Posted on 03/15/2018 9:02:32 AM PDT by MNDude
Niall Ferguson: The midterms are going to be worse, a lot worse. Because never again will the network platforms in Silicon Valley allow them to use them as Donald Trump’s campaign used them in 2016. The sound of heads exploding on November the 9th of 2016 was deafening in California. They couldn’t believe that Facebook advertising had been so vital to Trump’s success. Which it was. I don’t think he would have become president without Facebook. As people think more and more about this they will I think begin to grasp the power of the platforms. I think the Russia issue is a distraction from the real question.
— They are hiding conservative stories on Google — They are shadow-banning conservative news on all social media. In February Facebook launched a new algorithm to ensure that conservative news would not spread on the social media platform.
This was after Facebook announced it was losing 50,000,000 user hours a day in the previous quarter. The algorithm change caused President Donald Trump’s engagement on Facebook posts to plummet a whopping 45%.
In contrast, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) do not appear to have suffered a comparable decline in Facebook engagement.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
I was just suspended for the day on Twitter yesterday for reposting a Steve Crowder video. Yes, the Cyber war is very real.
Terrible! Steve Crowder is so wholesome in his expression of views too. So unfair.
I feel that after Reince Priebus left, the RNC under Ronna McDaniel has not been doing well...or has it? Why are there so many mediocre candidates...and it just seems like the party is so unprepared for midterms 2018. :(
Then we need another platform.
I was perma-banned from Twitter for abuse, but I never abused anyone. I just had conservative opinions. I don’t think the blue wave is a thing. Hillary won District 18 in PA by 20,000 votes. Saccone lost it by 600 votes. Doesn’t sound like a big win to me.
It all started 20 years ago in Silicon Valley.
Suddenly, their were topics you could not talk about.
HR was putting out sensitivity training for gays.
Conservatives were told “Shut up or this will show up in your review”
Now the very people who got pulled into high tech are now running the show.
This is just the beginning unless Trump can start putting people in prison.
Ferguson is usually worth paying attention to, but in this case I think he’s missing a couple of key points:
- the newly announced 2020 Trump re-election campaign which for the first time will bring Soros-level tactics and support to OUR side
- the fact that most people don’t pay attention to politics until just prior to an election and then vote in their economic best interests. The full impact of the Trump Economy will be felt by then, and the digital messaging (above) will be driving these messages home.
- most people don’t trust the media or polls, and no longer vote along party lines as dictated by their family or union or others may have dictated in the past. Otherwise Trump could never have won.
- the midterm election is a long time off and a lot of very bad stuff for the democrats is going to become known between now and then. Trying to extrapolate from today even a month or two out is as pointless as trying to do so on Sept. 10, 2001.
The only choice is to pass laws penalizing these companies for censorship. I think we also need the same in Universities even more so. The left need a big smack down of their own medicine.
FB is for middle school and HS drama queens...................
This is why we have Anti Trust Laws and the DOJ if they can wake up Sleepy Sessions can end all of this blatant discrimination and restraint of trade overnight.
The Sherman Act outlaws “every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade,” and any “monopolization, attempted monopolization, or conspiracy or combination to monopolize.” Long ago, the Supreme Court decided that the Sherman Act does not prohibit every restraint of trade, only those that are unreasonable. For instance, in some sense, an agreement between two individuals to form a partnership restrains trade, but may not do so unreasonably, and thus may be lawful under the antitrust laws. On the other hand, certain acts are considered so harmful to competition that they are almost always illegal. These include plain arrangements among competing individuals or businesses to fix prices, divide markets, or rig bids. These acts are “per se” violations of the Sherman Act; in other words, no defense or justification is allowed.
The penalties for violating the Sherman Act can be severe. Although most enforcement actions are civil, the Sherman Act is also a criminal law, and individuals and businesses that violate it may be prosecuted by the Department of Justice. Criminal prosecutions are typically limited to intentional and clear violations such as when competitors fix prices or rig bids. The Sherman Act imposes criminal penalties of up to $100 million for a corporation and $1 million for an individual, along with up to 10 years in prison. Under federal law, the maximum fine may be increased to twice the amount the conspirators gained from the illegal acts or twice the money lost by the victims of the crime, if either of those amounts is over $100 million.
The Federal Trade Commission Act bans “unfair methods of competition” and “unfair or deceptive acts or practices.” The Supreme Court has said that all violations of the Sherman Act also violate the FTC Act. Thus, although the FTC does not technically enforce the Sherman Act, it can bring cases under the FTC Act against the same kinds of activities that violate the Sherman Act. The FTC Act also reaches other practices that harm competition, but that may not fit neatly into categories of conduct formally prohibited by the Sherman Act. Only the FTC brings cases under the FTC Act.
The Clayton Act addresses specific practices that the Sherman Act does not clearly prohibit, such as mergers and interlocking directorates (that is, the same person making business decisions for competing companies). Section 7 of the Clayton Act prohibits mergers and acquisitions where the effect “may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.” As amended by the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936, the Clayton Act also bans certain discriminatory prices, services, and allowances in dealings between merchants. The Clayton Act was amended again in 1976 by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act to require companies planning large mergers or acquisitions to notify the government of their plans in advance. The Clayton Act also authorizes private parties to sue for triple damages when they have been harmed by conduct that violates either the Sherman or Clayton Act and to obtain a court order prohibiting the anticompetitive practice in the future.
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/antitrust-laws
I was banned for three months from a christian site because I tagged a post as “funny” when they were serious. The excuse was that I violated their “goading” rules.
Thing is, I honestly thought hie opinion WAS funny, especially because he was serious. So sue me.
“I don’t think he would have become president without Facebook.”
(Coffee spewing from nose) BWAHAHAHAHAHHAA (inhale)
Facebook... BWAHHAHAHAHAHA
No. We need to be where people are and that means fighting back.
It does us no good preaching to the choir on some obscure website that nobody has ever heard of.
True.
The GOPe want to fall back to loyal opposition minority status, and the socialist-democrats have gone full-tilt Mussolini on the online media world.
And the spacebook/google/youtube censors just keep projecting their socialist-fascist wet dreams on their current/former customers.
So
without Russians’ internet army, GOP can’t win.
Again I urge Freepers to watch The Social Network, and pass your Blu-Ray on to others when you're done, because you'll never want to see it again, and you'll never want to use Faceschnook again.
All efforts must be made to win the Cyber War.
Beep, beep.
Exactly. There are other platforms. Gab, Mewe, dtube, etc. Instead we’re wasting time trying to fight to fit in with people who hate us.
But the reality is that he, Lamb, ran on Trump's platform agreeing with tax cuts, tariffs, pro-gun & pro-life. Now that he is no longer campaigning, will he show himself to be what he said or like Manchin, all talk & then vote as the Democrats prescribe.
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