Uh it was the Democrats that lead the charge to ousted him, if they would have stood up for him he'd have never been in the situation to begin with.
Longshot: Do you ever worry that some girl you got too “alpha” with in the past is going to throw a spiked strip into your life? Lately I’ve been talking to these younger guys at work and the way they talk about modern single life it sounds almost like a second AIDS-scare type thing. They are not having fun out there right now at a time they should be.
I don't know I got to the younger hipper bars in town sometimes and it seems like the youngins are still drinking and fucking. As to your first point theorectically, Im not sure, Im not indispensable to my company and as Netts doxxing shows it internet/social media issues can affect your average worker, I could easily be out on my ass. It would depend on the accusations I guess and the amount of media exposure they get. If it was just he said she said accusations directed at me on say Facebook and someone forwarded the conversation chains to my work? I don't really see them taking any action unless I'd similarly been accused in the work place. If for what ever reason it was picked up by the local media? Yup Id be gone. I do think a lot about my younger dumber days. You take near crippling social anxiety specifically towards the opposite sex, with the steep learning curve of the subtle nonverbal and emotional communication with women, black out binge drinking on a weekly basis, and add the current standards applied? Im guess Im just lucky I turned off the vast majority of girls before the situation even got to getting a phone number stage.
That’s my point. They had Gillibrand lead the charge and weirdos like Sally Kohn pick him apart. And Schumer went hand-in-hand with McConnell to the ethics committee. I’m not losing sleep over a creepy Democrat getting ousted, but it seems like they are looking down the road to 2020 and the field looks slim again. I bet they wish they had him back.
https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/ EPA is allowing asbestos to be manufactured again
That’s all it took, huh? At least Trump will have plenty of voters actually stupid enough to install it. Absbestos is great too, ask Steve McQueen.
Has anyone brought up Alex Jones being banned from social media and Apple? In a move that surprises no one, people are already clamoring for others to be banned as well.
I don't remember anybody bringing it up. I think he's an idiot. But, David Duke has a Twitter page. Free speech and social media is a weird thing. Because they are private entities, but have become public news aggregators. Fox News channel was born out of one-sided news coverage, so I guess somebody will try to popularize the all hate social platform. (Hatebook?) There's apparently an audience for it. It always amazes me that that kind of overt bigotry and intolerance continues to persist. I don't get that kind of hate.
I think Jones is a special anomaly that deserves banning due to the fact his brand of reporting is honestly bordering on terrorism these days. He encites violence and hate, he knows a good percentage of his viewers take him seriously, and continues to pull his petty bullshit, now demanding the authority to dox every single parent involved in Sandy Hook. He’s harmful for people’s lives. However if we go just banning everyone we don’t like now, everyone who says something “in poor taste” it’s a slippery slope.....as we’ve already seen, again and again.
I think this brings us back to the discussion of regulating some of these tech companies. Which I don't really agree with. I understand that abridging free speech is a real problem but these are private platforms and this is their product; they have every right to determine what goes and what doesn't. Ideally, free speech will win out and people will choose other sources for their news, hurting these entities bottom lines to the point where they change course. In all likelihood, groups will just further self-segregate and, of all people, Alex fucking Jones will be held up as a martyr for the cause of free speech.
Yeah, because actual terrorism websites and others that incite violence and hate continue on. I don't think the Charlottesville stuff happened by being coordinated through Alex Jones' social media platforms.
This is the problem with free speech. It's great 99% of the time, and then the 1% have to ruin by spouting off nonsense.
I think Alex Jones is an asswipe, but I wouldn’t be as concerned if Senators like Chris Murphy weren’t already demanding others are banned as well for “extreme viewpoints.” And surprise surprise, he also wants to take guns away. Not just gun control; he does not want private ownership of firearms, period. Shocking that Jack Dorsey is the only one with some balls in this case, given his past history.
I’m not talking about Charlottesville. But it was his followers who threatened (and were jailed) for threatening Sandy Hook victims, as well as that Pizzagate shooting. He knows he’s a liar, he knows the people who listen to Infowars are stupid and reactionary lowlifes, and he won’t own up that what he’s saying is bushit. Instead he says it’s the truth while intentionally jabbing them with a sharp stick. All for the sake of lining his pockets, and he has no accountability for any of it.
Seconded. I always regarded him as the most bias social justice pussy in Silicon Valley. And considering the lame, harmless shit he’s auto-banned from twitter in the last three years this comes as a big surprise.
If by having balls you mean knows his company's valuation is propped up by untold numbers of fake accounts and is terrified of anything that might lead that house of cards to collapse.
Didn't mean to imply you were talking about Charlottesville - just that there are other, terrible people, spewing terrible nonsense on the same platforms that pulled Jones. It's curious that they chose him. He's an idiot lowlife liar and all those things you suggested, but he's not the only one of those with a Twitter account.
I don't think it'd be easy at all... for a number of reasons, and not just technically. Sure, it might be easier than making another Facebook, but that doesn't mean it could realistically be cloned successfully.
Twitter's main technical challenge is the scale at which it operates, and if all you need to host is the President's insane rambling and a bunch of Russian agitprop boosters, there's no scale issue at play. Easy peasy.
And you're wrong. The main technical challenge is in the targeted marketing and business analytics that they do... the shit normal users don't see, but businesses pay money for. That is the revenue stream. The normal end-user interaction/app is fairly trivial to pull off at scale these days. Sure, back then they had to develop a ton of in-house, specialty tools to do the scaling thing, but with Google Cloud and AWS managed "serverless" technologies, it's trivial to do these days... especially with their "eventually consistent" data requirements.