A general de-platforming of all conservative voices is underway right now. Parler has been told it has 24 hrs to moderate its content of be removed by Apple from the App,Store. Trump had been permanently banned from Facebook AND Twitter. So have a host of other voices who have supported him.
Am I jeopardizing our site here by even writing about this?
The fact that that thought would even occur to me is frightening.
We no longer have freedom of speech in this country.
With that, a part of every American is dying.
Today is the darkest day I can remember in my entire life. And yes, that includes even 9/11, because that was an attack by foreign agents. This is the awful diagnosis of a fatal internal malignancy.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
This will not stand. Whether it cause America to die or be brought back to life is up to us.
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“We no longer have freedom of speech in this country.”
Yes, the desecration of the First Amendment began among the “small fry” such as you and me when our friends chose to eliminate political conversation with the two of us. Not surprised that the cancer has metastasized.
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P.S. Facebook stock has dropped $7 and change per share since Monday. Even I had to back off my capitalistic principles and sold it yesterday. There are plenty more lucrative stocks that don’t completely compromise my political beliefs. Fortunately, I never invested in Twitter because I believe it’s a complete waste of time unless you’re POTUS and now even he has been banned. Disgraceful.
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If you are dumping Facebook, they must be in real trouble!
I predict that social media as it exists now will become just a playgound for the victim class and real power will be coordinated in new and various venues. Big Tech gained their power partially because the price of entry into that business cost many billions bdue to the server farms and heavy infrastructure needed. If one is not aiming at marketing to consumers by saving and disseminating personal data, then you don’t need a farm. And memory is cheap now, although Moore’s law is winding down. Newer technologies promise to set the internet free by reducing costs associated with using it for either business or political speech purposes.
Thomas Paine had none of our so-called Big Tech, manually created powerful political pamphets, put them in taverns, and changed the world. Fun to watch the transition that is beginning; all this banning is a sign of fear, which always presages financial uncertainty. Cheers!
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Yeah, well they’ve banned taverns too.
I hope Trump will start his own. Could he set up his own, independent “server farm»?
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I’ve seen discussion of a “Trump Television Network”, lately. (If Ted Turner could do it…) Meanwhile, don’t forget our *duty* to continue living in “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness/property”. This is something we have immediate control over; let’s exercise it.
DJT may be the latest example of the effects of “boiled frog syndrome”, but he isn’t the only – and won’t be the last. He has said he pursued the presidency out of a desire to serve. His service at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue may be ending at present, but, we’ll see what comes next from him. The voice of “flyover country” has been unlocked, at last, and won’t be silent again. For that feat, particularly, among other accomplishments, he should take satisfaction. Andrew Jackson is smiling somewhere…Btw, the “Miss me yet?” billboards should go up shortly.
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Last night on Carlson,I also heard that CNN is plotting to force Fox News off the air.
The fed govt cannot legally restrict or ban speech based on content. But it CAN apparently, stand by while a few privately owned channels of communication do it, even though the end result is the same.
I never took anti-trust in law school. But it seems to me this facilitation of a “mono channel” should be illegal under those principles.
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How does CNN force Fox off the air?
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It has to do with pressuring the cable carriers. Or maybe buying them out….?
I keep thinking of when I visited the Soviet Union. Every time I glimpsed a TV screen, it was showing footage of WWII. Of Russian cities, iconic buildings, being reduced to rubble by the Germans. Those images seemed to be the default programming. The War was always before their eyes. And the people were afraid of and suspicious of foreigners. (Well, in Russian the word немецкий means BOTH German and alien.). It was like: if you’re tempted to complain, remember how much WORSE things could be if it weren’t for the beneficent influence of the Kremlin…..
I have a feeling those pictures of people scaling the walls of the Capitol on Wednesday are going to be used by the Monoparty for those same purposes.
Hey, why didn’t those doughty men shown grappling their way up just WALK UP THE STAIRS, like that huge crowd which is already on the terrace had done? Think about it: if every person already on the terrace in that film had gotten there by piton-ing up the wall, it would have taken a few weeks for a crowd that large to assemble on the terrace. Instead it took what, a few minutes? Oh America honey, WAKE UP!!!!!!
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Dontcha know? We are all “woke” now.
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The coasts and their enclaves elsewhere are “sleep-wokeing”, Hyp and Liz, the rest of the country is already awake. Rupert the Bear won’t care if FNC goes off the air, or if the WSJ folds. Pirate TV/Radio/Newspapers, here we come…Radio Free America.
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Not so sure about this Nanda. The Midwest where I was born and raised is bluer than blue!
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The midwest isn’t just MI, is it? Lots of enclaves, heavily-populated ones, that get more notice than the rest. Flyover country his risen.
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Talking WI, MN, IL as well. Indiana (where husband was born and raised) and Ohio are still up for grabs.
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I still say it’s enclaves; anybody up for a move to the Great Plains? 😀
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A bracing bit of Radio Derb, if you’d like: I’m finding him refreshing, after a long drought: https://vdare.com/radio-derb/reform-or-revolution-collapse-of-trust-and-the-cold-civil-war-etc
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“I still say it’s enclaves; anybody up for a move to the Great Plains?”
Maybe not, Nanda, because the weather is brutally cold and even though I’ve had to deal with hurricanes and earthquakes, I would never want to look a tornado in the eye!
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“If you are dumping Facebook, they must be in real trouble!”
I’m a devoted “Zoomer” now. Bought it at $100 and change and it is trading in the mid 300s now. I like the profit margin obviously, but I also admire this company’s ability to react so quickly to a crisis that has allowed industry to function.
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