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Rand Paul Calls for Criminal Justice Reform
Because the System is Too Hard on Paul Manafort
{ rickwells.us } ~ Senator Rand Paul belives Paul Manafort‘s legal troubles are so horribly unfair that there’s no choice but to remake the American justice system... Paul shared this opinion with Cavuto Monday while discussing Manafort’s alleged bank fraud, tax evasion, and the possible implications his trial will have for Robert Mueller‘s ongoing investigation. Since this doesn’t directly tie into the question of whether President Donald Trump colluded with Russia in 2016, Paul said he had “sympathy” for Manafort because the legal system might have “gone too far” to penalize him over “paperwork crimes. I think we have gone crazy on criminalizing everything under the sun, Paul said. What happens is he will never have physically hurt somebody, and yet, if you add up all of these things in which you are guilty, it would get six life terms. I think we have gone too far. We need to reassess what we do. Also, the power of the prosecutor to hold life sentences over people for non-violent paperwork crimes, and then say ‘give us somebody else,’ it’s a great incentive for people to give up somebody who might not be guilty, because they are afraid of spending their life in prison.”... https://rickwells.us/paul-criminal-justice-reform/ .‘I’d Like to See Mr. Mueller on the List of Witnesses for Congress’
{ judicialwatch.org } ~ JW President Tom Fitton appeared on “Sunday Morning Futures” on the Fox News Channel to discuss Judicial Watch suing the DOJ for communications related to anti-Trump dossier. .“Our Guy” – The *REAL* Russian Collusion
by sundanceRussian hackers targeted conservative
think tanks prior to midterms
{ foxnews.com } ~ Microsoft on Monday said it seized websites created by Russian hackers to imitate conservative American think tanks... but instead redirected visitors to websites where their passwords could be stolen. The New York Times reported that some of the sites that were targeted were the Hudson Institute and the International Republican Institute, think tanks that have disagreed with President Trump on ending Russian sanctions. Three other fake domains were designed to look as if they belonged to the U.S. Senate. “To be clear, we currently have no evidence these domains were used in any successful attacks before the DCU [Digital Crime Unit] transferred control of them, nor do we have evidence to indicate the identity of the ultimate targets of any planned attack involving these domains,” Microsoft said on the blog... China Spy Ship Monitored US Missile Defense Test
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Facebook Censors PragerU
by Thomas Gallatin: Last Thursday, Prager University issued a public statement alerting its millions of Facebook followers to the fact that “our last 9 posts have been completely censored reaching 0 of our 3 million followers.” PragerU’s Will Witt added, “At least two of our video posts were deleted last night for ‘hate speech’ including a post of our recent video with The Conservative Millennial, Make Men Masculine Again.” The deleted video in question had no graphic content, bad language, or calls for violence warranting Facebook’s own parameters for its “hate speech” designation. So why were these videos censored? This is now the second instance of PragerU being “erroneously” censored on social media over the false designation that its conservative political content was “hate speech.”
On Friday morning, Facebook issued a lame apology: “We mistakenly removed these videos and have restored them because they don’t break our standards. This will reverse any reduction in content distribution you’ve experienced. We’re very sorry and are continuing to look into what happened with your Page.” However, the question remains, how could this mistake happen, especially given the fact that PragerU is a well-known and vetted media organization to which millions of people intentionally subscribed for news and opinion?
Much of the answer lies in the obvious leftist bias of those running these social-media giants. In a recent interview on CNN, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted as much, stating that those at Twitter do indeed have a “left-leaning” bias. Left-leaning? At the same time, he claimed that their bias did not affect how they handled “political ideology or viewpoints.” Dorsey added, “We do not look at content with regards to political viewpoint or ideology. We look at behavior.”
His answer is sly for its presumption of separating ideological content from behavior. Social media exists solely for the public sharing of various thoughts, viewpoints, and ideologies, no matter how trivial or mundane. Yet the social-media gatekeepers have a certain ideological bent that impacts how judgments are made as to what user content constitutes appropriate or inappropriate behavior. Thus, Dorsey’s assertion that his and his employees’ leftist bias doesn’t have an impact on decision-making is dubious at best.
Back to Facebook. Giving no other explanation other than it was a mistake only serves to increase speculation that the pervasive leftist bias within the company was the primary culprit. It’s increasingly clear that Facebook’s post-2016 algorithms are tilted against conservative perspectives, which are too easily flagged by trolls as content containing “fake news” or “hate speech.” As long as millions of Americans seek to get their news from social media, this filtering by the thought police is going to be hugely problematic.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57751?mailing_id=3688&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3688&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
Comments
medding in our election have been going on for years, just like we have done to other elections in other countries. just to stop it would be very hard to do. but discovering their medding is good to know.
facebood and others are horrid. censorship is what they are doing . talk about election meddling
if we do not stand up against them now and their nefarious practices then no one will be left when
we really need help. 1st amendment is for all not just some