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Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« on: November 16, 2020, 11:14:06 AM »
First, the trolling...

https://www.weaselzippers.us/459188-opinion-cnn-is-up-for-sale-donald-trump-should-buy-it/

...firing everybody and replacing them with their enemies would be hilarious!

...and the serious...

https://www.weaselzippers.us/459197-trump-allies-are-reportedly-considering-buying-out-newsmax-to-build-a-strong-competitor-to-fox-news-business-insider/

Should be stuff like this happening decades ago!
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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2020, 05:49:40 PM »
Obama already broke the rule of not commenting on your successor.  Trump will bury it.  If not owning a network he will be a fixture on one.  Bank on it.

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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2020, 08:55:58 AM »
Oh yeah...all-in on that bet.
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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2021, 02:58:28 PM »
The regulators will insure he doesn't buy one.    They would never let him buy CNN or even OAN or NewsMax.   And even if he did,  all the major cable providers would drop it like a hot potato.  OAN and NewsMax are not even on many cable networks as it is,  so their reach is limited. 

So that leaves the internet.    Unfortunately,  the tech elite have gotten people used to "Apps" on their "smart" phones rather than websites on a computer (or phone).   So that means he has to be entirely website based,  since Apple and Google are the "App" gate keepers (as Parlor is finding out).   There is no way he will get past the gatekeepers there anymore.  So it would have to be website entirely,  with no social media (outside of itself).   You can still have a freestanding app for Windows and Mac OS's,  but those would require extra steps to install since Apple,  Google and Microsoft won't distribute them.   Apple (since I use a mac)by default blocks apps not gotten from its own store,  and makes you take extra steps to install software gotten elsewhere.   So that would discourage people from installing something Apple thinks is "unsafe".   Guessing Windows does something similar as well. 

At some point the major web browsers will probably block sites (some kind of do already) by default so that means having to use an alternate web browser.    And of course internet service providers will be bullied into not servicing and hosting websites.   

It's what I have been warning about for over ten years already.   The history of the internet is following what happened with radio.  At some point even this site will be forced off the net by making it impossible to operate or pushed underground into the dark net. 

Maybe publishing a dead tree newsletter may come back into vogue. 

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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2021, 03:16:06 PM »
Brave, VPNs and the DarkWeb...can't stop the signal, Mal.
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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2021, 08:25:48 PM »
Brave, VPNs and the DarkWeb...can't stop the signal, Mal.

Love Firefly!

Alex Christoforou is talking about how Gab developed a Web Progressive Ap to avoid the ap stores. ??? He says others should follow suit. I know nothing.
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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2021, 08:50:54 PM »

I wonder how much it would cost to set up a string of broadcast TV stations like Movies TV etc?
They cater to the Trump demographic.
Maybe Trump could buddy up with OANN  and Newsmax. He could create an ap for Roku like OANN and Newsmax have.


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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2021, 09:25:58 AM »
Look for Roku to start banning crap like all the other Big Tech is doing.  Roku has went from the wild west where anybody (or church) could start a channel and has morphed into a giant operation that flexes their muscle to extract big money from the likes of HBO, before allowing their updated channel onto their platform.

My next step is to replace the Roku with a mini PC to serve the TV.

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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2021, 09:27:50 AM »
Brave, VPNs and the DarkWeb...can't stop the signal, Mal.

Mozilla dove pointed-head-first into the dark web with this disclosure:

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There is no question that social media played a role in the siege and take-over of the US Capitol on January 6.

Since then there has been significant focus on the deplatforming of President Donald Trump. By all means the question of when to deplatform a head of state is a critical one, among many that must be addressed. When should platforms make these decisions? Is that decision-making power theirs alone?

But as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality. Donald Trump is certainly not the first politician to exploit the architecture of the internet in this way, and he won’t be the last. We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has been done.

Changing these dangerous dynamics requires more than just the temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms.

In response I wrote to them inviting them to KMA and scrubbed them from all of my machines - including the Linux ones (firefaux is the default). The only "siege and take-over of the US Capitol" was committed by the treasonous left!

F them with rusty razor blades!


https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/?utm_source=www.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=homepage&utm_content=card


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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2021, 09:36:55 AM »
So who now is the alternative to Brave.  Not every website plays nicely with Brave.  Primarily financial sites.  Maybe Edge?  I hate Edge because it doesn't sort bookmarks, but is great for streaming.  Maybe I'll trying my banking on Edge.

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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2021, 11:37:35 AM »
Brave, VPNs and the DarkWeb...can't stop the signal, Mal.

Mozilla dove pointed-head-first into the dark web with this disclosure:

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There is no question that social media played a role in the siege and take-over of the US Capitol on January 6.

Since then there has been significant focus on the deplatforming of President Donald Trump. By all means the question of when to deplatform a head of state is a critical one, among many that must be addressed. When should platforms make these decisions? Is that decision-making power theirs alone?

But as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality. Donald Trump is certainly not the first politician to exploit the architecture of the internet in this way, and he won’t be the last. We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has been done.

Changing these dangerous dynamics requires more than just the temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms.

In response I wrote to them inviting them to KMA and scrubbed them from all of my machines - including the Linux ones (firefaux is the default). The only "siege and take-over of the US Capitol" was committed by the treasonous left!

F them with rusty razor blades!


https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/?utm_source=www.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=homepage&utm_content=card

I saw that.  Like the SocialistMedia ass-clowns we've long known about I am still trying to get my kin to dump...MoMarxistZilla has also joined the dark side...F them all.  We all need to start starving all the damned parasites, let them try to thrive serving only the free-sh*tters, they'll all end up state subsidized...then we all Go Galt...and it is a matter of when not if they all collapse and die.  Ending them is my only purpose in life.  Invest in ham radios for long distance and FRS for short range, learn simple hard to break one-time cyphers...it will come to this sooner than you think.  Soon entertainment will take on new definitions.  And whatever Trump does he also as to think to the end game, the corrupt government will do all it can to censor him and anybody not of the Marxist faith.
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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2021, 11:43:12 AM »
So who now is the alternative to Brave.  Not every website plays nicely with Brave.  Primarily financial sites.  Maybe Edge?  I hate Edge because it doesn't sort bookmarks, but is great for streaming.  Maybe I'll trying my banking on Edge.

Yup, Brave works well for e-mail, spotty for many sites...get a proton account.  I have to junk my old accounts and go full into proton, my e-mail accounts are a fricken mess, some I use for certain things...for example all orders and anything with a potential junk factor goes to one of the Marxist outfits...I mostly purge 80% of what hits it, hold what I need...then when no longer need that flush it off.  Obviously that one I need to coordinate with my flush the Marxist outfits plan...no more Amazon etc...migrate the rest to a proton account...migrate family e-mail to another proton account, etc.  Changing all my data to new e-mails is going to be a PITA but the purging should help cut through some of the stuff I can ignore.
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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2021, 02:06:24 PM »
I actually have the premium (well, the first tier of premium, anyway) Proton account.  Really waiting for calendar to go live.

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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2021, 08:28:41 AM »
I actually have the premium (well, the first tier of premium, anyway) Proton account.  Really waiting for calendar to go live.

I guess I never looked at options that close...so you have the "plus"?  48Euros is what, under $40/year?  For 10x times more storage, 5 addresses and more folders and messages?  Seems OK to me.  Shame they don't throw in their VPN too, but there are other options for that anyway.
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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2021, 08:32:38 AM »
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/aclu-warns-unchecked-power-after-facebook-twitter-suspend-trump

See these assholes?  Fricken morons...just like the E-GOP Quislings...these ACLU a-holes who did nothing but advance the communist agenda decade after decade, now their concerned about free speech?

Mensheviks!  They and the Quisling E-GOP are just Mwensheviks!   ::doublebird:: 

ETA - Via Ace: "Idiots who like to call Trump a 'dictator' are missing the obvious: a dictator can't be censored. Whoever is doing the censoring, *that's* the dictator."

Seems a well, duh?!  But for many the obvious is alien, for the rest of the deniers well, they commie rat bastards of one flavor or another and will get theirs soon enough...

And...



Aye, something to remind them of...along with the stabbing of Trump in the back...as they run for their lives...and it will be interesting if the first to set them afoot isn't the DemCom's they're siding with in that stabbing...

Same applies for the final act of the Quisling black-robed POS's...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-supreme-court-refuses-fast-track-trumps-election-appeal

And, remember when months long BLM terror and Antifa terror was cheered, encouraged, appeased and applauded by DemComs?



Look what these despotic two-faced Commie POS are planning!

https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1348488262210498560

Hey?  Anybody know what George Washington et al did when the tyrannical British monarch declared American patriots "rebels"?!



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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2021, 12:23:49 PM »


Ouch! That hits too close to home!

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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2021, 12:52:14 PM »
Does "Hamburger Hill" ring a bell? Same incompetent asswipe types in charge.

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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2021, 02:03:51 PM »
Look for Roku to start banning crap like all the other Big Tech is doing.  Roku has went from the wild west where anybody (or church) could start a channel and has morphed into a giant operation that flexes their muscle to extract big money from the likes of HBO, before allowing their updated channel onto their platform.

My next step is to replace the Roku with a mini PC to serve the TV.

Would you cast to the TV? I love Roku but many sites are not on there. Bitchute does not work on Roku for me even though I followed the instructions. I like the Roku remote to navigate. I tried Grokall on Roku which seems to have some sampling of people I like but not many videos. I am confused about Grokall. Only two videos from computing forever?

Tony Heller moved to newtube. Styxhexenhammer666 is only many platforms and now does a few videos only on bitchute.

I think I will have to go to a mini PC and just live with using a keyboard to navigate. Any tips on what mini PC to get?

I used Edge for Netflix as that was recommended for Netflix.

Also, Computing Forever was kicked off youtube.
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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2021, 06:30:43 PM »
Something along the lines of this.  It's got to be Windows, as I want it to play all my file formats, many with subtitle files.  I don't want to get a Chrome Box, just to start finding out it won't do everything I'm used to getting from Windows.

https://www.amazon.com/8GB-120GB-Computer-Processor-2-5-inch/dp/B08CV2VJ8N/ref=psdc_13896591011_t2_B08JPJZQPM?th=1

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Re: Trump to buy ownership of a network?
« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2021, 08:06:47 PM »
Something along the lines of this.  It's got to be Windows, as I want it to play all my file formats, many with subtitle files.  I don't want to get a Chrome Box, just to start finding out it won't do everything I'm used to getting from Windows.

https://www.amazon.com/8GB-120GB-Computer-Processor-2-5-inch/dp/B08CV2VJ8N/ref=psdc_13896591011_t2_B08JPJZQPM?th=1

Thanks. I might also get small smart tv that has roku built in. Around $120 maybe.  I could have it play videos I listen to while working on other things.
I could also use it to play videos from a mini PC or old laptop.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/onn-24-Class-720P-HD-LED-Roku-Smart-TV-100012590/959853005

I see there are Android smart TVs. Maybe a browser built in?

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