The Trump Candidacy

[stunted]

 

[steve dave]

was he actually banned or just in his head?

well, everyone could obviously read it to mock him about it so I'm guessing the head one.

[treysolid]

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/19/donald-trump-would-scrap-fiduciary-rule-forcing-advisors-to-act-in-clients-interests-insider-says.html

according to some hedge fund manager dude, essentially, fiduciaries = slaves. let my people go!

[catastrophe]

that's not really censorship though.  i have no problem with that.

Why is it not censorship? Obviously it can't be in the legal (1st Amendment)sense because Facebook is not government run, but the accusation is that, within its own medium, Facebook is intentionally making it so certain political content does not appear in favor of other political content.

Another accusation was Google modifying its suggested searches to include only positive suggestions for Hillary-related searches (i.e., autocomplete would not fill in any scandal related terms even though they were far more searched) but include negative ones for other candidates.

I don't think anyone is claiming any of this is illegal, but if true it certainly should weigh on the credibility of the companies.

[chum1]

https://twitter.com/peretti/status/788842667304038400

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/buzzfeed-ceo-ivanka-trump-told-me-she-wanted-to-see-mu-1787991802

[MakeItRain]

 

[catastrophe]

That seems almost like a meltdown moment similar to some posters on here.

[catastrophe]

Also, poor Ivanka is going to get soooo many dic pics now.

[star seed 7]

Mulatto is such an odd word to use

[star seed 7]

Also, eff off buzzfeed, no need to put that out

[8manpick]

Mulatto is such an odd word to use

Borderline racist (maybe? Don't really know, don't really care) but no surprise there

[8manpick]

Also, eff off buzzfeed, no need to put that out

It's BuzzFeed so basically as expected. "Cocks Ivanka hasn't seen... You won't believe #6!"

[SdK]

Mulatto is such an odd word to use

Borderline racist (maybe? Don't really know, don't really care) but no surprise there

I only think of Kurt when I hear the word.

[star seed 7]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/789117930801926148

[cfbandyman]

Mulatto is such an odd word to use

Borderline racist (maybe? Don't really know, don't really care) but no surprise there

Pretty much agree on all counts. Who cares? Doesn't surprise me, and Mulatto is pretty antiquated, sort of racist but since this is the first time I've heard it be used, at all, in years it doesn't exactly pack any sort of significant punch. Kind of like calling Italians WOPs or telling the Irish NINA.

[cfbandyman]

Also, who cares what Ivanka says, she isn't the orange baffoon running for president.

[DQ12]

that's not really censorship though.  i have no problem with that.

Why is it not censorship? Obviously it can't be in the legal (1st Amendment)sense because Facebook is not government run, but the accusation is that, within its own medium, Facebook is intentionally making it so certain political content does not appear in favor of other political content.

Another accusation was Google modifying its suggested searches to include only positive suggestions for Hillary-related searches (i.e., autocomplete would not fill in any scandal related terms even though they were far more searched) but include negative ones for other candidates.

I don't think anyone is claiming any of this is illegal, but if true it certainly should weigh on the credibility of the companies.

Promoting some speech but not all speech is not censorship, it's bias.

[Emo EMAW]

What about Twitter allegedly blocking the tweets of some people to certain areas?  That seems like censorship to me, if true of course.

[ChiComCat]

Making anybody's tweets not available to anyone is at least some form of censorship.

[chum1]

I don't know the details, but I don't think these companies made it so certain content couldn't be viewed, they just prioritized the content that people see when they search or look at a timeline or feed. If they didn't organize content like this, their services wouldn't be very useful at all.

[Emo EMAW]

I don't know the details, but I don't think these companies made it so certain content couldn't be viewed, they just prioritized the content that people see when they search or look at a timeline or feed. If they didn't organize content like this, their services wouldn't be very useful at all.

Apparently you don't.

[EMAWican]

I don't know the details, but I don't think these companies made it so certain content couldn't be viewed, they just prioritized the content that people see when they search or look at a timeline or feed. If they didn't organize content like this, their services wouldn't be very useful at all.

Big example:  http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/19/technology/twitter-suspends-milo-yiannopoulos/

Another one:


Another:







IIRC James O'Keefe's account was suspended as well.

[SdK]

Mulatto is such an odd word to use

Borderline racist (maybe? Don't really know, don't really care) but no surprise there

I only think of Kurt when I hear the word.

Nirvana, Kurt from Nirvana, a popular music group from the early 90s. He said other words like mosquito and libido.

[SdK]

Kurt is now dead. RIP.

[chum1]

I don't know the details, but I don't think these companies made it so certain content couldn't be viewed, they just prioritized the content that people see when they search or look at a timeline or feed. If they didn't organize content like this, their services wouldn't be very useful at all.

Apparently you don't.

I mean, outside of a couple of cases like that Milo guy. There are always a few people that are going to cross the line wherever it is. So, NBD.

And the biggest thing that a large number of people bitched about, by far, was actually facebook's news feed. Almost no one cares about a handful of cases like Milo.