DC Tom

"Insider help" like...the people at Google who have already talked about scrubbing search results for political reasons? Facebook, who's spent the past two years being raked over the coals and developing real-time processes and procedures to censor whatever they define as "fake news" or "hate speech?" Welcome to the dangers of the "Russia hacked our election" over-reaction. There is no way to suppress "fake" information without the capacity to suppress any and all information. Even if they can't do it know, they've been publicly working on that ability for two years.

I'll save you a seat. Bring steaks.

I particularly like "But that's from 2005." No double standard there.

I can see wings flapping. So clearly...they're ornithopters looking for spice patches in the high desert of Arrakis. Or birds. Probably ornithopters, though. WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!

Bull. If it were planned that far in advance, they would have been removed before the accusation was made. Plus...you don't have to remove the online data. You only have to remove the references from the search engine index. If you can't google it, it doesn't exist.

It was in Texas? Pin a medal on all of 'em, even the deader, for protecting our Second Amendment rights.

All white folk? Then they're all guilty. Hang 'em.

Wait 'til someone finds out MSgt. McDaniel once referred to an African-American man as "colored." We're going to have to send MSgt. McDaniel's remains back to Korea, and award PFC Jones a Congressional Medal of Honor for "his resolute bravery in the face of such violence" serving "as an example of the finest traditions of the US Army."

I'm not watching the video. So just tell me: which party is black, and which is white?

Absolutely. Made me do a double-take to check the URL.

And the owner attended a small business round table, as he has in the past. But this time was punished for it. That's not reasonable. That's not punishing somebody for their beliefs, or their associations, or their business practices. That's punishing someone for proximity.

Twitter is usually more open than that...but they have an odd policy/algorithm that considers pictures like that "incitement to violence" that violate their TOS. Not that Twitter's angelically innocent...but never attribute to malice what's adequately explained by stupidity.

It's a parody web site.

She has THREE lawyers for testifying in front of a Senate Committee? Yeah, that's completely normal.

I was offended. He couldn't mention drinking? Not as offended as I am at this though. Jesus, Micah...who the hell wears those brown shoes with that tux?

This is such an obvious tactic to string people along, it reminds me of when I was single and dating...and I'd have walked away from a woman doing this to me much sooner than the Senate is. I've had to counsel a lot of victims of sexual assault. The one thing they all have in common is the feeling of powerlessness that comes from experiencing the loss of control over themselves and their lives. I have never seen or even heard of an assault victim, directly or via proxy, even thinking they could exercise this much control over an investigative process, much less doing it.

They're a business. They want to do business. In China. That's not hypocritical. That's business. Supporting a "free and open internet" while selectively suppressing search results to promote an agenda...that's hypocrisy.

What the hell is this? I need more than a single tweet saying this to believe it.

It promotes violence.

Google ditched that motto, though.

You know that it's still your email, and this can be used as evidence against you in...say...a future Senate Confirmation hearing? Or really, anything if gets out. Seriously, in this day and age, that's practically an admission of guilt. Other than that, it's awesome.

So? China is sovereign, and has their own laws and regulations, and companies that want to do business in China have to abide by them. Never understood the constant whining about companies in China having to follow Chinese law that isn't American law.

Glaciers carved out the Great Lakes and Norwegian fjords. But I'm sure a pile of !@#$ing sand will keep them in place...

"Want to hear the most annoying noise in the world? It'll be testifying Thursday."

He can't be. He has to be impeached, convicted, and removed from office before a criminal charge can be brought against him.