The Democrats

[Nodack]

The censors got censored.

[In2ition]

Mori, what do you think about your former employer and them dismantling their censorship business?

I had never heard of the Stanford Internet Observatory. It sounds like their mission was to help identify misinformation on the internet. There is a lot of that. It might have been a helpful mission. I don't know whether they were helping make the internet better or not, so I am not sure how to react to the news that they are shutting down.

It concerns me that the people working there were being personally targeted for harassment and threats. This article makes it sound like Republicans and MAGAs basically intimidated them into shutting down by threats of violence. Are you happy or proud about this, In2?

I am curious, what exactly did this Stanford group "censor"? It sounds like they just did studies? Did they have some sort of power to remove things from the internet?

But in the past year, the work of researchers at SIO and other institutions studying viral falsehoods and their impact on democracy have become the focus of scrutiny by Republicans in the courts and in Congress, who allege their work amounts to censorship.

The Election Integrity Partnership, a joint project SIO ran with the University of Washington to track false and misleading information about the 2020 and 2022 elections, became the focus of conspiracy theories that it was a front for the government to suppress speech it didn't like. (The EIP's website was updated in recent weeks to say it "will not be working on the 2024 or future elections.")

As a result, researchers at Stanford, UW, and other institutions have been hit with lawsuits, flooded with subpoenas and document requests, and subjected to online harassment and attacks.

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/14/g-s1-457 ... al-attacks

Of course I don't want anyone targeted for harassment, intimidation or violence. If anyone thinks I would, they are completely wrong.

[In2ition]

Shocked!! His employees aren't going to prosecute him? No way.

[In2ition]

Oh, look. They are arming themselves. I think the precedent they've set the past 8-9 years will be turned back on them and they will lose everything. Just my prediction.

[In2ition]

Here are Domestic terrorists actually planning their activities on Zoom.
https://rumble.com/v5204u3-trolling-for ... sts.-.html

[Mori Chu]

Shocked!! His employees aren't going to prosecute him? No way.

Maybe because he didn't do anything deserving of prosecution?

[In2ition]

Shocked!! His employees aren't going to prosecute him? No way.

Maybe because he didn't do anything deserving of prosecution?

He defied a Congressional subpoena, and was held in contempt. It might take the Sargeant at Arms to go arrest him. Does anyone remember when Nixon refused to hand over his tapes?

[Mori Chu]

Shocked!! His employees aren't going to prosecute him? No way.

Maybe because he didn't do anything deserving of prosecution?

He defied a Congressional subpoena, and was held in contempt. It might take the Sargeant at Arms to go arrest him. Does anyone remember when Nixon refused to hand over his tapes?

Biden exerted executive privilege over the tapes, so Garland can't hand them over. It's a long standing precedent. He didn't commit any crime.

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/13/nx-s1-50 ... d-contempt

[In2ition]

I think the Supreme Court set precedent that he can't use executive privilege over these in the past. I imagine that they will eventually be turned over. They are protecting them so much, that it's either a distraction or they are damning.

[In2ition]

Here's the irony, this is used by their militant arm of the Dems, Antifa, so they aren't identified. Also the fed boys, Patriot Front, who get arrested or detained, but don't have to lower their masks during it. Also, it wasn't just 18 months ago that Hochul was filmed at an Elementary school with kids that were FORCED to wear a mask, while she didn't have to.

[Nodack]

Militant arm of the Dems?

How ‘antifa’ became a Trump catch-all
Antifa doesn’t appear to have any organizing structure, but it has become a potent term for conservatives — a quick way to brand part of the opposition.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/0 ... all-297921

More than half of Republicans still believe debunked conspiracy that Capitol riot was Antifa plot
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 98786.html

Trump supporter charged for faking arson attack he blamed on Antifa and BLM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 22345.html

Marjorie Taylor Greene still claims Antifa behind Jan 6 despite 875 arrests, 360 convictions and House probe
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 40383.html

Anger as Trump lawyer says Antifa leader was first Capitol rioter arrested and first to be let go
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 01694.html

Jan. 6 rioters the far right claimed were antifa keep getting unmasked as Trump supporters
Misinformation about the Capitol attack continues to go viral on the right, but the claims are slowly getting debunked, federal case by federal case.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justic ... rcna125369

Sarah Palin claims Capitol rioters were Antifa masquerading as Trump supporters
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 83857.html

Arrest records disprove Trump’s claims that Antifa caused disruption during Black Lives Matter protests
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 86421.html

Purported Trump supporter who claimed Antifa burned down his camper admits to staged attack, DOJ says
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/us/trump ... index.html

Minnesota Trump Fan Admits to Staging Antifa-Inspired Arson Attack
https://www.thedailybeast.com/minnesota ... son-attack

[Superbone]

Of course. Only to the brainwashed minions.

[In2ition]

Fake news

[Kryptonic]

RIP Noam

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/18/2418 ... t-dead-yet

Fake news

[Mori Chu]

Here's the irony, this is used by their militant arm of the Dems, Antifa, so they aren't identified.

Get out of here with that BS.

[In2ition]

Here's the irony, this is used by their militant arm of the Dems, Antifa, so they aren't identified.

Get out of here with that BS.

You are just upset, because it's true. They've been the extremist group that you've stuck up for ,because they've always been the ones on the Dems side consistently.

[Nodack]

There have been zero people killed by Intifada ever as far as I can tell. The GOP considers them a real threat to America.

68 people died from Vaping. We had a Congressional hearing on it


183,000 die every single year in the US from poverty. <birds chirping>

[In2ition]

There have been zero people killed by Intifada ever as far as I can tell. The GOP considers them a real threat to America.

68 people died from Vaping. We had a Congressional hearing on it


183,000 die every single year in the US from poverty. <birds chirping>

I'll tell Aaron Danielson that.

[Nodack]

I had to look that up. You are right. Some Antifa supporter did kill some right wing guy. I stand corrected.

1 person has died from an Antifa supporter.

68 people died from Vaping.

178,000 dead from drinking every year

300,000 dead from obesity every year.

183,000 die every single year in the US from poverty.

https://www.adl.org/resources/report/mu ... tates-2023
All the extremist-related murders in 2023 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds, with 15 of the 17 killings involving perpetrators or accomplices with white supremacist connections. This is the second year in a row that right-wing extremists have been connected to all identified extremist-related killings.

[Mori Chu]

FBI raids home of Oakland's mayor?