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Twitter giving conservatives the silent tweetment
NY Post ^ | August 08 2019 | Bethany Mandel

Posted on 08/08/2019 11:13:01 PM PDT by knighthawk

When Ben Goldey, a House communications director from Kentucky, saw a Facebook Live video of protesters outside of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s house, he immediately took a screen grab of the video and posted it to Twitter. The protest was led by left-wing activist Chanelle Helm, who chanted, “Just stab the ­motherf- -ker in the heart.”

A growing movement of radical left-wing activists has become bolder, and Goldey’s tweet highlighted the danger that Republican lawmakers are increasingly facing.

There was once a time when a mob of protesters outside of a senator’s personal residence chanting death threats would be national news, but now major companies entrusted with disseminating the news are actively silencing those trying to raise awareness of the mob.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: twitter

1 posted on 08/08/2019 11:13:01 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Public-utility status is coming to social media....whether they like it or not. And I won’t be surprised if it comes with a money-fee upon users.


2 posted on 08/08/2019 11:32:06 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

I think that’s the plan. Pay them a bagillion dollars and turn them into public utilities.


3 posted on 08/09/2019 12:55:38 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: knighthawk

When will lawmakers do anything about it???


4 posted on 08/09/2019 2:15:28 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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To: knighthawk

The writing was on the wall during the 2016 campaign when the media and congressional pubbies didn’t mind Hillary’s hired thugs beating up Trump supporters outside his rallies.

Oh, then the attempted assassination of 20+ Republicans at baseball practice was hardly a day’s worth of news.

Since the GOP doesn’t push back, why not beat up all Trumpsters where they’re found?


5 posted on 08/09/2019 2:58:14 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: knighthawk

In the 1760’s, the British had such a grip on information, it was necessary to create the “Committee’s of Correspondence”.

They would become critical to our nation’s birth, and the existence of our liberty!

Every conservative, every liberty loving, God loving citizen today, knows we are really in an ideological war with pure evil. We are at war with an enemy with no moral boundaries, which is threatening to pervert and destroy any children who are not grusomely aborted, and to subjugate and enslave us, or eliminate us all.

While conservatives are fundamentally “free market”, we are facing massive, deeply immoral, anti-American, left-wing, globalist corporations, which are so large, they are in reality corporate utilities, often serving the leftists globalists within our own IC and government.

While I highly doubt it will ever happen, if we are to have even a fighting chance to pass liberty on to our children, as a practicality, we must somehow establish a new wave of safe digital outlets, for liberty lovimg, God loving, American citizens. We need to stop subsidizing these raging anti-American digital beasts. We need large scale conservative, family safe communications, and large scale digital commerce. And it needs to remain resolute to the core.

Right now, we really are feeding the very organizations which seek to destroy us.

“The pen”, really is as mighty, or more, than the sward.

Oh well... I can at least dream a little.


6 posted on 08/09/2019 3:10:59 AM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: knighthawk

In the 1760’s, the British had such a grip on information, it was necessary to create the “Committee’s of Correspondence”.

They would become critical to our nation’s birth, and the existence of our liberty!

Every conservative, every liberty loving, God loving citizen today, knows we are really in an ideological war with pure evil. We are at war with an enemy with no moral boundaries, which is threatening to pervert and destroy any children who are not grusomely aborted, and to subjugate and enslave us, or eliminate us all.

While conservatives are fundamentally “free market”, we are facing massive, deeply immoral, anti-American, left-wing, globalist corporations, which are so large, they are in reality corporate utilities, often serving the leftists globalists within our own IC and government.

While I highly doubt it will ever happen, if we are to have even a fighting chance to pass liberty on to our children, as a practicality, we must somehow establish a new wave of safe digital outlets, for liberty lovimg, God loving, American citizens. We need to stop subsidizing these raging anti-American digital beasts. We need large scale conservative, family safe communications, and large scale digital commerce. And it needs to remain resolute to the core.

Right now, we really are feeding the very organizations which seek to destroy us.

“The pen”, really is as mighty, or more, than the sward.

Oh well... I can at least dream a little.


7 posted on 08/09/2019 3:10:59 AM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: Jonty30

“Pay them a bagillion dollars and turn them into public utilities.”

Sue the heck out of them while turning them into a public utility. Force them to post a very large bond while the lawsuit is in place. Put a hold on trading while this is going on. This way individual wealthy libs cannot short the stock for their own profit. Even go so far as to list these shareholders.


8 posted on 08/09/2019 3:14:59 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is President and CEO of America, Inc.)
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To: knighthawk

As Twitter morphs into a Democratic Underground echo chamber its popularity has begun the great decline of all socialist societies.

Face it, socialists hate everyone, even themselves.


9 posted on 08/09/2019 4:36:26 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: knighthawk
I dont understand why this isnt a free speech issue. I know “tech” have been granted “special” privileges as “private companies” but its free to post and they have millions of participants. Can someone explain why this cant be turned into a free speech issue?
Thanks
10 posted on 08/09/2019 5:00:35 AM PDT by T-Boy (Godspeed for our troops.)
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To: knighthawk

Not just a Senator, but the Senate Majority Leader.


11 posted on 08/09/2019 5:13:23 AM PDT by Lopeover (We Are #TRUMPSTRONG)
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To: T-Boy
Can someone explain why this cant be turned into a free speech issue?

It's the government that can't limit free speech. A private company can (according to the USC) publish, or not publish, whatever it wants.

This is the concept underlying the Bill of Rights: Don't limit people's right to communicate with each other, whether they're individuals or corporations. Otherwise, who is to be the judge of whether FaceBook or Twitter is letting enough conservatives, or the right conservatives, express their views? We can't realistically put the Swamp in the business of policing its own policing of social media, if you see what I mean.

Competition by self-motivated businesses and individuals works. Did Chick-Fil-A survive the Left's attempt to destroy it? It profited from it.

There's no substitute for conservative social-media platforms and bigger conservative conventional-media entities. The markets are there.

12 posted on 08/09/2019 5:33:55 AM PDT by SamuraiScot (am)
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To: SamuraiScot
Thanks for the reply. I understand your point. I was thinking of the courts, not the congress, and agree with you on the opportunity. We have many more “traditional Americans” than “anti-americans” and Trump has been the only one to effectively communicate to them. Now the “TECHs” are fighting back once traditional Americans start using to gain traction on their left platforms.
13 posted on 08/09/2019 5:53:23 AM PDT by T-Boy (Godspeed for our troops.)
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To: American in Israel
Face it, socialists hate everyone, even themselves.

Logic is thus:

"Human nature sucks. I am human. Therefore I suck."


14 posted on 08/09/2019 6:17:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: CincyRichieRich
When will lawmakers do anything about it???

They're too busy trying to destroy Trump.

Priorities, priorities...

15 posted on 08/09/2019 6:42:04 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (AOC: The brain of a tea bisquit)
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