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Gab Dumped by Tech Companies Over Synagogue Shooter Posts but Twitter, Facebook, and Other Social-Media Giants Get a Pass: Reason Roundup
Plus: Brazil's worrisome new president, the long-tail of the housing crisis, and Brett Kavanaugh's replacement
Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.29.2018 9:30 AM
(@getongab/Twitter)
@getongab/Twitter
Social media selectively blamed for threats and violence. On Saturday, a man opened fire at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue, killing 11 people while shouting slurs about Jews. According to the online trail he left behind, the shooter—46-year-old Robert Bowers—disliked Donald Trump because he thought the president was "a globalist, not a nationalist" and beholden to Jewish interests. Bowers sometimes posted this and other deranged, anti-Semitic comments to the social-media platform Gab—which says it has been "work[ing] tirelessly with the FBI and DOJ on this case over the past two days to ensure justice is served."
Meanwhile, information about the online life of the "MAGA bomber" has also been trickling out. Cesar Sayoc Jr., the 56-year-old man behind last week's wave of psuedo-pipebomb mailings, was apparently quite active on Twitter and Facebook, where he posted increasingly out-of-touch and anti-Democrat screeds and memes for years before sending at least 14 potentially explosive packages to prominent liberals such as the Clintons, Barack Obama, George Soros, and Robert de Niro.
The New York Times found numerous instances of Sayoc sending Twitter threats. And at least one person reported these threats to the company but was ignored. In contrast, Bowers—despite many distasteful posts on Gab—does not seem to have directly threatened anyone before going on his murderous rampage.
Guess which social-media platform is taking more heat…
Despite the fact that Twitter and Facebook are just as "complicit" in enabling Sayoc as Gab is in giving voice to Bowers, payment processing companies have not been pulling their services from these social giants and supposedly enlightened liberal voices haven't been calling for their demise—yet Gab is getting both.
Web hosting company GoDaddy dropped Gab, giving it just 24 hours to find a new host or be disappeared from the web. As a result, Gab has temporarily gone down. The company posted the following statement yesterday:
pic.twitter.com/MR39HQflIE
— Gab.com (@getongab) October 29, 2018
Since Saturday, cloud company Joyent, payment processors PayPal and Stripe, and blogging platform Medium have all ceased doing business with Gab. "When a site is allowing the perpetuation of hate, violence or discriminatory intolerance, we take immediate and decisive action," said PayPal spokesman Justin Higgs in a statement.
Gab's temporary demise has spawned gleefully idiotic gloating from certain "progressive" and "anti-fascist" circles, which seem unconcerned that Gab is getting different treatment than its more entrenched and establishment competitors.
Gab has a reputation as a Trump-friendly platform and has long attracted anger, revulsion, and mockery for embracing the alt-right and anyone shunted from other social sites. Gab's treatment this weekend compared to the treatment of bigger and just-as-hate-filled platforms makes it abundantly clear that this isn't actually about stopping "hate speech" or holding social platforms "accountable" so much as shutting down a disfavored platform.
Those cheering now won't be doing so for long. The more that web platforms and tools are treated as synonymous with the speakers of the content they broker, the more that radicals right and left, social justice causes, and marginalized communities of all sorts will be shut out of the conversation.
Yup. This. I wrote about this a few months ago, suggesting we should be thinking about this before it got to the level where we *needed* to think about it. https://t.co/jHsmHJpiJn Perhaps time to restart that conversation… https://t.co/zLnDt3ePgK
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) October 28, 2018
Trump is considering Neomi Rao, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, to replace Brett Kavanaugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. "The judges of the D.C. Circuit can have an extraordinary impact over the direction of the country," notes Axios' Jonathan Swan. "Because of this, people often refer to the D.C. Circuit as the second-most powerful court in the United States, behind only the Supreme Court."
Americans are staying put. U.S. homeowners are staying in their houses for the longest stretches on record, according to MarketWatch. More:
Across the country, homes that sold in the third quarter of this year had been owned an average of 8.23 years, according to an analysis from Attom Data Solutions. That's almost double the length of time a home sold in 2000, when Attom's data begin, had been owned.
It's partly the long tail of the housing crisis that's created stagnant conditions and a less dynamic housing market, Attom spokesman Daren Blomquist told MarketWatch.
As of the second quarter, 2.2 million homeowners were still underwater on their mortgages, meaning they owe more to their lending institution than the home is worth, according to data from CoreLogic. Another 550,000 have 5% equity or less, meaning that if that property were to be sold the transaction costs, such as a real-estate agent's commission, would likely leave the homeowner with nothing.
Brazil has elected far-right figure Jair Bolsonaro as its next president. Trump is pleased. Those who care about human rights, not so much.
Jesus, Brazil's new president is horrifying. https://t.co/tWxBxHo5YW pic.twitter.com/xSF64hY5Xu
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) October 28, 2018
Kanye West's new "Blexit" campaign urges blacks to leave the Democratic Party.
Broke: gender studies departments. Woke:
New #PolComm Forum article: The Case for @FoxNews Studies, by @mattyglesias @voxdotcom https://t.co/XOPzoanRiy pic.twitter.com/JC5wjddyXk
— APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions (@poli_com) October 27, 2018
When legal pot and NIMBYs collide.
Does no one in the White House understand umbrellas?
pic.twitter.com/FYUlFTcB9I
— Jon Wurster (@jonwurster) October 27, 2018
CORRECTION: This post initially identified Bowers as a supporter of the group QAnon though he appears to have been somewhat critical of the group.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown is an associate editor at Reason.
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Fist of Etiquette
October.29.2018 at 9:30 am
Social media selectively blamed for threats and violence.
Some day things will cycle around to automatically blaming the actual person.
Bee Tagger
if only social media would let us
If Youtube hadn't pushed so many groups like this away, someone may have been able to prevent this by alerting authorities. I'd never even heard of 'gab' until this morning.
Rufus The Monocled
"Bowers sometimes posted these and other deranged, anti-Semitic comments to the social-media platform"
So no different than left-wing progressives who spew anti-semitism, right? I mean, Farrakhan flaunts his racism in a mocking manner now and still the gutless jerk offs at Twitter don't touch him.
Gofuckdaddy….and PayPal. Also cowards of the faux-righteous kind.
Meanwhile, information about the online life of the "MAGA bomber" has also been trickling out.
This story is all but officially out of the news cycle.
loveconstitution1789
Michael Moore has footage of Cesar Soyac
Hold on to your foil hats. Michael Moore has footage of Cesar Soyac chanting down CNN.
Web hosting company GoDaddy dropped Gab, giving it just 24 hours to find a new host or be disappeared from the web.
They can even unperson fellow tech companies? That's cold.
Nothing like some good ol' 3rd party government tyranny.
wreckinball
"where he posted increasingly out-of-touch and anti-Democrat screeds and memes"
So now apparently is the time to clamp down on 1A? I guess only certain screeds are objectionable. I mean Louis Fucking Farrakhan is still on social media.
Reason is a freaking joke!
Sarah Palin's Buttplug
Obviously the shooter's screed was okay.
Killing those eleven Jewish people must have crossed a line though.
Jerryskids
Gab's a game-changer if it actually allows you to reach out across the internet and kill people. Who's the CEO of Gab, William Gibson?
BestUsedCarSales
Billy Gibbons oddly enough
October.29.2018 at 10:11 am
Sutter Cane
We know Lefties always have a final solution.
So if he used a bull horn to communicate his trash talk we ban all bull horns? Why do you frequent a libertarian site?
Right wing bullhorns at the very least
And assault bullhorns – does anybody other than law enforcement and the military NEED to make loud claxon noises?
I'm not for banning anything, you imbecile.
The "line" I am referring to is the line Gab's business partners drew. Leave it as a matter for private companies to resolve?
Why the fuck are you here, you wingnut?
Buttplugger would stand them against the wall and execute them if he could.
Good coverage ENB.
Better headline:
Right-wing social network Gab.com goes offline after Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
https://goo.gl/V5CASq
bevis the lumberjack
That noise you just heard was ENB's point whizzing by way over your head…?.
MOVE THOSE GOAL POSTS!
See how easy it is to post a meaningless non sequitur?
TuIpa
^ OMFG He still doesn't get it!!!
Did you actually read what she wrote? All the way to the end?
I'm not "cheering" the shutdown of Gab, you moron.
I think you wingnuts should have a place to vent.
You don't even know what os going on!! Loloolol
Actually, you were cheering the shutdown of Gab, but that's not what I said.
And calling someone who calls you out a wingnut is the typical refuge of a political zealot ninny. "I have nothing of substance to respond to you with so I'll just call you a name". Particularly since I argue with the rightists here regularly as well.
I wonder if Reason is worried about getting shut down because they published your anti-Muslim screed yesterday?
Actually, you were cheering the shutdown of Gab
That is why you and Tulpa are so confused (again).
You obviously don't know me. I LOVE hate speech. I am a solid proponent of hate speech. I am an Open Society advocate.
(about 99% of my hate speech is directed toward religion/superstition)
"That is why you and Tulpa"
Name checking me this much means I am obviously getting to you by pointing out that you're a leftist.
It's why you keep lying about me, I'm right about you and you hate it!
your anti-Muslim screed yesterday?
It was an anti-Islam screed.
Islam is a belief system which subjects people to tyranny.
Incredulous
Haha, I doubt you will ever understand free speech.
Kanye West's Pro-Republican 'Blexit' T-Shirts Call for Black Exodus From Democratic Party/a>
Oh SHIT! Black people talking about being free from the Democratic Party? This does not bode well for Democrats letting their slaves decide who to vote for.
BTW: Check out some of the comments. Interesting Black folk racism.
Don't fear for the Democratic party, they've got fresh voters dying every day. They've even got some newly minted voters marching this way!
Democrats: Let the niggers go. We got a caravan of that can replace them on the plantation.
The writing is on the wall.
I tend to pay attention to what Democrat leadership does. They know before anyone what their supporters are doing or want. For example thousands of black folks de-registering as Democrats. The MSM was not covering that much until yesterday. I figured they would ignore it but I think they are trying to rally those that have not left to make sure they vote or social pressure to bring the dissenting blacks back. I see the phrase Uncle Tom being thrown around a bit recently.
That and this funny peer pressure line about black folks kissing so much white ass, that it turns a black person's lips white. Hilarious! Ironic how Democrats that are black are accusing black folks that leave names when the Democratic Party was the party of slavery.
If I was black, I would be hitting that point constantly.
Fun fact: Some AmerIndians don't use $20 bills because Andrew Jackson is on it.
Andrew Jackson was a Democrat of course but many AmerIndians still vote Democrat.
Kanye West's new "Blexit" campaign urges blacks to leave the Democratic Party.
Only Kanye could go to China and tell them the Chinese suck.
A Thinking Mind
October.29.2018 at 5:22 pm
But he'll lettya finish.
"When a site is allowing the perpetuation of hate, violence or discriminatory intolerance, we take immediate and decisive action," said PayPal spokesman Justin Higgs in a statement.
Had to issue a statement because there's not enough Botox in the world to actually allow somebody to say that out loud with a straight face.
Same folks who are silent on Louis Farrakhan. I defend his right even though he is an anti-semetic scumbag but actually stay silent when this scum is honored. I guess because he;s black and its racist to call out a black anti-Semite or something.
Earth Skeptic
Yep. Check your Intersectionality score card. Black beats Jew.
Vulgar Madman
I think the main difference is that they're actually afraid of Farrakhan.
? APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions (@poli_com) October 27, 2018
Do people really not see the irony in this?
The first paragraph seemed almost worrisomely out of touch. So I stopped reading.
For years the left had a lock on national journalism, but apparently none of them recognized it as that. They were reporting what is correct and seemed to feel that any dissenting opinion was so incorrect that nobody but a cretin would have it or have need to hear it. Now that there is a national outlet – a singular outlet – informed by a different ideological outlook, it is an anomaly so very different that it needs to be studied as such.
To believe that journalists or the entertainment industry never before had influence in the halls of power is absurd.
A single outlet that gets, on its best night, gets about 2 million viewers. But just like Kanye, can't have anybody leave the plantation or others might start to get ideas.
If Fox News is as nakedly partisan as this indicates, I would think that would make it all the less dangerous since their influence would have a pretty low ceiling on how many would buy into it.
Those viewers would have swung the election the right way you know.
colorblindkid
I don't know anybody who watches Fox News and doesn't think they're biased. Even the people who buy their BS hook line and sinker will admit that they are biased, but making up for the lies of other biased outlets.
More troublesome than those people are the number of people who think the NYT and most of the press is actually biased TOWARDS Republicans. The Vox/HuffPo/Buzzfeed crowd is completely unaware of their own biases. They are so self-righteous and certain that they are the only correct ones it is ridiculous. That is far more concerning because it is more delusional.
Fox is totally biased, but they're just acting as a counterweight to the other 95% of the press that is to the left. The people who think the MSM is actually balanced are insane… The people that are so far left they say the NYT etc are "right wing" are soooooo delusionally out of touch with reality it is unbelievable. But they do actually exist :/
That article would take a book to properly Fisk. Everything that somehow makes Fox News uniquely partisan has its opposite counterpart at CNN, MSNBC and CBS, from Dan Rather and Brian Stelter to Donna Shalala and John Brennan to any airport concourse and hotel breakfast room.
1) No mention of The Simpsons killing off Apu?
2) And the #walkaway march?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4hXix76YeI
They really killed Apu??? What a bunch of fucking assholes! They killed a character because he's not PC, despite him actually being realistic in many ways, AND not being a bad person at all. It's not like he was a negative stereotype, he was a good hard working family man. I fucking hate the left. Fortunately I haven't watched the Simpsons in like 15 years, so I guess I'll survive.
Don't look at me!
So, it begins….
Trump understand the Rihanna version
Rihanna 'Umbrella'
Democrats need to sponsor a 'Tech Company Freedom Act' which would allow tech companies NOT to serve bigots speech – it worked for the GOP on the cake thing.
MSNBC, CNN, WaPo, NYT what else do you want. I think the plug is restricting flow to your brain.
At least you aren't pretending not to be a leftist anymore.
Why are you against Tech Company Freedom?
Why do you and pretend you aren't a leftist?
OpenBordersLiberal-tarian
But recall what you wrote only yesterday: "Oh, and lest anyone think I am a 'progressive' – humanity needs to shitcan that miserable gutter-born belief system of Islam the most." Your frequent Islamophobic comments would certainly qualify as bigoted hate speech.
#LibertariansAgainstIslamophobia
AKA #LibertariansForMisogynyKillingGays&Blasphemers;
Longtobefree
October.29.2018 at 12:29 pm
Just for the record:
A phobia is an irrational fear
It is rational to fear a religion that has as a core belief killing you if you do not convert to that religion.
We used to have something like that. It was called the "the right of the people peaceably to assemble" clause of the First Amendment. A relic of the 1960's.
Ironic, considering that it was probably more violent then.
Gab has a reputation as a Trump-friendly platform and has long attracted anger, revulsion, and mockery for embracing the alt-right and anyone shunted from other social sites.
Embracing? Or not censoring?
Its "correct speak" time now. But the censorship will be very fair.
Imagine if no place like Gab existed and the shooting had happened? My God. Imagine how hard the investigation would be… They might have to do footwork.
Maybe even legwork… Rereading my post footwork doesn't seem the right word.
Duh. In our ever improving partisan universe, unless you loudly and frequently denounce something, then you must be a dedicated supporter.
There's no reason to pretend Gab hasn't actively embraced the alt-right.
Or to pretend you aren't crying about it.
Actively embraced? Or not actively censored?
So providing customers services now is "actively embracing" them? There is no use in pretending you are capable of making an intelligent or honest argument Cathy.
Yes, they allowed the people who had been deplatformed to be on there… And since almost everybody being kicked off of other platforms for politics has been right wing, that's mostly what they ended up with. However leftists are more than free to go there and rage against them too, which is the difference between Gab and FB/Twitter which only censors one side.
ANTIFA should sign up for Gab en masse to troll Nazis.
chemjeff radical individualist
No, embracing. Gab's own account posts pro-Trump and alt-right memes and posts on Twitter.
ZOMG, the founder of Gab isn't a communist! THE HORROR!
As far as "alt-right," that can mean many things to many people. Posting a "lock her up" meme, is that alt-right? I know they're certainly Hillarious! But he's not a white nationalist, which is what the MSM has decided to use as the official definition. He has not posted any "Gas the kykes, race war now!" memes or the like.
So if the thing that makes him sooooo horrible is that he's not a prog… Well, I don't know that that's much of an insult.
Facebook has another quarter of plummeting subscribers.
Alphabet has another quarter of plummeting subscribers and users.
It sucks. My stock options locked in right around the peak. Please everyone, donate to my GoFundMe.
Yes, you are the only poor bastard to lose money in the stock market.
I know. Please donate to my GoFundMe.
Ken Shultz
"46-year-old Robert Bowers?identified as a member of the fringe conspiracy group QAnon and disliked Donald Trump because he thought the president was "a globalist, not a nationalist" and beholden to Jewish interests."
As I recall, "beholden to Jewish interests" was part of two criticisms from Bowers. One was that Trump had surrounded himself with Jews in his administration. The other goes back to the criticism of Bannon and Breitbart, which has always been unabashedly pro-Israel.
Kudos to ENB for mentioning this at all. God knows none of this fits into the ongoing media narrative about Trump being a racist and Breitbart being full of Nazis, so it'll mostly be brushed aside in the mainstream coverage.
That being said, the shooting happened over the weekend, which is a year ago in media years. The mail bombing happened before the weekend, which makes it ancient history now. By Wednesday, this story will probably fall out of the coverage completely.
If am old enough to remember when accusing the President of being beholden to Jewish interests and going to war in Iraq for Isreal at the behest of evil Jewish Neocons was something all of the cool kids did. But appearently now it is something only evil Rightwingers do.
I don't suppose it behooves Trump to tweet about this, but part of him must want to make a spectacle of Bowers denouncing him. The fact is that Bowers hates Trump because Trump isn't a racist.
In Southern parlance, people might say that if Bowers hates Trump, then Trump can't be all bad.
The claim that Jews are fifth columnists forever getting the US into wars for the benefit of Isreal is the stock and trade of the left. If anyone is responsible for this other than the lunatic who did it, and for the record I don't think anyone is, it is the left far more than the right that makes the claims this guy was making.
And yet they have historical problems with the right going back through the Holocaust and the pogroms of eastern Europe.
I understand this is why there's an Israel.
"I understand this is why there's an Israel
Why trust the left or the right, which amounts to depending on the kindness of strangers (a historically unsafe bet!), when we could form Israel and trust ourselves instead?
I'm becoming more and more convinced that the vast majority of criticism of Israel is indeed pure anti-semitism by a different name. The undue attention, the pure hatred at Israel for committing "crimes" that are far less severe than half the countries on Earth do on a regular basis, and everything else can only be explained by anti-Semitism.
It absolutely is. The same people who endorse BDS turn right around and are okay with trading with China and Saudi Arabia and Iran and a million other countries that are guilty of a thousand times worse sins than Isreal. They apply a double standard because Isreal is Jewish.
There is an Israel because the UN said there will be an Israel.
Azathoth!!
And yet they have historical problems with the left going back through the Holocaust and the pogroms of eastern Europe.
The European 'right' is not the same as the American 'right'. And the European right had few problems with jews.
It was the European left, and it's precursors that was behind the pogroms. And, in both instances, as today, it is loyalty that lies at the base of the problem.
Jews cannot be loyal to/part of X because they're loyal to being Jews.
Frankly, I think Israel DOES deserve a lot of criticism for doing a lot of sketchy stuff… And they very much HAVE encouraged us to undertake wars they think are in their interests.
I don't like either of those things.
The difference is I WILL call out Saudi Arabia, or China, etc as doing the same things. Or our European allies who ALSO expect us to spend billions on military stuff to support THEIR interests.
I do think a lot of people bag on Israel because they don't like the Jews, but that doesn't describe everybody. Some people do it out of actual principle. I don't want the US to get into a war in the Eastern Europe over German interests anymore than I want us to blow up countries in the Middle East for Israeli interests.
You are guilty of cultural appropriation for attempting to speak for southerners.
You are banned forever from the web.
I grew up in the South.
Well then that's even worse! You MUST be a neo-Confederate Nazi!!! ALL Southerners are, so the media tells me, so it MUST be true!!!
Amazon has a quarter of lower users.
Despite the fact that Twitter and Facebook are just as "complicit" in enabling Sayoc as Gab is in giving voice to Bowers, payment processing companies have not been pulling their services from these social giants and supposedly enlightened liberal voices haven't been calling for their demise?yet Gab is getting both.
Then it is time to hold Go Daddy responsible for EVERYTHING they host.
You don't want to be a content-neutral platform? Then live with the consequences.
Exactly. How fucken retarded are they? Are they that blinded by their own faux-moral-righteous outrage?
Like I said, if they were truly all that and a bag of KETCHUP potato chips, they'd apply their logic (if you can call it that) equally and without prejudice across the board.
Which basically would leave them in tatters.
I swear I loathe these evil ignorant pricks.
Stephen Lathrop
Indeed, it is time to renew time-tested standards, and hold all publishers?online publishers alike with ink-on-paper publishers?for everything they publish. But to do so privately, according to the customary legal standards governing defamation and copyright infringement. There must be no room for government control of speech, nor for any government compelled speech.
Oh, that horse is out of the barn.
And paypal should lose all access to the banking system. As should all banks refusing to work with gun companies.
You would be a vengeful tyrant for sure.
Youre taking advantage of our banking system that i pay for. Your personal views mean shit to me. Use your own money to virtue signal, not mine.
chipper me timbers
"our banking system that i pay for. "
smdh
Youre taking advantage of our banking system that i pay for.
I wonder if you have clearly thought through the implications of what you are advocating here.
Content neutral financial institutions?
Yup, very much have.
If you want to refuse to work with a legal product, then a bank can happily pull out of the FDIC, the Federal Reserve, and our entire financial infrastructure and make it on their own.
Virtue signal on your own dime.
Where is it written that participation in public life must necessarily mean endorsing all legal activities?
You are dangerously close to endorsing "bake the cake" coercion of businesses to cater to gay weddings even if the owners conscientiously object to doing so. "Well if they don't want to bake the cake, they can refuse all public services!"
You can't really have it both ways. If PayPal must be forced to do business with people that they don't like, then Masterpiece Cake Shop must also be forced to do business with people that they don't like.
They're using federal backstops for their entire operation.
If a bank likes virtue signalling, again, do it on their own dime.
What federal programs did the baker take? The feds weren't paying him to make cakes. He paid his own bills.
Banks, on the other hand, have major benefits from the Feds. We cover a lot of their idiotic decisions.
Not even remotely comparable.
PayPal has limited access to FDIC. Get rid of that entirely and we can talk.
damikesc, why does a bank enjoy less moral agency with regard to legal products than a retail chain, like Hobby Lobby?
So a Trump hating lunatic murders a bunch of Jews in Pittsburgh. As a result of this, the party that has Kieth Ellison as its national co-chair, is totally fine with its top officials paling around with Louis Farakhan, and counts BDS as part of its mainstream is now going to lecture Republicans about their Anti-Semitism problem. You know, Republicans; the party that elected a President whose daughter is an Orthadox Jew and who is the most pro Isreal President in history.
Yeah, we live in the crazy times.
Unsurprisingly, Radley "Red" Balko is having the vapors over the democratic election of a pro-market and pro-gun candidate in Brazil.
No kidding? What it is Balko's bitch about the guy? What could be so bad about him that it would cause anyone in this country to care?
One example is posted above.
Cry More Cathy!!! Crying as usual!!
Get back to me when anything actually happens. Also, i don't recall Balko ever saying a word about the various cheerleaders for Chavez, even though he said and did much worse than this.
Balko doesn't seem to think very much about these things and just emotes whatever he thinks the rest of his media peers expect him to emote.
"Get back to me when anything actually happens."
The guy has been sending the military around pulling down signs that are anti-fascist or pro-democracy. He's also sent the military into college classrooms to shut down classes for which he doesn't like the content. I guess that should count as something happening. Sounds like a bad dude……
He did this as a candidate? That is a pretty good trick. How exactly does one do all of that before they have any authority or power?
Looks like he's doing it as President-elect. It's fucking Brazil. Things work differently there.
Regardless, it's happening, which is what you asked for.
Take a look at the Twitter feed for @Castriotar. Or just deny it because it conflicts with your worldview. No sweat off my ass either way.
I am afriad you are going to have to come up with a link and some explanation how he is doing all of this stuff, despite not being in office beyond "its Brazil"
I'm afraid you'd prefer to just keep your eyes closed and your fingers in your ear. I told you where to look and everything. If you don't want to know, then you don't want to know.
No you didn't. Show me a link. You are the one making the point not me. It is not up to me to check your work. Show me a link to something other than the voices in your head.
I don't know who Balko is, but Bolsonaro is indeed terrifying. I hadn't heard of him until this week, but almost every headline I read about his victory called him "far right." So it has to mean he's more than just pro-market and pro-gun.
OMG! TRUMP LIKES HIM!
Brazil has elected far-right figure Jair Bolsonaro as its next president. Trump is pleased.
Far-right?
Many Brazilians are concerned that Bolsonaro, an admirer of the dictatorship and a defender of its use of torture on leftist opponents, will trample on human rights, curtail civil liberties and muzzle freedom of speech.
Yeah, far right. The Trump bromance will begin soon.
Admiring dictatorships, endorsing torture and using the power of government to go after his enemies? Sounds like Brazil found themselves another Obama. You should be happy Shreek.
"will trample on human rights, curtail civil liberties and muzzle freedom of speech."
Brazil elected Google?
Sevo
Sarah Palin's Buttplug|10.29.18 @ 9:54AM|#
"…Many Brazilians are concerned that Bolsonaro, an admirer of the dictatorship and a defender of its use of torture on leftist opponents, will trample on human rights, curtail civil liberties and muzzle freedom of speech…"
So long as it fits turd's lies, s/he's more than willing to use '…some people say…' as evidence.
There is nothing sinister in private editing, including viewpoint-based private editing. Calls for compelled speech, on the other hand, are sinister.
Crazy ranter former Gab commenters are always free to publish themselves. The internet has made that easy, and essentially cost free to do.
All solutions to problems of this sort need to be private, free market solutions. That is the only way to keep government from trying to control speech. That must not happen.
Agreed. But since they are protected from the DMCA because they are "platforms": not "publishers", this censoring becomes, well, "publishing". A platform doesn't limit what appears. Publishers do.
So, treat them as publishers. Which they are. As far as Paypal et al, if you're going to discriminate, you should lose ALL access to our banking system.
Also, the social media companies are out there asking to be regulated right now.
I guess it's the eternal fate of libertarians to oppose government regulation of companies that are asking to be regulated by the government.
And the LP should not do so. Let the idiots suffer. Just make sure that companies that do NOT want to be regulated avoid it.
Market sollutions are great as long as the platforms are honest about their standards to their customers and do not create cartels and monopolies to prevent competition. The problem with Twitter is not that they are run by the worst sort of SJW trash and engage in blatent and systematic viewpoint discrimination. As you correctly point out, that is their right. The problem is that Twitter's TOS claims to be viewpoint nuetral and they are effectively defrauding their users.
The problem with Youtube is that because it is owned by Google, it is pretty close to a monopoly on that sort of platform on the internet. Worse, Google just buys up any competitor such that it is impossible for a rival platform to become a serious alternative to youtube.
Why Trump hasnt gone after Google on anti-trust grounds i do not get. I do not see anti-trust as anti-Libertarian,
Chuckles the Snarky Piggy
I do not see anti-trust as anti-Libertarian,
And yet it is…
Not at all. A monopoly is every inch as anti-freedom as a dictatorship.
A monopoly is every inch as anti-freedom as a dictatorship.
You are right. But only in the sense that only a government can sustain a monopoly when it is no longer the most efficient market solution.
Here. Try reading the essay that this quote comes from, you might learn something about actual economics.
The world of antitrust is reminiscent of Alice's Wonderland: everything seemingly is, yet apparently isn't, simultaneously. It is a world in which competition is lauded as the basic axiom and guiding principle, yet "too much" competition is condemned as "cutthroat." It is a world in which actions designed to limit competition are branded as criminal when taken by businessmen, yet praised as "enlightened" when initiated by the government. It is a world in which the law is so vague that businessmen have no way of knowing whether specific actions will be declared illegal until they hear the judge's verdict?after the fact.
"Antitrust", essay at the National Association of Business Economists (25 September 1961); published in Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
The libertarian argument one can make for many of these entities is that they are only able to maintain their borderline monopoly levels of power because of government interference. The DMCA has shielded Google, FB, Twitter, etc from being sued into oblivion… Yet they're actually being allowed to slide on what even that law actually says, since they are not living up to the standards of being platforms vs publishers, not to mention their own terms of service. I DO hope some people with cash sue the crap out of them for the TOS stuff honestly.
No, the problem with Twitter and Youtube (and FB and all the rest) is that they are run by and for idiots. And they make the idiots feel important. So they will not shut up.
John, agree with most of what you say. I urge you to keep your focus on the monopoly bit. The way to fix that, and at the same time enable competition and opinion diversity among platforms, is to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. That is the section which enables publication without editing, and thus encourages internet giantism. If Facebook had to read everything it published, it would have to get much smaller to do it.
Once that is out of the way, today's monopolisitc giants will probably shrink dramatically on their own, clearing the field for competitors. If they don't, then by all means hit them with antitrust sanctions. As even the most enthusiastic internet boosters are beginning to understand, communications monopolies have their downside.
That is a good point. Actually, I think they just need to enforce the original DCMCA as it was written. If they do so much as ban anyone, then declare them liable for any copyright violations or any other content on their service. Either open it to everyone or be responsible for everything that is on there.
The problem with Youtube is that because it is owned by Google, it is pretty close to a monopoly on that sort of platform on the internet.
Bullshit. Monopolies naturally exist where they are the most efficient market solution. The power to hold on to a monopoly when it is no longer the most efficient solution only comes from the end of a gun. Legislation or executive order create that power and police enforce it. Market solutions are the only ethical solutions.
The only 'problem' is if Google, Paypal, etc., are being coerced into taking action based on the threat of regulation if they don't. I have seen plenty of speculation, but very little evidence of such coercion. The tech 'leadership' seems to be perfectly willing to censor viewpoints without it. Until competitors step up, this will be the norm.
The squirrels ruined my moment…
As long as they can buy out any competitors, there will not be. You seem to assume that Google will always act in the best interests of its shareholders and won't sacrifice profit for ideology. That is just not true.
You seem to assume that Google will always act in the best interests of its shareholders and won't sacrifice profit for ideology.
Those that offer the sacrifice of profits on the altars of political correctness will eventually be consumed by the market, or else by the demon children spawned of their unholy rites.
Either way, I am good with that.
There's nothing wrong with criticizing the culture, even if you don't want the government involved. That's one of the great things about libertarianism. Once you establish yourself as a libertarian, you can criticize what people do, and people should understand that you aren't necessarily calling for the government to get involved.
The McCarthy hearings during the Red Scare were bad, but government involvement wasn't the only problem. The willingness of the studios to blackball any actor, producer, writer, or director simply because of what they believed at one time in their lives led to a culture that stifled a healthy exchange of ideas in our society.
Yeah, I can criticize Hollywood during the Red Scare for being cowards, and I can criticize social media for being cowards for the same reason, too–without calling for government intervention of any kind. I also think people squandering their lives living off their parents, getting high, and playing Xbox all day every day is pathetic as hell. Doesn't mean I want the government to get involved.
Technically, McCarthy had nothing to do with Hollywood. That was HUAC. McCarthy focused on government infiltration.
The point was that government involvement wasn't the only problem, and a libertarian can criticize how various private citizens acted without it being assumed that he or she wants government involvement.
100% correct. And so I do, all the time. Because many deserve to get criticized.
Or go to Free Republic, Bratfart, Stormfront, of any number of the thousands of right-wing sites.
People like 'John' and Tulpa here want to force Google, a private company, into allowing speech they don't want on their site.
I do? Post that quote because I'm calling you a liar.
By the way, he won't post the quote or even a response most likely, he'll jist run away like he does when people are reminded that he lies about polls and paying his bets.
There is no quote, because you haven't. But, lying is all shreek can do.
He's clearly reached the point where everyone knows that about him and he is totally flustered and has no idea how to deal with it.
TuIpa|10.29.18 @ 9:57AM|#
You lied about Google then. You said they "muzzle" freedom of speech which implies they should not be allowed to by the Feds.
Ask the Chinese about it motherfucker.
"which implies they should not be allowed to by the Feds."
No you barely literate leftist clown, it doesn't. That you have to that assert something I never said was "implied" means you know you're lying.
Where is the proof he is literate?
Mea Culpa.
The funnies part is that to that idiot, pointing put Google is a human rights nightmare is "forcing Google into allowing speech they don't want onto their site."
No, it doesn't make sense to anyone else either.
They're working with China to specifically do that.
Techdirt has one of the most bizarre blind spots in this regard, foaming-at-the-mouth raging about the government's failure to enforce regulation of the internet backbone and simultaneous foaming-at-the-mouth raging about Ajit Pai and the FCC cravenly and corruptly conspiring with Comcast and ATT to regulate the internet backbone in favor of Comcast and ATT. Look, you want the government to have the power to regulate, who do you think is going to control the regulators? Hint: not you.
One can simultaneously hold the positions that
1. Paypal has every right to drop them
2. Paypal should not drop them though
And if paypal has a monopoly such that it is impossible to operate on the internet without using them, what then?
All of the arguments that can be made here could have equally been made about the Jim Crow South. Hey, who cares if blacks can't get into the best schools or most of the establishments, the market solved that by providing black owned businesses.
If it is the case, and I don't know that it is, that a company like Gab ends up never getting off the ground because the tech industry collectively decides that it just won't do business with it, don't you see how that could be a huge problem? Do you really want to live in a world where only people who have approved ideas are allowed to do business on the internet?
You can't be serious here.
If it is the case, and I don't know that it is, that a company like Gab gay couple ends up never getting off the ground a wedding cake because the tech industry collectively Masterpiece Cake Shop decides that it just won't do business with it them, don't you see how that could be a huge problem? Do you really want to live in a world where only people who have approved ideas are allowed to do business on the internet?
SInce you have posted on the issues in Masterpiece in the past, can we agree that you do want to live in a world where companies are not forced to comply? Principles, not principals, John.
Can we agree that you are a moron that imagines the world to be as you want it and not as it is? Reality doesn't give a fuck about your principles dipshit.
Can we agree that you are a moron that imagines the world to be as you want it and not as it is?
Wow, that was super defensive. Ad hominem does not look pretty on you. It makes your head look fat.
By the way, those are not just my principles you are shitting all over just because I rightfully called you on out on your hypocrisy. Freedom of association (and non-association) is one of the pillars of the Libertarian platform.
Turning away customers and earning social disapproval is no way to run a successful business. Libertarians believe that most adults don't need a paternal government to instruct them in proper moral behavior. Those that do need such instruction will get plenty from those they associate with, or by noticing those who refuse to associate with them. https://www.lp.org
(drops mic)
Matthew Yglesias is a great writer. I've seen conservatives pounce on the fact that he once wrote Why I'm more worried about Marco Rubio than Donald Trump but that was an honest mistake on his part. He eventually realized the grave danger Drumpf poses to the entire planet.
#LibertariansForYglesias
Aloysious
Matthew Yglesias is a great writer.
You, sir, have gone too far.
But they claim "pungent, foul odors" from a neighboring indoor marijuana grow have hurt the property's value and their ability to use and enjoy it.
"That's just not right," Barnes said. "It's not right to have people in violation of federal law injuring others."
So, legalize it at the federal level, too.
If he could buy it cheap at Walgreens, he wouldn't need an intensive grow operation.
Well, actually, the federal law states that to be schedule one, a substance may not have any medicinal use; so marijuana cannot legally be left on schedule one. But a certain federal bureaucrat is not doing his job, so the apparent conflict remains.
aajax
Gab will fine another hosting site, that's all. Libertarians should be the last people concerned about unmet market needs.
These same "libertarians" are opposed to an open internet (net neutrality) which would allow an ISP to block any conservatives URL like Gab.
Sarah Palin's Buttplug|10.29.18 @ 10:19AM|#
"These same "libertarians" are opposed to an open internet (net neutrality)"
Complete list of turd's posts which are not lies:
"an open internet (net neutrality) which would allow an ISP to block"
Ladies and gentlemen, our idiot shreek.
Its always amusing to see what lefties think Libertarians should be doing or advocating for.
Even funnier is to see their opinions as to why Libertarians do things.
They're going to block it into openness.
I thought it was the other way around; net neutrality would not allow an ISP to block.
Anyway, libertarians are able to hold two non-contradictory thoughts in their heads at the same time; they can oppose a certain practice and also believe the government should not be empowered to ban it.
"hese same "libertarians" are opposed to an open internet (net neutrality) "
What a shock that libertarians are opposed to government use of force to control the terms of service of private companies with their customers. WTF Palin, opposing net neutrality is a libertarian no-brainer.
If it forever is losing its hosting site, how can it become a viable alternative to Twitter? I don't think it is wrong to be concered about cartels and unfair trade practices.
I don't think it is wrong to be concered about cartels and unfair trade practices.
The mewling cry of every shitty entrepreneur with a cousin on the city council.
You suddenly sound like an Ayn Rand villain. Did the liberals infect you with brain fever or something?
I'm concerned about the government using social media as background checks for things like passports, gun purchases, etc.
Unmoderated speech may always exist online, but there's a legitimate question about whether platforms can be held responsible for damages caused by users whose activities they could have reported to law enforcement but didn't. Immunity to such lawsuits is one of the things social media platforms are seeking along with regulation.
The bigger question for me is whether the NSA, et. al., will inform things like background checks for gun purchases with what people believe and say online. Advertisers and social media companies themselves have access to all this information, and the mass shooters, with rare exceptions, all seem to go online and brag about whom they hate and why. Even if the NSA doesn't have access to that information, the social media companies themselves would be happy to supply it in return for rent-seeking regulation.
Should being an antisemite disqualify someone's gun rights from Second Amendment protection? What other beliefs should also disqualify people from purchasing a gun, getting a pilot's license, having a passport, etc.? Libertarians might argue that the Second Amendment exists so that we'll be armed if and when it ever becomes necessary to overthrow an oppressive government. Who decides whether that constitutes sufficient cause to deny a firearm purchase? A Democrat controlled congress? President Liz Warren?
The biggest threat to free speech today is the left's demands to end anonymity on the internet by requiring that any internet platform positively identify every person who posts there. Privacy and free speech are intimately connected. If people have no privacy, they will never feel free to express unpopular views and both society and the government will be able to use the mob to ensure only those views deemed acceptable by those in power are ever expressed. The left, of course, understands this and sees anyonymous speech as a serious threat to its power.
It's already pretty much like that. The social media platforms know exactly who you are, and so do the advertisers. If you're on anything by Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., etc., then the social media platforms know exactly who you are, and advertisers know who you are–even if you don't go to those sites. And your ISP knows who you are.
There are things you can do to limit their reach, but most people aren't willing to do those things, or they aren't willing to make the sacrifices necessary to protect their anonymity.
People can point to that and say, "If that's what people want, that's what they want!". Maybe that's true but 1) Persuading people to want something better than what we've got is what being a libertarian is all about and 2) I'm not sure people want the stupid shit they said when they were in their 20s online following them around for the rest of their lives to work against them in job interviews, gun purchases, licensing requirements, etc. There's no escaping that the government should not discriminate against people because of what they believe, and really has no business using that information to make any decisions.
" then the social media platforms know exactly who you are, and advertisers know who you are–even if you don't go to those sites. And your ISP knows who you are."
It is possible to take countermeasures that pretty much obviate this, but most people don't.
Not saying you can avoid scrutiny of state actors but you can pretty much stay under the radar of these big social media companies with a little effort.
Couldn't that become a problem unto itself at some point?
When it comes to credit ratings, having no credit history is worse than a bad credit history. I can see some bureaucrat thinking, "Anyone who takes such measures to hide their opinions must be doing so for a reason…"
Vernon Depner
HR people are already doing that. Lack of a social media presence is regarded as a red flag by potential employers.
Once the government is able to attach racist comments to your profile, the question will no longer be whether people have the right to own a gun. It will boil down to questions like, "Do you believe that racists have gun rights?" And the future is now. They can already do this. They just haven't put two and two together yet. And we certainly shouldn't expect the left to respect the First or Second Amendment rights of racists, Christians, white blue-collar Trump voters, immigration opponents, critics of Islam, etc., etc., etc. on principle. In their minds, a government that discriminates against such people is doing a good job.
And it will allow them to know who owns guns or holds other objectionable views. The tech companies will then share that with employers and ensure that any right the left doesn't like is a dead letter. Sure, own all of the guns you want, but you won't be getting a job doing anything but digging ditches if you do so.
It is straight up corporatism and fascism. And it is an enormous threat to our freedom. Sadly the wokeltarians at reason are too in love with tech and completely unable to understand a threat to freedom that doesn't come directly from government action. So, they don't understand the threat much less support any measures to address it.
"Sadly the wokeltarians at reason are too in love with tech and completely unable to understand a threat to freedom that doesn't come directly from government action."
This is indeed perhaps going to end up being a REAL problem in the future. If ALL major business enterprises go all in on backing a certain fascist form of government, saaay like in Nazi Germany… And are getting political powers and favors handed to them by the government… At what point do they lose the "private actors should be able to do what they like" protection.
I don't think we're QUITE there yet, but it's not hard to see a day when we may be. So it might just have to be a question libertarians have to answer, and maybe not in a way they like. Just as in Communist China today many "private" companies are anything but, such things may end up being much the same in the western world shortly.
EscherEnigma
You don't want private businesses to act like private businesses, but you claim you don't want them run like public utilities either.
What are you looking for here?
I'm convinced that most of this problem is being driven by the novelty of this market.
In traditional broadcast television, the content is typically driven by advertising concerns. Advertisers want to reach girls between the ages of 14 and 25, so they make a show that will appeal to that demographic. That's what you'd expect in a market driven by advertising.
Social media is novel because the content isn't created by and for the advertisers. The content is created by users like us. Social media makes money by selling advertising, but they're selling advertising on top of content that they don't create themselves. Meanwhile, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Nike, and Ford don't want their advertising to appear as if it's sponsoring antisemitic, racist, homophobic, etc. content.
Essentially, the problem is that average people are having their expression subjected to the scrutiny of advertisers.
What I want is a social media platform that isn't supported by advertising. It already exists, but such platforms have a hard time competing with already established networks (how do you get all your friends to join a new platform?), and if the major social media companies are able to rent seek themselves some extensive market barriers associated with the costs of policing content, no platforms free of advertising may be able to emerge under those conditions. So, I also want social media to remain unregulated.
As annoying as I find the left owning these platforms, I think it gives them less power than they think. The problem is that they can only ban so many people. So they ban a few well known conservatives. That isn't the threat. The threat to thiem are the millions of Twitter useers who have at most a few hundred followers. They are not important enough to get noticed. But when you put them together, they form a web of communication such that ideas the lunatics who run Twitter want supressed end up getting diseminated anyway.
Ultimately, the internet just doesn't lend itself to central control. You can throw out a few big names but you can never stop millions of people from communicating with each other and the powers of exponential math from ensuring that ideas get spread. Even China really can't control the internet, despite its enormous efforts to do so and enormous power over its people. A bunch of half wit SJWs running a bunch of big tech firms are not going to do so either.
As mores change, so does advertising. There's no guarantee that the world will remain forever social justice warrior. The children of the social justice warriors may rebel against them just as the baby boomers rebelled against their conformist greatest generation parents. The old conformity was more conservative, and it spurred a progressive reaction. The new conformity is more progressive, and when the levee breaks, the reaction to that probably won't be progressive.
This expansion will end. There will be huge debt. I don't know what the future holds, but I'm sure it will blame what came before for their problems. What came before will be a generation of progressives. And social media will need to advertise to those people who look back at the progressives like we look at Leisure Suit Larry. If and when advertisers want to advertise to people who aren't so sensitive to racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc., the social media platforms will change to accommodate that.
The thing that strikes me most about the SJWs is how miserable and unhappy they all seem. The 60s counter culture, even though it had a real darkside that always comes with heondism, at least seemed glamorous. In 1967, someone could be forgiven for thinking that the counter culture was having all fo the fun. I can totally understand why someone would be attracted to it.
In contrast, the SJW all seem to be broken, bitter and angry people incapable of having a good time. Is there anything less glamorous and attractive than a bunch of people sitting around trying to outdo each other in victimhood? I am firly convinced the SJW movement is going to completely collapse as people inevitably want to move on and have fun and live more exciting rather than borken and neurotic lives.
Arizona_Guy
I've met people like this IRL. They seem like miserable people. Being angry and offended at everything seems like an awful way to go through life.
I just finished watching season 7 of the American Horror Story, and it was so fucking good on this point.
They are all miserable people. Looking around at everything in the world and seeing nothing but horrible, evil, things will wear a person down… Especially when you're finding such horrible things in perfectly normal behavior, or even downright positive behavior!
Ken, this is already happening.
Generation Z, the ones after the Millennials, is showing every sign of swinging to the right. I'm an older millennial, and I have always thought my age group was a LOT more sane than the younger millennials, and ultimately have more in common with later Gen Xers, which I think is true. We were originally going to be Gen Y, but then somehow the name got changed, and the years got changed, and I ended up a millennial. Gen Y was originally going to be what are now considered the later Gen Xers up through around 1990 births. This seems more coherent in terms of similarities in the way we grew up…
Anyway, the younger millennials born a few years after me are truly nuts. Most of them really DO seem to fit the stereotypes. BUT that seems to have ended after a brief period, and Gen Z polls as being to the right on a TON of issues.
Everything from social issues, to economics, they're polling to the right of Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, basically comparable to the Greatest Generation or even the Silent Generation on a lot of stuff. They've had enough of political correctness, helicopter parenting (and the big government equivalent that continues this nannying into adulthood), and the whole 9 yards. They may be what saves us from the progs when they start voting as of the next election cycle or 2!
What I want is a social media platform that isn't supported by advertising.
How much per month are you prepared to pay to subscribe?
Alternatively, set it up yourself, and avoid payments entirely, by substituting sweat equity.
That, of course, has been the author's dilemma for centuries. And there is no getting around the fact that, historically, the better the platform, the higher the scrutiny. Even before the internet, an author who didn't care what platform he got published in could be pretty well assured of publication somewhere?maybe only in some free community-advertiser-type publication, but published?but only so long as the publisher judged the contribution would not drive away advertisers.
The very best publishers built reputations so strong that they got the upper hand, and could sell advertisers (within limits, and only some advertisers) on the quality of the audience, even if the advertisers didn't much care for the authors' contributions. Those publications were, of course, tremendously hard for authors to break into.
I pointed to one option in the other thread that pays authors, commenters, people who upvote and downvote comments, and doesn't charge a subscription or use advertising.
"That, of course, has been the author's dilemma for centuries. And there is no getting around the fact that, historically, the better the platform, the higher the scrutiny."
There is getting around it!
https://reason.com/blog/2018/10…..nt_7536239
Well, they are the resident evil.
AlmightyJB
As others have pointed out, FB, Youtube, etc are private companies. They are not obligated to host you.
The problem is they want to have it both ways.
They want to be private venues when it's convenient:
"We can shut down pages that don't meet 'community standards'"
They want to be an open platform when it's convenient:
"We arent't responsible for libelous, copyrighted, or otherwise illegal content. We're an open forum and have no idea what everyone posts."
Pick one.
They want to be 'regulated' like all new big giants in any industry that want to pull the ladder up behind them.
GDPR is a perfect example.
A slight burden for TwiGoopleBook and a way to prevent competitors from getting off the ground because the burden is too great.
If you want to say that they can get rid of anyone they want from their platform, fine. But, i don't see how you can say that and then turn around and give them immunity for the content that is on their platform.
The deal that was struck by the old DMCA was that digital platforms would not be responsible for the content put up by their users but in return they had to operate in a content neutral way. If they are not going to do that, then their immunity needs to be stripped. Twitter can have all of the freedom to govern its platform it likes, but it must then accept the responsibilty of whatever content is on its platform in return.
Yep, agreed.
They have immunity based on the condition of being open platforms. They are not acting as open platforms, they are controlling content. They want to have their immunity and eat it too.
I don't see why that can't be.
1. Platform for publishing whatever content your users feel like publishing. Govt shouldn't and can't have any say here.
2. Platform can ban users who are publishing content that they feel will result in bad PR or other bad outcomes for the business.
How is this not consistent with liberty?
Hypothetically, if what they are banning comes 100% from African-American producers, will that make it any clearer for you?
If all pro-LBGTQetc content disappeared, would you catch on then?
It isn't, except that they then are responsible for what users put on their platform since they clearly have control over what goes on.
buybuydandavis
Funny how Reason has failed to notice this. It's almost like they're just in favor of corporate power.
Diane Reynolds (Paul.)
Well well well.
So PayPal will no longer service democratic politicians, nor Louis Farrakhan?
Like every argument the Left makes, it's only a rationalization for power, to be instantly discarded when it no longer serves their power.
U.S. homeowners are staying in their houses for the longest stretches on record
An important factor in this that I rarely see mentioned is that it is now normal for US families to have two significant incomes. It is much more difficult for a family to relocate if both spouses need to find good jobs in their new location.
Trump is considering Neomi Rao, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, to replace Brett Kavanaugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
I loved her in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but not so much in Prometheus.
' Gab's temporary demise has spawned gleefully idiotic gloating from certain "progressive" and "anti-fascist" circles, which seem unconcerned that Gab is getting different treatment than its more entrenched and establishment competitors. '
They're not merely unconcerned, they're ecstatic.
The only principle the Left has is power.
Though I will say that ENB has at least balanced the other Reason article doing the usual "Silence the Unbelievers! They're all Hitler!".
+1 ENB
This isn't really an argument about monopoly power, although some tech giants are certainly close… It's really more about a Cartel type situation. Because the major tech companies are definitely participating in cartel type behavior. It also overlaps with fascist type government/private overlap and sharing of power.
Anybody who doesn't see this as a problem is a fool.
I don't think we're at the point where we MUST take government action against it… Yet. But there may come a day where it is needed. Were the major companies in Nazi Germany not merely extensions of the states power in many instances? Of course they were. If Hitler said Jump, they asked How High. And many of these businesses are doing that exact thing in response to the leftist politicians telling them to Jump.
We can surely let things play out for now… But there are times in history where one MUST break principles in order to SURVIVE. If your enemy is willing to break established "rules" of engagement, and you do not, you will lose every time. The left has been playing at this for MANY years. Which is why they right and libertarians have been getting KILLED.
If you agree to a knife fight, and the other guy busts out an AK47, and you stick to your knife out of a sense of principle… You're done. Sometimes you just gotta bust out that good ol' M16, even if it's supposed to be a knife fight.
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Hi guys! Today I prepared the second After Effects tutorial about Apple's motion graphics video "Intention". The first part you can find here. But today I would like to teach you how you can make text animation that you can find in "Intention" at the 50 sec. Generally I think this Apple's ad is really amazing, I just want to say that this video is so minimalistic but you can find here a lot of interesting ideas and different methods of how you can do such things. Hope you will enjoy my tutorial.
In tutorial I control the fill of the letters with solid and track matte. I used this method because as for me it is more interesting and more comfortable to control way to do this effect. But you can make it more easy using Linear wipe effect for example.


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Life Expectancy to Surpass 100 By 2300, UN Report Predicts
The world's population will age dramatically over the next 300 years as average longevity increases, according to new projections by the United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
By 2300, female life expectancy in the more developed regions, including the United States, is projected to be 103 years, and that of males is predicted to be 100. In the less developed regions, life expectancies are projected to be 96 years for females and 95 years for males.
The study proposes a range of population scenarios, based on projected fertility levels. In the medium variant, considered most likely, the number of people aged 60 years or over would rise from the current 10 percent of the world population to 38 percent in 2300. An even more dramatic change would occur in the numbers of those 80 or over. While this group currently makes up one percent of the population, nearly one in five humans will likely be over age 80 by 2300. By 2300, the number of centenarians '" those over age 100 -- is projected to be 162 million, or nearly 2 per cent of the world population.
"These changes suggest that the society of the future will have to value more the contributions of its older members so as to ensure that they remain active and engaged for most of their lengthy life spans," the report states.
They may also have to work longer. This significant aging of world population would mean a large increase in the dependency ratio, the number of dependents (those under age 15 or over 59) divided by the working age population (those aged 15 to 59). In the medium scenario, the dependency ratio will rise from 0.7 in 2000 to 1.1 in 2300, meaning that there will be more than one dependent for every person of working age. As a consequence, working ages will have to be extended well beyond age 60, the report suggests.
For more on the UN report, World Population in 2300, click here.
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Hey, You is the debut EP of Japanese band Mono. Karelia and L'America also appear on their second album, Under The Pipal Tree.
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"Hey You!" is a song by American rock band No Doubt, released as the final single release from the album Tragic Kingdom (1995). The single was released on February 23, 1998 as the final single in the Netherlands. It is the final single to feature original keyboardist Eric Stefani, who left in 1994.
A music video utilising footage from Live in the Tragic Kingdom was made to promote the song. It was directed by Sophie Muller. It was released only in the Netherlands.
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As it was only released in the Netherlands, the single charted at the Dutch music charts at number 51.
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Hey You may refer to:
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"Hey You!", single by Black Lace
"Hey You!" by No Doubt
"Hey You" (311 song)
"Hey You" (The Exies song)
"Hey You" (Madonna song)
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"Hey You" (Shakira song)
"Hey You", a 1975 single by Bachman-Turner Overdrive from Four Wheel Drive
"Hey You", a 1980 song by the Scorpions from Animal Magnetism
"Hey You", a 2001 song by Aaron Carter from Oh Aaron
"Hey You", a 2006 song by Faster Pussycat from The Power and the Glory Hole
"Hey You", a 2009 song by Tokio Hotel from the album Humanoid
"Hey You", a 2012 song by CN Blue from Ear Fun
"Hey You", a 2012 song by Boys Like Girls from Crazy World
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This is a list of characters for the British television and radio sketch show Little Britain (and its American spin-off, Little Britain USA).
Played By: David Walliams
Appearances: Season 3
Alan works for the Donkey Hospice in the town of Achingballs. After contributors give him some money, he blatantly places stickers on embarrassing body parts, such as the genital region or breasts and on someone's rear in a deleted scene. He makes one appearance in Series 3.
Episodes: Radio Show; Season 1, episodes 4 and 5
Catchphrase: I love you Anne and I need you Anne
Peter Andre is a royal BBC correspondent who gets sacked after first making bizarre and inaccurate claims about the Royal Family (such as Prince Charles having magical powers, describing The Queen as "The Main One" and mistaking Princess Eugenie for her mother, Sarah, Duchess of York) and then declaring his love for Princess Anne through song. He later attempts to enter a royal garden party to give her some drawings, despite being disheveled and without trousers, and is turned away by police. The character's name is a reference to the singer. There are also two deleted scenes in which Peter Andre appears backstage at the Royal Variety Performance and at a drug rehab centre.
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Florence is a train station in Florence, South Carolina, United States served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. Florence is served by Amtrak's Palmetto and Silver Meteor routes and is a service and smoking stop for the Auto Train. The station was built by CSX in 1996 as a replacement for the much larger former station, which is now owned by the McLeod Regional Medical Center.
Amtrak – Stations – Florence, SC
Florence, South Carolina (FLO) – Great American Stations (Amtrak)
Florence Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide – TrainWeb)
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From January 16th until new communication, access to the Miradore of Palazzo Rosso is forbidden to the public for maintenance.
Since 2004, the Palazzo Rosso, Palazzo Bianco and Palazzo Tursi – the three historical, municipally-owned stately homes in the 16th-century Strada Nuova – constitute a continuous exhibition devoted to ancient art: the Museums of Strada Nuova. The Palazzo Rosso, historical residence of the Brignole Sale family, and the Palazzo Bianco, a prestigious art gallery, have been open to the public since the end of the 19th century; the Palazzo Tursi, the seat of the Municipality, hosts a museum as well as cultural and official events.
Joint in a continuous exhibition path, the three buildings retain their own specific historical features and collections, transforming the Strada Nuova into a real 'museum-street': a masterpiece of the Genoese architectural and residential tradition, with a cultural establishment unique in size, features, quality and prestige.
The Museums of Strada Nuova also provide cafeteria services and bookshops.
The entire road plan of Strada Nuova, a residential area of Genoese aristocracy, is unique in the world for its architectural and urban-planning quality. Its outstanding monumental appearance has always amazed Italian and foreign visitors alike; to painter Peter Paul Rubens, its buildings even became a model of housing civilisation to be promoted among his contemporaries. Thanks to the spectacular lobbies, frescoed halls, gardens, monumental nymphaea and art collections, its palaces have been granted the status of "World Heritage Site" by UNESCO.
The main entrance is accessible.
The exhibition is based on two floors with lift access to all levels, including the panoramic rooftop, which is only partially accessible due to some steps.
The exhibition is based on three floors with lift access. The whole exhibition area is accessible.
Part of the exhibition is located in the adjacent Palazzo Tursi.
In the Didactic Room there is a Girox table, a revolving table where blind people can sit and experience all the vases on display through touch.
A wheelchair is available for use; booking is recommended.
The Palazzo Tursi exhibition can be accessed via the adjacent Palazzo Bianco.
The Reception Hall is equipped with a magnetic induction sound system for hearing-impaired people using hearing aids or cochlear implants with phone coil or T-coil.
A magnetic induction sound system has also been installed in the public area of the City Council Hall.


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Hello my lovely little licornes ~ How are you doing? I am doing just great, patiently counting down the last few days left before the real holiday atmosphere. I even set my christmas tree already - it was on the last day of November when I decided to clean and tidy up my room properly. You would not believe how many stuff I actually threw away!
I told myself, that I just can´t continue with buying and storing unnecessary things which I will not use anymore. This year is special since I was given a new christmas tree by my parents. It is completely white and I just can´t take my eyes off of it. It is so pretty and looks very magical since it´s a bit unusual. I will post the photos of it later, I promise! But back to the main point!
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Since the Christmas is pretty much close, I decided to post a last-minute Christmas gift guide for those of you, who still can´t come up with any ideas of the christmas presents for your family members or friends. Most of the mentioned items are universal and can be bought for the both groups of people, even for women and men. You can find them on Rosegal. I hope that this article inspires you at least a bit and that it will help you with deciding what to actually buy :) Let´s dig into it!
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Well, who would not like to fall asleep with a bit of christmas feeling on themselves, right? If it comes to me, the answer is definitely yes! Even yesterday, I went to the shopping centre with my friend who wanted to buy the themed pyjamas for herself exactly for this feeling.
Or for those who would like to own a pair of the cat ears headphones. Ehm, yes - I am one of those people too. And what is the best on them is also the fact that they also contain the light! These headphones will be also a great gift for the gamers!
Since I have been otaku myself, for almost the whole of my life, I can´t forget to mention the gifts which would please the people like us. Of course, it depends on a certain person and the anime/manga, which they actually like. If you do not know about any favourites, I highly recommend to simply ask.
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2019 Logitech G Challenge
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2016 Red Bull 5G
2016 Overclockers UK Racing Series
2016 PlayStation Plus League
2015 Ginetta esports Cup
Affiliate Leagues
Competitive Racing License
PSFRacing
With the Project CARS Esports summer break almost upon us, there's no better time to catch-up with some of our biggest and best teams to find out how they view their 2016 season so far. Today, the spotlight is on PSFRacing, another super-quick French team lighting-up the championship in both the Logitech G Championship Series, and the NVIDIA Challenger Series.
The PSFRacing lineup includes some of the top drivers from various Project CARS Community Leagues; Fab, Edwood, Rafael, Dedexx, and Lulu. All names that you'll want to keep an eye out for when you're racing online or competing on our time-trial leaderboards.
Thanks to the efforts of these drivers, PSF currently sits comfortably inside the top 10 teams in the Console Division of the NVIDIA Challenger Series (in eighth place). The team is doing even better in the Open Setup Logitech G Championship Series, where it has really mastered the engineering aspects of the sim, coming up with some fantastic car setups which have propelled it right to the front of the order.
In the LGCS Console Division, Fab is just three points off the lead in second place in the drivers standings, while the team sits fourth on the team leaderboard after the first four rounds of the season.
We spoke to Fab to get his thoughts on PSF's great start to 2016.
How and when did your team members first become interested in sim racing?
We first became interested by sim racing as kids, because we all played games like Gran Turismo, GTR, and the early Colin McRae titles. More recently, a lot of us have continued to play Gran Turismo, but others also like Codemasters' DiRT and F1 games and even rFactor.
Why did you enter the 2016 Project CARS championships?
We entered the Project CARS ESports Series because this game is the easiest way to launch a team into the world of competitive sim racing.
How do the drivers prepare for each round of the two Project CARS Esports Series? Does each one require a different approach?
At the beginning of the season, we each train for more than 20 hours before each round in both series. Recently, we have changed our methods, and we are focused on just the one championship, the Logitech G Championship Series, as this is where we have had the most success.
Who tunes the cars for your team in the Logitech G Championship Series? Do the drivers work on setups together?
First of all, we don't really have anyone in our team that you would call 'The Boss'. Everyone works together to tune our cars for the benefit of the team.
How do you rate the team's chances of winning a Series in 2016, and what would that mean to you?
We believe that we can finish in the top 5 in the Logitech G Championship Series at the very least. However, we have reduced our efforts in the NVIDIA Series to give us more time to do other things outside of sim racing and gaming in general. Winning a Series would be amazing for a little team like us, to prove that we can beat the bigger and more experienced teams!
French sim racing teams are amongst the fastest drivers in the world right now. What makes pilots from France so damn fast?
We think that can be simply explained by the fact that the French just love sim racing. That passion means that we are more involved in championships than many other countries.
Have any of your drivers raced any cars in real life?
I've driven a Ferrari at a French circuit named Albi, and Lulu had the awesome opportunity to ride in a Radical SR3-RS at Spa.
What cars do your team members drive in real life?
I drive a BMW coupe, AxD drives a VW Polo, and Dedexx has a Peugeot 206. Many of our other sim drivers don't have a licence yet, but that won't last forever!
What is each team member's favourite car and track to race in Project CARS?
My personal perfect combo is the P30 around pretty much any track. Rafael and Edwood's favorite car is the McLaren 12C GT3 and they both like the Barcelona GP circuit. AxD's favorite racetrack is Spa, because he comes from Belgium. Lulu's favorite car is the Alpine LMP2 and Azure Circuit is his favorite track. ART has the same tastes than Lulu but he loves the Ginetta GT4. Finally, IKritZz loves the Nordschleife with any GT3 car.
What does the future hold for your team?
We have a dream, and this dream is to create our own real-life racing team. We hope that sim racing will help us to progress to the highest level.
The next event in the 2016 season is Round 5 of the NVIDIA Challenger Series in the Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT3 at the Watkins Glen GP Circuit [change depending on when published]. It begins Friday July 1 2016, so don't forget to visit the Community Events tab in the game's main menu to take part in the next round yourself.
You can also enter the ESL Project CARS online Esports cups to compete for real cash prizes in the game every week. For more information, select your gaming platform on the ESL website.
Come back to the Project CARS Esports website soon, when we'll be profiling another of the fastest sim racing teams in the world. You can also check out the latest news, standings, and announcements.
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Henry John Yeend King (1855-1924)
GBP 47,000
GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000
signed 'YEEND KING' (lower right)
60 x 40 in. (153 x 102 cm.)
Yeend King was born in London and spent his early working life working as an apprentice to O'Connor, whose glass making business was in Berners Street, Marylebone. In the latter half of the 19th Century, Marylebone was considered London's 'artistic quarter' and the presence of so many artists's studios no doubt tempted him to change career. He studied first with William Bromley, the genre artist, and later in Paris with Leon Bonnat and Fernand Cormon, both professors at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. The robust plein-air technique then prevelant in France influenced his art, and on his return to England he chose to specialise in landscapes and depictions of rustic genre.
A regular supporter of the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Grosvenor Gallery, Yeend King's picture Milking Time was bought by the Chantrey Bequest in 1898, when the artist was still at the relatively young age of 43. Certain parallels can be found in the work of Robert Gallon (see lot 72), whose wife's sister he married.


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Given n non-negative integers a1, a2, ..., an , where each represents a point at coordinate (i, ai). n vertical lines are drawn such that the two endpoints of line i is at (i, ai) and (i, 0). Find two lines, which together with x-axis forms a container, such that the container contains the most water.

Note: You may not slant the container and n is at least 2.

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The above vertical lines are represented by array [1,8,6,2,5,4,8,3,7]. In this case, the max area of water (blue section) the container can contain is 49.

Example:

Input: [1,8,6,2,5,4,8,3,7]
Output: 49

'''

'''
Classic two pointer problem
'''

class Solution:
    def maxArea(self, heights: List[int]) -> int:
        start, end = 0, len(heights) - 1
        mm = None
        while start < end:
            area = min(heights[start], heights[end]) * (end - start)
            if mm is None or area > mm:
                mm = area
            if heights[start] < heights[end]:
                start += 1
            else:
                end -= 1
        return mm

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LeBron James Returns, Scores 24, Helps Lead Lakers To 122-115 Win Over Pacers
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angles Lakers coach Frank Vogel liked what he saw of LeBron James' return.
"It is going to take time to get his timing back to 100%, but for most of the game he looked good," Vogel said. "He looked like his old self again."
James, back after a six-game absence, scored 24 points, including seven key points late, to lead the Lakers to a 122-115 victory over the Indiana Pacers Saturday. Anthony Davis led the Lakers with 28 points.
The Lakers can notch the No. 6 seed if they win at New Orleans on Sunday and Portland loses to Denver that day. If the Lakers finish No. 7, they will be in the play-in tournament against the No. 8 seed.
Davis, who missed the previous game because of a tight left thigh, sank 9 of 18 shots and grabbed 10 rebounds. James played 28 minutes, hitting 11 of 22 shots. James had eight assists and seven rebounds.
James was out for the last six games while recovering from high ankle sprain. He missed six weeks and then returned to play two games.
"It felt a lot better than the last time I came back," James said. "I felt good coming into the game. I think each game I'll get better and better. It will take a few games to get it all back. It's up to coach and training staff if I play (Sunday)."
Davis had missed Wednesday's game with Houston.
"I felt great the entire time," Davis said. "It's nice to get the whole team back out there."
Andre Drummond had 15 rebounds for the Lakers, who held a 45-37 rebounding edge.
The Lakers led 111-97 before the Pacers scored 11 straight points to trim the lead to 111-108 with 3:07 left. James then took over by scoring the next seven points, starting with a 3-pointer to put the Lakers up 118-110.
"We had seven straight stops with the group, Goga (Bitadze) had a couple of blocks," Pacers coach Nate Bjorkgren said of closing the game. "Then they made some tough shots. We had some good looks but they didn't go down."
Caris LeVert, who was questionable entering the game with knee injury, was high for the Pacers with 28. JaKarr Sampson came off the bench to score 20.
"JaKarr played one heck of game," Bjorkgren said. "He was really aggressive and really physical. He was playing as hard as he can."
The Pacers could finish with the No. 9 or 10 seed. The Pacers are tied with Charlotte and Washington at 33-38, but would lose the tiebreaker against both teams if tied. Washington and Charlotte play Sunday while the Pacers are playing Toronto in Tampa in the regular-season finale.
The Lakers led 64-56 at halftime and 96-88 after three quarters.