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Democrat Rep. Nadler: Social Media Censorship of Conservatives a 'Hoax’
NewsBusters ^ | April 26, 2018 4:47 PM EDT | Ashley Rae Goldenberg

Posted on 04/26/2018 9:22:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Social media took center stage on Capitol Hill again Thursday, April 26, 2018. The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing examining the “Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms.”

While certain Republican members of Congress and the pro-Trump duo Diamond and Silk argued social media platforms are politically biased against conservatives, other witnesses and Democrats claimed the hearing was “ridiculous” and a distraction. […]

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) spoke next (after Bob Goodlatte), questioning Congress’ priorities in addressing how social media sites run, rather than discussing potential Russian interference in the election through social media.

“In short, House Republicans have no time for substantive oversight of the Trump administration, or election security, or privacy policy, or even a discussion about the wisdom of regulating social media platforms, but they have made time for Diamond and Silk,” Nadler said.

Nadler also accused Diamond and Silk and House Republicans of perpetuating what he called a false claim that Silicon Valley is engaged in a plot to censor conservatives.

“The notion that social media companies are filtering out conservative voices is a hoax: a tired narrative of imagined victimhood as the rest of the country grapples with a feckless president and out-of-control administration,” he continued. “The majority designed this hearing to perpetuate that hoax.” …

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: anticonservative; bobgoodlatte; deathtodemocrats; diamondandsilk; facebook; georgia; hankjohnson; jerroldnadler; nadler; newyork; socialmedia; virginia
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1 posted on 04/26/2018 9:22:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) should have been hanged decades ago but his neck is too big.
2 posted on 04/26/2018 9:25:03 PM PDT by wmileo
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To: Olog-hai

Sort of like a Nazi saying there is no prejudice against Jews, since they’re not really people anyway.


3 posted on 04/26/2018 9:28:30 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Olog-hai
About 1/3 of the people I follow for news and commentary have been hit with some form of censorship.
4 posted on 04/26/2018 9:33:53 PM PDT by snarkpup (Fake news is one-half of the problem. Fake education is the other half.)
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To: Olog-hai

Baloney.


5 posted on 04/26/2018 9:33:54 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Olog-hai

Lyin’ damn Democrat. They lie so much listeners must be listening because they like being lied to, and expect it.


6 posted on 04/26/2018 9:34:54 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to dictate what truth is.)
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To: Olog-hai
Nadler is still alive???

I thought he'd keeled over dead ages ago.

He is the Jabba the Hutt of the Democratic Party.


7 posted on 04/26/2018 9:39:11 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Progressives are turning America into "Harrison Bergeron" if conceived by Ayn Rand.)
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To: wmileo

He’s a lying bloated rat bastard. Unfit to live in a free society.


8 posted on 04/26/2018 9:39:28 PM PDT by Noumenon (It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
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I quit Twitter, because I have been in Twitter jail for four months, and because of this Oath Company that just bought it. They are very bad news.


9 posted on 04/26/2018 9:43:17 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Olog-hai

DNC brand Democrats lie. It’s what they do.

They also corrupt, steal and even kill if they are certain people who are sure they can get away with it.

Pay for play is old hat to them. So is illegal collusion between PACs and the party.

Why should one ever be trusted once they’ve risen in the ranks? Surely all of those all worthless.


10 posted on 04/26/2018 9:44:06 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Olog-hai

I had the distinct pleasure of shouting him down in front of the Broward County courthouse during the illegal 2000 election recount. Yes, he’s been in office that long. Back then he was known as Pizza-the-Hut.


11 posted on 04/26/2018 9:51:37 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: Olog-hai

Do not care what New Yorker’s think about a damn thing.


12 posted on 04/26/2018 9:51:50 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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So the censorship of Republican sites is a hoax? Well Jerry, who is running the hoax, who ran the hoax? Is it another one of those vast right-wing conspiracies? Is it the same kind of hoax as Lois Lerner suppressing conservative websites? Because Democrats howled that that too was a hoax when it was brought to public attention. And since then it has been exhaustively proven. But nothing ever seems to happen to the folks who are running the kind of propaganda that these left this sites promulgate and promote. Zuckerberg himself in testimony 3 days ago said that Silicon Valley as a profoundly left-leaning. Or doesn’t your fat brain remember that?


13 posted on 04/26/2018 10:05:33 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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The story that Nadler has two functioning brain cells is a hoax.


14 posted on 04/26/2018 11:04:24 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Olog-hai

They’re going to go around in circles on this because the “procedures and policies” are absolutely worded to neutral.

The problem is that the procedures FB and other networks use to provision their filters includes “crowd sourced” complaints, and the serially offended LIBERAL users use this mechanism to report every conservative voice they can.

Conservatives generally believe that people have a right to say what they want and if we disagree with someone we use the built-in mechanisms to filter them from our feeds. Liberals approach the question of freedom of speech from a more “dictatorial” view that disagreement with them is “oppression” and they respond by using the provided mechanisms to report “oppressive” content and get it filtered from the public feed.

The end result is censorship because the Networks can see the statistics that show their crowd sourcing mechanisms are being abused by the Liberals, but because they don’t disagree with that abuse, they allow it and enable it.


15 posted on 04/26/2018 11:05:28 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Olog-hai

Take a look at Nadler’s far-left background at the sites www.keywiki.org and www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org.

Then you’ll know that he’s a lying red son of a bitch. Even al Sharpton didn’t like him back in the old days of NY politics including a group whose initials were NAN (National Action Network, I believe. Local Marxist NY City group).


16 posted on 04/26/2018 11:22:03 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: wmileo

....he reminds me of that joke about
the pig with a cork in his butt....


17 posted on 04/26/2018 11:42:30 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Olog-hai

Just like the unbiased Mainstream Media Nadler?

95% of so called Journalists are self admitted Democrats / Liberals / Progressives. Of the remaining 5%, four out of five are Liars.


18 posted on 04/26/2018 11:42:44 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: Olog-hai

Apparently he gets all of his fake news from fakebook and Screwgle and sNope.


19 posted on 04/27/2018 2:07:48 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Stalinists lie. Always


20 posted on 04/27/2018 2:09:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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