Stephen Crowder is going after Facebook for a seven figure damages bill. He says he will take this all the way to the Supreme Court, and is practically daring Facebook to silence him.
As a business — Facebook was selling something it had no intention of delivering. Those who invested their creative work, time and advertising money were falsely and deceptively led to expect that Facebook was a neutral platform that had policies that were not politically or racially biased.
Instead they took intellectual property, time and data based on false premises.
Imagine a covert political lobby group set itself up as a Telco and Cable entertainment complex, then after everyone paid for the wires and poles and the miniseries, they announced they would cancel anyone who didn’t believe in their religion, or wouldn’t kneel before it. People had spent years building a sales network or a community that could suddenly be rendered worthless, or held to ransom:
Steven Crowder Announces Lawsuit Against Facebook
Epoch Times
Conservative host Steven Crowder said on Feb. 1 that he’s suing Facebook over “unfair competition, fraud, false advertising, and antitrust.”
“Our broader point is that we are pro-business but anti-fraud. Facebook lured consumers and creators to spend money and provide data and views under the promise of not engaging in political, racial or religious bias in enforcing their policies, but they have done so both expressly and secretively, and hence, the suit.”
In the YouTube clip, Crowder said his Nov. 3 election livestream was cut off in the midst of his coverage. Crowder said he was never provided a reason for why the stream was taken down.
“They removed the biggest stream that has ever existed, from the biggest platform that’s ever existed, with no reason,” he said.
Take No Prisoners:
Crowder made reference to the lawsuit on Jan. 31, writing on Twitter: “I do not know what will happen February 2nd. But tomorrow, we will NOT self censor, we will NOT be bullied, silenced or intimidated. We will kneel for NO one.”
h/t Fuel Filter.
Let’s be clear as a fine French bell chiming forth from of old!
Russia, face of revolution—video
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20210202-in-russia-supporters-of-kremlin-critic-navalny-undeterred-by-police-crackdown
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Doubt it. The Russian people are as obdurate as they come and largely won’t tolerate these Western woke types. Those who think that “there’s something happening here – what it is ain’t exactly clear…’ will be waiting a long time.
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That may be true for sleepy Australians but for millions of Americans who actually believe whole heartedly in libertarianism the day of reckoning will be upon the US eventually. Whether that means civil war or not depends on which side caves in first, if at all. If the left cave in first then there will be a peaceful elimination of the Democratic Party in it’s current form. If the other side caves in first then the US will move ever closer to becoming a dictatorship not much unlike that of China. Then certain states will secede and the union breaks apart. Still a peaceful transition albeit with some turmoil. If neither side caves in then there will most assuredly be a civil war.
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Are Big Tech Censors Taking a Page from Soviet Psychiatric Gulags?
If that phrase in the headline above — “Soviet Psychiatric Gulags” — doesn’t ring a bell, allow me to refresh your memory, or, if you are under 30 years of age, perhaps introduce you to a horrid chapter of recent history.
Before the Soviet Union’s fall, the Soviet Communist Party killed tens of millions of people during its existence from 1917 to 1991, with dictator Josef Stalin ordering more than 3,000 executions in one day alone in 1937, according to Robert Conquest.
Millions more were sent to labor camps, many in Siberia, where they were worked under the most inhumane conditions. As bad as the labor camps surely were, the psychiatric hospitals described by Alexander Solzhenitsyn were worse in some respects.
Dissidents were sent to the hospitals for the “crime” of criticizing the Soviet regime. After all, anybody who would criticize the Soviet paradise must be nuts, right? There, they were they were subjected to unbelievable torture techniques like this one described by the Mises Institute’s Mark Hendrikson:
“One of the ‘therapies’ administered in a psychiatric hospital was putting a cord into [the patient’s] mouth, then threading it from his throat up through his nasal passages, and then drawing it out through one of his nostrils.” Even if the cord wasn’t used to deliver electrical shocks, this must have been an agonizing experience.
Hendrikson explains the origins of the Soviet psychiatric hospitals in one of Karl Marx’s most basic doctrines:
No, the Big Tech giants haven’t taken the next step and recommended mandatory psychiatric treatment for those who protest censorship of conservative “hate speech,” but it seems reasonable to wonder if the predicate is being set.
In any case, at the heart of the study is the contention that the prevalence of “engagement” — i.e. likes, comments, shares, etc. — constitutes “a rough proxy for popularity.” And indeed the data for 2020 through the November election shows conservative sites on Facebook, for example, having impressive levels of engagement:
And finally, there’s this: How many Leftist sites expressing support for violence-advocating groups like antifa and Black Lives Matter have been banned? None that I am aware of.
But then I must be crazy to think Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, and the rest of the Big Tech censors are biased against conservatives, right?
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He should be able to get around section 230 if it can be shown that Facebook acted in bad faith since the indemnification only applies to actions taken in good faith.
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S230 broadly protects the platform from liability for what is published on it. Some qualifications have occurred such as Trump’s FOSTA bill to do with criminal sexual acts. However the platforms have grossly abused this freedom by being political in a way which is unconstitutional. They have done so because they have infringed Constitutional rights which the government cannot do while benefitting from government freedoms and exemptions, ie S230. This principle has a long Judicial imprimatur (see Norwood v. Harrison, 413 U.S. 455 (1973)). Therefore the act of censorship and political partisanship by the platforms is arguably illegal by virtue of the benefit they receive through S230, sort of eating their cake and having it too.
Despite this and the fact Crowder is a brave man he will need deep pockets, especially since the zombie joe’s commie government will no doubt see a benefit for them in supporting the big techs.
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O/T but he’s curious about your handle.
https://joannenova.com.au/2021/02/its-a-psychoneurotic-hate-fest-as-if-the-trump-is-still-krypton/#comment-2402518
🙂
KK
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Long story.
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Bring it on…..
About time farcebook got some legal [punishment]
I dont have social media…ah….freedom….
[Edited by request of OS – Jo]
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Metaphorically speaking of course…
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I expect there will be more lawsuits against Twitter, Amazon and Facebook as people’s businesses and lives are ruined by organised group think companies and individuals.
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Canned facebook a long time ago. All my millions of friends are missing me and what I have to say of importance, but there you have it. Sorry.
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I have been wondering how your cat is reacting to your latest meal and coffee choice
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Time has taken our old friend “Kitty”, John. Sure miss her psychic abilities.
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This is very good news.
Jo, thank you for providing us a free speech platform.
Even polite Leftists are allowed to comment here, unlike rational thinking people on “their” sites.
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Silencing others because of their opinions is a Leftist value.
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It’s also an extreme right-wing/fascist/nationalist socialist value, as demonstrated by Nazi Germany. They were very good at it. There are some differences. The left today are not as brutal, but the technology today more than makes up for that as it makes it so much easier to apply their draconian values.
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National Socialism and fascism are NOT of the right. One of the biggest propaganda coups the Left ever pulled was getting them called “right wing”. All forms of tyranny are of the Left.
See video: https://youtu.be/m6bSsaVL6gA
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I didn’t say it was. Read my post again. I said extreme right-wing then added alternatives. In any case, saying only the left are tyrannical is a lie, clear and simple. For example, the National Fascist Party of Italy was certainly not left wing. Likewise the White Movement in old Russia. The Roman Empire was another. There are dozens of other examples.
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Perhaps a better way to describe the numerous versions of political systems is not the left-right spectrum but the open-close spectrum. As Tony Blair commented, attitudes towards social issues and globalism are more important than the conventional economic left–right issues. It’s obvious he does have a point in today’s climate. In this model, “open” voters tend to be socially liberal, multicultural and in favour of globalism while “closed” voters are culturally conservative, opposed to immigration and in favour of protectionism (I read it as nationalism). It too is not perfect but it’s a more accurate way of describing the polarisation we are seeing today between those who favour globalism and those who favour nationalism. Globalism is clearly the trend we are in now. Trump was a nationalist and he was hated for that by the left and also by some elements of the right side of politics, and we are still seeing it now as they are working together trying to impeach him.
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A lot of people used to say that living in the 5 years after Hitler becoming chancellor were the most exciting of their lives. Until they started losing the war.
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It’s done whenever an agenda can’t stand on its own merits and they have the power to do so and/or get away with it.
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Hmm, ‘ Imagine a covert political lobby group set itself up as a Telco and Cable entertainment complex, then after everyone paid for the wires and poles ……. People had spent years……rendered worthless, or held to ransom…’ Yes, I’ve come across ALL THIS before – in the UK: about cars, etc – ‘The Road Fund Licence’ – thinking of Green new deals; Labour raid on our INSURANCE Investments to reduce growth and returns to the investor; Premium Bond and the National Lottery prize structures; Hell mun, the BBC Licence – to get fake news; Oh I better stop …. – I can’t stop: the Climate change scandal : pay for this n that, Diesel Cars, was the VW incident a scandal too- or just a pragmatic approach to the problem? …..and so on
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The frightening thing is the alliance between the Billionaire Socialists of Big Tech and the Useful Idiots of the Left.
They now have the power to control almost all major flows of information and censor, alter or delete it as they see fit in order to achieve their evil objectives.
They can now also swing elections as witnessed in the United States and also silence legitimate questions of election fraud. Anyone questioning fraud was silenced and/or removed from Big Tech social(ist) media.
Think of the worst excesses of the National Socialists and International Socialists and then realise we are talking about essentially the same people with generally the same ideology (with some modifications). And then understand how much more “efficient” their implementation of evil will be with the benefit of modern technology including their ability to track you everywhere by your phone and financial transactions; Facebook and Google spying on you as well as Big Brother. Plus they know your publically expressed thoughts on any matter as expressed on the platforms they own. It is their evidence against you for Orwellian “thought crimes”.
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At a minimum, a VPN is a good idea.
Dump all your social media accounts.
Heres a radiacal idea – shut your phone off occasionally. Or have a dumb phone that isnt google-ized.
People like silentcircle.com offer apps to allow encrypted texts between subscribers ( its designed for business users, but I dont think its that expensive ).
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Linux phones are an option for privacy. Here is a discussion of privacy on a “de-Googled” Android phone vs a Linux phone. This guy has many other good videos on phone privacy issues as well.
https://youtu.be/EawS7CAUrf8
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publicly
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Recommended recent videos from last few days.
Australian Daisy Cousens talks about the “low information” voters of the American Left and how large numbers of these fools now regret voting for Biden.
https://youtu.be/1QRCtdgU590
YouTuber “Mr Reagan” talks about how Leftist white anti-white racists identify as black to advance their careers because there really is no such thing as anti-black or “systemic racism”. Includes discussion of VP imposter Harris and her origins.
https://youtu.be/3MAVNQm-7b4
Biden declares war on conservatives. (Mr Reagan.)
https://youtu.be/GOBLTtM3Jok
Dr Steve Turley summarises and comments upon the Project Veritas leak of the secretly recorded Facebook staff meeting.
https://youtu.be/F1rR5VV11r8
Note: YouTube links provided only when no free speech alternative exists.
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I am surprised Daisy has not been banned from YouTube.
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I looked at facebook when it first appeared (when not using capitals in titles was presented as being fake-humble and really ‘cool’) and it was immediately obvious that it was a devious attempt to control thought and speech, and fleece trusting foolish people of their personal privacy. Not saying I’m smarter, it was entirely instinctive, I saw an information attack vector, and lopped it off. I have avoided such sites completely, I tinkered with Twitter just to see how it worked, then abandoned it. Used completely false information to access it. I always make sure all background social media in phones and browsers of other software is turned of, deleted if possible, or banned by the fire wall. I use script tools to make sure they never get to run scripts within web pages, etc. If a site will not let me access it unless I allow a script from them, I don’t use the site. It does not bother me to never have used facebook. Never, anywhere. I have been told/advised constantly for about 10 years that I absolutely must use it, that it is the very future of personal computing and communication.
I wouldn’t even know. I use free and open sites that don’t want to run invasive data-phishing and harvesting on me, 100% of the time. When I use the internet, the only people who know who I am are the ISP and the Constitutionally approve legal authorities who have permission to know. I rarely give real information on the internet, and when I do, it is not identifiable. And employer can plug my name into a search to find out about me, and they will find no personal information they can connect. That’s called having personal privacy, it’s my legal and personal right and requirement to maintain this, as it is clearly not wise to not do so.
Handle such sites like a poisonous snake, it’s only a matter of time until they try to bite, it might take a decade, but they absolutely will try to attack you with your information, which you were silly enough to give to them for access to their trap. Somehow I managed to do everything I ever wanted to on the internet, without ever dealing with facebook or any other ‘social media’ on a personal level, and avoid use of real personal data. Jo knows my real first name, but she knows nothing else. Fake information is what must use to maintain privacy when others should not have that information, for any reason, unless you give specific access which only you control and allow. Anything else leads to infringements of personal privacy, exploitation, control and vindictive political, ideological and religious reprisals. Facebook has always been an exploitative control trap, that’s its nature and intent. It’s finally becoming obvious what an insidious construct it is, at depth.
Same for all the other personal info harvesting companies. These are all up to no good, even retailers. They will all use real personal data against you when they wish too exploit you, control you or make sly attacks on you. Not one of them can be trusts, not even legal authorities. None should be trusted. Not to be paranoid, as that does not help, but just because it’s wise to not trust those that you don’t need to trust.
Think of it as a Precautionary Principle.
The next step to this sly shameless personal information theft and accumulation is, “Vee will make you talk!”. That’s what’s now developing. I would much rather such clearly wicked people as the people who run facebook, and all other info-scams, know as little as possible about me as they are the smiling enemy who glad-hand people into their preferred forms of control traps. It starts as incentives and disincentives to alter behavior, Likes and Bans, then it escalates to what we see now, attempts to actually saddle your brain, like a farm yard animal being domesticated and trained to the expectations of the farmer. An information farmer, who gets fat on using you.
These are info-scams being run by manipulative narcissists, who will shape the information environment, until they have control, and you have no personal privacy at all, because you trusted them when you did not have to trust them.
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I make sure that they have false information – Goggle is very confused – GiGo.
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Very well said WXcycles.
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“Pirate, Freedom, Conservative – Box”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/pirate-freedom-conservative-box/
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separate web sites … separate states … separate society … say goodbye to wokistan
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Is it any wonder why the Union is very likely going to break apart? It’s the most peaceful option. Certainly is way better than having a civil war, which would-be inevitable otherwise as the left keep enforcing more and more draconian rules. The sooner the Union breaks apart the better for all of them. I can’t see how all 300+ million Americans would cave into neo-communism.
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Somehow I think the NWO isn’t about to leave us alone.
They only community the will allow to commune in is the re-education camp.
(They’ve ruined education, might as well ruin re-education to.)
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Look how difficult it’s been to get Brexit through. Should have been done and completed two years ago. They’re still going hard at it.
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That goes to show how deep the swamp is; it’s actually an ocean.
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Candace Owens is also suing, not Facebook directly, but their so-called “independent fact checkers” for lying and causing her monetary loss of about US$1 million per month (the figure I saw). I believe the amount is US$50 million.
Video of her talking about it: https://youtu.be/cjBVRWG41Dg
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Which is it? You don’t believe the Great Reset is going to happen and we all end up owning nothing, or the bit about the coming anti-christ forming his own version of a NWO?
[It’s all off topic. OS has been told to lift his game, So all responses are moderated. Sorry. – Jo]
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Yes, it’s possible but we won’t know for sure until it happens. Many predicted a NWO of sorts throughout recent history only to have egg on their faces. Don’t cry wolf until you actually see one. Meanwhile, we should prepare for such an eventuality even if it doesn’t happen in our life time but later.
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Also, I would not rule out the possibility that the current leftist mania will be defeated by some right-wing movement only to end up being the very tyrannical NWO many of us are expecting. As I said, we won’t know for sure until it all happens, by whatever means and direction. So, let’s just be alert, watch and wait.
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OT: China is now using anal swabs to improve the detection of COVID-19 cases. Let’s see if the West is gullible enough to adopt the same process.
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Not yet. Fweedom to choose?
Two masks though.
Some are saying that 3 masks will give one the superpower to see Raz-ism in everything.
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Its now just laughably stupid.
Next Fooci will say walking on your hands keeps cov19 away.
I saw a photo of Fooci, gates snr and soros all hanging out. Assuming its not photoshopped you can understand why Fooci has been running such a strong confusion and disinfo campaign which disorients peopke, like a series of verbal flash-bang grenades….
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Will 4 masks cause suffocation? Perhaps that’s their ultimate “solution”.
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Although I said that in jest, the whole situation is clearly not a laughing matter. It’s extremely serious. Most people just aren’t aware of the NWO now unfolding it’s web of deceit and lies to satisfy their deep hunger for power, not yet anyway.
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OS said @ #10
Agreed. See the link below for the mechanism.
If you take one of the experimental medications, be sure you don’t catch another dose of Covid or you carry a syringe full of Vitamin C if you wish to survive.
GA (the Eternal Optimist) has nothing constructive to offer … ?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/01/no_author/professor-dolores-cahill-why-people-will-start-dying-a-few-months-after-the-first-mrna-vaccination/
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Check closer Robert. I am now a believer in Octopus
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It’s definitely a start but I fear for the USA.
Frightening developments. Mark Levin exposes the lies, deceit, and intentions of the Marxists in power … https://player.fm/series/mark-levin-podcast/mark-levin-audio-rewind-2121
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Good on him!
Someone to really barrack for!
This has to go all the way to the Supreme Court, and under no circumstances must there be a settlement.
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you think the US supreme court is still a meaningful entity?
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Off topic: Keystone XL is not the only pipeline that the ruling party in the US are intent on shutting down. Expect to hear more about line 5 in the US state of Michigan during the year. Line 5 feeds Line 9 into Montreal Canada and that provides roughly two-thirds of the crude oil refined and consumed in that province. Line 5 also provides raw materials for refineries in other US states.
Enbridge says it won’t comply with easement revocation, plans to continue operating Line 5
https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/01/12/enbridge-not-comply-easement-revocation-continue-line-5-operation/6630978002/
Somehow I don’t think the Canadians will be very happy with reduced wealth transfers from the province of Alberta (Equalization payments) especially in Quebec, in 2020 Alberta became a “have not” province for the first time in 55 years . . .
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It’s truly a strange world we live in today. The POTUS can shut down important infrastructure projects that allow the US to be self sufficient and promote national security. Yet if someone destroyed the same infrastructure they would be charged with terrorism and if a US citizen perhaps treason to boot. I suppose that is yet another example of double standards.
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it goes by road or rail if it isnt piped, that is the stupidity of it
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Maybe more for unthreaded by slightly on topic.
Just watching a sci fi flick called Captive State. Theme is a an alien invasion taking over Earth, directing human lives and infrastructure, crushing opposition , controlling communications etc.
Replace aliens and insert Democrats and its not a big stretch from the US today.
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oh yeah I forgot , the “aliens” are constantly preaching unity and harmony
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🙂
Replace aliens with Swamp? Dempublicans.
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When I read of people suing Facebook & C, I am reminded of how long the court case of Steyn V Mann has been going on – eight years, I believe. Mann has access to ‘funds’ while Steyn has to crowd-fund. As Steyn said, the process is the punishment.
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I like what they’re trying to do but the pat Facebook defense will be and which will stand is that everyone on Facebook had to agree to the terms of service and don’tcha know FB had a brigade of lawyers put that together.
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T&Cs dont protect you against your open illegal or incompetent activities. In the US there is also the constitution, but its Biden 2021 now so i guess yhat may not apply.
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The Project Veritas insider video of Zuckerberg and his legal counsel provide further evidence for Crowder’s legal challenge.
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Freedomwatch is also suing but I just can’t see it getting anywhere https://www.freedomwatchusa.org/klayman-freedom-watch-and-laura-loomer-take-big-tech-case-t
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Good on ’em! Someone has to start the avalanche. Where will the selective censorship stop, otherwise? Does Faecesbook have the right to block the page of a Christian church whose basic tenet is vehemently opposed to homosexuality and announces this Sunday that will the sermon topic. Meanwhile they keep up the page of a Muslim cleric, simply because he doesn’t announce his topic for his sermon on Friday is exactly the same? It is known by all prior to those groups setting up a page that those religions hold those beliefs and they will be discussed. So is one announcing on a purported open platform promoting ‘hate speech’ simply by speaking publicly? The parallels with communism persecuting religious observance is obvious! All happening on the device in everyones hand! There’s no tolerance in the tolerance movement!
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