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Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。

Full Battle Rattle posted:

Despite his claim that poo poo was gonna get legal the article makes a pain to point out that he understands his 1A rights aren't being abrogated and he's not suing anyone, but he's going to reveal some information that's going to make people

trust


facebook


less

We're through the loving looking glass here people

wait what?

Like is Crowder 3 years behind on Patriot Book?

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Vargatron
Apr 19, 2008

MRAZZLE DAZZLE


Star Man posted:

Bob the Angry Flower sums up the aftermath of Atlas Shrugged nicely:



The problem with libertarian sci-fi is that it requires magic to work. What I wonder is if the writer ever realizes this themself and has to make something up in order to make their point.

I think this is a pretty good explanation of why Flowey turned genocidal in Undertale.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

beatlegs posted:

Whenever a conservative does/says something notable, it shows up in the trending box. What the gently caress are they talking about? These people are so invested in being perceived as victims it's pathetic.

probaly because its usiualy from a neutral source. not one of theirs. who knows.

Intel&Sebastian
Oct 20, 2002

colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!
And what self respecting American doesn't already completely think of Facebook as opt-in Big Brother? They don't even really pretend otherwise.

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。

Dapper_Swindler posted:

crowder and walsh are trying to latch onto the rising of the alt right. walsh is hosed because he didnt bend the knee to trump and probaly honestly believes in the right wing christianty. meanwhile crowder may get some support from alt right. I am curious what he said to get "censored"/post removal on facebook. because i have poseted tons of weird poo poo on my account. i assume it was bigoted.

Crowder's going to follow down the hole into the Beck-esque delusional dimension. He was on Fox News and he bit the hand that fed him; he peaked right there, everything since then has been trying to chase his former celebrity.

MaxxBot
Oct 6, 2003

you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!
Hopefully this leads to more attempts at conservative social networks that fail in a spectacular and hilarious fashion.

Rick_Hunter
Jan 5, 2004

My guys are still fighting the hard fight!
(weapons, shields and drones are still online!)
What ever happened to Reaganbook?

BiggerBoat
Sep 26, 2007

Don't you tell me my business again.

beatlegs posted:

Whenever a conservative does/says something notable, it shows up in the trending box. What the gently caress are they talking about? These people are so invested in being perceived as victims it's pathetic.

Man, this for sure. For all the tough talk and bootstrapping and poo poo they really are a bunch of babies with an insufferable persecution complex. There's no bottom to it either. They were the same whiny, angry, miserable people when they got everything they wanted from 2001-2006. When things turned to poo poo under Bush, they blamed the media.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Rick_Hunter posted:

What ever happened to Reaganbook?

it died.,, badly

Minghawk
Oct 9, 2012

Sir Tonk posted:

Of course he will lose, facebook can "trend" whatever news it wants.

I've no doubt that he genuinely doesn't get that, though. Like that idiot Milo and his Twitter altercation, these types seem to think that private companies need to behave like public utilities whenever they fail to get special treatment.

If Crowder actually does 'go legal' on this this his wife's going bankrupt.

Rick_Hunter
Jan 5, 2004

My guys are still fighting the hard fight!
(weapons, shields and drones are still online!)

BiggerBoat posted:

Man, this for sure. For all the tough talk and bootstrapping and poo poo they really are a bunch of babies with an insufferable persecution complex. There's no bottom to it either. They were the same whiny, angry, miserable people when they got everything they wanted from 2001-2006. When things turned to poo poo under Bush, they blamed the media.

If anything Facebook does it's own aggregation because it will have a trending link to O'Reilly that says he called Ted Cruz the anti-christ and if you click on the link it's bunches of people on both sides either agreeing or disagreeing with him.

No, they're just butthurt that Facebook doesn't treat them like their office sycophants.

Rick_Hunter
Jan 5, 2004

My guys are still fighting the hard fight!
(weapons, shields and drones are still online!)

Dapper_Swindler posted:

it died.,, badly

:jerky: Go on.

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich

it was trolled into oblivion

Intel&Sebastian
Oct 20, 2002

colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!

Rick_Hunter posted:

What ever happened to Reaganbook?



The servers had serious memory problems and instead of calling an IT professional the person in charge called a knock-off Geek Squad.

Stallion Cabana
Feb 14, 2012
1; Get into Grad School

2; Become better at playing Tabletop, both as a player and as a GM/ST/W/E

3; Get rid of this goddamn avatar.
was that the one where a goon did some long con thing where he became a prominent poster's internet girlfriend and then the knockoff facebook realized that goons were trolling them and started looking into their own thread.

Eventually there was a 'no touching the poop' rule but I remember before that someone literally made an account as Jesus and posted nothing but quotes from Jesus and got banned.

smg77
Apr 27, 2007

Rick_Hunter posted:

What ever happened to Reaganbook?

Gay porn. So much gay porn...

Morroque
Mar 6, 2013

Stallion Cabana posted:

was that the one where a goon did some long con thing where he became a prominent poster's internet girlfriend and then the knockoff facebook realized that goons were trolling them and started looking into their own thread.

Eventually there was a 'no touching the poop' rule but I remember before that someone literally made an account as Jesus and posted nothing but quotes from Jesus and got banned.

I think that one was Tea Party Community. They were the ones who ended up doing a news item on Fox News about their "sudden, popular success" -- too naïve to realize 95% of it was GBS Goonrushing them.

Unless that happened to Reaganbook too, in which case it happened twice and no one was the wiser.

fade5
May 31, 2012

by exmarx

Rick_Hunter posted:

What ever happened to Reaganbook?
Upon launch, Reaganbook was immediately and repeatedly flooded with trolls, gay/transsexual porn, and gimmick accounts every time it tried to get up and running.

Reaganbook later tried to re-brand itself as "Freedombook", and relaunch itself.

Upon opening, Freedombook was immediately and repeatedly flooded with trolls, gay/transsexual porn, and gimmick accounts.:v:

It was nuked a couple times, and it still technically exists:

Yeah, a couple gimmmick accounts and basically zero activity. I have no idea why they're even bothering to keep the site up.

Dr. Red Ranger
Nov 9, 2011

Nap Ghost
One of the Gibbis posters made a long con character with a totally normal extensive knowledge of Nordic runes, prepped knowledge and Hindu swastikas that they believed wholeheartedly all the way down to his posts about black helicopters coming for him. Fake thug stereotypes, Jesus quotes getting banned, poorly disguised Hitler quotes getting dozens of likes, etc.

Gbs had direct access to an unguarded Internet version of the Malheur occupation and it was hilarious.

Rick_Hunter
Jan 5, 2004

My guys are still fighting the hard fight!
(weapons, shields and drones are still online!)

Popular Thug Drink posted:

it was trolled into oblivion

smg77 posted:

Gay porn. So much gay porn...

Well, yeah I figured these 2 things but...

Intel&Sebastian posted:

The servers had serious memory problems and instead of calling an IT professional the person in charge called a knock-off Geek Squad.

This is what I was getting at.

MrUnderbridge
Jun 25, 2011

Morroque posted:

I think that one was Tea Party Community. They were the ones who ended up doing a news item on Fox News about their "sudden, popular success" -- too naïve to realize 95% of it was GBS Goonrushing them.

Unless that happened to Reaganbook too, in which case it happened twice and no one was the wiser.

Ah, the glorious goon rush of TPC... It was a thing of beauty! There were goons spouting all kinds of racist poo poo, with the (mostly) real members agreeing.

The owner had his son do all the "coding" (read as: literally copy/pasted code from Facebook).

They did something screwy where it became possible to get mod status and boot people.

There were some deep cover goons who they never suspected. The guy who ended with black helicopters and SWAT outside was one of the best.

And then they found out where we were coming from and tried to return the favor. But Lowtax charges $10 to post, so we only got a couple. Including the owners son.

By the end, they were banning each other for any deviation from the party line, or sometimes for no reason at all. Whole campuses and regions were ISP banned. It dribbled out into a few mods eying each other for the taint of liberalism.

Oh, and lots of gay porn for the site founded because Facebook "removed conservative posts" and they would never do that to Are Free Speeches.

Lots of gay porn.

Klaus88
Jan 23, 2011

Violence has its own economy, therefore be thoughtful and precise in your investment
I liked "ask a liberal" one personally because I wish I had the iron will necessary to remain polite when confronted by some of the worst examples of humanity you're likely to find outside of a Klan rally.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to
I looked into what Snopes has to say about Facebook censoring Conservative news, and this quote seems to explain what is actually going on

Snopes posted:

“We were told that if we saw something, a news story that was on the front page of these ten sites, like CNN, the New York Times, and BBC, then we could inject the topic,” said one former curator. “If it looked like it had enough news sites covering the story, we could inject it — even if it wasn’t naturally trending.”

“Every once in awhile a Red State or conservative news source would have a story. But we would have to go and find the same story from a more neutral outlet that wasn’t as biased.”

Stories covered by conservative outlets (like Breitbart, Washington Examiner, and Newsmax) that were trending enough to be picked up by Facebook’s algorithm were excluded unless mainstream sites like the New York Times, the BBC, and CNN covered the same stories.

Other former curators interviewed by Gizmodo denied consciously suppressing conservative news, and we were unable to determine if left-wing news topics or sources were similarly suppressed. The conservative curator described the omissions as a function of his colleagues’ judgements; there is no evidence that Facebook management mandated or was even aware of any political bias at work.

As Snopes says, it seems like rather than suppressing Conservative news, they had a bias toward, uh, facts and reality, over whatever Breitbart or Rush were yelling about that day.

http://www.snopes.com/is-facebook-censoring-conservative-news/

Intel&Sebastian
Oct 20, 2002

colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!
Freedombook also had a highly ironic period where it was invite only. FREEDOM!

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.
It's not like there's literally a story from Christ's own lips which instructs believers to help people they have no reason not to despise.

Of course right-wing Christianity is mostly a cult of domination and strength with a weird and inexplicable attachment to the Bible, but still. Read the loving book.

E: about that tow driver rear end in a top hat. Thread kind of moved on while I was posting.

Pope Guilty fucked around with this message at 00:52 on May 10, 2016

Intel&Sebastian
Oct 20, 2002

colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!

twistedmentat posted:

I looked into what Snopes has to say about Facebook censoring Conservative news, and this quote seems to explain what is actually going on


As Snopes says, it seems like rather than suppressing Conservative news, they had a bias toward, uh, facts and reality, over whatever Breitbart or Rush were yelling about that day.

http://www.snopes.com/is-facebook-censoring-conservative-news/

There's also moneyed interests involved in a lot of these aggregators and they wouldn't be too happy about being linked to sites that publish "Are black people just evil?" type stories.

Rick_Hunter
Jan 5, 2004

My guys are still fighting the hard fight!
(weapons, shields and drones are still online!)

Intel&Sebastian posted:

There's also moneyed interests involved in a lot of these aggregators and they wouldn't be too happy about being linked to sites that publish "Are black people just evil?" type stories.

Yeah, I mean they can just join Facebook and make their own ridiculous drivel. Isn't that right 'Extremely Pissed Off RIGHT Wingers 2'?


twistedmentat posted:

I looked into what Snopes has to say about Facebook censoring Conservative news, and this quote seems to explain what is actually going on
As Snopes says, it seems like rather than suppressing Conservative news, they had a bias toward, uh, facts and reality, over whatever Breitbart or Rush were yelling about that day.
http://www.snopes.com/is-facebook-censoring-conservative-news/

I mean...did you actually expect anything different?

Full Battle Rattle
Aug 29, 2009

As long as the times refuse to change, we're going to make a hell of a racket.
There are a great deal of conservatives who don't realize that their lovely, poorly-written clickbait garbage aren't actually real articles by reputable journalistic organizations. People don't trust real news anymore because they've had their trust abused too much.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Full Battle Rattle posted:

There are a great deal of conservatives who don't realize that their lovely, poorly-written clickbait garbage aren't actually real articles by reputable journalistic organizations. People don't trust real news anymore because they've had their trust abused too much.

Well, yea, "Balanced" means "says what I want to hear" to these people.

I mean, Milo doesn't have a checkmark because Twitter hates him, but because he's not an actual Journalist, like say, Jeff Greenfield.


Rick_Hunter posted:


I mean...did you actually expect anything different?

Not really, but It's good to see the actual story behind the headline.

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum
Weren't conservatives the one cheer leading mass surveillance and censorship of the internet? Funny how its suddenly bad when facebook is looking and auto-correcting you instead of suspected terrorists or other minorities.

Rick_Hunter
Jan 5, 2004

My guys are still fighting the hard fight!
(weapons, shields and drones are still online!)

Crabtree posted:

Weren't conservatives the one cheer leading mass surveillance and censorship of the internet? Funny how its suddenly bad when facebook is looking and auto-correcting you instead of suspected terrorists or other minorities.

The only moral surveillance is my surveillance.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Full Battle Rattle posted:

There are a great deal of conservatives who don't realize that their lovely, poorly-written clickbait garbage aren't actually real articles by reputable journalistic organizations. People don't trust real news anymore because they've had their trust abused too much.

They want affirmative action to mandate that their safe spaces are taken seriously

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.
When you believe that the New York Times is liberal rubbish, it's easy to see why you'd also believe that articles from literal racist/sexist hate site Breitbart not being promoted is bias.

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc

Minghawk posted:

I've no doubt that he genuinely doesn't get that, though. Like that idiot Milo and his Twitter altercation, these types seem to think that private companies need to behave like public utilities whenever they fail to get special treatment.

And it will never stop being funny. The party that wants to freedom to oppress whoever they want can't handle when a corporation does the same.



:qq: My First Amendment :qq:

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

twistedmentat posted:

I looked into what Snopes has to say about Facebook censoring Conservative news, and this quote seems to explain what is actually going on


As Snopes says, it seems like rather than suppressing Conservative news, they had a bias toward, uh, facts and reality, over whatever Breitbart or Rush were yelling about that day.

http://www.snopes.com/is-facebook-censoring-conservative-news/

yeah like i said. all they do is not use bullshit from breitbart on their main news feed.

Geostomp
Oct 22, 2008

Unite: MASH!!
~They've got the bad guys on the run!~

twistedmentat posted:

I looked into what Snopes has to say about Facebook censoring Conservative news, and this quote seems to explain what is actually going on


As Snopes says, it seems like rather than suppressing Conservative news, they had a bias toward, uh, facts and reality, over whatever Breitbart or Rush were yelling about that day.

http://www.snopes.com/is-facebook-censoring-conservative-news/

It's pretty horrifying that right wing media is so good at getting hooks into these people that they can't comprehend that reality might not match what Rush is yammering about today.

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


A website that aggressively caters to the mainstream only uses mainstream news sources???

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

You mean other news websites don't purposefully pick news stories in which the offender is black like Breitbart?

HootTheOwl
May 13, 2012

Hootin and shootin

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Prepare the Walsh anger because this is Big

Correct!
https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/729853145027764224?lang=en
https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/729801942654963713?lang=en

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Klaus88
Jan 23, 2011

Violence has its own economy, therefore be thoughtful and precise in your investment

That worked so well the last time, right? :heritage:

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