Laura Loomer banned from Twitter after criticizing Ilhan Omar

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  1. Guyzilla

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    Yes, the gov should force those with the mic to amplify those voices you dictate.
     
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    She had the effrontery to say she was against FGM and that a new Congresswoman was anti Semetic.
     
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    Yeah, problem is that I don't see any of that mentioned in Twitter's rules! I do however see hate speech mentioned, but still that piece of human waste Farrakhan remains on twitter! GROSS DOUBLE STANDARD!
     
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    Why should you give your money and your time to the censors and the people that literally hate you ?

    from this https://gab.com/JohnRivers/posts/42431865
    how do you hurt Enemy Media?
    by depriving them of Money and Attention

    how do you build up Allied Media?
    by giving them Money and Attention

    the American Right still is funding Enemy Media
    primarily through our monthly cable bills

    we spend vastly more each month on Enemy Media than on Allied Media
    and then complain about Media Bias

    Stop using twitter and facebook. Stop using google/alphabet as much as possible.

    And if you want to cut your cell phone bill, go to mobile virtual networks
    https://bestmvno.com/mvnos/
     
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    Hypocrite
     
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    Did I say that? No.

    I fact I've been very outspoken in disagreeing with those on my side who want such a policy. Repeatedly.
     
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    "Hate speech" is just the word for "blasphemy" in leftism. Every religion as their taboos and codes, and leftism is basically a godless religion. The omnipresence of moral in it is the biggest sign.
    I'm by the way opposed to call to violence. "Hate speech", "blasphemy", "ennemies of the revolution", that's the same thing.
    Communist were persecuting people opposed to their communist revolution, leftists start slowly but surel to persecute the ennemies of their LGBT revolution.
     
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    Quite possibly but I still don't see the two examples quoted are equivalent and I don't think a more immediate response to a tweet attacking a named individual (regardless of who it is) indicates any political bias.

    The specifics aren't really relevant. My core point is that it isn't clear what the intention of that tweet actually was. The one that apparently got Loomer banned was unequivocal. Again, they're both be wrong and could both be worthy of censure but they're not directly equivalent.
     
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    Twitter got loomer: good. Need to get Farrakhan: better.
     
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    As much as you would like it, it's not up to you...
    If you don't like it, start your own company and twitter competition.
     
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    Hate speech most likely.
     
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    How? Do you feel entitled to someone else platform?
     
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    According to Loomer... she got suspended, not banned... for accusing Ms. Omar of being anti-Jewish and supportive of Sharia law and female genital mutilation violated the platform’s rules against hateful conduct.

    That would be violation of twitter because she does harass other people on the basis of ethnicity, national origin, and religious affiliation.


    And that other dude said:
    "I'm not an anti-Semite. I'm anti-Termite."
    That's on par with "immigrants are infesting our country" (by Trump)
    It's allowed.
     
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    Shall I ask my rebbi to text you? :)
     
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    Free speech in the NPS must be protected.
     
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    Better yet, let's see free speech protected in the NPS. :thumbsup:
     
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    Yeah, the less free speech and fewer opinions the better society will be. It worked for the Russians and Chinese.
     
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    Fred, you don't have free speech when involved in business. You sign a TSO agreement. You are free to not use the product.
     
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    Sorry they have a right to ban or not to ban anyone they care to and the very fact they had not ban Trump is enough of a case in point of that fact.
     
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    Who care as the matter is completely up to the owners of Twitter and no one else.
     
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    LOL they do not apply their own rules in a equal manner and anyone who is aware of Trump postings know that as a fact but it is their service and they can do anything they care to do.
     
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    I do think "I'm not an anti-Semite. I'm anti-Termite." = "immigrants are infesting our country"
    One is said by Trump the other by Farrakhan

    I honestly can not compare that with saying some person is anti-Jewish and supportive of Sharia law and female genital mutilation
     
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    If you was a owner or part owner of twitter it would matter but as neither you or I, at least as far as I know, are not owners our opinions carry no weight other then as users.
     
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    Well both Trump and Farrakhan, at best, are calling names to an entire group of people. At best.
    While Loomer makes a personal attack against a specific individual. And making such false statements against a person is simply illegal in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law

    Hence you can't compare this all as one and the same. And since one is clearly illegal in the US. You can not demand that twitter helps out with breaking the law.
     
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