Friday, October 16, 2020

Government Funding to Launch New Social Media Competition?

Big Tech Oligarchs Facebook and Twitter supress social media sharing  of the "New York Post" newspaper story spotlighting evidence of Hunter Biden's pay-for-influence deals with China (via an energy company).  I did not see this same suppression happening with Google, to be fair, but what Facebook and Twitter did   happens to be outright "interference in an election" and no less than 20 days before the official voting day.  How truly shameful!  Of course both Facebook and Twitter made feeble attempts to justify their actions by claiming their 'code of ethics' dictates that they "must verify the story before allowing it to be shared on their sites."  Facebook did so right from the start, Twitter only acquiessed after threats of facing congressional oversight.  That's really rich given all of the unverified mis-information regarding President Trump and conservatives that these hypocrites allow to be circulated on their social media sites unchecked, day in and day out (e.g., all things pertaining to Russian influence over President Trump and his administration, the President's leaked taxes, private conversations between the First Lady and her friends).   As it turns out Peter Schweizer, head of the "Government Accountability Institute", contacted Hunter Biden's former buisness partner, who is now serving time in prision.  Schweizer obtained permission to access this partner's email account in order to verify that the emails referenced in the "New York Post" story were legitimate.  It turns out they are.  So there's is the verification, double standard aside.



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In light of the ongoing egregious behavior being exhibited by these social media monopolies in consistantly defying their mandate NOT to operate as news and information platforms, I have to wonder if the United States Congress will finally do their JOB and re-classify Facebook and Twitter as the news and information platforms that they actually are.  The U.S. Congress has called the executives running these media companies in to testify before the U.S. Congress yet again, but given the lack of meaningful congressional action in this respect to date, I wouldn't hold my breath that anything will change?  Congressional bark tends to be worse than its actual bite?  This brings me to my next thought:  Why doesn't President Trump announce federal funding toward the end of  helping to launch some new upstarts that would then be able to compete -- from an $$$ perspective -- with these existing monopoly platforms?  Stranger things could happen .... It would be nice if the media giant FOX News would consider a venture into  this arena as well, instead of embarking on their latest gambling venture.  Very counter-intuitive ....





10/18/2020 Of course, it goes without saying that the very real and tangible evidence here points to the Chinese government's influence over a potential Biden Adminstration to an extent that puts the entire cooked-up, went absolutely nohwhere "Russia-collusion" narrative to shame.  What goes around comes around???

10/19/2020 Hah!  Where do you GO when you're backed up against the wall?  Answer:  Russian Collusion!  Dems are now claiming this whole story is "merely Russian fabrication, trying to interfere in our election."  All evidence to the contrary (e.g., receipt with H. Biden's signature for dropping off the laptop at repair center, request from Hunter Biden's lawyer asking the FBI if they can have the laptop back, and FBI Director unequivocally stating there is no evidence of Russian collusion in this particular instance), in a bind I guess you do what you know ... what seems to have worked for you on some level before.  Interestingly enough, this whole story would take on an entirely different life with a definitive word from Joe Biden denying these allegations outright, but we aren't hearing that.  Yet another instance where "We the People" don't seem to deserve knowing the answer to our wholly legitimate questions.  Don't know about you, but that's not the form of governance I am looking for in a Presidential administration.  Give me accountability each and every single day of the week!  Our leaders have an obligation to be forthcoming in matters concerning public policy, particularly when there are national security implications.  Our leaders are elected by us; they work for us, not in spite of us.

10/27/20  Turns out the FBI has had access to this laptop/had the laptop for over a year now and they have done absolutely nothing with it?!! Are you kidding me???  In what way should that give us confidence in our intelligence agencies, particularly the FBI ... even the rank and file??? Answer: it doesn't give us confidence and rather to the contrary it actually lends credence to heretofore conspiracy theories about the existence of a "Deep State" within our government. As written in the social-media censored New York Post Article, we have hard evidence, documents/emails and multiple witnesses suggesting the very real likelihood of a potential U.S. President, Joe Biden, being compromised by shady business dealings in buying influence --namely Chinese government interests-- while serving in the office of the Vice President of the United States under the Obama Administration.  And we are supposed to believe that Russia is the real threat to America??? Can you hear me laughing. loudly and with high-pitched concern?  Up is down, Left is right, In is out, Back is forward ... With the right spin, the gullible American people with believe anything.  Such a sad, crazy and outright dangerous  state of affairs!


10/17/20 Check out Parler.com --an alternative to Twitter (for twits? ; )

If we don't like the dishonesty in media and social media (e.g, Facebook and Twitter), the fastest way to bring them down IS TO WALK AWAY! Then watch them fold like house of cards they have become.

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