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1 posted on 05/23/2020 3:17:42 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

We need alternatives to facebook, twitter and utube. Lets bury them


2 posted on 05/23/2020 3:37:38 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: McGruff; Jim Robinson

I nominate Jim to be on that panel.


3 posted on 05/23/2020 3:44:14 PM PDT by datura
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To: McGruff
No,bad idea.There's nothing to be realistically gained.
7 posted on 05/23/2020 4:00:55 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: McGruff

L8r


10 posted on 05/23/2020 4:31:36 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: McGruff

YouTube used to put up videos similar to those I had been watching. In the case of Christian videos, I’ve noticed quite recently that I have a hard time finding them. I can watch one, refresh my YouTube and no further Christian videos are being presented. Maybe one if I scroll down a ways.


11 posted on 05/23/2020 4:36:44 PM PDT by fso301
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To: McGruff

Once again POTUS does the heavy lifting while the do-nothing GOP Senate does what it does best: nothing.


12 posted on 05/23/2020 4:38:20 PM PDT by lodi90
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Yes! Yes! Yes!

About darned time.


13 posted on 05/23/2020 4:52:44 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: McGruff
And if they find bias?

What's the principle that says these private companies can't be politically biased?

I think it's bad for business if they get too partisan so they'll keep it reasonable but why is it the federal government's business?

14 posted on 05/23/2020 4:53:43 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: McGruff

Hell Yes! Twitter hasn’t let me gain followers in three years.


15 posted on 05/23/2020 4:59:49 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: McGruff

Don’t bother.


16 posted on 05/23/2020 5:05:05 PM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: McGruff

If you can’t win with a market based solution, I guess you turn to goverment coersion.


17 posted on 05/23/2020 5:07:23 PM PDT by oincobx ( Posting)
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To: McGruff

Awesome idea... Full fledged public hearings on the leftist media and those who influence them.


19 posted on 05/23/2020 5:35:05 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: McGruff
This past week Michelle Malkin interviewed five people who have been banned from one or more social media platforms. All of the conversations are interesting and available on YouTube.

Worth a listen.

20 posted on 05/23/2020 5:38:49 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: McGruff

Big Tech needs to be busted!


22 posted on 05/23/2020 6:53:24 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: McGruff
There is bias and everyone knows it. No panel is needed. If there is one, it won't hurt, but what is it going to achieve? I don't believe in government telling businesses how to operate. So I hope it doesn't go down that road.

I think what is needed is a paradigm shift and it has nothing to do with social media. People have a deep desire to be social, hence the popularity of social media. And by the way, conservatives are people too with the same desires. So why not do the conservative thing, be social but do it better? Better than who? Progressives, the same ones that make FB and Twitter intolerable.

As conservatives we go around all the time saying we know the better way. We recall the days of the past and we want things to get back to those days. Make America Great Again, that implies it was once great. And it was. Seriously ask yourself the question, was your social life once greater before social media? Did you enjoy better social connections in the past?

I cut the cord on FB and Twitter during the Hussein administration. Don't miss it a bit. I'm just as informed now as then. My social life? It's better now. I have more friends and we socialize and entertain each other in person. The old fashioned way.

Get together with friends and family. Turn off the cellphones and talk. Don't rely on technology. Use your mind. Use your vocabulary. Hone your speaking skills instead of limiting things to the length of a tweet. More importantly see how people react in person. Sense their emotions. There is a fidelity that you can't get online. Let the progressives live in their lonely worlds online. Sure we can use tech, but use it for the right purposes. Use tech to say, come on over for dinner or drinks and leave it at that. Tell that Karen of a wife that company is coming, and then do it and keep doing it. If you meet someone new, invite them to do something in person. That family you say hi to at church but not much more, invite them over for a BBQ. Expand your social network the old fashioned way, the conservative way and your social connections will have greater meaning. When it comes to politics and getting out the vote, a personal face-to-face ask is a hell of more effective than a tweet. So be a conservative and be social the way you have always known has been best.

One other thing, get over being afraid and ask people to do things - even strangers.

23 posted on 05/23/2020 7:48:03 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: McGruff

Calling the media biased for the left is like calling the Dallas Cowboys’ cheerleaders biased for the Dallas Cowboys. They aren’t biased. They are on the same team. They wear the same colors and share the same goals.


25 posted on 05/23/2020 10:13:33 PM PDT by The Good Doctor
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