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Twitter bans Q

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Carl Herrera, Jul 22, 2020.

  1. Carl Herrera

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    ANNND you just made them feel right and they will get more extreme. Good job twitter... 1984 level assholes. Jack D is like a little kid who thinks HE is the one to control what is said and acceptable. What a joke. Bunch of Karens.
     
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    One Questions this unilateral action -- apparently a nerve was touched by an agent of truth.
     
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    Trump playing 1D Chess with this decision.

    75% of the Q accounts are probably bots.
     
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    Nah, it's more likely that they will just find a corner on the internet and because they can't reach more impressionable minds will stay locked in their echo chamber.

    Deplatforming seems pretty effective. The people that get banned from these places do not grow and get bigger. It's not like Alex Jones is this big unstoppable force now since getting banned. In fact, he's barely relevant.

    Have you ever read 1984 before too? Nothing about this is even close to anything in 1984. They can still speak, just not on Twitter's platform.
     
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    The Karens are the ones who throw a fit about a business deciding not to allow extremist conspiracies and fear mongering to poison its product, and cry about violation of the constitutional right to free speech whilst having no understanding of the constitution or what it protects. If you find reason to complain about this non-governmental enterprise's actions as 1984-level, you should be exponentially more outraged by objectively authoritarian moves made by the Trump administration, including direct attacks on actual constitutional rights and literal use of force against peaceful protestors (do not conflate with looters / violent protestors).
     
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    You are blaming twitter for you people’s extremism— People who are quite capable of conjuring up Pizza Gate all by themselves.
     
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    I'd give it maybe a 60% chance Qanon was black propaganda for intel, they sprung up after what seemed like their favourite guy, alex jones got canned, some of it was probably true, but so much of it was such weird bs, it serves a great purpose for making sure the true stuff couldn't be believed.

    Works like this

    I release 10 things, 1 of these things is true, 1 of these things is partially true, 6 of these things are mostly bs, and 2 of these things are pure BS

    If you mention that 1 true thing, well, you're some Qanon truther.
     
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    It’s not the government. Private companies do have the power to control what is said and is acceptable.
     
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    Unless they do things that freedom fighters like @Commodore don't like, and then they don't and it's illegal cancel culture.
     
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    Question.... who did you support in the Supreme Court Case regarding the Baker who refused to bake a Wedding Cake for a gay couple?

    How is this any different? Twitter is a private company. If someone is patronizing their place of business, and is doing something they deem offensive, don't they have the right to determine what is or is not offensive to them, and refuse to serve them?

    Why is it you are okay with government intervention in commanding private businesses in one case and not in another?
     
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    I feel like Q people just use Facebook and share YouTube videos. If those 2 platforms banned them majority of the followers would be too stupid to find it elsewhere.

    My mother would be calling me asking how to join that racist twitter Ted Cruz is always fluffing for.
     
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    Which of these do you think you're even pointing out that people are unaware? that twitter is a private company, or that the constitution applies to restrictions on government power? Imagine someone suggesting companies shouldn't be able to use slave labour to make their products, like say the uyghur's, and then some genius suggesting that the constitution doesn't apply to mah private company, or in foreign countries as if they're unaware, let's say, nike, is a private company, or that china is a foreign country.

    Hmm, perhaps we can have blackwater or whatever they call themselves these days to run camps for the illegals in mexico, do whatever they want to em and if anyone suggests doing that is wrong, do some stupid spiel about mah private company and how they don't understand the constitution,

    The rights in the constitution are principles, they don't exist because of the constitution, they existed before that, the constitution is an acknowledgement of them.

    When you argue legality to people talking about principles, the only thing it really demonstrates is a lack of principles *shrug*

    Riots of peace hey? You seem to be struggling with categorisation issues between the violent and non-violent, federal troops haven't done anything in regions with peaceful protesters, they have only be deployed in areas where rioting and attacks are taking place when its related to federal property, Obama certainly wouldn't have let these idiots breach a federal court house, but then the media wouldn't be preaching of 1933 Germany for stopping criminals either.
     
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    Not only that, but we say the Dems brought the unmarked police on Portland. That's not 1984 to these people. Lol


    Just hilariously ironic. That's all I'm saying.
     
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    Nice speech but the difference is that slavery is illegal and that's the entire difference right there.
     
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    "they brought it to themselves"
     
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    It is flat earther level stupidity.

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