Posted on 09/23/2017 10:40:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Legislation floated by two Democratic senators would enhance transparency for online political ads, requiring social media companies like Facebook and Twitter to keep a public file of them. […]
In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, the two (Sens. Mark Warner of Virginia and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota) say the legislation would also require companies to “make reasonable efforts” to ensure that election ads are not purchased directly or indirectly by foreign nationals. …
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DemocRATS thinking for you, again.
DemocRATS just trying to Rule over Amerika as they want it.
Meanwhile Palestinian boulder rooms raise money for Obama, a Saudi owns fox, the Brits and Merkel give money to Clinton. Facebook and Twitter and Google contribute massive amounts of work on their behalf... and that’s all cool.
Since where’re talking about Senate legislation, consider that if patriots were to support Pres. Trump in leading the states to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A), then any advertising supporting a senator would probably be regarded as a waste of money.
The state legislatures foolishly gave up their voices in Congress when they ratified 17A, effectively repealing the whole Constitution by doing so imo.
I’m glad they got repeal and replace, the border wall, tax cuts, infrastructure, jobs, the border wall and North Korea dealt with so they can work on trivialities like this.
This one has a good and a bad. The good is that the liberal media has been lying to the public for years and lately doesn’t even care that you can see it. So it is going to hamper getting ads purchased by the Chinese government and George Soros hammered. It is about time, the media and its questionable actions are held accountable for some of the distinct flat lies they have printed or said.
But, there are two bad parts to getting it in. The first amendment declares a freedom of speech. And Article 19 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be a show stopper.
But it is almost unbelievable that two liberal senators would start to take away one of the most secretive and powerful weapons they have to get what they want by duping the public.
rwood
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”No; this is quite meaningless. And if the UN were the “world government” that the left always wanted it to be, it would be a “positive liberty” that it could summarily take away at any time and for any reason, as well as being abused for immoral reasons; look at the wording and compare it to the USA’s First Amendment, which is in “negative liberty” format (Congress can never make a law taking your rights away from you).
“(Congress can never make a law taking your rights away from you).”
No they can’t unless it is a Constitutional amendment. But our government, under control of different people and theories has folded in front of the UN before.
According to the Berkley Law Center:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19
December 10, 1948
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
This means they cannot stop advertising ideas or statements based on where they are coming from. The current complaint is that the Russians have used advertising to represent or impose their needs within our election. Of course, this is done all over the world and the US has done it also. But that is what is triggering the bill in question.
And this action is a bill thus requiring it to be voted in. We can’t even take the action to clean up a mistake like the ACA that is draining our funds like social security and medicare to the point of extinction in less than 10 years because senators like McCain won’t assist in stopping it.
But let’s get back to my thought on this. This bill holds no advantage to the liberals. Factually, it is going to harm them more than help. The conservatives hold a great possibility in their hands to put the media right in front of them. Because it has been the left that has used the media to lie and cheat the public for years. But the right will fold because they are a self-destructive force to themselves and have been for decades because they want to keep their jobs more than they want to do what is correct. And our first amendment and article 19 of the UN are consistent with the freedom of what has been happening.
rwood
You’re calling the Republican establishment “the right”. They are not. They are squarely on the left.
Nope, I’m calling them what they got elected as, and now are turning against the people they made commitments to. And it is basically because they rode Trump’s coat tails to get there, now they are trying to undress him. And that sums up what we are talking about. The left would be foolish to give up their anonymity. Not being seeable is how they accomplish their work. The definitely not perceptible.
rwood
What they got elected as = what they lied about being in order to get elected. I agree that the left wants to hold onto their anonymity, but their actions are exposing them.
Books such as “The Naked Communist” and “The Conscience of a Conservative” warned us what was going on inside the GOP even back in the late 1950s.
What is needed is a ban or at least have the web browser easily block those annoying floating ads and movies as you scroll down the page!
The ad blockers were fighting back against those.
Problem is that an increasing number of ad blockers are programmed in some untrustworthy countries these days.
“but their actions are exposing them.”
Exposing them to who? As long as the lib media is allowed carte blanc to say what they wish with no retaliation, and they can drive it down the public’s throats until something else comes up to do the same, the public has been led into a society of as long as I’m fat and sassy, it isn’t important. And that attitude is why we fail. And until the GOP digs in their heals and starts pointing it out, and yelling it loud each and every time, nothing is going to happen.
But that takes guts. (Along with a little honesty) Something the GOP doesn’t have except for Trump. He is willing to stop and fight back when it happens. And he has nothing over his head to be held. He can walk away from this job in 4 or 8 years and go right back to work making millions and living as he pleases, where he pleases. And that indicates why if the left ever loses their media mouthpiece, they will be in deep skit. Trump knows this. And they know Trump knows this. And they are frightened.
So, being willing to give up their “lack of transparency” in the media, to me, is a truly idiotic move by the libs. Libs don’t fight in the open. They bushwack from the shadows using paid killers. They don’t have the guts to use their theologies in the public eye. But they do have the sense to know they can’t openly lie long and get away with it. Look at this year’s election. She lost because of who she is, not what she represents. And that’s how losing is done.
rwood
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