News and commentary: progress in work
Xhale City in the Atlanta, Ga., area, says it immediately fired an employee after his profane, anti-Donald Trump rant went massively viral.
Assuming this NSFW video is real and not a staged prank of some kind, the vape shop employee was triggered by a customer, identified by the Daily Mail as Ian Furgeson, 36, who entered the store wearing MAGA gear in an attempt to purchase vape juice.
Update: the NYPD has reportedly arrested Laura Loomer.
So Laura Loomer handcuffed herself to the Twitter headquarters.https://t.co/iWI2O2qyMz
— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) November 29, 2018
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Although Loomer — who often uses the left’s confrontational tactics against them — is receiving criticism by dismissive liberals and conservatives, especially the blue-check Twitter cohort, the demonstration continues with a heavy police presence. It doesn’t appear that she is leaving anytime soon.
That said, in this era of politically motivated social media suspensions, outright bans, shadowbanning, de-platforming, de-monetization, inflated or squelched trends, and so on, is this form of street theater completely out of line?
I support Laura Loomer. https://t.co/FPiPM36Av3
— Jeff Giesea🌿 (@jeffgiesea) November 29, 2018
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In June 2017, Loomer, an independent journalist, rushed the stage at Shakespeare in the Park during a contemporary interpretation of Julius Caesar to protest the the assassination of a Trump lookalike in the play’s Caesar role.
Y'all liberals (I love you all) who read me don't get this Laura Loomer stuff.
Breaking the 4-minute mile was seen as impossible. Roger Bannister broke it, and since then 1,400 followed him.
"Conservatives" never engaged in left-wing style activism.
Today the game changed.
From The Daily Wire:
“‘The account was temporarily suspended for violating the Twitter Rules and has been reinstated,’ a Twitter spokesperson told The Daily Wire. ‘We have communicated directly with the account owner.'”
"Temporarily suspended"? What a boldface lie. Twitter “permanently suspended” Jesse Kelly's account and told him it “will not be restored.” But now under the threat of a Congressional investigation, they say it was just "temporary," and now it's magically restored. https://t.co/T4w6D14AzF
Exhibit A for the accuracy of this prediction is Jesse Kelly himself.
Similarly, perhaps the shenanigans in Broward County, Fla., Arizona, California, and elsewhere in the 2018 midterm elections constituted a trial run for the 2020 presidential contest.
A Marine Corps combat veteran and Houston-based talk show host, Kelly made these observations about free speech or lack thereof in The Federalist in August 2018.
“The leftists will not stop (and did not stop) at nutty Alex Jones, because they do not think you are much different from him…They just knew Jones was the weak member of the herd. They could pick him off as a test run. Next they’re coming for you.,.The same people who ceded control of public education, the federal bureaucracy, the media, movies, and music to the left have once again found another hill not worth dying on. ‘It’s only social media,’ they say. Yeah, fear not. Around 2.5 billion people use Facebook and Twitter. What’s the worst that can happen if we just let the left have them?…We need to stop whistling past the graveyard and realize the left is seeking total victory. They do not want to compete in a marketplace of ideas. Their goal is to silence dissenting voices.”
On Sunday, Twitter abruptly permanently suspended Jesse Kelly for unspecified rules violations without providing an explanation.
Shortly after his article hit the Internet, former congressional candidate Jesse Kelly discussed the censorship with FNC’s Tucker Carlson, likening it to modern-day book burning.
U.S. Senator Ben Sasse, a vocal Never Trumper in the GOP, backed Kelly even they disagree on politics.
“Jesse Kelly can’t stand me. And I think his tribal war scalping stuff is stupid and wrong. But that doesn’t matter much compared to the bigger picture here: The trend of de-platforming and shutting down speech is a bad precedent for our free speech society.”
Jesse Kelly can’t stand me. And I think his tribal war scalping stuff is stupid and wrong.
But that doesn’t matter much compared to the bigger picture here: The trend of de-platforming and shutting down speech is a bad precedent for our free speech society. https://t.co/V11v6uDZY3
In the social media context, Big Tech including Facebook has repeatedly denied it is censoring right-of-center thought despite evidence otherwise.
Now it appears that Facebook, a platform that some have derisively nicknamed Fakebook, may have drastically inflated its audience metrics.
From CNBC:
“Facebook knew that it was providing inaccurate data on ad viewership for over a year before telling clients in 2016, according to an updated lawsuit filed on Tuesday. And the problem was much worse than what Facebook reported. In September 2016, Facebook admitted the that it overestimated video ad viewing time averages by up to 60 percent to 80 percent for two years because of a calculation error. According to the lawsuit, which a group of small social media agencies and marketing consultants initially filed in a California court October 2016, Facebook wasn’t sharing the whole picture. The plaintiffs claim that Facebook inflated ad viewing time averages by 150 percent to 900 percent, much higher than reported. When Facebook discovered the issue, it stalled fixing it for more than a year while it came up with a plan to make it seem like it wasn’t a big problem, the lawsuit says.”
Author, filmmaker, and journalist Mike Cernovich, who says he spent six figures to beef up his Facebook video presence but without much return in terms of conversion (i.e., moving product to followers) despite “millions of views,” says he is bringing his own lawsuit against the massive social network.
“I spent over $100,000 on video for my Facebook page based on the false viewer numbers Facebook provided. This is civil fraud and my lawsuit will be filed shortly. I will also be filing a complaint with the [Federal Trade Commission],” Cernovich wrote on Twitter.
Anyone who invested in a multi media team with Facebook has a lawsuit. Strong ones. California law is the strictest in the country for civil fraud.
I even expect Buzzfeed and other outlets to sue. These are big money cases for the lawyers involved, too. https://t.co/9bl9l8nQw6
Asking for a friend: Does your company get together for a group cry after an election?
That’s appears to be what happened at Google’s all-hands TGIF meeting in November 2016 after Donald Trump’s win in a video just leaked to Breitbart News.
Google continues to insist there is no political bias in the way the search engine giant operates.
Breitbart described the reaction of Google’s top execs to the election results.
“These individuals, who preside over a company with unrivaled influence over the flow of information, can be seen disparaging the motivations of Trump voters and plotting ways to use their vast resources to thwart the Trump agenda.”
Kent Walker, a senior VP at Google, says that it's important for Google "to be in the arena" fighting against "populism" and "nationalism" after Trump's victory to make sure that Trump "is a blip, is a hiccup." pic.twitter.com/LHla5aezaU
In an unusually fair story, The New York Times reported on this development.
“The post went up quietly on Facebook’s internal message board last week. Titled ‘We Have a Problem With Political Diversity,’ it quickly took off inside the social network. ‘We are a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views,’ Brian Amerige, a senior Facebook engineer, wrote in the post, which was obtained by The New York Times. ‘We claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack — often in mobs — anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology.’ Since the post went up, more than 100 Facebook employees have joined Mr. Amerige to form an online group called FB’ers for Political Diversity, according to two people who viewed the group’s page and who were not authorized to speak publicly. The aim of the initiative, according to Mr. Amerige’s memo, is to create a space for ideological diversity within the company.”
The post went up quietly on Facebook’s internal message board. Titled “We Have a Problem With Political Diversity,” it quickly took off inside the social network. https://t.co/aHEZ09cRSh
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