It’s Time To Build a Free Speech Internet Of Our Own

[Hoosier Daddy]

Americans encourage voting - it's a right to choose and vote.

yeah, but it is embarrassing if a friend votes for a stooge like trump or sarah palin.

[Micawber]

Good. Do that and stay in that. And a country, get out and go there.

We don't want to hear or associate with deplorables.

[Darth Omar]

the life long friends is what happened to me in 2016 for supporting Trump
I won't do the same then or now. more then ever I concentrate on not being any part of censoring/advocating such
or making a friendship hostage to personal politics

Part of the problem is what’s being debated.

It wasn’t long ago that political debates were policy debates: debating tax rates and etc. The abortion debate was the first one that came along that exposed the cultural divide and it’s only gotten worse. Race issues were back burner for the longest time until Obama came along. Then, for whatever reasons, race became an obsession with the left.

That caused a reaction from the right as white people were being portrayed as whiting or unwitting oppressors. Predictably, many of them got tired of hearing about it. Anyone who wants to know why so many white Obama voters went for Trump need look no farther.

White Christian males in particular, became the cultural boogie man since they ‘oppressed’ every group from women, gays on down the line.

The left has poisoned the well.

[Evmetro]

No. Not in the least, it's a private company. If censorship becomes publicly acceptable, don't you think the government will start censuring too? Like I said, it started on college campuses.

When a private company creates the government, it is the government. Msm, big tech, and social media have created and installed the government, and they operate as a single hybrid unit. The private sector part of the this hybrid government is the workaround that let's the government censor free speech.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Part of the problem is what’s being debated.

It wasn’t long ago that political debates were policy debates: debating tax rates and etc. The abortion debate was the first one that came along that exposed the cultural divide and it’s only gotten worse. Race issues were back burner for the longest time until Obama came along. Then, for whatever reasons, race became an obsession with the left.

That caused a reaction from the right as white people were being portrayed as whiting or unwitting oppressors. Predictably, many of them got tired of hearing about it. Anyone who wants to know why so many white Obama voters went for Trump need look no farther.

White Christian males in particular, became the cultural boogie man since they ‘oppressed’ every group from women, gays on down the line.

The left has poisoned the well.

yep, it is hard to be a white christian male in our society!!! good god, snowflake!! you think equality and a fight against racism did not exist here until Obama came along? are you nuts? actually, Obama being elected was a great and positive example OF HOW FAR THIS COUNTRY HAS COME....and you stupidly try to blame Obama being elected to whatever petty ass bullshit you claim you are suffering as a white male Christian?

it is the right that decided to make abortion a political issue, dufus. when roe v wade was first decided, there was very little blowback from organized religion.

Conventional wisdom holds that the rise of the religious right as a political force to be reckoned with during the 1970s and 1980s was driven by conservative Christians’ intense opposition to the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. But Dartmouth College’s Randall Balmer writes that “the abortion myth quickly collapses under historical scrutiny.” He notes that “it wasn’t until 1979 — a full six years after Roe — that evangelical leaders, at the behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but …. because the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the religious right’s real motive: protecting segregated schools.”

When Roe was first decided, most of the Southern evangelicals who today make up the backbone of the anti-abortion movement believed that abortion was a deeply personal issue in which government shouldn’t play a role. Some were hesitant to take a position on abortion because they saw it as a “Catholic issue,” and worried about the influence of Catholic teachings on American religious observance.

Shortly after the decision was handed down, The Baptist Press, a wire service run by the Southern Baptist Convention — the biggest Evangelical organization in the US — ran an op-ed praising the ruling. “Religious liberty, human equality and justice are advanced by the Supreme Court abortion decision,” read the January 31, 1973, piece by W. Barry Garrett, The Baptist Press’s Washington bureau chief.

Religious bodies and religious persons can continue to teach their own particular views to their constituents with all the vigor they desire. People whose conscience forbids abortion are not compelled by law to have abortions. They are free to practice their religion according to the tenets of their personal or corporate faith.

The reverse is also now true since the Supreme Court decision. Those whose conscience or religious convictions are not violated by abortion may not now be forbidden by a religious law to obtain an abortion if they so choose.

Garrett reassured his readers that the decision had been made not by “a Warren type or ‘liberal’ Supreme Court,” but “a ‘strict constructionist’ court, most of whose members have been appointed by President Nixon.”

https://billmoyers.com/2014/07/17/wh...re-pro-choice/

[cancel2 2022]

Americans encourage voting - it's a right to choose and vote.

Why do you bother with that prick?

[Hawkeye10]

Why do you bother with that prick?

It has to be for the entertainment value!

[cancel2 2022]

Americans encourage voting - it's a right to choose and vote.

It has to be for the entertainment value!

He's not even good sport, just another tedious pontificating Lefty!

[Hawkeye10]

He's not even good sport, just another tedious Lefty!

I like toying with the RugRats from time to time!

It's kinda like playing with puppies.

[moon]

I like toying with the RugRats from time to time!

It's kinda like playing with puppies.

Silly fucker.

[TexanManWithPlans]

It's clear that you cannot trust the likes of Apple, Amazon, Google or Microsoft, they are the new internet censors. Hopefully this will bring a new era to curb their power and clip their wings! The repressive Left have been waiting for a chance like this for years, fuck 'em they will not succeed.

You people truly are dumb. The internet has always been free in the US. Do you even know the difference between the "internet" and the "web"?

Also, you're 100% free to start your own website and post your insane bullshit. Stop virtue signaling with all this "censorship" nonsense--especially when you support a president who literally wants to censor the voices of millions of Americans by attempting to overthrow the election.

[moon]

You people truly are dumb. The internet has always been free in the US. Do you even know the difference between the "internet" and the "web"?

Also, you're 100% free to start your own website and post your insane bullshit. Stop virtue signaling with all this "censorship" nonsense--especially when you support a president who literally wants to censor the voices of millions of Americans by attempting to overthrow the election.

Vera is a committed Trumpist. He's staring at the icy steppes of 2021 and wondering how he's going to survive here without his knickers.


Haw, haw..................................haw.

[Trumpet]

Cop union joins Parler — just as the Twitter competitor for extremists gets deplatformed

As social media companies crack down on incitements of violence following Wednesday's fatal insurrection by Donald Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol, right wing voices have been flocking to Parler to avoid having their accounts shut down.

https://www.rawstory.com/parler-app/

[Trumpet]

There is no shortage of Twitter alternates for the extreme right wing to propagate their hate and bigotry.


8 Best Twitter Alternatives Where Free Speech Is Respected

https://fossbytes.com/best-twitter-alternatives/

[anatta]

It's clear that you cannot trust the likes of Apple, Amazon, Google or Microsoft, they are the new internet censors. Hopefully this will bring a new era to curb their power and clip their wings! The repressive Left have been waiting for a chance like this for years, fuck 'em they will not succeed.

Congress -especially a Democratic Congress wont touch it