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posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 26 2016, @08:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the guess-which-side-they-are-on dept.

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

Facebook admitted Sunday that it had blocked links to the Wikileaks trove of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee.

In a Twitter post late Saturday, WikiLeaks accused the social media giant of "censorship" and gave its followers an online workaround, saying "try using https://archive.is."

The WikiLeaks allegation followed a firestorm of controversy that erupted earlier this year when former Facebook workers admitted routinely suppressing conservative news.

Source: https://nypost.com/2016/07/24/facebook-admits-to-blocking-wikileaks-links-in-dnc-email-hack/


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  • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday July 27 2016, @06:02PM

    by JNCF (4317) on Wednesday July 27 2016, @06:02PM (#380816) Journal

    I facepalm whenever you start racebaiting, and roll my eyes when you use the term "natural rights," but I generally appreciate what your comments bring to the table even when I disagree with them.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 27 2016, @11:08PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday July 27 2016, @11:08PM (#380933) Homepage Journal

    If you're talking about the my anti-black sentiments, those are entirely cultural and I'd rather see all the reasons for them disappear. I don't want 1/5 of black men to have served prison time by the time they're my age. The only way it's going to not happen is for them to stop glorifying illegal lifestyles though. All the hugs and understanding and vilifying of white people in the world is not going to help.

    If you're talking about me bringing them up in inappropriate venues, yeah, I'll cop to doing a bit of trolling there. Not of the general community but absolutely of the blame whitey crew. I do so love slapping them in the face with a proverbial schlong.

    Natural rights I'll explain another time. Been babysitting all day and I'm wore smooth out.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:43AM

      by JNCF (4317) on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:43AM (#380983) Journal

      I think it's really unfortunate that you self-identify as having anti-black sentiments. If a black person began explaining to you why they had anti-white sentiments, would you find them reasonable? Even just the language is clearly intended to offend before you follow up by explaining that it's just the culture you're opposed to, as if that makes it okay to identify as anti-some-color-of-people. It's unfortunate that our language conflates color and culture, but that doesn't make your statement less cringe-worthy. Whenever somebody identifies as anti-some-part-of-humanity I worry that they're about to get some armbands out and throw a Nazi Party.

      It's also unfortunate that the government refuses to let small communities do as they wish. One mans law is another mans oppression. If you tell uniformed cops to enforce laws that go against local customs, you're going to end up with some dead cops and some imprisoned citizens. This is true for poor white communities as well. Rich people seem to get around laws through means other than violence, usually. Black communities have some issues to work through, but whether or not they violate your cultural norms is not one of them.

      Natural rights I'll explain another time.

      SPOILER: They don't really exist, they're just part of a bullshit philosophical tradition.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday July 28 2016, @03:00AM

        You just self-identified as anti-Nazi. Where precisely should we draw that particular line? What percentage of a culture would you say needed to have served prison time in their adult life to be justified in saying something is fucked up? Should we give them understanding that they treat women like pieces of meat and abandon their children? Fuck that. Black culture is a cancer and anyone who follows it are scum.

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        • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Thursday July 28 2016, @04:21AM

          by JNCF (4317) on Thursday July 28 2016, @04:21AM (#381045) Journal

          Nazi isn't a color. Black is something people are taught to identify as from a young age. Its immutability is implicit. Anti-black and anti-Nazi are not comparable in the slightest. Black culture has contributed a lot to white culture, and vice versa. I suspect your children grew up being influenced by black music, and if they didn't your grandchildren certainly will. Have fun with that.

          And even being anti-Nazi, I have no desire to bomb or SWAT podunk klan members.