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GOP whines about "cancel culture" because they don't want to accept responsibility for their actions

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Im okay with cancel culture. You have freedom to say what you want and how you feel , others have the freedom to choose not to deal with you. Dont cry about it later .
You apparently are not familiar with the meaning that's behind the term "Cancel Culture." But here's a hint...CANCEL doesn't mean there's a right to believe and do what is legal.

Think about it.

CANCEL:
b. to destroy the force, effectiveness, or validity of : ANNUL
c: to match in force or effect : OFFSET —often used with outhis irritability canceled out his natural kindness— Osbert Sitwell
d: to bring to nothingness : DESTROY

(Merriam-Webster dictionary)
 
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Would you complain if Twitter banned a neo-Nazi spreading hate speech and calling for violence?
Twitter has MASSIVE amounts of hate speech and calling for violence and has for a long time. Hence, in part, the hypocrisy.
 
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No! If I had meant that, I would have included it in my post.

So what *exactly* are you advocating with respect to hate speech and disinformation?

I was clear in saying that Twitter (and others) are biased and explained why that is correct to say.

And again, so what? As I pointed out, even supposed *news* organizations like MSNBC and Foxnews are "biased" in the extreme and they don't even pretend to hide it. Even *if* it's the case that Twitter is biased in some way, it doesn't change the fact that they have the right to moderate their content as they see fit. The fact they can't and don't find *all* the offending posts and content and remove it, doesn't mean they shouldn't remove the content which they *do* find and remove. Much of that filtering is done by computer code that isn't "perfect" to begin with.
 
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Oh the irony

Indeed, but not the way you seem to imagine. You seem to want to have your cake and eat it too. You seem to want to take away the rights and liberties of Twitter, only because they imperfectly moderate their content.
 
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Twitter has MASSIVE amounts of hate speech and calling for violence and has for a long time. Hence, in part, the hypocrisy.

They've been systematically and methodically removing such speech for a long time too. The fact they're not 100 percent perfect doesn't make them hypocrites.

You seem also be missing the fact that *consequences* aren't "unfair" simply because they happen to a US President.
 
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Indeed, but not the way you seem to imagine. You seem to want to have your cake and eat it too. You seem to want to take away the rights and liberties of Twitter, only because they imperfectly moderate their content.
Just look at yourself. I've not given a specific stand on anything other than your own hypocrisy yet you keep projecting your idea of political motivations onto me. In my experience that is a huge indicator of a major idol in one's life.
 
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Just look at yourself. I've not given a specific stand on anything other than your own hypocrisy yet you keep projecting your idea of political motivations onto me. In my experience that is a huge indicator of a major idol in one's life.

LOL! Irony overload!

And just to be clear, you've yet to demonstrate any hypocrisy on my part, and you're the one who professed to have mind reading skills, not me.
 
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So when you say "throw them out" what you really mean is "vote them out of office"? Just making sure. I am sure you don't want to incite any violence. People have been impeached for saying things like that.
 
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LOL! Irony overload!

And just to be clear, you've yet to demonstrate any hypocrisy on my part, and you're the one who professed to have mind reading skills, not me.
Well let's see:

Indeed, but not the way you seem to imagine. You seem to want to have your cake and eat it too. You seem to want to take away the rights and liberties of Twitter, only because they imperfectly moderate their content.

You seem also be missing the fact that *consequences* aren't "unfair" simply because they happen to a US President.
I never said anything remotely like these statements. I guess we can add gaslighting to the list of your talents.
 
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So when is that standard going to apply to the left? When are democrats going to be held accountable for their rhetoric?
 
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What is the definition of fact?
 
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Im okay with cancel culture. You have freedom to say what you want and how you feel , others have the freedom to choose not to deal with you. Dont cry about it later .

These companies built themselves up by including everyone's voice. Once they were big enough to control the narrative and stomp out competition they then started to push their own narrative. Now that they have control people are powerless to go elsewhere. We all saw what happened with parler. The only option is for government intervention.
 
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Well let's see:

I never said anything remotely like these statements. I guess we can add gaslighting to the list of your talents.

Here's what you said:

Twitter has MASSIVE amounts of hate speech and calling for violence and has for a long time. Hence, in part, the hypocrisy.

You're implying that since Twitter still has removed *all* violent content, somehow that makes them (and apparently me too) hypocritical in your mind. All it actually demonstrates is that hate speech has been a problem all along, and they're not perfect at weeding it out.

Aside from your blatant gaslighting about "hypocrisy"....

I suppose in retrospect that you didn't actually imply that Twitter's rights should be curtailed, nor that it was "unfair" only because Trump happened to be the President at the time, so I can see your frustration at my statements. My bad.

Unlike Trump, I can admit to making mistakes when I make them.

I do however stand by my statement that you *still* have not demonstrated that I have in any way acted hypocritically, nor have you actually demonstrated that Twitter has acted hypocritically either. All you've managed to demonstrate is that Twitter is imperfect, just like me and just like everyone else.

Twitter still has the right to moderate their forums as they see fit and Trump still deserved the ban for violating their rules. There's nothing unfair about it.
 
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What is the definition of fact?

In this particular case, the "facts" related to his actions were posted to his Twitter accounts, including the video he posted directly after the riots where he claimed to "love" them and he called them 'special'. They were indeed 'special' alright, but I didn't find anything to "love" about their behaviors.
 
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I was just curious after reading your post. I wasn't sure that you understood the meaning.
 
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I was just curious after reading your post. I wasn't sure that you understood the meaning.

Oh, I certainly understand the meaning of incitement, and I can understand attempted coop by a petty wannabe dictator when I see it.
 
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