Facebook threatens to demonetize site over obviously satirical article.

[Max E.]

They can always take their business elsewhere.

One of the reasons I never buy Apple products are their Nazi like restrictions

 

[Max E.]

The solution is to put a label on satire. If Facebook is going to be consistent they have address all of these articles, including the obvious ones. I would do the same thing. Associating their brand with corruption and deception is not a good long term business strategy.

If people are too dumb to interpret satire where does that end? Should facebook be
"Fact checking" comedians?

How bad would we all be laughing if facebook did the same thing to the onion?

 

[Max E.]

I have a tough time with this one, one idea is to start pulling leftie tactics, and putting rules on them, one other side you just sit and wait until there is a right wing version of the internet and a left wing version of the internet..... i feel like eventually its just going to come to a tipping point, where righties and lefties both go to different sites that are so diametrically opposed that reconciliation is impossible.

Either way its bad, in terms of the divide we are creating in society.

I expected that would be your reaction. You're a principled libertarian and I get that. The fact is though, these social media companies have been given legal protection through a federal law that limits their exposure to libel claims. It was an oversight not to require them to be politically even-handed. Now that they are obviously weaponizing their platforms, it is past time to correct that oversight.

Or we can wring our hands about how unfair it is. Kind of like people who wanted to hear conservative speakers at Berkeley or other university campuses. That's been the problem for Conservatism Inc for decades. They win the intellectual argument but lose the actual battle.

We really don't have a whole lot of ground left to lose. They control the media, the universities, all levels of government bureaucracy, the professions, the entertainment industry and increasingly, big business. Either we fight back or we learn to live like we are students at Berkeley, ie afraid to voice a dissenting opinion and always in fear of Big Brother.

 

[RRY16]

as I said a week or two ago. Breitbart or Bannon need to make a search engine without bias.

If the searches were good they would be killing it.

Boycott them like you have stated with other brands.

 

[RRY16]

I have a tough time with this one, one idea is to start pulling leftie tactics, and putting rules on them, one other side you just sit and wait until there is a right wing version of the internet and a left wing version of the internet..... i feel like eventually its just going to come to a tipping point, where righties and lefties both go to different sites that are so diametrically opposed that reconciliation is impossible.

Either way its bad, in terms of the divide we are creating in society.

Boycott Shitbook, CuNNt and the rest, it takes discipline but your a successful day trader.

 

[Cuddles]

I have a tough time with this one, one idea is to start pulling leftie tactics, and putting rules on them, one other side you just sit and wait until there is a right wing version of the internet and a left wing version of the internet..... i feel like eventually its just going to come to a tipping point, where righties and lefties both go to different sites that are so diametrically opposed that reconciliation is impossible.

Either way its bad, in terms of the divide we are creating in society.

That's my beef... Righties have been bitching so much about Lefty social media, you'd expect them to have their own Facebook by now.

So they're either suckers for punishment who like the drama, or too dumb and poor to do anything about it.

 

[RRY16]

Yep they were born to bitch and moan. Everything is left or right..Gop or democrat, black or white.

 

[Max E.]

That's my beef... Righties have been bitching so much about Lefty social media, you'd expect them to have their own Facebook by now.

So they're either suckers for punishment who like the drama, or too dumb and poor to do anything about it.

Its already started, there is a site called "minds" that a lot of right wing youtubers are pushing, but the bottom line is no one is going to go to those places until enough people get pissed off. But Youtube has flagged and demonetized videos from people like Sam Harris, And i doubt there is anyone who could consider him a rightie under any circumstance, but he doesnt agree with the liberal orthodoxy on Islam so he got videos purged...... its only a matter of time until it happens, and its sad, cause then the feed back loop will just become more exaggerated, people will literally only get ideas they agree with....... I understand that this is the way most people get their news anyways, but wait till you see how bad it is when there is two sites warring with each other and its literally just righties on one side and lefties on the other.

I cant believe that these social networking sites are not cognisant of the rift they are creating in society with shit like this where Snopes gets to shut down a site based on satire. Btw this is only the most comical example but like i said intellectuals like Jordan Peterson or Sam Harris who arent even necessarily conservatives get screwd by these sites all the time now because people complain.

Sam Harris is probably one of the ultimate intellectuals of our time, but if he doesnt toe the line on PC orthodoxy, youtube and the people watching youtube go after him and get his videos demonetized. Its a race to the bottom, eventually youtube is going to look like a pretty big joke, when its only krugman talking economics.

Youtube is using the SPLC (southern poverty law center) to flag "Extremists" Well the SPLC labelled Maajid Nawaz, a former radical who speaks out against radical islam, an extremist. They also label Ayan Hirsi Ali a woman who was horribly abused and now speaks out against radical islam, as an extremist.....

There is a huge problem when you let radical left wing groups like the SPLC determine who can say things on youtube.

 

[Max E.]

Boycott Shitbook, CuNNt and the rest, it takes discipline but your a successful day trader.

We cant all be disciplined winners like you who predict nothing day after day after day.

 

[RRY16]

We cant all be disciplined winners like you who predict nothing day after day after day.

Who said anything about predicting?