Russian State News Has A Platform On Sarasota’s Rumble (Noma: living in, law)

[joshan]

It is all a big pump and dump scam.

[loves2read]

Originally Posted by wondermint2

The YouTube alternative Rumble, which opened a headquarters in Longboat Key, continues to broadcast RT, a Russian state-owned outlet.

https://news.google.com/articles/CBM...S&ceid=US%3Aen

SARASOTA, FL — Rumble, a YouTube alternative that recently opened a headquarters in Longboat Key, will continue to broadcast RT on its video platform despite a worldwide crackdown on the Russian state-controlled news network.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine more than a week ago, major technology companies have removed or restricted the network, including the Roku Channel Store and DirecTV, which both removed the English-language RT America from its offerings, according to CNBC.

Meta Platforms, which operates Facebook, and Twitter have also restricted access to the network, Reuters reported. Facebook and Instagram have designated RT as “Russian state-controlled media.”

The online video-sharing platform based in Toronto and popular among conservative influencers and right-wing viewers, the Washington Post reported.

Former President Donald Trump turned to Rumble after being banned from multiple social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis also uses the site to share state news with residents. Other prominent figures on the site include U.S. representatives Matt Gaetz and Devin Nunes, Sen. Rand Paul, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Sean Hannity, and Ben Shapiro.

Rumble estimates that it will invest about $50 million in the Sarasota area and Florida over the next several years.

Sarasota County lured the company to the area with an incentive grant worth about $825,000, according to SRQ magazine.

Gosh—how our public officials are adding such positive aspects to our Sarasota lifestyles!

[gosouth01]

Originally Posted by joshan

It is all a big pump and dump scam.

I'm afraid you might be correct regarding Rumble's move to Sarasota. It looks like an example of politicians giving away $825K of taxpayers money to their political friends, with apparently zero guarantee that the taxpayer will ever see any benefit.

[Rags747]

Bravo! The beauty of we humans is that we were given a brain that allows us to process information. My brain is quite capable of determining what is disinformation and what is not. Our leaders and Big Tech have decided that we are not capable of this so they ban what they determine to be misinformation. Screw that, no better than China or Russia at this point! Remember way way back in Grade school where we were taught that we were better than everyone else because we had freedom of the press? Thought you did…

Originally Posted by Jensen440

^^^sometimes fact is disputed, and rightfully so, just because someone claims something as a "fact", it really doesn't unequivocally mean it's true and beyond reproach...


Our History in this nation, even written in textbooks declared "facts" about Jews, Blacks, and even women, that were disseminated with vigor and righteousness throughout our society that were patently false, but were hardly challenged for irrational reasons, but nonetheless were "accepted" as "facts".


Now, for example, certain media and media platforms have gleefully disseminated their "fact" that there is no such thing as "only two genders", or that "gender is fluid", and even "men can get pregnant", or "transgender women are not male" (or transgender men are not women").
Many have suggested this nonsense as fact, and have spread these "facts", but they fail to mention that these sort of "facts" do not pass the Scientific Method.


I'm not afraid to make my own decisions through discovery of information.


Sometimes the gatekeepers of "fact", (platforms, forums, news, universities, activists, editorials, etc) are distorters of truth....many times they keep repeating lies, hoping they will become "fact", or undisputed/unchallenged "fact".


Facts can be fleeting, incomplete, distorted, untested and even politicized. Just Look at Dr. Fauci for a prime example. His "facts" were never complete, and his facts "evolved", other "facts" were demonstrably wrong.


Nope, no curtailing of freedom of speech (notwithstanding the old "theater" exception). Hate speech should be continued to be protected speech.


The "Speech Police" try to restrict and change/control language. Can't use the "n word", Can't call a homosexual a 'h o m o', or 'q u e e r person', can't call BLM a shakedown operation, can't call a "person of Color", "Colored" (which is the same damn thing).


Most people have a few brains, but many elitists among us think they should be the arbiter of all things factual - they'll tell us what to think, what to say, what to believe, and what a fact truly means.

[wondermint2]

Originally Posted by Rags747

Bravo! The beauty of we humans is that we were given a brain that allows us to process information. My brain is quite capable of determining what is disinformation and what is not. Our leaders and Big Tech have decided that we are not capable of this so they ban what they determine to be misinformation. Screw that, no better than China or Russia at this point! Remember way way back in Grade school where we were taught that we were better than everyone else because we had freedom of the press? Thought you did…

Florida is not a "free state." This is a myth. We're free to follow the King's beliefs which he imposes on Floridians.

DeSantis’ ‘free state of Florida’ faces new restrictions on First Amendment rights

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/de...cid=uxbndlbing

[Trying941]

Originally Posted by wondermint2

Florida is not a "free state." This is a myth. We're free to follow the King's beliefs which he imposes on Floridians.

DeSantis’ ‘free state of Florida’ faces new restrictions on First Amendment rights

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/de...cid=uxbndlbing

Your argument is that Florida is not a "free state" because DeSantis is, in your opinion, restricting First Amendment rights by barring teachers from instructing student that white students should feel personally responsible for violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and all students between kindergarten and third grade should be taught about sexual identity including homosexuality.

1. One, DeSantis is not acting as a King. The very article you cite notes that the Legislature sent a bill to the Governor. This is not the exercise of royal authority, it is the legislative process. (This is not the Federal Government, where recent Executive Orders by Biden have had purported binding force only until they got overturned by Courts for usurpation of legislative power. Your King argument works better at the Federal level, with the Covid restrictions you support, and not at all at the Florida state level.)

2. My kids had nothing to do with slavery, discrimination by Democrat George Wallace or the creation of the inner city. They were not born yet. It is not their personal responsibility. Should they teach respect for all people regardless of race, religion, political party affiliation etc? Yes. Should they feel guilty? No. They are kids!

3. Kids in first grade first learning to think on their own. They start to learn concepts from listening and reading. They have not developed the means to separate fact from fiction - or make complex decisions. Their attention span is 5 to 20 minutes, tops. The test for intelligence is how quickly they can identify and differentiate a flower from a heart - and touch their heart when they see a heart on a screen on the left side of a picture. Teaching homosexuality is brainwashing, or worse yet grooming.

4. The First Amendment gives teachers the right to express their opinions in public, in the teachers' study, at lunch with other teachers, or any where else in public. They do not have the right to teach anything they want - such as Satan worship, Communism is good etc.

[wondermint2]

This is another "sneaky" example of the way Florida leadership restricts the knowledge they disseminate to the public in their efforts to keep Florida "free".

Did the Florida Legislature pass this bill to punish newspapers? Some lawmakers say yes

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tam...outputType=amp

TALLAHASSEE — For the second time in 11 months, the Florida House voted on Thursday to send a bill to Gov. Ron DeSantis that would strip Florida’s newspapers of legal notice revenue.

Some lawmakers said the move is a jab at publications that sometimes publish stories and editorials critical of the Republican leadership in Florida.

“The free press here in the free state of Florida isn’t reporting what the governor’s communications director wants it to report,” Sen. Gary Farmer, D-Lighthouse Point, said during a committee hearing on the bill this week.

In Florida, local governments are required by law to publish certain notices in print newspapers or on newspaper websites. Those notices include updates on government meetings and budgets, code enforcement notifications and hazardous waste disposal notices.

Detractors of the measure, including newspaper publishers, say legal notices contain important public information. Notices should be published by an independent third party because governments have no incentive to publish legal notices in a way that is easily accessible for Floridians, they argue.

Critics also note that under the new bill, the state’s legal notices could be strewn across 67 different county websites instead of the centralized clearinghouse run by the Florida Press Association.

“If I wanted to hide something from the public that’s required to be noticed, this is exactly the process I would use,” said Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, during a Senate committee hearing this week. “I would throw it on one of 67 different websites.”

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Hmm notice a pattern here? It's called concealing information to the public to further a political narrative.

Florida to update COVID-19 data less frequently than all other states

https://amp.palmbeachpost.com/amp/7040727001

Change in COVID death count makes Florida look better. Lack of transparency makes it look worse

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.mia...253915538.html

[wondermint2]

Glad to see that many Sarasota residents are signing a petition against Rumble. As of now 1016 signatures.

https://www.change.org/p/rescind-rum...redirect=false

Over 1000 people have signed a petition asking Sarasota County commissioners and the Economic Development Corporation of Sarasota County to not give an incentive grant to the video platform company Rumble.

[Trying941]

Originally Posted by wondermint2

Glad to see that many Sarasota residents are signing a petition against Rumble. As of now 1016 signatures.

https://www.change.org/p/rescind-rum...redirect=false

Over 1000 people have signed a petition asking Sarasota County commissioners and the Economic Development Corporation of Sarasota County to not give an incentive grant to the video platform company Rumble.

Simple question. Would you feel the same if the grant were to go to Politico for the same purpose? Or, to put differently, is this a matter of principle or of politics?

Harder question: If principle, please articulate the principle.

[wondermint2]

Originally Posted by Trying941

Simple question. Would you feel the same if the grant were to go to Politico for the same purpose? Or, to put differently, is this a matter of principle or of politics?

Harder question: If principle, please articulate the principle.

I'm all for free speech regardlesss of party affiliation. But IMO there has to be certain limits when an invading country starts a war and commits war crimes against civilians and children.

And some might argue that there are no civilians and children being killed. That it's all "propaganda" or whatever. But I know better from all of the video news footage that I've seen.