It's interesting how the hacking of Gab, just like countless other crimes against right-leaning individuals is accepted even in the Hackernews community.
I never violated any of your rules. The real issue is that you are so blinded by your own personal political ideology, you see any other views as somehow offensive. It's actually part of the problem we have in our society today.
This is what happens when you don't allow the true freedom of speech. People that are censored end up going to a digital echo-chamber where bad ideas thrive instead of being brought to light in a public forum and dismissed.
The masks are now off for the Liberals in our government and in big tech. They don't try to hide their authoritarian views any longer. Those of us paying attention have been seeing this going on for the past 4 years. Covid and the lockdowns only added to their power and authority.
I'm shocked at all of the 'hackers' in the tech community that started out as rebels trying to get their voices heard now using their money and power to crush all dissenting opinion.
There truly is a civil war going on in the United States, but it's not being fought with bombs and guns. It's the fight for the freedom of speech and the right to express yourself without persecution. Many will say that this only applies to the government, but what good is that when a handful of large corporations can control your entire life.
We now have banks, insurance companies, social media companies, and many other groups discriminating against a group of people because of their political beliefs and personal opinions. To me, this is no different than discrimination based on skin color, sexual identity, or religion and should be protected.
"I don’t know if you were paying attention last week, but the mob literally came for the members of Congress."
A couple of hundred people attacked the capitol in a crowd of 500,000+. Do you remember the phrase 'mostly peaceful protesters'? We've been hearing it for 8+ months after violent riots in major cities which resulted in 30+deaths, hundreds of innocent people attacked, and 1 billion+ in property damage.
"There are wrong opinions, and then there is “six million Jews were not enough” and “hang the Vice President”, and a violent mob attacking the Capitol. No one is under any obligation to tolerate such actions in a civil society."
Antifa and BLM have taken over multiple state and federal buildings over the past 8 months. In June, for instance, multiple fires were set all over DC. A church was nearly burnt to the ground and the President had to go to an underground bunker as a result of the threats outside the white house.
Unlike the protests in January 6th (which was an unorganized mess of random people), BLM and Antifa are professional rioters/criminals. They wear masks to protect themselves and have corporate backing from large left-leaning organizations.
Instead of concern, local leaders painted BLM and named a major street after them.
I'm not sure why you only seem to care when it's Trump supporters. Political violence is wrong on both sides, but only one political not only supported it, but paid the bail of rioters and continue to deny that it even exists. The real criminals are about to get into office.
"If I advocate for your murder, am I just expressing an opinion that should be consequence free if someone kills you? Does that change if enough people agree with me that you should be killed?"
You do realize Trump never said any of this, right? Him and his entire campaign have denounced the violence repeatedly. If you listened to the speech before the capitol was attacked, it was not full of any sort of energy. He basically said that it was all in Pence's hands. Supporters were actually angry because he sounded so defeated. This doesn't sound like the actions of someone trying to storm the Capitol.
The media+tech companies+incoming administration are censoring and destroying their political opponents for things they themselves have been supporting and instigating for 4 years.
If it wasn't so scary, I would call it pathetic actions from limp-dick journalists.
The people cheering this on will not be protected when the mob comes for you.
We live in a digital age. If having the wrong opinion means you can get your bank accounts and all Internet presence removed from you, it's not any different than living under a fascist government.
A random person on a blog is not an investigation. We needed a full audit after 100s of people came out with allegations. This would have put it to rest.
There were other allegations that Dominion machines were attached to local networks for updates during election night. Were they? I have no idea. There as no investigation. Only denial.
I personally have used dead people's names (with DoB and city) in a few of the battleground states and I could see they not only received a ballot on election night, but sent it back. How could this possibly happen?
This was passed off as 'fake news'.
I'm not going to repeat all of the other claims, but we had a bigger investigation on Trumps Russian collusion, which had a fraction of the evidence.
If I could put in a handful of names into a government site and see this, I can't imagine the amount actually in these databases.
The sickest part is that people just aren't curious. They hate Trump so much, they want to win at all costs.
After so much time has passed and state leaders have rejected any and all calls for investigation (and big tech sites have censored anyone that questioned it), even if there was evidence at one point in time, it would be long gone by now. These investigations should have been immediate.
The Democrats are now going to usher in some of the worst laws imaginable for free speech. It has already started with the de-platforming of Parler.
At some point talking time will indeed be over, and it will be a time for action.
Since you can't actually figure out the most obvious point ever made in a comment. The Dominion company used Solarwinds, which could have directly affected our elections after multiple companies were breached from the hack.
In Georgia, a security professional proved that machines were not only attached to the Internet, but were getting updates from servers outside the country and had the ability to be updated in real-time.
I've heard this argument a lot lately. What other amendments should we allow corporations to break?
You are also only saying this because your side is the one doing the censoring. If Republicans had control of all tech and media and you were almost completely censored, I think your opinion would change.
We need more people to be working on solving climate change, not less. We would have viable nuclear power by now if it weren't for all of the leftists in the 70s-90s protesting its existence and making it a liability for many companies to even consider it.
The unintended consequences of this would be stunning. But I suspect if the people that enacted these proposals were ever around to see the results, they would shift the blame.
"Carbon tax should be so high that nobody asks if they should fly but if they can afford to fly."
Just like all of these types of proposals, they only help the rich and powerful. Propose gun control? But hire private guards with guns to protect you. Propose Universal health care? But have the best private care in the world that the rest of us will no longer be able to afford.
We also aren't focusing on the actual source of the problem. The US only accounts for around 25% of total carbon emission. India and China make up a much larger percentage, yet can can continue to pollute and destroy the environment with impunity while gaining power in the process. While economies shrink in places that have strict carbon emission rules, China doesn't follow those same rules and grows. It's sort of like playing baseball when the other team is allowed to take steroids.
..and before you tell me about per/capita and 'fairness', this doesn't really matter in the end when humanity is destroyed.
When we have overwhelming evidence of fraud in the 2020 election and it's passed off as nothing, I really can't believe anything anymore, unless I see absolute truth (2020 election rules).
Amazon pays millions and millions of dollars in taxes. Most reports about Amazon not paying taxes are by people that don't know how the tax system actually works in the United States.
Lets not sugar-coat this. The Chinese government: Forced people with Covid symptoms to the hospital at gunpoint, welded people into their homes, lied about the virus when it started spreading rapidly in December, and bought all of the PPE and let the rest of the world suffer.
They also silenced and murdered any Doctor that came out and tried to warn the world about it.
In any other Universe, the rest of world would be marching into China and beating their government into submission.
Instead, we have Liberal politicians literally in bed with the Chinese government and the mainstream media covering it up.