WTF are you talking sbout? Facebook has been fake liberal propaganda from the get go.
So how many here switched from Facebook to Parler?
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WTF are you talking sbout? Facebook has been fake liberal propaganda from the get go.
I sparingly used it in the past and now quit looking at Facebook entirely. I'm going to try to get our church switched to Parler. Facebook believe it or not the Sunday before the election cut off the sound on our Facebook streaming of our church service apparently because our Pastor made a reference to the election. No mention of candidates or how to vote. Just encouragement for our members to go vote. Eventually the sound was restored later but man. I'm sure they have a way when a key word is uttered or typed that their program flags it.
Oh great, another person doubter of the "Q", While it not ALL true, a good portion of it is. Is the reason i despise Tom Hanks while others adore him.
Regardless of one's political views, I firmly believe that the special privilege of lawsuit anonymity granted to the social media giants by Congress needs to be abolished ASAP. They're not accountable right now.
Even more unsettling is the reliance on search engines to try to find information on a subject. Google's ability to lead people down a rat hole is amazing. YAHOO the parent company of this site is wildly skewed towards far left news stories on their home page. You'll never find a Wall Street Journal or National Review article on their front page. I NEVER read the sh## from the Atlantic and the Huffington Post so nobody can tell me that they've mined the data of what sites I like so that's what they show me.
Man you are dead on on this subject. The strangle hold on information and political promotion that the tech giants have accumulated needs to be checked. BOTH sides of the political aisle should be fearful of a few elites being able to control such a large segment of the sources of information for the masses. It's especially troubling for our youth IMO. Almost all of them get all of their information "news" now from social media. Scary.
Anything is “far left” to a right wing conspiracy theorist nut job. Not saying that’s you though.
Demographics of Parlour:
Conspiracy wackos
Chumpers
Saudis Nationalist
Looks like the people that did 9/11 and the other 2 demos are in the same company. Yikes.
Conspiracy wackos
Chumpers
Saudis Nationalist
Looks like the people that did 9/11 and the other 2 demos are in the same company. Yikes.
You're denying that the Atlantic is far left? C'mon man. Be honest if that's possible for you.
Tom Hanks is a tremendous actor. Love his movies. I haven't heard any of his political views and I'm greatly disappointed if he's spewed some of the same leftist crap as some of the rest of his trade.
Capitalism has little to do with this argument. Capitalism should not involve the ability to control the freedom of speech and information. Dictators and communist states do that. Our government and supreme court has put limits on capitalism when those companies become so large and powerful as to monopolize their marketplaces to the detriment of the public. I don't think it's wise or maybe even possible to split up a company like Google or Facebook BUT at the very least they should be forced as what has basically become a public utility, to give an equal platform to alternative view points.
Where does that line stop? I do have hope for you though for admitting that unchecked capitalism can be an issue to the wellness of our society. Careful going down that rabbit hole though, you may not like where it ends.
Question for you (or anyone ITT): would you mind sharing an example of conservative opinion being censored by FB (excluding misinformation or dangerous content)?
A screenshot would be helpful, but please redact any identifying information (obviously).
Oh it isnt the political views the Qnuts are talking about they think Tom Hanks is pedophile. Its pretty frightening culty type stuff with a growing number of people who are losing grip on reality. Mental health is a serious issue in this country.
There are hypocrites on both sides of this issue. Parler would be the legit solution for republicans. It IS obvious to people in the middle like myself that republicans are censored far more, even with totally legit info like the Hunter Biden stuff, and that is just plain creepy. When you look at the list of the high ups at Facebook and Twitter though, there are no surprises because an enormous majority worked in the Obama White House...Dems will hypocritically deny that this exists, even though they respond the same way when it happens to them (Fox News)
The hypocritical part for many republicans is that these are private companies who can legally do what they want in regards to censorship. But ironically, republicans want “big government” to step in and take away these companies’ freedoms because now all of the sudden the free market system isn’t working and people are too dumb to punish these biased companies in their wallets like the free market system says should always work.
The hypocritical part for many republicans is that these are private companies who can legally do what they want in regards to censorship. But ironically, republicans want “big government” to step in and take away these companies’ freedoms because now all of the sudden the free market system isn’t working and people are too dumb to punish these biased companies in their wallets like the free market system says should always work.
Better get rid of CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and all the alphabet news then....
That's the problem now. People in general, including quite a few on this site, seem to think the alphabet networks, CNN, Google, yahoo, etc bring people legit news. The brainwashing is as bad here as any communist country in the world.
I'm getting old, I had never heard of Parler before this week. I thought all the militia losers who are too fat for the real army planned their kidnappings on 4chan.
I'm pretty aggressive with getting rid of the nutcases these days. If you don't have a good relationship with reality, I'm not going to waste my life trying to alter that. I've been through too many cycles where you spend hours painstakingly showing why somebody's crackpot beliefs are wrong. All they do next is grab another crackpot belief out of their ***, each crazier than the last.
The new strategy is pretty scary, you just do outrageous **** so fast that nobody has time to analyze or react to any single event. You make them numb and for their own sanity they go and focus elsewhere.
I follow less and less political/news content and more just funny memes and stuff about my interests and hobbies.
I'm pretty aggressive with getting rid of the nutcases these days. If you don't have a good relationship with reality, I'm not going to waste my life trying to alter that. I've been through too many cycles where you spend hours painstakingly showing why somebody's crackpot beliefs are wrong. All they do next is grab another crackpot belief out of their ***, each crazier than the last.
The new strategy is pretty scary, you just do outrageous **** so fast that nobody has time to analyze or react to any single event. You make them numb and for their own sanity they go and focus elsewhere.
I follow less and less political/news content and more just funny memes and stuff about my interests and hobbies.
Same question as above: would you mind sharing some details on Facebook's censoring legitimate information about Hunter Biden? I'd like to see their stated rationale (if provided).
a huge Right Wing bias
Talk about misinformation lol. I’ll try to find that list of high up censorship folks for big tech. But mwulf just posted one of the biggest and easily destroyed bold faced lies I’ve ever seen on this forum.
They certainly move lots of right wing traffic. Maybe those that follow that path to Parler will hurt Facebook which I am more than fine with. If Facebook is so biased to the left why do so many on the right drive the traffic there?a huge Right Wing bias
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I guess it depends on what you use Facebook for. Zuck is my age, and my wife and I were in college way back when he invented the thing and it was college students only for a time. Back then we used it to chat with friends and peacock about the weird things we were doing or liked or whatever (didn't everyone put "Garden State" as their favorite movie?) before everyone had a phone to do selfies and things like Instagram hadn't been invented yet.
Eventually it became that everyone's mom and grandma was on the service. I'm old now and I still use it the way I did in college, I chat up a few friends and check out a few photos.
But apparently most of the world thinks its a valid primary news platform, or at least should be one. Politically it can be useful for ads and/or organizing a ground game, but ABC Nightly News it is not.
I don't spend much time on it, i can swipe through my friends posts in a handful of seconds and move on with my life. But again, people seem to live and die on that platform for whatever reason to fulfill all their daily needs.
Eventually it became that everyone's mom and grandma was on the service. I'm old now and I still use it the way I did in college, I chat up a few friends and check out a few photos.
But apparently most of the world thinks its a valid primary news platform, or at least should be one. Politically it can be useful for ads and/or organizing a ground game, but ABC Nightly News it is not.
I don't spend much time on it, i can swipe through my friends posts in a handful of seconds and move on with my life. But again, people seem to live and die on that platform for whatever reason to fulfill all their daily needs.
Free speech
airplane " there's a bomb on the plane!" There was no bomb, just a joke
Movie theater: oh ish there is a fire. There was no fire, just a joke
airplane " there's a bomb on the plane!" There was no bomb, just a joke
Movie theater: oh ish there is a fire. There was no fire, just a joke
They are and it will become an echo chamber. I will admit I love twitter for the sports and gambling but I also realize my feed is also an echo chamber. Is what it is
Unfortunately people can't help themselves. I have quietly hidden and unfriended dozens of people because I can't stand their drama. I like to use Facebook as an aggregator of my hobbies and interests, and to keep in touch with my true social network (under 25 people I'd guess) Why am I 'friends' with a bunch of folks I've never spoke to in person? Everyone is trying to build up their own brand and get a bunch of validation for themselves or their businesses.
What Facebook wants is for people spend as much time on there as possible, so they can get as much visibility to ad$ as possible. It's become this bizarre thing where companies are trying to use it to shape ideologies and promote propaganda, leading to more followers for them and mun-ay.