I’ve slowly noticed many of my favorite pages and personalities are getting erased.

My favorite street artist, Sabo, an ultraconservative gurilla artist had his Facebook page deleted over a mild sign telling Zuckerberg to go romance himself. Then the delightful and always entertaining Info Wars and Alex got the axe.

Most recently it’s been the libertarians getting deleted. My absolute favorite meme page was deleted yesterday over a months old anti Hillary post. I love how Facebook and liberals bitch about election meddling then delete a ton of political pages weeks before an election.

Social media sucks.

Hopefully, people will recognize that this is in fact happening, and move to other places that aren't under liberal thought police control.

This Forum continues to be MY social media.

SigForum rocks. I agree it is terrible to lose entertaining pages and sites from but I am hoping these sites, commentators, and entertainers will find their homes on EVEN BETTER newer, social media platforms.

The communists are pushing really hard.

There are other options, Gab and FreeZoxee are among them.

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Originally posted by jljones:
Hopefully, people will recognize that this is in fact happening, ...

People have been noticing it for months.

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Originally posted by jljones:
...and move to other places that aren't under liberal thought police control.

Other than individually-run sites like Sigforum: There aren't any. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. are it. They're all run by Silicon Valley types, and Silicon Valley, hell, the entire tech industry, is largely left-biased. You're lucky if you run across libertarians or classical liberals. Conservatives are like finding a unicorn.

And sites like Sigforum couldn't handle the load even if people suddenly decided to switch venues. Consider: Sigforum has 85,000 accounts. Facebook has 1.5 billion. Twitter: 400 million. The big guys run massive server farms and have staffing to match.

So-called "conservatives" aren't helping themselves. Leftists celebrated the banning of Alex Jones (InfoWars). Conservatives were all "Well, he was nuts and an embarrassment, anyway. We're better-off without him." The only people complaining about it were libertarians and classical liberals. The result was predictable: They're slowly lowering the bar on just how non-leftist one has to be to qualify for the digital guillotine.

I'm weird, but to me, anyone with conservative leanings using Facebook is puzzling.

It is painfully obvious the political proclivities of Zuckerberg and the whole employee force. Remember the whole company meltdown when they discovered one of their executives supported Brett Kavanaugh during the hearings? Yes, they routinely ban libertarian/conservative stuff. Zuckerberg early on called his customers "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their personal info. Yet I hear "but...but..it's the only way I can keep in touch with family and friends!"

My method of keeping in touch is to use a telephone. Email is my common way of writing a letter, also, to the chagrin of young folks, actually letters and postcards. For instant casual greetings, text messaging directly with words and photos is almost a daily ritual.

It can be done nicely without social media. No unfriending, meltdowns, no drama. And no patronizing Fuckerberg and his ilk.

Never used it, never will. I have zero interest in providing those pieces of shit with even one more number stat by joining. Quite simply, I don’t belong there, so why would I go?

Social media is a large part of why Trump won. These leftists must hate that their platforms helped propel DJT to the presidency. I know it has to eat at them and it is a large reason why they are now even silencing libertarians who were never going to vote Dem anyway.

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Originally posted by oddball:
I'm weird, but to me, anyone with conservative leanings using Facebook is puzzling.

That may be because the narrative you're getting is "social media is nothing but commies."

I preserve my Facebook account for nothing but keeping in contact with close friends and family scattered all over the globe. Very, very few political/social posts show up in my newsfeed, and I post very, very few.

Twitter, though, is a whole 'nother thing for me: Security news and politics. And Emergency Kittens . Here's the thing, though: Of the <looks...> 106 people/orgs I'm following, the politics of the vast majority are either nominally conservative, libertarian or classical liberal. And those groups are doing a bang up job of holding their own against the leftists and the dominant media, trust me.

In all of the commercials that I'm forced to watch with every Youtube video I have yet to see a single conservative political add. It is all liberal and all nasty

Facebook for me is family stuff, on the news feed I look to see whats there, and interesting enough since I'm on several conservative pages the majority of political ads have been from progressive and liberal pacs for of course liberal candidates.

So either

a) facebooks ad targeting system is messed up
b) facebock is pushing liberal ads over R
c) little column a, little column b

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Social media sucks

Why yes, yes it does.

Shouldn't this be in the whats your deal section.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by oddball:
I'm weird, but to me, anyone with conservative leanings using Facebook is puzzling.

That may be because the narrative you're getting is "social media is nothing but commies."

Because Facebook is run exclusively by a bunch of Silicon Valley/Bay Area commies is not just a "narrative", but 100% fact.

I don't tweet or use Instagram, but I do have a FB account. Some of my distant relatives wanted me to have a presence there, so I do. It is used only to keep up with happenings in my distant family and friends, and not a lot even for that.

I depend on e-mail contact for almost all my verbal interactions, other than the 2 major gun fora that I frequent (SF and Assaultweb). The fora constitute my "social media" and I've done FTF with several members of each.

flashguy

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Never used it, never will. I have zero interest in providing those pieces of shit with even one more number stat by joining. Quite simply, I don’t belong there, so why would I go?

BINGO. My mantra as well. Never have and never will use any of these leftist pieces of shit. None have ever held the slightest attraction for me, which admittedly may be connected with my advanced age among other things.

Why aren't there "social media" that are run by conservative billionaires? Or, at least "fair-and-balanced" ones.

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Because Facebook is run exclusively by a bunch of Silicon Valley/Bay Area commies is not just a "narrative", but 100% fact.

Even Zuckerberg has acknowledged that 'groupthink' is a problem at Facebook. He seems to fear the radical leftists that dominate his own company. They isolate and and drive out any thought that doesn't tow the line. It's a lot like in academia.

(For general education: it's "toe the line", not "tow the line".)

flashguy

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Originally posted by oddball:
I'm weird, but to me, anyone with conservative leanings using Facebook is puzzling.

It is painfully obvious the political proclivities of Zuckerberg and the whole employee force. Remember the whole company meltdown when they discovered one of their executives supported Brett Kavanaugh during the hearings? Yes, they routinely ban libertarian/conservative stuff. Zuckerberg early on called his customers "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their personal info. Yet I hear "but...but..it's the only way I can keep in touch with family and friends!"

My method of keeping in touch is to use a telephone. Email is my common way of writing a letter, also, to the chagrin of young folks, actually letters and postcards. For instant casual greetings, text messaging directly with words and photos is almost a daily ritual.

It can be done nicely without social media. No unfriending, meltdowns, no drama. And no patronizing Fuckerberg and his ilk.

Yes, but being on media like FB at least exposes people to conservative ideas. I wouldn't abandon all social media for that reason alone.