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Sir, how dare you discuss taxing money I haven't earned yet and will likely never earn in my lifetime.

Bought four handsets for my work. They worked through concrete over a distance. Your comment is 100% inaccurate based on my observations.

Trying to compare Bellingcat, which publishes things like investigations into the downing of MH17, to Fox News. That is terrible.

Fox News has entertainment departments, fought in court to have Tucker Carlson lie to his followers with impunity. They republished incitement to ramming attacks.

Bellingcat.. They just do investigations.

If you want to try to break things down into black and white left vs right, at least try to do it with comparable organizations. Or even better, try to refute the substance of the article instead of going to a media bias site to see how you feel they land on the political spectrum.

Even the site you linked has them listed as "left-center" with "high factual reporting." How is this grounds to outright dismiss them? The slightest degree of "leftness" makes you want to exclude sources? Do you have any factual reason to be doing this, or is this your personal bias towards right wing content forcing you to seek means to exclude information you don't like the looks of?

Funded by the Mercer family, Parler was a single purpose site. Not independent, not neutral. This is not a debate about free speech but of one of accountability towards entities that took exacting efforts to radicalize and activate political terrorist and reality denial in a good portion of the US population.

Parler Reportedly Backed by Mercers, Same Family That Funded Cambridge Analytica: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/parler-reportedly-...

Hedge-fund investor Robert Mercer, former principal investor in the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica, and his daughter Rebekah Mercer are among Parler's financial backers, according to a new report.

People familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal about the Mercers' ties to Parler—an American microblogging and social networking service launched in 2018 that has a significant user base of Trump supporters. Parler CEO John Matze confirmed that Rebekah Mercer was a lead investor in the early stages of the company and that her funding was conditional on the app relinquishing control to users on what they can see.

Amazon's response to Parler's lawsuit is damning: https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20449127-amazon_res...

In interview's Parler's CEO stated he doesn't think it is Parler's obligation to monitor the full range of user activity.

Content encouraging violence continued to grow rapidly after the events of Jan 6

During a call with Amazon Parler CEO stated they had a backlog of 26,000 reported pieces of content.

Parler CEO posted "we could be operational within 12 hours of downtime from Amazon. That they had prepared for events like this by not relying on services like AWS and having bare metal products."

The Mercer funded Parler project doesn't think it needs to moderate it's content, has a backlog of reports they have been unwilling to surmount, and they stated they don't need Amazon anyways because they prepared for it. Please don't bother complaining about AWS depriving them of necessary services unless you can prove a requirement to knowingly disseminate terrorist propaganda without functioning moderation.

Greenwald has been an activist for years.

I recall him finding the most tenuous of reasons to defend Assad and Putin's conduct in Syria. It kept falling apart as the regime kept conducting further chemical weapons attacks. Everything could be dismissed as some grand imperialist plot against Assad. The goal posts moved dozens of times always in reaction to further news that detailed different aspects of the chemical weapons campaign.

Greenwald kept finding ways to dismiss the citizens on the ground. Because surely RT.com knows better.

He then kept dismissing the joint international investigation team while it was in the field. Because surely Assad's own press releases know better.

After awhile he deleted his Twitter timeline[1]. Greenwald is not a journalist when he carries forward narratives like this, he is an activist. Just like when he carried forward narratives from "Guccifer 2.0" aka Kremlin during the 2016 election. What he is doing here seems really similar to his conduct from that era. He thought he found -the thing- that exempts something he want to defend from ire. Now an entire narrative is build around it. His little personal fort.

I'll never be able to forgive Glenn for using his name on Twitter to beat down Syrians who were giving first hand testimony and video evidence. He engaged against them like they were his enemy, likely because they were the enemy of his favored narrative and biases. Disgusting.

Here is an archived version of his tweet[2]. You'll need it in time after he commits another purge when he moves onto the next indefensible right wing trope he feels like picking up.

[1] https://twitter.com/im_pulse/status/1022690869139464192

[2] https://archive.vn/cmxFp

Can't help but notice you didn't answer this:

Just out of curiosity who is their equivalent person on the left?

Should Fox News have their licenses removed, and be taken off the air & internet?

Sounds like a good start. They have been involved in laundering terrorist rhetoric and incitement to mass attacks. Take the case of Fox employing Tucker Carlson.

Tucker owns Daily Caller.

Daily Caller published an article extolling the virtues of ISIS-style ramming attacks against protestors.

Fox News republished this article. The result was a spike in ramming attacks against protestors.

Fox gracefully pulled the article after complaints, no blow back since it wasn't their own article anyways. Nothing to see here, just entities paying each other and relaying each other's incitement.

There has to be at least a dozen people at Fox News that need to be imprisoned for their role in pursuing death and violence against political and cultural opponents. So yes lets do the steps you mentioned then move on to discovery so we can find out how execs at Fox measured success when publishing incitement.

Trump rallied his followers after years of violent rhetoric. Him, his family, his lawyer Giuliani urged things like "trial by combat" for Trump's enemies.

He timed his rally to end at 1pm, when the tally started down the road. He then sent his followers to pressure "weak" Republicans within the Capitol building for the purposes of urging the overthrow of certified votes in favor of replacing them with unilateral votes for Trump.

They brought zip ties. They called for Pence's hanging.

Trump called Pence during the siege trying to pressure him, and the call had to be cut short because the insurgents were already inside the building.

This was a legislative and violent coup. Cry more about liberals in reaction to a literal coup attempt. Please, I want to hear more about how this is all antifa/BLM's fault some more. How the liberal agenda is a boot upon your neck while Trump's followers attempt violent and legislative coups against the citizens of this nation.

No. They led a coup. There should be hangings. End of discussion.

"Let's have trial by combat." -Rudy 'America's Mayor' Giuliani to a crowd filled with far right pro-Trump militias like Oath Keepers, hours before the Republican coup attempt in D.C.

This comment is toxic. I get that you're angry and burnt out and that’s leading you to make poor decisions—been there, done that—but like I say, if you don’t look after yourself you’re no good to anyone.

Whatever sympathies I had for you as another fallible human being are done.