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Re: YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel

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The headline has important context: “YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel hours after Rudy Giuliani appeared on an episode and blamed the Capitol siege on Democrats” At some point the lies need to stop.

> At some point the lies need to stop. At some point the lies need to be brought to court.

At some point we need to understand that currently it is too easy to delude people and we need our educational system to address this.

Re: YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel

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Democratic members of congress have repeatedly called for the breakup and/or regulation of "big tech", just for different reasons.

As a liberal in big tech, I can assure you the primary motivation is that we are 1. horrified by trump, always have been 2. aren't concerned that trump will unilaterally end our business if we oppose him anymore 3. are extremely concerned about american democracy and our lives, given the way trump has convinced almost half the country that the election was rigged, which has encouraged them to almost kill an entire br…

Do you remember Russiagate? How half the country literally believed that Trump was a puppet of Russia, and that Russia had hacked the election. Hilary Clinton wrote a book about it. I will say that Trump should act with more tact and decorum, but just months ago CHAZ was a literal autonomous zone acting outside of the laws and authority of the city of Seattle. Nobody should have had their ability to communicate freely online taken away because of it, but fascists apply mental gymnastics to affirm one moral stance against another depending on the person commiting the crime.

Re: YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel

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I'm confused about what you're talking about. The Mueller Report didn't "find nothing." If you're unaware of this, you can read about it here: https://www.commoncause.org/resource/read-the-mueller-report... It only didn't end in legal action against Trump because of the procedural issues related to bringing charges against a sitting president. Barr made that decision, and chose to protect Trump. Your video (apparentl…

I didn't find anything. I did show that Trump is surprisingly clean. Maybe because of lacking ability, but unusually clean for a president. Cleaner than Biden in case of Ukraine for example, even if Trumps dealings are self-serving. Furthermore Bidens dealings are relevant to the US geopolitical ambitions and the censorship of it was a disgrace for the press. It keeps people uninformed, even if presentation of these…

> but unusually clean for a president

What's the standard here? Reagan arming Contra rebels by selling arms to Iran?

Or are you comparing to the presidential campaigns for President? Are you claiming that Obama and Romney and Clinton colluded way more with foreign powers?

Or are you comparing with Biden, who profited in no way from his dealings in Ukraine?

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Consider this in context: No ban for fighting the wars in Iraq, Libya, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. No ban for torturing people or extraordinary rendition. No ban for mass illegal spying on Americans and lying about it. No ban for droning wedding parties or hospitals. But if you dare to suggest that a political party, that cheated Bernie Sanders out of the nomination and spent the last four years lying about how Trump, th…

This is the crux of it all. Spend a second to think critically about what is going on outside of the news media echo chamber and it becomes apparent it's not about a moral stance, it's about controlling narratives and exerting power against their political enemies.

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Please by all means explain how these people were being 'silenced' before that lead to an attempted coup. Back up your claims.

It’s obvious, isn’t it? Mainstream media censored Hunter Biden laptop story. They preemptively claimed that the election was 100% safe, and kept claiming that post election without any proof.

Trump's own agencies said it was safe. So what do you want? Snap out of your fake reality.

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> Took 4-6 full years (if including the primaries) and 30,000 lies to grow a conscience. Arguably, it took election results. Easier to do what is right when the wind blows the right way.

No I think a violent insurrection in the Capitol was the tipping point. Up until then, all of the dangers associated with the rhetoric was theoretical.

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Re: YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel

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I'm confused about what you're talking about. The Mueller Report didn't "find nothing." If you're unaware of this, you can read about it here: https://www.commoncause.org/resource/read-the-mueller-report... It only didn't end in legal action against Trump because of the procedural issues related to bringing charges against a sitting president. Barr made that decision, and chose to protect Trump. Your video (apparentl…

I didn't find anything. I did show that Trump is surprisingly clean. Maybe because of lacking ability, but unusually clean for a president. Cleaner than Biden in case of Ukraine for example, even if Trumps dealings are self-serving. Furthermore Bidens dealings are relevant to the US geopolitical ambitions and the censorship of it was a disgrace for the press. It keeps people uninformed, even if presentation of these…

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/09/facebook-p...

Re: YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel

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Should we become r/adviceanimal then?

If that's what you want to see here, then, sure.

We shouldn't be like that. Tailoring for the crowd just becomes a game of "who can invite more of their friends".

The tone of this place _should_ be curated. We're tech, we're educated, we're start ups. If we lose that, we lose our soul.

Re: YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel

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Can you not tell the difference between talking to someone and cutting off their head?

Organizing an unruly mob to target people in every aspect of their life will inevitably result in death just as much as cutting off their head will.

one of the two is still an explicit call to murder tho.

Re: YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel

#690
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Do you watch CNN? For about 2 years they had cnn playing on a tv near the break room, so as I refilled my water bottle, I got to see what cnn thought was the most important (Trump) news. They spent a week on how much diet soda he drank. They had experts on saying why it could cause mental problems and that they should use the 25th on him. They spent several days when he had 2 scoops of ice cream at a White House dinn…

I too remember the uproar of Obama wearing a tan suit. Or his mustard on a burger faux pas. And the weeklong intervention into the lack of an American flag on his lapel. This is why I say both sides hide skeletons in their closet.

Anyone who thinks mustard on a burger is a faux pas is a moron.

Its ketchup... ketchup on burgers is a faux pas.

Mayo & mustard goes on burgers, ketchup belongs in the garbage can. /r/KetchupHate users rise up!

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