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Post by Smilin' Jack on Jan 31, 2016 12:27:21 GMT -5
I guess since it's their sandbox they can make any rules they want. Now it our turn to decide whether to go along with the new rules, or not. The rule itself doesn't bother me that much, but how it's going to work concerns me more. Facebook will rely on other users to report content that violates the new rule. This is another end-run on Congress. Won't pass a law? Fine. We'll get it done this way. And you also know that some Progressives will be trolling Facebook and Instagram for someone they can snitch on. They can't help themselves but do so. This kind of conditioning to rat on our friends and neighbors, never ends well. Perhaps now is a good time to pull the plug on Facebook and Instagram. LINK
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Post by Fredo on Feb 1, 2016 9:33:25 GMT -5
I belong to several guntrading groups on there and they are either shutting down, going to closed status or just waiting to see how it goes. Everyone knows that the boy billionaire who runs FB is a pinko leftie so I don't think this is too surprising.
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Post by Smilin' Jack on Feb 6, 2016 20:18:50 GMT -5
What if government leaned on other businesses to impose rules that they can't get done by legislation?
There may come a point and relatively quickly, when the current soft tyranny morphs into a jack-booted one.
What if other businesses get coerced, or happily impose some rules that connect you to some group (say, Tea Party), or some other cause or interest, which then automatically disqualifies you from being a patron, or an employee?
In Germany during WWII, speaking the truth became treason and when convicted, your neck was smitten by a guillotine.
The book, When Truth was Treason, is an account about a 16-year-old Helmut Hubner who during the night listens to BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, and quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets, he and his young friends are eventually found and tried for treason. Hubner is sentenced to death and loses his head to the guillotine.
I recommend the book because it describes in stark terms exactly what can happen when your government goes dark and you become an enemy of the State by their decree. It gave me a new perspective on how easily this could happen again.
When some Progressive water buffalo like Gore can speak out loud on the need to 'punish climate-change deniers", saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting "accepted science', you know we're on that slippery slope. The reeducation camps, and if that doesn't work those guillotines are not far behind.
I'm heading for the FB exit.
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Post by Fredo on Feb 7, 2016 10:07:05 GMT -5
It's just one more brick in the wall. The feds already make it difficult for gun dealers to accept credit cards and have bank accounts so this isn't surprising. Most of the groups I know of are now setting up independent sites outside of fb and will be using their old fb pages to refer people over. No rule against that.
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Post by Smilin' Jack on Feb 9, 2016 20:53:19 GMT -5
Yet.
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Post by Smilin' Jack on Feb 9, 2016 20:56:16 GMT -5
I sense a pattern forming. Today, Twitter announces a 'trust and safety' panel to police content. Link
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Post by Fredo on Feb 11, 2016 9:04:47 GMT -5
All the classics are in place. Capital controls, speech controls, "border checkpoints" 100 miles from the border and constant surveilance. It sure is getting warm in this pot.
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Post by Smilin' Jack on Feb 14, 2016 12:32:57 GMT -5
The trap is almost set to spring shut. All that's needed is an event to start the dominoes falling.
It's in the twilight that we must be most aware of change in the air - however slight- lest we become victims of the darkness. (hat tip William O. Douglas)
Very soon, it will be time to go.
Those that heed the writing on the wall first, get to liquidate their assets, convert the cash into diamonds, and escape with their wealth and their lives.
Those slow to do so, flee only with their lives.
Those that are clueless to it all, lose both their wealth and their lives.
This is a lesson that history teaches us.
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