Monday, October 21, 2019

Smile today.... OR ELSE!!!! "unaffiliated" conservatives, and Free Speech in Social Media.


I was all set to do a soft piece, full of uplifting, fluffy words of comfort, but then I bumped once more against the "soft wall" of the boundaries that surround me.

Instead, I'm hearing these "unaffiliated conservatives" talking about the tearing-down of the Bill of Rights, just as if it were the rape-soiled underwear of Sally Hemmings.  They were going through a list of the Amendments, just by number, past the first two, noting how forces in the country have pushed back against first Freedom Of Speech and more recently, The Right To Bear Arms.

On free speech, the most popular medium by far in recent times is le media sociale.  We've seen foreign appendages engage in "psy-ops" "false-flag" and other sorts of campaigns, most notably with a lot of race-bating Pro-Trump advertisements and postings on Facebook.

The backlash from the other side of the aisle has been, shall we understate, TREMENDOUS.  Hillary still has butthurt from not winning the White House in 2016, and yet she was quite close despite all of the efforts on social media.

What they are not seeing is that controls must be responsible, so as to target only the bad actors, and impinging then NARY A JOT on the rights of John Q.  For instances, outside links were blocked on some posts, which knocked out a favorite blog/site of mine that posted about its website content on Facebook, which lead that webmaster to go nuts thinking, dramatically, that his website had been choked into silence, as if rendered suddenly invisible on le media sociale.

I note that I found his site through a popular search engine, and not through Facebook.

Again, responsible, responsive controls are needed, as so many of these advertisements are both cheap and not vetted by the judgement of a live human, therefore there must be some kind of intelligent programming code to do the work efficiently for the human overlords.  Luckily, there is technology already in social media that parses text AND photos for banned content.  Earlier in the year, it was my intention to post a still-capture of the blonde mini bike rider from Vanishing Point, and Facebook software realized right away that there was nudity in the post, then prevented the upload.

The Second Amendment seems geared toward "militia" and not "rich gun collectors", so that's a matter for another day and another longer posting.


Also cited by the commentators was the "unpalatable" nature of late-term abortion across a broad-spectrum of the country, while the governing class and the media paints the matter as settled in the opposite direction, a distinct divergence from popular opinion enough to give a nod of credence to accusations of bias by many popular commentators.  The matter comes down to somewhere between to around 25-33 percent of Americans supporting late term abortion, probably under the heading of "unrestricted choice", where those in the government and the media echoing lines to the contrary about "a woman's right to choose" and "reproductive rights".

The conservative likely sees the matter as a sort of a bail-out parachute on moral responsibility, but taking the matter that way initiates some looks into contrarian attitudes, the popular fight, generational biases and obvious gender bias.  Clearly, the matter when framed as the rights of the mother versus the rights of the unborn offspring takes another shade of light, and puts many of the popular political and media "actors" stubbornly to the contrary.

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