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A moderator in a group that I once belonged to pandered to a person who described himself as a “social conservative” on a supposedly leftist website. That person used the venue to “out” someone. The moderator merely “warned” the culprit (who called himself “Ryan Isaac”, if that’s their real name) and kicked me out because I supposedly “told him what to do”. That is, he allowed a self-described “conservative” and kicked out a leftist in a supposedly Left FB group. In another group, they told me to “unblock” one of the admins… in public, no less, not in a PM. Supposedly, they were anti-Trump… in reality, they were pro-Hillary, a rather different animal. Being anti-Trump simply wasn’t good enough… friends told me that the moderator was anti-MP, Russophobic, and intolerant of those who opposed him. I guess blocking one of his buddies meant that I merited a public pillorying. Great “liberal” tolerance, wasn’t it?
Trolls of any sort… including “social conservatives”… deserve no quarter. NONE. I’ve dealt with them for years. If you give them “mercy”, they only regroup and attack again. I’ll be clear… to “warn” a troll is unwise. They simply attack again. For them, if someone “transgresses” any of their made-up rules, why, anything is fair in attacking them. No decency or civility is necessary… one simply destroys the “other” in as nasty a fashion as possible. Many so-called “Liberals” are the same… if you don’t repeat their shibboleths chapter-and-verse, they descend just as nastily as the “conservatives” do. They’re trolls in just the same fashion… they just have more smarmy rhetoric, that’s all.
I’ve found people with “religious” tie-ins to be especially lenient with such trolls. This is crackbrained. Trolls are about… both Trumpkin “conservatives” and Hillarybot “liberals”. Both are equally reprehensible. Have a care… trolls abound in the cyberworld and moderators seem to tolerate them. Don’t take it personally if some group tosses you… it merely means that you’ve pissed off an admin or moderator. Look at the good side… you learned something about them, and that’s always a positive thing.
Keep smilin’… that really riles ‘em…
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Voices from Russia 
1 February 2018. How to Confound Sucky Zucky’s Hamfisted Attempt at Censorship
Tags: Censorship, computers, cyberspace, Facebook, internet censorship, Mark Zuckerberg, political commentary, politics, United States, USA
The FB wonks at work… denying people easy access to the material that they want to see…
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Zuckerberg didn’t remove any pages from FB… he simply had his wonks come up with an algorithm that’d keep them from appearing on your timeline. There’s a way around his snarky attempt at censorship. I warn you… it’s tedious and it’ll take you some time to do. You must go to “Liked Pages”… then, you must go to “Followed” and click on that. Then, click on “See First”. You must do this for all your liked pages individually. They’re not making it easy for us, but we can get around Zuck’s snarky-ass attempt at telling us what we can see and what we can’t see.
DO NOT fall into anti-Semitism because of this. Yes… many of Russia’s enemies are Jewish… but more are not. Moreover, many Jewish people are sincere friends of Russia and the Russian people. Don’t be a Brother Nathanael or like Russian Insider. Most Jewish people are innocent… at worst, many are dupes. The number of actively hateful shits like Sucky Zucky isn’t large. Yes… they’re there… so’s Professor Cohen and those like him. Keep your bearings and don’t let hate win the day.
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