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I work with geeks. I've been a geek myself for the past 35 years. Still... In the week of America’s Independence Day, the algorithms of Facebook decided that the Declaration of Independence was hate speech. The Liberty County Vindicator, a community newspaper between Houston and Beaumont, had been posting the whole declaration in small daily chunks for nine days on its Facebook page in the run-up to July 4. But the 10th excerpt was not posted Monday as scheduled, and the paper said it received an automated notice saying the post “goes against our standards on hate speech.” Part of the standard notice, Vindicator managing editor Casey Stinnett wrote, included a warning that the newspaper could lose its Facebook account, on which it depends for much of its reach, if there were more violations. The offending passage? It was part of the document’s “Bill of Particulars” against Britain’s King George III: “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” Mr. Stinnett dryly replied in an article about the rejection, “Perhaps had Thomas Jefferson written it as ‘Native Americans at a challenging stage of cultural development’ that would have been better. Unfortunately, Jefferson, like most British colonists of his day, did not hold an entirely friendly view of Native Americans.” Oops. Link You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. NRA Benefactor/Patriot Member | ||
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Thank you for siting source. | |||
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Shaman |
Leftists are a cancer.  He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. | |||
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Corrected, thanks. You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. NRA Benefactor/Patriot Member | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Well, there was some fairly hateful accusations in there, you know. I bet George III was hunting for a safe space. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Did King George feel uncomfortable? ********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them". | |||
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Jefferson was a protester of some kind, wasn’t he?  _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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delicately calloused |
At this site, we cite within others' sight....  You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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Or...Sharp Sig shooter spots small slight. | |||
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So, real or fake news? Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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| Nature is full of magnificent creatures |
I feel comfortable with the sides as they are lining up. Even their software hates our Country. I have never used Facebook, and I feel better about that decision every day. | |||
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Thank you for the correction. It will prevent future error.  | |||
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| Nature is full of magnificent creatures |
More likely someone to dip their finger in water and cool his tongue. | |||
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I have never had any inclination to use Facebook, tweeter or any of the other BS sites of that kind, either. Mark Dice's new book The True Story of Fake News discusses Facebook and the like with some detail. It's not good. | |||
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Poor software algorithm. Unfortunate, but not likely nefarious. Some of y'all are as easily-triggered as snowflakes <smh> "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| delicately calloused |
You think if no one said anything or showed outrage that FB would correct the 'error' on its own? You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
If it was automation, which a suspect it almost certainly was: If nobody said anything they probably wouldn't have noticed. Some of y'all are amazing. You rant and rave and laugh about "leftist outrage" and "triggered snowflakes," then turn around and act the same damn way  "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Are you saying that because some of us criticize melting snowflakes, that if we are outraged ever we are hypocrites? I think the difference is in why each party is outraged. Outrage over SJW causes is illegitimate. Outrage over incremental loss of the heritage of this nation and consequently the value of the founding principles and eventual loss of liberty is justified. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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And yet, I have several friends that have posted quotes from, and pictures of the Declaration of Independence over the last few days (and that I've seen as recently as a few minutes ago) that have not been removed, nor have they received any notices of any sort regarding their postings. -------------------------------------- | |||
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