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To: Mongo2116 who wrote (1084420)	8/22/2018 9:10:49 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576155

No, I'm not blind at all. You are the blind one. I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you and the liberals weren't blind and biased, and you were all using logic, you'd spend far more time and energy trying to get Trump through his women issues, not through this fake Russia thing. The likelihood of him actually having done something criminal related to women is far greater than the high probability he committed no crimes in his interactions with Russia. But you guys don't use logic. You are like a beast that foams at the mouth and screams incessantly, so loudly, you can't think. You are driven by rage. Logic is not used and so you make no progress and that enrages you further. It's a form of insanity. I remember posting on these threads about how the GOP had Obama Derangement Syndrome. You and the libs are exhibiting exactly the same behavior. You all have Trump Derangement Syndrome. Rage is not a substitute for logic. Get smart. You can still get Trump on the women, but you will probably never get him on any Russia charge. I have one word for you: Clinton. They got him on the woman, not the land. Look at the end of the day, I like a decent bit of what Trump is doing as President, but I really hate how he denigrates the office of the President. He brings an indignity that I don't like, but at least he has uncovered a lot of the corruption in D.C. I'll be happy when we get another President in there that can be more dignified and present the US in our best light. But to a certain extent, we needed this catharsis. The US will get through it, like we always do. I just hope we don't end up Socialist, or more so than we already are. If the Democratic Socialists win in this country, then I will tell you we won't come out the other end of that swamp. But there is hope for this country yet.

To: Mongo2116 who wrote (1084420)	8/22/2018 9:30:33 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576155

ACLU: Alex Jones ban could set dangerous social media precedent Ben Wizner, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) speech, privacy and technology project, warned Monday that bans against Alex Jones and Infowars could set a dangerous precedent. Wizner told HuffPost that the hate speech policies many social media companies cited when they banned Jones can be “misused and abused.” Earlier this month, Jones’s content was pulled from Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Vimeo for violating policies related to hate speech. He was later hit with a temporary suspension by Twitter as well. Wizner said companies had a constitutional right to regulate speech on their platforms, but added that hate speech “turns out to be an extremely subjective term.” “If [Attorney General] Jeff Sessions, for example, were deciding what’s hate speech, he would be less likely to think KKK and more likely to think [Black Lives Matter],” he said. In particular, Wizner told HuffPost that he is worried about massive private companies holding the power to define that ambiguous category. “I have some of the same concerns about platforms making those decisions,” Wizner said. “Governments at least purport to be acting solely in the public interest, but platforms are making these decisions based on what’s in their financial interest,” he continued. “So their interest might be in avoiding controversy, but do we want the most important speech platforms in the world to avoid controversy?” Some platforms have attempted to expand their policies beyond the limitation of hate speech to preclude fake news as well, while others resist doing so. President Trump has also expressed his own concerns about platforms’ attempts to police content. On Monday, he told Reuters that it is “dangerous” for Facebook and Twitter to limit who can and cannot speak on their platforms.