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Part 5 just dropped.
They banned Trump under pressure from activist employees even though they themselves admit he didn't violate the rules.
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yeah....though Twitter had a habit of freezing the accounts of those who were more right wing.......the left wing buttercups don't like views that melt their snow flakes.
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Count Steer wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 3:42 pm Personally I think there's only one thing wrong with Twitter....people can access it. :lol: Sorry, two things...others, who should know better, think that 'trending on Twitter' = 'the people have spoken' and one thing it ain't is a ballot box. A soap box, yes.
The only thing I've come across that "trends on Twitter" is the weekly topic that Jimmy Fallon throws out there which is usually hilarious & often somewhat disturbing. & that airs on this show so no need to actually follow it on Twitter
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ZRX61 wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:29 pm Part 5 just dropped.
They banned Trump under pressure from activist employees even though they themselves admit he didn't violate the rules.
Things like that happening reminds some of us that these 'fact checkers' came out to censor others, simply because the truth started to come out......
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Ant wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:56 pm Things like that happening reminds some of us that these 'fact checkers' came out to censor others, simply because the truth started to come out......
Zuckerberg admitted under oath that FB fact checkers were nothing more than opinion censors.
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ZRX61 wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 3:50 am Zuckerberg admitted under oath that FB fact checkers were nothing more than opinion censors.
Well, if something isn’t a fact then it is just an opinion isn’t it?
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ZRX61 wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:29 pm Part 5 just dropped.
They banned Trump under pressure from activist employees even though they themselves admit he didn't violate the rules.
He did incite an insurrection and used Twitter to do it, of course they were going to ban him.
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wheelnut wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 8:00 am
ZRX61 wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 3:50 am Zuckerberg admitted under oath that FB fact checkers were nothing more than opinion censors.
Well, if something isn’t a fact then it is just an opinion isn’t it?
That's a grey area. Someone's opinion might be that covid vaccinations work while the facts are it saved X people but killed Y in the study.
Whether the study was run correctly is also a matter of opinion.
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I'm not sure I'd be making poor Mr Trump into a Twitter martyr as a surefire way of normalising the platform. I'm sure he's served his time though, maybe let him back in on parole? Make his Twitter avatar wear an orange jumpsuit? ;)
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Mussels wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 10:14 am Whether the study was run correctly is also a matter of opinion.
It's a matter of law.
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DefTrap wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 10:40 am I'm not sure I'd be making poor Mr Trump into a Twitter martyr as a surefire way of normalising the platform. I'm sure he's served his time though, maybe let him back in on parole? Make his Twitter avatar wear an orange jumpsuit? ;)
Trump will be back, then the left wing butter cups full of hate and resent over someone with more money than they have will explode in a vitriolic hate consumed rage.
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His account was re-activated a little while back, he's chosen not to rejoin as he's propping up his latest failed venture.
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Ant wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 5:24 pm Trump will be back, then the left wing butter cups full of hate and resent over someone with more money than they have will explode in a vitriolic hate consumed rage.
It's almost as if they don't want to make America great again.
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Saga Lout wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 5:49 pm
Ant wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 5:24 pm Trump will be back, then the left wing butter cups full of hate and resent over someone with more money than they have will explode in a vitriolic hate consumed rage.
It's almost as if they don't want to make America great again.
Well many people don't, they voted out someone who boosted the economy and voted someone in who's since crashed it.....
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DefTrap wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 10:41 am
Mussels wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 10:14 am Whether the study was run correctly is also a matter of opinion.
It's a matter of law.
Ah, I didn't realise the law specified the size of a perfect test group.
Whether the law is correct and suitable is also a matter of opinion.
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Mussels wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 6:27 pm

Ah, I didn't realise the law specified the size of a perfect test group.
And I didn't realise you were a scientist qualified in the field.
If you are, crack on, persuade us.
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DefTrap wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 6:41 pm
Mussels wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 6:27 pm

Ah, I didn't realise the law specified the size of a perfect test group.
And I didn't realise you were a scientist qualified in the field.
If you are, crack on, persuade us.
What qualifications would I need to be allowed an opinion?
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Potter wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 5:56 pm FWIW I think Trump and Musk are a pair of proper tubes, but I like that they took on the political elite and their power bases, the US political elite monsters crush normal people (like Clintons rape accusers) so it took a pair of leviathans like Trump/Musk to get anywhere.
Leviathans? Big, evil, pretty dim and come to a fitting end? :thumbup:

In the Talmud Baba Bathra 75 it is told that the Leviathan will be slain and its flesh served as a feast to the righteous in the Time to Come and its skin used to cover the tent where the banquet will take place. Those who do not deserve to consume its flesh beneath the tent may receive various vestments of the Leviathan varying from coverings (for the somewhat deserving) to amulets (for the least deserving).

(Hoping for lunch but will settle for a coat or an amulet :lol: ).
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Mussels wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 6:44 pm
What qualifications would I need to be allowed an opinion?
None. But then you don't need any to read my palm either.
You going to qualify your opinion or is that it?
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DefTrap wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 7:12 pm
Mussels wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 6:44 pm
What qualifications would I need to be allowed an opinion?
None. But then you don't need any to read my palm either.
You going to qualify your opinion or is that it?
I don't need to qualify it, I just need to be allowed to express it the same way people with different opinions can.
Other people are free to ignore me as they wish.