Corporate elites, spurred on by far-left activists, are punishing Facebook for not doing enough to censor its platform, and have deployed a massive advertising boycott against the platform to force its cooperation.
For those who are familiar with Facebook’s track record, which includes banning prominent conservatives and adding others to Orwellian lists of potential “hate agents,” as well as the reported use of “deboosting” algorithms to reduce the visibility of conservative content, the idea that Facebook isn’t censoring is an extraordinary suggestion.
"CNN-South Pole warming at more than 3 times the global rate was breathlessly reported today by all the major news sources owing to a new study in Nature."
To paraphrase Lenin, we're the ones buying the rope with which they're strangling us.
The exodus of major advertisers from Facebook continues to grow as the company weathers criticism over its handling of racist, violent and other hateful rhetoric on the platform.
That's media speak for conservative content and material from President Trump.
On Monday, Ford became one of the latest companies to pause social media advertising when it announced a 30-day halt. Another major brand, Pepsi, is reportedly weighing a similar move, following Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Unilever and dozens of other brands shifting their ad dollars away from Facebook.
The brands said they are standing up against hate speech. Clorox, for instance, said it will stop all advertising on Facebook through December because "we feel compelled to take action against hate speech."...
Unilever comprises everything from Breyers to Dove to Lipton and a whole lot of others. Diageo has also recently joined.That covers Johnny Walker, Guiness, and a whole lot of other liquour brands. The odds are good that 75% of the brands you will encounter while visiting your local supermarket are in on this boycott."
Musk Urges COVID-19 Retests Due to 'Ridiculous Number' of False Positives "Elon Musk is urging anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19 to undergo another examination due to a "ridiculous number" of false positives. The billionaire technologist, who spearheads electric car company Tesla and rocket firm SpaceX, voiced his opinion about the infectious respiratory disease on social media today, asserting that hospitalizations and death rates are currently declining. ..."This is a big part of why C19 positive tests are going up while hospitalizations and mortality are declining. Anyone who tests positive should retest," he added. Read all. And this:
“The people coming on these [H-1B] visas have built this country,” Biden added.
“He said the H-1Bs built this country? So the country didn’t exist before 1998? That is interesting,” responded Rosemary Jenks, policy director at NumbersUSA. If Biden is elected, she said:
Facebook Bans Network With ‘Boogaloo’ Ties - The New York Times
"Facebook said on Tuesday that it took down a network of accounts, groups and pages connected to an antigovernment movement in the United States that encourages violence.
People and groups associated with the decentralized movement, called boogaloo, will be banned from Facebook and Instagram, which Facebook also owns, the company said. Facebook said it had removed 220 Facebook accounts, 95 Instagram accounts, 28 pages and 106 groups as a result of the decision.
It is also designating boogaloo as a dangerous organization on the social network, meaning it shares the same classification as terrorist activity, organized hate and large-scale criminal organizations on Facebook.
As a result, Facebook said it would ban people and organizations linked to boogaloo, and remove content that praises, supports and represents the movement.
...On Monday, Reddit said it was banning roughly 2,000 communities from across the political spectrum that attacked people or regularly engaged in hate speech, including “r/The_Donald,” a community devoted to President Trump... Read all!!!
History for July 1 - On-This-Day.com George Sand 1804 - Author, Amandine Aurore Lucile Dudevant, Thomas Andrew Dorsey 1899 - Musician, "Father of Gospel Music," pianist, composed more than 1,000 gospel songs, Jamie Farr 1934 - Actor ("M*A*S*H") Deborah Harry 1945 - Singer (Blondie), Dan Aykroyd 1952 - Comedian, actor ("Driving Miss Daisy," "Saturday Night Live," "Ghostbusters," "The Blues Brothers"), Princess Diana (Spencer) 1961 - Princess of Wales 1863 - During the U.S. Civil War, the first day's fighting at Gettysburg began. 1898 - During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.
Walmart will discontinue the sale of products emblazoned with the phrase “All Lives Matter,” the retail giant announced Tuesday.
Walmart has ceased the sale of products featuring the phrase “indefinitely” amid public backlash, the company announced. The company alleged that the statement is insulting to the Black Lives Matter BLM movement that has gained prominence following the death of George Floyd. The items in question are sold by third parties, USA Today reported.
Amid new evidence of the direct involvement of President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the prosecution of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the onetime national security adviser's lawyer is putting a spotlight on one of the likely motives.
Michigan superintendents: Skip standardized test this year amid coronavirus | Bridge Magazine
"Michigan students, homebound for months because of the worst pandemic in a century and facing a return to school with social distancing and possibly face masks, shouldn’t have to take standardized tests.
That was the message of State Superintendent Michael Rice, a bipartisan group of legislators and school leaders from across the state Thursday.
If tests are eliminated for the upcoming school year, students would not take the M-STEP, third-graders would not face the possibility of being held back in grade for poor reading scores on the M-STEP, and teachers would not have student test scores used as part of their annual performance reviews... Read all.
"Might as well get ready for the annual July 4th fireworks...no, not the ones in the sky, the usual flood of articles about how bad America is and why celebrating our freedom is some "ist" kind of bad.
I noticed some have posted the article how Mount Rushmore is really a celebration of white supremacy but the Salt Lake Tribune got a head start on Sunday with a gem headlined: "Being born someplace isn’t an accomplishment". It featured this wisdom:
"Beyond that, I’m not sure what “proud to be an American” even means. I don’t much care for its undeniable “We’re better than everyone else” ring. Try as I may, I am hard-pressed to see what makes American-ness intrinsically better than, say, Liechtensteiner-ness, Canadian-ness, or Basotho-ness. A human is a human, neither inferior nor superior, point of origin notwithstanding."
Like how one can count on falling leaves in Autumn, one can count on articles like this any time there is an opportunity to celebrate our nation."
Three events last week showed that Democrats do not want a mere transfer of power if they win the November election: they intend to revolutionize our entire system of government.
The first happened Wednesday, when Democrats blocked the Senate from considering a bill on police reform by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).
‘The precinct is on fire’: What happened at Minneapolis’ 3rd Precinct – and what it means | MPR News "...It was 9:53 p.m. when a Minneapolis police officer sent out an urgent call to the other officers who remained in the 3rd Precinct. “We need to move. We need to move,” he shouted over the police radio. Protesters were breaking into the back of the station, and officers were preparing to take an unprecedented step in American policing: to abandon their precinct building. “The front has been breached,” an officer called over the radio just before they fled.
“They’re coming in. They’re coming in the back.”In a dramatic exit, a squad car rammed through a gate near the station in south Minneapolis, leading a motorcade racing from the parking lot.
Patrol officers in riot gear left on foot, hurrying past a jeering crowd hurling rocks and fireworks.
A student group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is calling for the school to remove its popular Abraham Lincoln statue, saying the president who is known as the "Great Emancipator" is a symbol of racism.
President Donald Trump on Saturday shared a series of images of individuals possibly responsible for vandalizing the Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Square.
The flyer urges Americans to contact the U.S. Park Police or the FBI if anyone has information on the people possibly involved with the crimes that occurred on June 22.
Mob Rule Imperils Western Civilization. It's Time for Courage, Leadership.
"The war on history has spread across our country and has even spilled over to other parts of the Western world. Now, on a daily basis, we see scenes of lawless mobs attacking and tearing down statues, and defacing monuments of every type—often as authorities stand idly by.
But this violence has hardly been reserved just for statues.
After toppling a statue of an abolitionist who gave his life to the cause as a member of the Union Army, a mob in Madison, Wisconsin, mercilessly beat a Wisconsin Democrat state senator who supported the protests. Mob rule is indeed coming to America. It must be stopped... Read all.
Kansas State football players announce boycott after student's Floyd tweet - Washington Times "MANHATTAN, Kan. - Kansas State football players say they will boycott all team activities until administrators create a policy that would allow a student to be expelled for “openly racist, threatening or disrespectful actions.”
The move that most players announced Saturday on social media follows a tweet by a student about the death of George Floyd that prompted outrage on campus.
“We are demanding that Kansas State University put a policy in place that allows a student to be dismissed for displaying openly racist, threatening or disrespectful actions toward a student or groups of students,” the players said in the letter they posted.
“We have resolved that we cannot play, practice or meet until these demands are heard and actions taken...
On Thursday, one month after Floyd, a Black man, died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on his neck for nearly eight minutes, student Jaden McNeil tweeted, “Congratulations to George Floyd on being drug free for an entire month!”... Read all.
Corporate elites, spurred on by far-left activists, are punishing Facebook for not doing enough to censor its platform, and have deployed a massive advertising boycott against the platform to force its cooperation.
Ford, Johnny Walker, Breyers, Clorox, Coke Join Effort to Force Facebook to Censor Conservatives | Frontpagemag
Musk Urges COVID-19 Retests Due to 'Ridiculous Number' of False Positives
Joe Biden: H-1B Foreign Workers 'Built this Country':
Facebook Bans Network With ‘Boogaloo’ Ties - The New York Times
Walmart will discontinue the sale of products emblazoned with the phrase “All Lives Matter,” the retail giant announced Tuesday.
Michigan superintendents: Skip standardized test this year amid coronavirus | Bridge Magazine
Pollak: 3 Recent Signs Democrats Want a Socialist Revolution:
President Donald Trump on Saturday shared a series of images of individuals possibly responsible for vandalizing the Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Square.
Mob Rule Imperils Western Civilization. It's Time for Courage, Leadership.
Now, on a daily basis, we see scenes of lawless mobs attacking and tearing down statues, and defacing monuments of every type—often as authorities stand idly by.
"MANHATTAN, Kan. - Kansas State football players say they will boycott all team activities until administrators create a policy that would allow a student to be expelled for “openly racist, threatening or disrespectful actions.”