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billvon

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So as most of you know, Trump supporters have become quite upset with fact checking on Facebook and Twitter.  They become outraged when these platforms block completely untrue posts and append a note to misleading posts that "this isn't really true." 

"Where's my right to free speech?" they ask. "It is OUTRAGEOUS that my First Amendment rights are being violated!!!  It's CENSORSHIP because they are afraid of the TRUTH!"

Many of them moved to Parler, the "free speech" alternative.  No censorship there!  They have 100% freedom to claim that Biden is a convicted pedophile, the New World Order is backing the Clintons and Trump really won the election.  And no one will post a link on top of their post saying "this is inaccurate; check here for election updates."

Recently some Parler minions have proposed writing in Trump in the Georgia special election.  Hashtag #WriteInTrumpForGA!  (because everything has a hashtag)  Different people have proposed this for different reasons:

1) It's a protest against the unfair election
2) There's this mumble mumble thing that means that if you write in Trump he will win Georgia
3) Punish those RINO's running for Senate because they didn't support Trump enough!

Trump supporter Lin Wood tweeted that “politicians love votes & money (not necessarily in that order). Want to get @SenLoeffler & @sendavidperdue out of their basements to demand that action must be taken to fix steal of the 11/3 GA election? Threaten to withhold your votes & money. Demand that they represent you.”

Anyway republicans are suitably panicked by the thought of hundreds of thousands of Georgia voters voting for Trump instead of the GOP candidates for Senate.  But hey, if they want to lodge a protest vote, good for them.  (Probably good for the US as well.)

Parler was thus put in the position of carrying material that was damaging to republicans.  You can guess what happened next.  From a Parler post:

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BRRAKING NEWS: Parler is Censoring #WriteInTrumpForGA after many Trump Supporters took to social media to boycott the Georgia Senat elections after the republican secretary of State refused to the elections to Trump,

Seems Parler didn't like many Trump Supporters refusing to vote of Republican senate runners and decided to cut the feed from Parler to keep them in check.

Whatever happen to the first Amendment?

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This election has been a long and painful grind - but there are some bright moments.

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23 minutes ago, billvon said:

So as most of you know, Trump supporters have become quite upset with fact checking on Facebook and Twitter.  They become outraged when these platforms block completely untrue posts and append a note to misleading posts that "this isn't really true." 

"Where's my right to free speech?" they ask. "It is OUTRAGEOUS that my First Amendment rights are being violated!!!  It's CENSORSHIP because they are afraid of the TRUTH!"

Many of them moved to Parler, the "free speech" alternative.  No censorship there!  They have 100% freedom to claim that Biden is a convicted pedophile, the New World Order is backing the Clintons and Trump really won the election.  And no one will post a link on top of their post saying "this is inaccurate; check here for election updates."

Recently some Parler minions have proposed writing in Trump in the Georgia special election.  Hashtag #WriteInTrumpForGA!  (because everything has a hashtag)  Different people have proposed this for different reasons:

1) It's a protest against the unfair election
2) There's this mumble mumble thing that means that if you write in Trump he will win Georgia
3) Punish those RINO's running for Senate because they didn't support Trump enough!

Trump supporter Lin Wood tweeted that “politicians love votes & money (not necessarily in that order). Want to get @SenLoeffler & @sendavidperdue out of their basements to demand that action must be taken to fix steal of the 11/3 GA election? Threaten to withhold your votes & money. Demand that they represent you.”

Anyway republicans are suitably panicked by the thought of hundreds of thousands of Georgia voters voting for Trump instead of the GOP candidates for Senate.  But hey, if they want to lodge a protest vote, good for them.  (Probably good for the US as well.)

Parler was thus put in the position of carrying material that was damaging to republicans.  You can guess what happened next.  From a Parler post:

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BRRAKING NEWS: Parler is Censoring #WriteInTrumpForGA after many Trump Supporters took to social media to boycott the Georgia Senat elections after the republican secretary of State refused to the elections to Trump,

Seems Parler didn't like many Trump Supporters refusing to vote of Republican senate runners and decided to cut the feed from Parler to keep them in check.

Whatever happen to the first Amendment?

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This election has been a long and painful grind - but there are some bright moments.

Were the typos from the Parler post?

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I think the GOP was already starting to break a sweat on the prospect that Trump's incessant whining that the election was rigged and that democracy is broken are going to limit GOP turnout in the GA runoffs.  

The turnout for the runoffs is the $64,000 question.  Stacey Abrams has worked some magic (via impressive organization/outreach and just good old-fashioned working her ass off) with building Democrat enthusiasm and turnout over the past few years.  

Anybody making predictions about what's going to happen in the runoffs is talking out of their ass, but I'll risk being accused of such things to say that it's likely to be a close one and that the GOP can't afford to lose too many votes to cynicism or - hilariously worse - Trump-themed protest votes.

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"Parler, which is funded by the billionaire Mercer family who bankrolled right-wing news site Breitbart and disgraced data firm Cambridge Analytica, is inundated by porn spammers."

Buzzfeed has a good story "Fake GOP Leaders Are Selling CBD Oil On Parler"

Like FOX Parler seems to attract the most gullible of the gullible. i.e. trump supporters. Porn spamming and fake news intermixed with scams.

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14 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

 

Buzzfeed has a good story "Fake GOP Leaders Are Selling CBD Oil On Parler"

Ha that’s great. 
 

 “I believe most of those fraudulent accounts were a sad attempt to circumvent our advertising network,” Parler CEO John Matze said.

So Parler wasn’t concerned their users were getting scammed, only that Parler wasn’t getting its cut of the ad dollars. At least they’re holding true to current Republican values.

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1 minute ago, Phil1111 said:

Judge rejects Parler's attempt to force Amazon to host it

The freedom of business to serve who they want doesn't apply to right wing racists.

Well, the concern that Amazon would host left wing sites, while shutting down right wing ones is legitimate.

That would amount to discrimination.
That would be illegal.

However, the facts support the allegation that AWS shut down Parler because there was a LOT of incitment and advocacy of violence.
Which is a legitimate reason to shut it down.

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