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Re:Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cl... by yongjik on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @01:40AM (#25830673)
What censorship? The president himself was saying the election was stolen from him for two months and that was basically the only thing the nightly news talked about (other than COVID) every day. At some point we should be able to say "Enough, evidence or GTFO," without being accused of silencing discussion.

We're way past that point.

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Re:Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cl... by edbob on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @12:44PM (#25836197)
I don't know anything about what the nightly news ran. All I know is that when my news sources got around to talking about it, a couple days later it's "oh I have to be very careful what I say about this, I already got a notice threatening a ban". From my perspective, the period of free discussion was extremely limited.

I'm not at all sympathetic to the "we have to crush this viewpoint" camp since they amplified Hillary's claims of a "stolen election" for years. [0] You can't tell just one side "evidence or GTFO" and expect anyone to take you seriously. Especially when the new narrative is that elections are fair and unstealable, which directly contradicts the claims of an unfair stolen election in 2016.

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019...

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Re:Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cl... by yongjik on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @01:15PM (#25836610)
> I'm not at all sympathetic to the "we have to crush this viewpoint" camp since they amplified Hillary's claims of a "stolen election" for years.

Clinton never claimed the counting of the votes were rigged, and I know of no serious politician claiming that Clinton should be installed as president because of the claimed Russian meddling, whether they believed it or not.

So, on one hand, we have a candidate who was pretty much dropped like a hot potato by fellow Democrats the moment she lost the election. On the other hand, we have mainstream media giving hundreds of hours of coverage to a president insisting he actually won the election, when all evidence says he didn't. ...And you're saying who is censored?

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Re:Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cl... by edbob on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @02:25PM (#25837621)
If your argument is actually that no one is being censored, then we will just stop there.
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Re:Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cl... by antibuddy on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:15AM (#25831850)
How is the video in Georgia debunked? They sent observers home (even a big newslet posted this on Twitter at that time), counted the ballots afterwards and Biden had a spike.

And btw I am from Germany, so I am on neither "camp".

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Re:Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cl... by alwayseasy on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @06:58PM (#25853538)
No you saw a conspiracy theory peddled by Rudy Giuliani, the man in charge of the Trump legal challenge to the election.

The video is so wrongly interpreted, Republicans were the first one to debunk it. It's important to note, in a video, when someone leaves the screen or the room... you can't assume they've been sent home.

More info here: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/04/facebook-p...

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