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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen will DU be targeted? Or is this too kooky a question?
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Turbineguy
(39,504 posts)ananda
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yellow dahlia
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lastlib
(26,859 posts)They both work
nuxvomica
(13,689 posts)Bullshitting - imagination = projection.
tetedur
(1,373 posts)Can he do away with free speech? He has so many targets. Can he get around to them all?
jls4561
(2,752 posts)his administration with flunkies, fluffers, psychopaths and men who worry incessantly about the size of their penis.
Come after me Trump. I will cash in my 401K and hire Roberta Kaplan (E. Jean Carrols lawyer).
I look forward to the discovery phase of the trial.
pbmus
(13,116 posts)With the help of his co-insurrectionists
Silent Type
(11,430 posts)pbmus
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Silent Type
(11,430 posts)pbmus
(13,116 posts)I am just pointing out the obvious , if you feel my post is weird, kooky or off TOPIC, make your alert
Silent Type
(11,430 posts)ancianita
(42,298 posts)What reason(s) do you have to even think DU would be targeted?
What reason(s) do you have to think that DU hasn't already been targeted. Huh? Take your time.
lastlib
(26,859 posts)DU was offline for a full week, starting on Election Day, after a targeted denial of service attack by some cowardly human excrement.
Anybody think that wasn't done by The Felon and his goons (including Putin)?
ancianita
(42,298 posts)as far as we've learned from Earl G.
So I'm in the 'not likely' camp because I see no reason(s) to think DU will be targeted.
lastlib
(26,859 posts)given that we're hostile to The Felon and his crime syndicate. We've seen their willingness to make up "facts". I have little doubt that we are, or will be, on the "hit list".
ancianita
(42,298 posts)And if we keep fighting the good fight and things generally don't change for the better, I can see that happening.
But from the hit list we've seen so far, he's got to get through the current 60+2 governors and 1 mayor on that hit list first.
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W_HAMILTON
(9,670 posts)It's times like these that I wish DU's search function worked better than it does.
EDIT: Pray tell, where exactly you think these MAGA fascists will find a line that even they won't cross? What is the most extreme you see them going to, hmm?
Silent Type
(11,430 posts)Captain Zero
(8,500 posts)Trump's a Doofuss.
W_HAMILTON
(9,670 posts)Going after DU? Is that the line you think they'll draw? Even though they've done far worse than that already and have gone after other groups on the left already?
WarGamer
(18,017 posts)Totally Tunsie
(11,344 posts)I'm waiting for the day his forehead hits the table!
markodochartaigh
(4,309 posts)The site owners, administrators, and those who keep the site running hauled off to a camp? Authoritarians crush opponents to benefit themselves, the reich-wing Republicans fear their own base and Trump more than they fear the Democratic base or politicians. Crushing DU in that way now is like crossing the street to squash a bug that you don't like. Someday it may be worth their while, but there are too many much bigger fish that need frying now.
Or targeted by cyber attack? They already have these trolls and bots on their payroll. Haven't there already been some site disruptions here? I very much doubt that those have been caused either by competing Democratic sites or Bernie bros.
Bernardo de La Paz
(59,546 posts)Reduce targeting by blowing off Muck and X and tracking.
Do that by not linking to X. X is data central. X has so many data partners. Linking to X increases your exposure and increases your associates exposure.
Most people think of user data on the internet as being a billion little silos, one for each person. It is also all of the vehicle traffic (to extend the farming analogy) between the silos and the feed store and the harvester repair shop and the country-pop fan site and the site where some of the comments are not repeatable in polite company and .... It's about connections, networks of associates and what binds them.
nilram
(3,378 posts)orleans
(36,479 posts)thanks for the laugh
uponit7771
(93,293 posts)DFW
(59,143 posts)When they are convinced that all the bigger fish to fry have indeed been fried, we will get our day before the Inquisition, fear not.
We'll just have to vote wisely, and hope those votes are counted. Stay home, and that's where the thugs will next show up to "thank" you in their own inimitable fashion.
surfered
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aggiesal
(10,385 posts)uponit7771
(93,293 posts)uponit7771
(93,293 posts)If he doesn't call for Martial Law he's handcuffed to a degree
Bernardo de La Paz
(59,546 posts)It's not about you being in a little data silo labelled pbmus, it's all the people who click on linked X. Most of them don't reject cookies and are wide open.
The medium sized companies, like some middling health advice web site will state "We have 814 partners and we share data with them". The tightly interlinked companies analyze and generate data maps that show connectivity of user and visitors. If you link a Xit and user B looks at it three times and looks at Xit posted by user C, they make the transitive connection. Multiply this by millions of posts on DU and realize that Xit posts feed the Bros.
Don't feed Musk if you are sincere about your concerns.
Jack Valentino
(3,584 posts)I am the Antifa paymaster. George Soros sends me the money,
and I distribute the cash to all our footsoldiers
wrapped in empty bags of "Flaming Hot" Doritos ...
Crunchy Frog
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Jack Valentino
(3,584 posts)lol
Well the format of the site is 80's style, so it might die before it gets killed
BidenRocks
(2,365 posts)Our headquarters is every VFW and American Legion Post around the world.
Feeling lucky?
hadEnuf
(3,426 posts)so Dems, liberals and progressives will ALL become Antifa.
They are literally having "discussions and investigations" into something that does not exist as an entity, so they are making us into that entity in order to justify their planned persecution.
BidenRocks
(2,365 posts)So, another 'War On Terror'?
Another enemy without a mailing address.
Faux pas
(15,964 posts)FARKING NUT BAGS. I'm guessing the criteria for being part of the "insider's club" is flunking the pych test.
SamuelTheThird
(328 posts)I think, anyway. So they must be eyeing it.