Don't Get The Idea That Internet Censorship Is Diminishing

July 03, 2023 Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian 

I owe an apology to all readers for the temporarily reduced frequency of posting. I’m currently in Italy on a family vacation. On multiple occasions over the past several years, I have taken family vacations— including to semi-developed places like Russia and Vietnam — without significant effect on my ability to post on the blog. However, the internet service where I currently find myself in Italy is remarkably poor, and not sufficient to support the kind of research it takes to do one of my usual posts. So please have patience. I’ll be back to my usual routine next week.

Meanwhile, let me relay some information that people have sent me. Greg Wrightstone, Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition, sends along some truly shocking information about ongoing big tech censorship of the climate debate. Things may have improved at Twitter over the past few months, but Twitter is only one of several of the big tech behemoths. At the others, little has changed. Indeed, things may be continuing to get worse.

If you are unfamiliar with it, the CO2 Coalition is the premier organization of scientists and science-oriented people who are skeptical of the claims of the weird pagan cult that currently dominate public debate on the subject of climate. The large majority of top-rank climate scientists who actually know what they are talking about are members of the Coalition. (The exceptions are generally people who have declined to join because of well-founded fears of adverse career consequences should they associate themselves with the group.). Dr. William Happer, the senior atmospheric physicist at Princeton, is the Chair of the Coalition. The Coalition also includes as members various science-oriented people who regularly contribute to the public climate debate. In that category, I joined by invitation a couple of years ago.

One of the more notable recent additions to the Coalition is a guy named John Clauser. Clauser happens to be one of the winners of the latest (2022) Nobel Prize in physics. The work for which Clauser won the Nobel Prize is on a specific issue called “quantum entanglement.” But he is clearly a brilliant physicist, and physics generally is highly relevant to the subject of the world’s climate. Also, like many other actual top scientists, Clauser is a “climate skeptic.” Finally, Clauser has not only joined the CO2 Coalition, but in May he became a board member.

On June 26 in Seoul, Clauser gave a keynote speech at a conference called Quantum Korea. Wrightstone was provided with an English version of the remarks, and excerpted several key lines to create a page on the CO2 Coalition website and also a Facebook post. Here (from the CO2 Coalition site) are some quotes and paraphrases from Clauser’s presentation, with quotation marks indicating which are direct quotes:

• “The world we live in today is filled with misinformation. It is up to each of you to serve as judges, distinguishing truth from falsehood based on accurate observations of phenomena.”
• “Misinformation is being spread by those with political and opportunistic motives.”
• Dr. Clauser, known for his stance [with respect to] climate change, diagnosed the current situation as not being a climate crisis and criticized the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for spreading misinformation.
• He stated, “I don’t believe there is a climate crisis” and expressed his belief that “key processes are exaggerated and misunderstood by approximately 200 times.”

According to Wrightstone, here is what happened next at Facebook:

Our post and ad promoting it [were] removed by Facebook on July 1.

Wrightstone provides the following screenshot from Facebook:

The picture shows Clauser delivering his address at the conference in Korea.

And then:

Next, one day later, an ad promoting the image that adorns our Facebook page and carries our unofficial motto “We Love CO2 and So Should You” was removed and censored. The only text we posted was “What’s not to love?”

Here’s a screenshot of that rejected ad, and Facebook’s response:

Wrightstone concludes: “These are troubling times we live in.”

I should also mention that Wrightstone and the CO2 Coalition have been permanently banned from LinkedIn. Wrightstone calls it “Linked Out.”

The stupids are truly in control of much of the world right now. We’ll see how long it continues.

 

LinkedIn and Me, Part III

By Rich Kozlovich

Well, it appears LinkedIn has decided my post,  Political Irony: The Stupid Party and the Party of Treason, doesn't fail to meet their community standards after all.   Well, isn't that interesting.  According to the notice I received from LinkedIn:

Your post is back on LinkedIn. Here’s what happened. We regularly review the removal of content to ensure our policies are applied in a fair and consistent way. Initially, your post was removed for going against our Professional Community Policies. As part of our review, we now find that your post doesn’t go against our policies and apologize for the mistake. Your post is back on LinkedIn. Thank you for being part of the LinkedIn community. 

Well, it's certainly hard to find fault with that isn't it?   But I have to admit these social media sites are confusing, and I wonder how much conflict goes on in the background, but either way, this reversal was clearly a decision based on intelligence, wisdom, vision, understanding and moral fortitude.  Don't you agree? 

But then again, even a blind coconut can find an acorn....or something along those lines....... because it turns out: LinkedIn Giveth and LinkedIn Taketh Away:   I received this notice:

Your post doesn’t comply with our policies.  Here’s what happened. We found your post does not comply with our Professional Community Policies on misinformation. It has been removed and only you can access it. View your post. Repeatedly creating content that doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies could lead to your LinkedIn account being restricted. 

I've received notices these posts, The COVID Narrative is Falling Apart, and this third one, Steele Dossier indictments leave Democrats who promoted narrative dumbstruck, and New Study on Ivermectin ‘Should Convince Any Naysayer’: Dr. Pierre Kory were removed.

LinkedIn is definitely part of the censorship cabal regarding anything that's not in harmony with the Church of Wokeness and the Cult of St. Fauci.  

I must be doing something right!

Update: I absolutely know I must be doing something right!  I received another notice from LinkedIn that Symbols of Shame had been removed from LinkedIn because it didn't meet their community standards, and that continued violations could cause restrictions on LinkedIn.  Today I got a message asking me to use LinkedIn Sales Insights, to promote my business. 

Remarkable!

Kulldorff Deleted: Famed Epidemiologist and Early Opponent of Lockdowns Banned by LinkedIn

By Jeffrey A. Tucker January 28, 2022 @ Brownstone Institute

 

By Jeffrey A. Tucker   January 28, 2022   History, Policy, Society   6 minute read

Just a few days ago, I linked to an epic article in the history of the pandemic response. It was posted April 10, 2020, less than a month after lockdowns. The legendary Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, whose impeccable academic record includes writing statistical packages used the world over to assess vaccine safety, could not find a publisher for a piece opposing lockdowns. Finally, he decided to post it on his LinkedIn account. 

The posting of this article was an important moment in the modern historiography of lockdowns and the response. It became very easily the most important English-language dissent against the unprecedented and catastrophic response deployed by states all over the world. LinkedIn made this possible because it allowed its users the freedom to post their thoughts. 

Today, if you try to look at that piece, you will find that it is completely gone. Not only that, but LinkedIn, a platform originally designed to empower workers and professionals to network and find job opportunities to improve their lives, has deleted him as a person. 

The full banning is so new that Google still believes that the page is there:

 

In fact. It is not: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-kulldorff-8a31a775/

[Note: Kulldorff’s account access was restored by LinkedIn several hours after this article was posted and an explosion of outrage against the company. How many others have not had such access to platforms to defend them against being cancelled? Brownstone is thrilled that his account is back but things should not work this way. And spare us please notes claiming that this was some technical fluke. LinkedIn has repeatedly removed his posts in the past, and mine too, along with sending warnings.]

Not even Archive.org seems to have a snapshot of this page. 

One of the world’s important voices for traditional public health practice and the deployment of science in a pandemic has been deplatformed by this Microsoft platform. 

Here is where Martin’s personal page resided until just a few hours ago. Here is where his April 10, 2020, article appeared. If you click on that link, you only have a few seconds to observe that it is gone before the software erases reality and replaces it with something else. 

Here is where the Archive.org copy of his article resides (and another version), and thank goodness for Archive.org which (for now) somehow prevents the Internet from plunging fully into a complete memory-hole-driven version of an Orwellian model in which we pretend what happened never actually happened. 

This article is posted on Brownstone where anyone can read it. But Google makes this complicated. If you look up the exact title of this article, the first link is to the now-defunct LinkedIn version. I scrolled through ten pages of search results and found nothing about the Brownstone version. 

DuckDuckGo gives better results, such that the reprinted article on Brownstone appears on page 3. Part of this is algorithmically driven: original versions get much higher search results. What happens when the original version is summarily deleted by the whole platform, without warning, without notice, without announcement? It could take months for the search results to reflect the change, and perhaps the reprinted version will never appear. One never knows. 

It’s impossible to avoid the sense that the whole history of the pandemic and the response are being rewritten in real time by Big Tech to cover up what happened, who wrote what and when, and how the thing fleshed itself out in real time. That Kulldorff used the Great Barrington Declaration as his cover picture gives you a hint of where this is going. 

And this is only one case about which we currently know. How many others have been deplatformed, made to disappear, vanished from history, deleted from the narrative? This is Orwell stuff, not fiction but reality. And it is going on everywhere. One might have supposed that LinkedIn would somehow be above the fray engaged by low-end platforms like Facebook and Twitter, that it would behave more professionally. Alas, that is not the case. 

It’s not just about content. It’s about people’s lives. Martin, like so many millions of others, has invested vast time and focus on his LinkedIn profile. Now the entire thing is deleted – not even in response to anything he lately posted but mostly likely in retaliation for his role in crafting the Great Barrington Declaration, a document which is now on the verge of global fame for being 100% correct on the best-possible response. 

Now Martin himself has been deplatformed from the world’s most important professional social network – as if he does not matter as a professional or even as a human being. And to be clear: this was not a retaliatory measure against some specific content that he posted lately. It seems to be an attempt to delete his professional influence as a human being. 

This is personally very devastating to me because I’ve written so much in defense of LinkedIn as a worker empowerment tool that grants individuals rights to choose their institutional affiliations and carry with them from place to place their own personal networks and thus not to be depersoned by large corporations. 

I actually wrote the following (another link to this piece), making points that two years later LinkedIn itself would use in its own corporate promotion:

The genius of LinkedIn: it permits you to say constantly on the job market – cultivating a network – without seeming to be disloyal to your colleagues and managers and bosses. It is a completely unobjectionable thing to put your name up here. And because LinkedIn allows you to create networks based on your current employer, it is even seen as a benefit by your firm. It suggests that you care about your firm. It suggests that you care about your job and are happy to have it be part of your identity…. And contrary to population perception that social media is goofy and that the main purpose of technology is to push more gizmos, LinkedIn really has improved people’s lives and transformed the nature of the job and employee hunt. It has worked to dramatically reduce the information asymmetries that exist between buyers and sells in the labor marketplace. 

Sure, all that’s great until – until LinkedIn itself decides to make you and everything you have written and posted suddenly disappear, making it seem as if you do not exist and never have existed. And the company can do this to anyone without exception and for no apparent reason. The tool of “worker empowerment” has become the tool of worker disappearance. 

My friends, please take this seriously. Things are changing fast. The history is being rewritten. It seems designed to whitewash the lockdowns, pretending as if there was never any credible opposition. Great scientists are being made to disappear before our eyes. It’s no longer possible to believe that this is some kind of mistake, some fluke in the technology, an overly scrupulous algorithm accidentally targeting the wrong person. This is intentional. This is aggressive. This is being done by human hands with intentionality. 

And why? It’s about dogma, about rewriting history, about deplatforming dissent in all its forms, and about an attempt to impose an orthodoxy in which the lockdowners and mandaters are and always were correct. These platforms we once trusted as our friends, places that make our speech freer and our lives better, have become handmaidens of the forces that have taken freedoms from us. 

Author

Jeffrey A. Tucker

Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. tucker@brownstone.org

LinkedIn and Me, Part II

By Rich Kozlovich

Well, I received another notice that one of my posts didn't meet LinkedIn's "community standards".  What was the article?  Wokeism Is a Cruel and Dangerous Cult saying:

Wokeism’s natural logic is to destroy the lives of people of both genders, of all races, and—if need be—of those of every age, all to leverage an otherwise unworkable ideological agenda.

It appears this piece by Victor Davis Hanson, one of America's foremost historians, clearly not given to hyperbole, clearly historically accurate and clearly committed truth doesn't meet their "community standards.  Well, I must assume it's apparent that facts, actual history and truth are not among LinkedIn's "community standards".  Conclusion?  LinkedIn is a community in isolation, and a very strange community to boot.  They give you the ability to protest it, but why bother?  Given their propensity for censorship of truth, justice and the American way, that would be a Sisyphean Task. 

• LinkedIn and Me 
• I Must be Doing Something Right!
• Ya Just Gotta Luv LinkedIn! 
• It's Time to Parler 

 Update:  It appears they've restored that post.  RK

Note: I resigned from Twitter and Parler turned out to be a bust, but there's bound to be more down the road. RK

LinkedIn and Me

By Rich Kozlovich

 

Well, I am shocked, shocked I tell you! LinkedIn is upset at me and sent this this notice.

 

Your post doesn’t comply with our policies

 

Here’s what happened.  We found your post does not comply with our Professional Community Policies on bullying and harassment. It has been removed and only you can access it. View your post.  Repeatedly creating content that doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies could lead to your LinkedIn account being restricted.

 

Well, it appears someone at LinkedIn actually read my post, I Must be Doing Something Right!, since this time they gave me a reason for their disfavor, except they're not wanting to potentially restrict me for that post, but for a series of linked articles by Daniel Greenfield.  Go figure.  

 

Also, they offered an appeal process, which is pretty much Sisyphean Task, so why bother since I don't really care what they think and I don't care if they kick me off. It won't be the first time this has happened, and since I don't want anything, I won't notice and life will go on. 

 

They all say they love open dialogue and to see people express their views. Well, that's true as long as all those views are their views. 

 

One thing is clear as crystal though. They don't understand, want to understand or refuse to understand, that the concept about truth and discussion about public policy, along with those who perpetuate it and enforce it, is not bullying, nor is it harassment. 

 

It's just the truth! 

 

One more thing is clear. It's just a matter of time before I'm kicked off, or seriously restricted on LinkedIn, so anyone wishing to be on my e-mail list for my P&D alerts, please e-mail me at elkoz@juno.com, otherwise, best wishes to all in the upcoming disaster that 2022 will become.

I Must be Doing Something Right!

By Rich Kozlovich  

Over the last few years we've heard, and seen, the social media turn into censors for the leftist movement in the nation, and around the world, even complying with Communist China's demands.  

Let's take a look at some recent censorial actions by them.  This piece in Townhall.com, Dan Bongino's Youtube Channel Suspended, Demonetized Over COVID 'Misinformation', says:

Youtube suspended and demonetized conservative commentator and Fox News anchor Dan Bongino's account on Friday over the violation of the platform's policy on coronavirus misinformation. The suspension was handed down after Bongino claimed in a video that masks are "useless" in preventing the spread of COVID-19. Youtube's misinformation policy states that users are prohibited from making claims that masks "do not play a role in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19." This suspension was Bongino's first "strike," meaning he will only endure a weeklong suspension.  If Bongino's account violates the policy again within 90 days, he will be issued a two-week suspension. And if he receives a third violation during the same timeframe, his account would be permanently removed from the platform.

First of all, these shots are not vaccinations, they don't prevent infection and they don't prevent transmission.  They've not been properly tested, as it normally takes over ten years to go through FDA requirements before a drug is released to the public, it only took 18 months in this case.  So, this is a treatment with an experimental drug, and it's not a vaccination.  

However, let's think about this. 

In Ireland 99.7% of their population is vaccinated with these non-vaccinations.  If they were so effective why are people getting sick? Most importantly, if 99.7% of their population is vaccinated, it must the vaccinated who're getting sick, not the unvaccinated.

If that's true, and clearly it is, why is there a mandate to vaccinate since it's clear .......these treatments don't work?  If that's true, and clearly it is, is it possible these treatments may actually make everyone more susceptible to these viruses?

At least they've told him what standard they have that he's violated, even if he is absolutely correct in his views.  The fact is, don't work, and may even represent health hazards.  

OAN got the Boot From DirecTV.  Ninety percent of their revenue comes from DirecTV, which will probably put them out of business.  Why is their contract not being renewed?

 CNN Business notes the network has pushed conspiracy theories and "outright lies" on various issues, including regarding the coronavirus pandemic and the 2020 election, and that OAN became a favorite of former President Trump for promoting his own misinformation and for airing his rallies without commercial breaks. In 2020, YouTube temporarily suspended OAN's account for COVID-19 misinformation, and the network has also faced recent lawsuits over the election, including a complaint from Dominion Voting Systems claiming the network had defamed it. (Read more DirecTV stories.) 

In short, the lies of the main stream media on , President Trump and this pandemic fraud are acceptable, but anything that's contrary to that narrative is a conspiracy theory and a lie, which violates their ....standards. 

Then we have Google censoring a world famous and respected climate scientist, noting:

"Dr. Roy Spencer, known as much for his unshakeable integrity, as for his brilliant work in climate science." ..........Google recently notified Dr. Spencer that it was demonetizing his website.  Now, we’re not talking a fortune of money here.  The website generated maybe enough money from Google AdSense ads to pay for its web hosting, spam filters and that sort of thing.  The website was demonetized for “unreliable and harmful claims.”............On October 7, 2021, Google announced it “will prohibit ads for, and monetization of, content that contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change.” In other words, Google will dutifully do its part — as a loyal shill to the progressive establishment — to make life miserable for anyone who challenges, fact checks or questions the wild climate claims being made by the UN, EPA, and far-Left climate activists. Dr. Spencer was shocked when Google finally shared the pages on his site that they found misleading.  They were mainly the pages containing the actual raw satellite temperature data!

Apparently these misfits at Google never heard of De Omnibus Dubitandum, the motto of science meaning Everything is to be Questioned.  They also missed the science class where it's was clearly outlined consensus isn't science, it's politics and propaganda.  But, that was before so many "scientists" were corrupted with government grant money, and now the holy grail of science is no longer truth.  It's grant money. And it isn't just these media outlets that are punishing anyone who challenges the leftist narrative.

 

The Horror of Our Times has taken an ugly new twist as spineless CEOs and multitudinous bureaucrats everywhere go running for for cover to escape coming to the notice of the system known as the Deep State. News is breaking today that Mike Lindell is being forced to close all bank accounts at his long-standing bank, Minnesota Bank & Trust and Heartland Financial.

Well, it looks like I might be doing something right, as I'm now in good company.

On Sunday, January 9, 2022 I posted this article, History Highway, Washington Versus Charlottesville: Who Are the Real Insurrectionists?  I also posted it on LinkedIn, and guess what?  It turns out this article was in violation of their "Professional Community Policies", and if I wanted more information I follow this link to "Learn more", which I did.  

Here's what I found.

I had to "Be Safe", "Be trustworthy", and "Be professional", and it lists a plethora of things that you can't do, and some of it's rational, like about not promoting terrorism, inciting people to violence, and things that most everyone would agree with, including posting false and misleading information.   

But that presents a conundrum since it's clearly known what social media sites consider "misleading information" is anything that's in opposition to the leftist narrative, although I felt LinkedIn was better than others about that.  And in the "Be Safe" category, there's a lot there that can mean anything they want it to mean.  

And I had better not do it again or else.... which is a bit confusing since they never tell me what Professional Community Policy I violated.  

Now I will agree that article was long, it was complicated and some might find it a bit boring, but long, complicated and boring isn't listed as a violation of their standards. 

Hmmmm I wonder if they read all that boring material?  

At any rate, it was all factual, and all that information is available to the public.  None of it is made up or speculatory, so it couldn't be called a conspiracy theory, nor could it be claimed I lied. Everything in this piece was provable and public.  Everything there was easily found from many news organizations for anyone wishing to find the facts.  How can merely reporting these events as they occurred be a violation of anyone's Professional Community Policy? 

Now, this was the second time I've "violated" their "standards".  The first time dealt with this June 19, 2021 with this piece, Lies, Liars, Journalists, Authors, Democrats: Sorry, Repetition for Emphasis!, Part II. 

The notice took me to that same site with a listing a of clabber about their standards, none of which I could see I violated, all which I really found interesting because the entire piece they removed dealt with links to articles by a lot of people showing how journalists, Democrats and authors have been lying about Trump, about double standards, hypocrisy and stunningly vile behavior.  All provable.

And today I received another notice from LinkedIn regarding this article, Political Irony: The Stupid Party and the Party of Treason, which has been removed also, with the same clabber as before.

So, now after three trips to the wood shed guess what have I learned.........Nothing! 

Well, that's not entirely true.  I've learned the time will come when I won't be allowed to publish anything that shatters any leftist narrative or smacks of truth, justice and the American way on LinkedIn.  All this is as pathetic as it is fatal to the survival of the American project.

Conclusion, I will have to practice maskirovka from now on. 

Ya Just Gotta Luv LinkedIn!

By Rich Kozlovich

Well, it looks like I've hit the big time.  LinkedIn deleted one of my posts. Lies, Liars, Journalists, Authors, Democrats: Sorry, Repetition for Emphasis!, Part II, attaching this note: 

Only you can see this post. It’s been removed because it goes against our Professional Community Policies, with this link to "Learn more".

So, I went there, and guess what I learned?  Nothing!  It took me to a site with a lot of clabber about their standards, none of which I could see I violated, all which I really found interesting because the entire piece they removed dealt with links to articles by a lot of people showing how journalists, Democrats and authors have been lying about Trump, about double standards, hypocrisy and stunningly vile behavior.  All public and all provable.

So, I guess LinkedIn's community is offended by exposing bad behavior that's provable, thus making it a violation of the LinkedIn community standards.  Did I get that right?  Did I miss something?  Which of course made me wonder just how many of LinkedIn's "community" was offended, who were they, and why were they offended?  None of that was including in my "Learn more"  experience, so I'm still unaware of what standard I violated.  Which I thought was interesting since what I did learn was that if I didn't straighten up my account could be deleted.   As the kid in the Little Rascals said:  Remarkable.  

Oh, wait, I know, I know, it must have been this image that did it!

 

That must have been it. Well, that's it for Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  No more mister nice guy, he's out at P&D, and I demand revocation of his 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature." Surely in some way that must be racist!

It's Time to Parler

By Rich Kozlovich

I belong to an eclectic e-mail group that discusses every social issue under the sun, daily. Some just read the comments, some contribute and comment regularly, some occasionally, and those who comment occasionally can be surprising with the comments.

But it's a closed forum with people who are direct, intelligent, knowledgeable and polite, and other than myself, they're all educated. I consider this to be a unique and special group, and lucky! Not often you can get that kind of interaction in such a diverse group. Of course we often disagree, but at some point we will disagree to the point there's nothing left but personal attacks, as we so often see in comments sections of online articles. and we're absolutely not going down that road, so we just walk away from it.

One of the latest issues that's come to the fore is Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and their publication policies.

Let's start here:

As Twitter checks Trump, Khamenei account left alone, despite plea from Israel

Comment from a member: Twitter, Google, Facebook, YouTube are all vile when it comes to their policies and actions on this sort of thing. They're blatantly bigoted, and grossly discriminating against conservatives, Jews, and Republicans. Not to mention seriously meddling in the upcoming election.

Breitbart News Appeals Twitter Account Suspension, ‘Review’ Drags Out Beyond 48 Hours

Twitter Suspends PragerU, Prominent Conservatives, and Doctors for Commenting on HCQ

Comment from a member:  This is truly outrageous.  Now twitter, google, YouTube etc., thinks that they are doctors who somehow have the right to say what people can and cannot hear about a treatment in the middle of a pandemic.  Because, of course, we're too stupid to decide for ourselves with our real doctors what we do or do not want to try or do for a possibly deadly condition.

Over the years there's been a lot of discussion over this, but the question really is what can be done about this? I think it’s blatantly obvious LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook are in no way impartial.  They're now part of the left wing media conspiracy, and their goal is to destroy conservatives, Christians, Republicans, Jews, Israel and whites. 

So what?  No matter how outraged I might become over this I still contend it's their right to be stupid.   This is America, we have a right to be stupid, it’s Constitutional!  We have more kinds of stupidity here than any nation on the Earth!   Why?   Because we have a system that permits it, and an economy that allows for that kind of commitment, no matter how stupid.   This is unlike other nations.  Especially those dominated by Muslims.  The only kind of stupid they’re allowed to embrace is Islam.  Any other kind of stupid, or even any kind of intelligent for that matter, gets you killed.  

But my big bone of contention with these people is they’re dishonest, just like the rest of the left wing media, whether it’s TV, magazines, newspapers or Hollywood for that matter.  The difference is no one can tell these news sources what they can or cannot print.  Who they support or who they hate.  Why should we think we can do it with these groups? Admittedly, they're not the press, and so the argument is they have no First Amendment protection.  Really? I'm not so sure that's a slippery slope. 

In decades gone by I really liked the way newspapers worked.  Many, many decades ago.  They were openly partisan.  They would call themselves the name of the city and who they supported.  Such as the New Haven Republican, or the New Haven Democrat, etc.  Those names are made up by the way,  but that was the trend.  You knew where they were from and where they stood.

Now the main stream media is finally coming out into the open and demonstrating their corruption, and so too should these social media sites.  And once they've done that, leave them alone.  I’ve contended what needs to be done is develop competition with these openly left wing lunatics with an openly conservative site, or at the very least an honest open dialogue site.  And now there is one, and it’s called Parler!  But get this.  Conservatives can be an odd lot.   Parler isn't attracting conservatives as it should. Why?

One conservative writer I personally know complained that posting on Parler was like preaching to the choir, and a waste of time.   Does anyone really think posting on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook will change the thinking of leftist ideologues to any real degree, and is a better use of time?

Preaching to the choir is a good thing because it provides information conservatives can use to support  their own views, challenge opposing views, and do it intelligently.  Also, it makes it clear to conservatives they're not alone, and that the social sea they're swimming in is filled with intelligent, reasonable and rational people.  That's an excellent use of time!

By the way, it amazes me how often I can search for something on Google but it won't show up, clearly they're orchestrating what can be found.  All the Breitbart articles I linked suffered that kind of fate.  So I often use Quant as my search engine, and it never fails to deliver. 

Is Purity of Heart Enough?

By Rich Kozlovich

Autumn Cote posted an article on (Update:  No longer available. ) LinkedIn entitled, "What is the Appropriate Response to ISIS?"   It was a well thought article and hardly blood thirsty, but it did generate some interesting comments on LinkedIn.  Steve Lewis, the owner of Lewis Oilfield Consulting wants to drop “pork bombs” on ISIS.  Well, hardly deadly, but, Rex Stock President and CEO at RDS, Incorporated took serious offense to this by saying:

 

“Appropriate comment coming from a racist pig”.

  

Which is interesting since Islam isn't a race, and Steve clearly isn’t a pig, and such a comment can’t be construed as anything but an ad hominem attack, which is listed among the logical fallacies.  Then someone named William Adams, CEO Amalgamated Conglomerates said he wants to drop:

 

“air fuel bombs neutron bombs plague virus anything and everything to erase those savages asap.” 

 

Rex naturally took umbrage at this, saying:

 

 "And what happens to those innocent citizens that you and Cruz want to "carpet bomb"? Plague virus?” 

 

 Quite a natural reaction, but it doesn’t stop there.  David Gold of Capital Sourcing Group wants:

 

“Complete annihilation”! Bottom of ForOf Of   

 

Rex then asks:

 

 “What about the innocent people that comes with that kind of approach?”

Then David Emil comments: 

 

“I am afraid Rex is right. These are the very real byproduct of NLP conditioning/extension of Koch financed secondary education programming. The end goal is literally the weird balding xenophobes hiding out in a cave worshiping a nuclear bomb in the 1970 movie series Planet of the Apes. 

 

I suspect there are people in lab coats actually crowdsourcing possible threats to their perfect world paradigm. I believe it is a rigid cast structure of technical beneficiaries at the top while the majority are cast down with wet works and false flags. 

 

Every now and then a gift will be bestowed among the masses. A chip implant here, a re-education device there, or a pharmaceutical trial you should be grateful for.”

Naturally Rex loved this, having found a kindred spirit saying:

 

"Matt, you're at the wrong discussion. Your kind of sensible approach is not what this crowd of chicken hawks commenting on another Autumn Cote hate piece advocates. This crowd thinks an atomic bomb would result in "necessary collateral damage" and be the smart way to "save the world". 

 

As I said, Rex also used the term vigilantes and called those with whom he disagreed “the dark underbelly of America”, which is interesting as that comment seems to have disappeared.   At any rate, I decided it was time to comment myself saying:  

 

Interesting points of view. Rex used the terms “vigilantes, the dark underbelly of America and racist pig” regarding the author and/or others. But David is truly classic. He says, they – apparently all -

 

“are the very real byproduct of NLP conditioning/extension of Koch financed secondary education programming. The end goal is literally the weird balding xenophobes hiding out in a cave worshiping a nuclear bomb in the 1970 movie series Planet of the Apes. 

 

I suspect there are people in lab coats actually crowd sourcing possible threats to their perfect world paradigm. I believe it is a rigid cast structure of technical beneficiaries at the top while the majority are cast down with wet works and false flags.

 

Every now and then a gift will be bestowed among the masses. A chip implant here, a re-education device there, or a pharmaceutical trial you should be grateful for.”

Wow! Now come on folks, you just have to be impressed with the synapses of David's mind to have gotten all of that out of what was said. But I have to thank David since I had not heard of NLP conditioning before this and had to look it up. What I didn't see were any solutions.  A lot of insulting rhetoric, but no solutions. It's clear Rex and David offer purity of heart, which apparently doesn't preclude insults, nor does it seem generate solutions.  Insults coupled with a lack of solutions.  Is that a form of arrogant ignorance? 

 

But , perhaps that's unfair, although I can't seem to find a "Book of Fair" written by anyone, and so often in my life I've found "fair" is often determined by whose ox is being gored. But in order to make sure we have clarity I said I would be interested in reading more in depth presentations of their views via a few questions: 

1. Do you believe there's a problem at all?

2. If there is a problem, who's at fault?

3. Is so, what should be done about it?

4. Are there any good guys or bad guys?

5. If so, which are which?

6. Do you believe Islam requires jihad?

7. Do you believe there is such a thing as jihad?

8. Do you believe Islam requires violence against all others?

9. If so, what do you think should be done about that if anything?

10. Do you think Islam needs reformed?

11. Do you believe Islam can be reformed?

12. Do you think Islam is fine just as it is?

13. If so, what would you recommend?

14. Do you believe Islam is a race?

15. If not, why call someone a racist?

16. Why do you believe the writer and respondents are xenophobes?

17. Do you believe they're Islamophobic?

18. Do you believe a phobia is an “unnatural” fear?

19. Do you believe it's unnatural to fear those who claim they want to kill you?

So I asked in conclusion:

 

Could either David or Rex (or both) please publish an article outlining their entire view on this subject answering all the questions listed....and anything more they feel is appropriate. Mind you – no name calling, no smarmy comments, no insults, no logical fallacies - just a good sound intellectual argument to support the views they wish to express.  

 

Also, I think it's imperative there be a solution in their argument!

I’ve not heard back as this point but a highly intelligent man name Ron Rice, owner of Checkmate Forensic Handwriting Examiners, N.E. Legal Investigations and Court Appointed Crime Profiler commented:

 

Mr. Kozlovich: Finally; finally; finally! A reader that presented a well thought out challenge to those whom possess the purity of mind and thought absent from those of us who are..... oh well... Readers, read the interesting comments by Rex and David and see if you can offer an intelligent comment to the discussion. Mr. Kozlovich, high five to you!

See, I told you he was highly intelligent!