What Actually Comes Next : RedState's portents of social media fascism to come

GFR7

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From RedState : Get ready for the new social media fascism:

This is not paranoia; it is simply the necessary consequence of the triumph of social liberalism:

Less than forty-eight hours after King Anthony [Justice Kennedy] sovereignly provided new theology for our secular, civil religion, the left is now publicly calling for the abolition of tax-exempt status for religious non-profits and churches.

It will come. It has to come. If gay marriage is a fundamental right under the equal protection clause, it is going to trump a lot of the first amendment. As Chief Justice Roberts noted, King Anthony’s theology precludes “free exercise” of religion.

But all of this is down the road a few years. Let me tell you what is going to happen first.


Silence.

A newspaper in Pennsylvania has declared it will no longer allow letters to the editor opposed to gay marriage because it is a fundamental right.

BuzzFeed declared that, in its editorial position, there is no position other than support for gay marriage.

Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, banned all apps from its store that display the Confederate flag. That had to be walked back a bit, but there you have it.

The Los Angeles Times refuses to run letters pointing out that global warming is a scam.

And now, Apple and Facebook are set to develop news platforms that will have a human curator, instead of a computer algorithm. Twitter, likewise, is engaging humans on trending news topics, etc. It is only a matter of time because Google works its algorithm magic to drive down links to those who oppose the new cultural agenda.

So we will see orthodox Christian voices disappear from most news channels. The left are master propagandists. One of the chief tricks of the propagandist is to convince you that you are all alone. [. . . ]

Facebook can devalue conservatives and shut them down.

Twitter can declare support for traditional marriage to be hate and turn off accounts, mine included.


Newspapers, radio stations, and television networks who long ago embraced the idea that people are born gay despite ample evidence to the contrary in most (but not all) cases, will reach further. If you are a talk radio show host who supports traditional marriage, get ready for your parent company to tell you that is no longer allowed. After all, it is a fundamental right.

A CNN that was celebratory on its twitter feed after the gay marriage ruling can hardly be expected to allow on any pundit who dissents without treating that person as a contemptible bigot. MSNBC will run news stories on the rise in hate groups that, no doubt, the Southern Poverty Law Center will list. That list will include all orthodox Christian churches.

The left has worked very hard to control information. They will now work extra hard to push conservatives forcibly into a ghetto of thought. The overarching goal will be to convince you that no one agrees with you and there are no voices echoing you.

Just remember, you are not alone.

http://www.redstate.com/2015/06/29/what-actually-comes-next/
 

shagster01

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You act like conservative media is ilkegal. It's not. It's just that it is a fox monopoly. Nobody is stopping anyone from starting their own network or newspaper.
 

GFR7

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You act like conservative media is ilkegal. It's not. It's just that it is a fox monopoly. Nobody is stopping anyone from starting their own network or newspaper.
I think what the author means to say is that mainstream social media like Twitter and Facebook will increasingly silence conservative dissent. Yes, conservatives can start their own, but it will be a fringe, off the beaten track.
 

shagster01

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I think what the author means to say is that mainstream social media like Twitter and Facebook will increasingly silence conservative dissent. Yes, conservatives can start their own, but it will be a fringe, off the beaten track.

Sure, because your views are in the minority now. Think back to when the other side was in the minority (the 50's, for example) and your majority views were censoring them. It's just that for the first time the Christian view is becoming the minority and NOW they finally care about the censorship. It's not new. It's just new to your view. The tables have turned and you don't like it.
 

Granite

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No, but this is about social media.

You agree to their terms and conditions when you sign up for an account. They're businesses who can run their operations as they please. You guys don't seem to have any issue defending your damn bakers and their cakes. Well, guess what: If Twitter or Facebook says you're violating their terms, they have a right to refuse service to you, too.
 

bybee

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You agree to their terms and conditions when you sign up for an account. They're businesses who can run their operations as they please. You guys don't seem to have any issue defending your damn bakers and their cakes. Well, guess what: If Twitter or Facebook says you're violating their terms, they have a right to refuse service to you, too.

That is correct.
 

GFR7

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Sure, because your views are in the minority now. Think back to when the other side was in the minority (the 50's, for example) and your majority views were censoring them. It's just that for the first time the Christian view is becoming the minority and NOW they finally care about the censorship. It's not new. It's just new to your view. The tables have turned and you don't like it.
All of this occurred to me, yes.....
 

GFR7

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You agree to their terms and conditions when you sign up for an account. They're businesses who can run their operations as they please. You guys don't seem to have any issue defending your damn bakers and their cakes. Well, guess what: If Twitter or Facebook says you're violating their terms, they have a right to refuse service to you, too.
Of course I understand this, yes.
 

GFR7

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So on what basis are you concerned about "fascism" when this has nothing whatsoever to do with fascism? This is literally business as usual.
Just throwing the RedState piece out there........... I guess something like gay marriage to my thinking is a sleight of hand, not akin to the black civil rights successes.
 

GFR7

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How's a Supreme Court ruling considered a sleight of hand?
A lot of lawyerly commentary is speaking about how unjudicial Kennedy's opinion was; they simply needed their fifth vote and didn't give a hoot that it was incoherent and contradicted his earlier Windsor statements about states rights - in short, it was a mess, and silly, and he must be kicking himself that he was snookered into it.
 

Granite

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I find it hard to believe a justice on the court could be "snookered" or other hoodwinked. For better or worse these men and women know what they're doing.
 

GFR7

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I find it hard to believe a justice on the court could be "snookered" or other hoodwinked. For better or worse these men and women know what they're doing.
I don't agree at all. At age 78, Kennedy allowed himself to get swept in by some social/fashion craze, and I believe psychologically he knows this, and is ashamed. His opinion proves this.

My Uncle was gay and never had to be alone from the 1950s on, and this is what Matt Walsh points out:


Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that gay marriage allows two homosexuals to “find a life they could not find alone.” Then he broke out his acoustic guitar and sang a rousing rendition of “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing.”

This is an embarrassment. Our nation’s highest court has just upended the institution of marriage, dismantled the rule of law, undermined the will of the people, and canceled out the legislative process entirely, and did so based on the reasoning that gay people want to find a life together. Maybe they do, but what in the hell does that have to do with the Constitution? And how was anyone being denied a “life together” simply because marriage has a definition?


and this headline from the Washington Post says it all:

Justice Kennedy’s opinion in the gay marriage case may upend fifty-plus years of settled equal protection and due process jurisprudence
 

Granite

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If we're going to put these guys on the bench for life it's not unreasonable to expect their opinions to change over time.
 

GFR7

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If we're going to put these guys on the bench for life it's not unreasonable to expect their opinions to change over time.
His Windsor opinion proved that he's not senile, and could be rational and grasp the truth: He just got silly with this ruling, and he knows it.
 
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