow of my white privilege

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Re: I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2021, 10:25:51 AM »
Seems appropriate
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20. absolute bullshit. the cave is unspeakably vile.

I don't know how any of you can live with yourselves.

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Re: I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2021, 10:29:50 AM »
And yet they call us the fascists.
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Re: I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2021, 11:11:39 AM »
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22. I now know why yesterday a DU,'er, Atticus, took a break.

Two things.

Why did that nut job take a break?

and….

Let’s hope to goodness he comes back even nuttier than ever.

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Re: I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2021, 12:06:49 PM »
Two things.

Why did that nut job take a break?

and….

Let’s hope to goodness he comes back even nuttier than ever.

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Right now Atticus is hiding out "backpacking" in the Florida Everglades national park.  :-)
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Re: I have a question, DU. Why can't we pull the plug on FaceBook?
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2021, 02:16:19 PM »
Right now Atticus is hiding out "backpacking" in the Florida Everglades national park.  :-)
Gator food? One can hope
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20. absolute bullshit. the cave is unspeakably vile.

I don't know how any of you can live with yourselves.

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