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Old 01-11-2021, 08:29 PM
 
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No there isn’t. They just shut down Parler. There are no equivalents. 1/3 of the earths population is on Twitter.
Uh, Gab? That's where all the Parler users seem to be going...
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Old 01-11-2021, 08:30 PM
 
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The president has a media room in his house. He is more than welcome to call reporters in, and talk to them. Every major network would pick it up.
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Old 01-11-2021, 08:31 PM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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The president has a media room in his house. He is more than welcome to call reporters in, and talk to them. Every major network would pick it up.
Yup, that's more or less what I was referring to before. There's a thing called a "press conference" which most presidents used to take advantage of all the time.
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Old 01-11-2021, 08:46 PM
 
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Really? I find that odd. I would think most federal government websites would be hosted on their own servers. If they aren't, they probably should be.

I wonder if Akamai would try to stop hosting the WH website if the POTUS started saying nasty things on it?

If anything, the fact that they're hosting Federal gov't websites on some company's servers instead of using their own shows bad decision making IMO.
It used to be a Drupal site hosted on their own servers until Trump outsourced it. It is now a WordPress site hosted on Akamai. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a WordPress VIP site which uses Akamai.
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Old 01-11-2021, 09:14 PM
 
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Twitter has no obligation to allow you to be a customer. You can exercise your first amendment rights without them.
That's not the point. The point is that Twitter and its defenders are lying about the purges. They have nothing to do with violations of the TOS. They're about enforcing political hegemony.
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Old 01-11-2021, 09:23 PM
 
Location: NMB, SC
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Ron Paul and a few other Libertarians got their Facebook pages locked.

He wrote an article denouncing the censorship going on in social media...and....they censored him !

https://nypost.com/2021/01/11/facebo...sors-ron-paul/
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Old 02-07-2021, 04:26 PM
 
Location: San Diego CA>Tijuana, BC>San Antonio, TX
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A monopoly controlled by a small number of people that now has the ability and control of speech around the globe. These private corporations need to be broken up. Breaking up monopolies is legal!
The difference with this monopoly and monopolies of the past is that these social media services are free to use unlike electricity, telephone and oil companies that controlled prices through their monopolies.
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Old 02-08-2021, 01:36 PM
 
Location: On the road
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That's not the point. The point is that Twitter and its defenders are lying about the purges. They have nothing to do with violations of the TOS. They're about enforcing political hegemony.
If that means I don't have to put up with nazis, and Racists, I am OK with that.
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Old 02-08-2021, 02:24 PM
 
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If that means I don't have to put up with nazis, and Racists, I am OK with that.

Good to know that you'd be OK with pretty much the entire Democratic party being banned. You do realize that by the actual definition of racism (not the one leftist idiots made up recently), Democrats are the poster children for racist behavior? Project much?
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Old 02-08-2021, 02:28 PM
 
Location: Just over the horizon
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What does this have to do with the 1st Amendment?


It's the way Democrats do an end run around it.
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