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How The Left Is Outsourcing Censorship Of The Internet

HOW THE LEFT IS OUTSOURCING CENSORSHIP OF THE INTERNET

"......The Left’s attempt to outsource censorship to its Silicon Valley allies is one of the most important issues of our time. The proper solution may lie in creating competitive platforms, or in legislative, regulatory or judicial action. Perhaps platforms fitting a particular legal definition should be regulated as public utilities. After all, Federal Express doesn’t refuse to deliver packages to the National Review office on the ground that they may contain conservative communications, and telephone companies haven’t tried to cut off connections when two conservatives are talking. Why should Facebook, Twitter and YouTube be permitted to engage in political discrimination? ......

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/how-the-left-is-outsourcing-censorship-of-the-internet.php

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Democrats Frighten Manafort Jurors [Updated]

Short, please follow link to read short post. I feel Judge Ellis is very wise.

DEMOCRATS FRIGHTEN MANAFORT JURORS [UPDATED]

"......So they want to know who the jurors are so they can apply pressure on them through mob action, newspaper denunciations, online harassment and so on. This is how today’s Democratic Party operates. If the jury fails to render the Democrats’ preferred verdict, what do you suppose Maxine Waters will suggest Democrats should do to the jurors if they venture out in public? ...."

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/democrats-frighten-manafort-jurors.php

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Judge in Manafort trial says he's been threatened over case

This is so very sad.

Judge in Manafort trial says he's been threatened over case

"The judge in Paul Manafort’s fraud trial said Friday he has received threats over the case.

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III made the comments as the jury deliberated for the second day, and as he rejected a motion to release information about the jurors. He said he's confident the jurors would be threatened as well if their information was public.

Ellis said that because of the threats against him, he travels with U.S. Marshals.

“The Marshals go where I go,” Ellis said. ...."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/17/judge-in-manafort-trial-says-hes-been-threatened-over-case.html

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Shocking Report Details How CIA Hubris Exposed Agents In China, Resulting In 30 Executions

Note highlight in third paragraph, this happened under obama's watch, not Pres Trump.

Shocking Report Details How CIA Hubris Exposed Agents In China, Resulting In 30 Executions

"A bombshell new report in Foreign Policy  reveals that  up to 30 CIA agents and assets working in China were identified and executed by Chinese counterintelligence over a two year period after the CIA's encrypted communications system was infiltrated

The report is based on  former and current unnamed CIA officials  who were part of the program, which established a network of spies across China. The in-country spies communicated with their CIA handlers via an online system capable of being logged into from any laptop or computer. 

But when starting in late 2010 Chinese authorities began to sweep up the network of spies for interrogation and eventual execution,  the CIA was  "shellshocked"  in the words of one former official, and for eight years a joint FBI-NSA-CIA investigation has sought answers as to what went wrong in what is widely considered  "one of the CIA’s worst failures in decades".

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-16/shocking-report-details-how-cia-hubris-exposed-agents-china-resulting-30-executions

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