This is doing the rounds and raised a smile. I tend to think people become very concerned when rights are infringed..... when it's their own. Of course there will always be an angle on why 'its different this time', but an angle is all it is.

Private companies are private companies. They set their own terms, it's their virtual home. Under the first amendment people are entitled to freedom of speech and so have the perfect right to set up a hosting company and start from there. If there is a large enough audience for it, it will flourish and barriers will eventually be overcome. It sounds like Trump himself is even looking into doing this.

That said, I wouldn't say I view what's happening as a good thing, but further government intervention would likely be no better. I am uncomfortable with unified actions across platforms, as much from the perspective that it will drive views underground and they will become more extreme. Civil liberties such as private communication is next in line to be chipped away at, which would give these huge corporation and government further control over peoples lives. So yes, I wouldn't say that cheering on anything other than truly extreme individuals getting removed from these platforms is a good idea long term by any means.

I would much rather that instead of perpetually fragmenting due to the crack den 'here's your next fix' nature of these echo chambers that we looked at other models of social media network. Some, like examples in Taiwan actually use algorithms that match up 'common causes' between people of completely different political persuasions. That would seem to be healthy. Right now our social networks financially benefit from whatever revs us up the most, which unsurprisingly doesn't often align with our better nature and is not an accurate representation of typical people or real life.

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You can"t help feeling those on the right would be disappointed if a war didn"t occur under Joe Bidens presidency, and very disappointed if a civil war or partial civil war didn"t happen, sad times we are living in!

I've explained on here what I see as the best least violent future for the US.

There doesn't have to be violence but it's the nature of these things that real power is never given willingly.

Essentially I see this playing over years, not weeks or months as a slow fragmentation....but the left are going in so hard on Trump that I honestly think the immediate future and reactions are uncertain.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Parlour now shut down by major players.
As Reagan said
"If fascism ever comes to america,
it will come in the name of liberalism."
Ahead of his time maybe.

Here he is saying it.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

This is how it’s going to play out

Pope will be arrested shortly. It’s going to shock the globe
Biden won’t be president.
Major arrests all over the shop happen and trump will send out a movie type signal that dominates airwaves in USA. Not sure about U.K. but here’s hoping.

People will see the truth. Realise how bad things were. How badly the media lied about not only the election but elements of the pandemic aswell

People will have to swallow their pride who disliked trump as they’ll have no doubt in their minds soon that he saved (the team behind him really - military generals not republicans) us from real vax extermination from a real pandemic and real evil vaccines that were meant to kills us properly off

Sounds to good or outlandish to be true doesn’t it?

Well, it is true. Think of how you only ever see bill gates in pre recorded room videos never live in a news tv setting. Never once wearing a mask promoting his own vaccines. Because he was nabbed some time back. All that is happening now is an evil monster is trying to survive and pushed a pandemic and that is the corrupt dems and republicans together, media and some foreign leaders. All as one. All each bribed off or compromised with kids in forced videos

Half of Hollywood just about to go down with them. Mass arrests

And to bring it slightly back into the realm of normality before all this s*** happens and finally wakes up all the sheep, check this out

Trump signed it four days ago. Hasn’t mentioned it. Media hasn’t mentioned it. Not the type of thing to pass congress with no word mentioned.

So much happening behind the scenes

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Edited by matthau (10 Jan 2021 10.07pm)