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Is social media the public square, or is it an open mic night?

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If you talk to conspiracy minded people, many might say it's possible Alex Jones is a (CIA or similar backed?) trojan horse phony. He's managed more to marginalize and further en-fringe some very valid questions about 9/11, Iraq war lies, and oligarch-led political initiatives than anyone else. In fact, he is the only conspiracy talking head mainstreamers can even name, ad by benefit of his puff cheeked, delegitimizing yelling, no one has to listen to him, or any topics that might even seem worthy of his bluster. TL;DR - normies should be more grateful to AJ than conspiracy minded folks, because he makes it easy to stay in the mainstream lane.

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To blip
“lady”?
Sheesh

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I hope you got to see Kara Swisher when she was here last week.

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@1: That assumes an ultimate arbiter. Freedom is the individual evaluating each "think" on a case-by-case basis.

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Hey raindrop, I think @1 is being facetious - riffing on 1984.

Please disregard if you are being facetious too, on some plane beyond my comprehension.

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"Hey! What gives? This self-driving car I'm leasing from Wal-Mart always drives me to Wal-Mart when I'm trying to go to the grocery store! It literally won't let me shop anywhere else. I seem to remember in the old days you could drive a car anywhere you wanted to, but I guess cars just don't work that way any more."

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@10: I had a sight suspicion in that regard, but I wasn't being facetious. But I'd be glad about that.

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This really needs a proofreading pass; the little grammatical errors just kind of pile up in front of me until I can't make any more forward progress through the thing.

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Jesus. Another eye rolling list of fallacies and “just so” stories.

When will this Fox News audition end?

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Doesn't Grandma own the IP of her recipe and can she not sue you for publicizing it without permission?

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the purpose of a system is what it does - #YouPrude

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@15: Instead of eye rolling, why don't you live up to your moniker and peddle teaching moments?

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There is an option for Twitter and other similarly situation companies. They are based in the USA, but take traffic from all over. If the traffic is illegal in the USA, then act on it. If it's illegal wherever it originated, then act on it. If it violates your standards of decency, then remove it or suppress it (with notification of exactly what guideline was violated and how). Easy. Deplatforming should be the ultimate action and it should only be against something illegal where it was created or where Twitter (et al) lives.


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