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When enough big tech execs get killed the survivors might start to listen and act accordingly.
 
Posts: 7550 | Registered: May 12, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Just because you can,
doesn't mean you should
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The Democrats have claimed they want to break up the tech giants.
I'm not sure they want to really do that other than selectively but it's time to call their bluff.
More likely, they are stating that publicly so the tech biggies will pay them more protection money behind the scenes, AKA make larger campaign donations and Hunter Biden style payoff's hidden as consulting contracts to friends and family.


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Posts: 9984 | Location: NE GA | Registered: August 22, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Originally posted by BBMW:
These are all private companies, and can do anything with their services/networks they want. If they want to ban conservative and/or gun sites/apps from using their platforms, there's nothing legally that can be done to stop them.


So, AT&T, Verizon, and all other private companies can do the same? Listen in and if they hear something they don’t like, bam, you’re gone. No more phone line for you! Where does that stop? Power companies? Car dealers looking at some bad guy list provided by Pravda? That’s the biggest bunch of horseshit. Can’t stand when someone says “it’s their house, their rules”. Fuck that. There’s a limit and you know that.


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Originally posted by 220-9er:
The Democrats have claimed they want to break up the tech giants.
I'm not sure they want to really do that other than selectively but it's time to call their bluff.
More likely, they are stating that publicly so the tech biggies will pay them more protection money behind the scenes, AKA make larger campaign donations and Hunter Biden style payoff's hidden as consulting contracts to friends and family.

... and paying for biden's inauguration ... https://www.breitbart.com/poli...bidens-inauguration/
 
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I hate to see what is ahead. The big names have a monopoly, whether they admit it or not. They buy up the smaller companies and they continue to build. The "their company,their rules" thing is something that goes beyond any other business model as they control most access to the internet. When the big companies want to destroy our hopes, they will and the government who is on their side,will give them their blessing. It is time to have your house in order and not in a worldly way. It is my belief we are going up against something bigger than just companies and is more of a spiritual realm. Evil is becoming good and vice versa.
 
Posts: 7195 | Location: Treasure Coast,Fl. | Registered: July 04, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Oh stewardess,
I speak jive.
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Apple and Google, by way of the two App Stores for each flavor of platforms, have a choke hold on what everyone can use on their phones. This bottleneck is an enormous problem with no relief in sight.

If Cell Phone companies and ISPs start this shit, there are little to zero alternatives.
 
Posts: 25613 | Registered: March 12, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Originally posted by benny6:
What can they do to stop us and what can we do to circumvent their efforts?

You would be amazed at what "they" could do.

Suffice it to say that whatever y'all come up with: If it uses the Internet and stock, off-the-shelf hardware and software, "they" can thwart it.

E.g.: The Mozilla Foundation is already talking about building stuff into the Mozilla browser to block stuff that isn't otherwise blocked. Their CEO didn't come right out and say it, but that's the plan.

So, how to stop this: There's a thread already on how to accomplish that: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: Just Say "No". Amazon, Too

Make it hurt them economically to embark upon these courses of action. That is the only way, and it must be done now. If these companies get away with what they're doing now, it will just be extended until it covers everything.

Then it truly will be Game Over.
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Originally posted by az4783054:
conservatives might have to dust off their ham radios

Yeah, that'll work


Except you need to get a FFC Radio Operator's License, which is issued by the government.
 
Posts: 5415 | Registered: October 18, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Originally posted by benny6:...



Tony.






"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
 
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Thanks for a good laugh. Smile

I received this from Oregon Firearms Federation and I'm checking it out...

If you use, or think you should be using social media, may we suggest you check out Ipatriots.io It has an interface Facebook users will recognize, it is run by patriots, and its servers are offshore and not likely to be compromised. We have only used it on computers and not smart phones and it appears for now it only works on Android devices and not iPhones. So if you are planning on using it and you can, please check it out on a computer.

Tony.


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Posts: 5598 | Location: Auburndale, FL | Registered: February 13, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Here's the link for Ipatriots:

https://ipatriot.io/



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God's grace: Getting what we DON'T deserve!

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Email with protonmail.com based in Switzerland. Fuck the tech giants.
 
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Just further proof of the power of the American media which controls over 90% of what Americans see, hear & read. They have an agenda and bend there delivery & messaging to that agenda. So who’s best interest is being served? ‬


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I wonder. LOTs of people own stock in these companies, either directly through direct ownership OR through mutual funds/retirement plans... As shareholders, don't they have a voice in the company? Could they unite and force a vote on the CEO? I know the board at Apple voted to fire Steve Jobs back in the day. I wonder if share holders could demand Zuck and others be fired?
 
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Left-Handed,
NOT Left-Winged!
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Originally posted by Belgian Blue:
I wonder. LOTs of people own stock in these companies, either directly through direct ownership OR through mutual funds/retirement plans... As shareholders, don't they have a voice in the company? Could they unite and force a vote on the CEO? I know the board at Apple voted to fire Steve Jobs back in the day. I wonder if share holders could demand Zuck and others be fired?


Yes, shareholders have a say in the governance of a corporation, but your vote is proportional to the shares you hold, so that's not going to work unless you can get a majority of shareholders on board.

I would like to see lawsuits for suppression of civil rights by the tech companies. If you have a de facto monopoly, the rules change because fair competition doesn't exist. Also, it is clear that are illegally colluding to eliminate competition.
 
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Ignored facts
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“I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”

----- Voltaire.

It seems this point is lost on so many right now. Not on this forum, but elsewhere.


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Yeah, that M14 video guy...
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Is pirate radio still a thing?


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Yeah, but FCC enforcement is apparently good enough that it's an intermittent thing at best.
 
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Looking like the dark Winter Biden predicted.




Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
 
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If we're talking Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, etc, no, there isn't. It IS their game and it IS their rules.

When you get into companies that are already regulated (power companies, utilities including some telecoms, banks) there may be some rules, but the rules may not be written to deal with situations like these (where they just don't want to deal with a customer for political / ideological reasons.) Note that some banks have cut off services for gun companies without the regulators batting an eye.

And, of course, where the actions of the companies are in line with the ideology of those in control of the government, the government isn't going to do anything to stop them.

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Originally posted by mutedblade:
quote:
Originally posted by BBMW:
These are all private companies, and can do anything with their services/networks they want. If they want to ban conservative and/or gun sites/apps from using their platforms, there's nothing legally that can be done to stop them.


So, AT&T, Verizon, and all other private companies can do the same? Listen in and if they hear something they don’t like, bam, you’re gone. No more phone line for you! Where does that stop? Power companies? Car dealers looking at some bad guy list provided by Pravda? That’s the biggest bunch of horseshit. Can’t stand when someone says “it’s their house, their rules”. Fuck that. There’s a limit and you know that.
 
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Told cops where to go for over 29 years…
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Recent Dan Bongino post on Parler (web site still up as I post this)

” Please do not abandon Parler. We are NOT going anywhere. We may have a temporary disruption in service now that monopolist Amazon has attacked us, but it’ll be brief and we have a backup plan. And, although the monopolists at Apple & Google have removed the app, it doesn’t effect our website which is easily accessed and used from your phone or computer. We are fighting back and we need you to encourage your friends to join Parler as soon as possible. There is power in numbers.”

App still working if you happened to install before it was removed from App Store.

This week I signed up for Parler, Signal, restarted using MeWe, and just now signed up on Gab.

Would like to see something compete and beat FB.






What part of "...Shall not be infringed" don't you understand???


 
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