25 Replies to “Masks, YouTube & Rand Paul”

  1. I agree with all of Rand’s points here. And it’s certainly true that Fakebook and Linked In are behaving just like government agencies in their censorship of whatever they don’t like as contrary to the government line.

    But there’s another element which is too often overlooked. Where is it written in any law or constitution that the government is prohibited from lying? Governments are always in the business of lying, both to the outside world and to their own citizens. And anyone commenting on this site who’s ever participated in government processes knows this all too well. We know this is the case because government officials, elected or appointed, strive vigorously to avoid the one venue where they cannot lie: a courtroom under oath.

      1. Garth is not quite correct. You cannot lie in a courtroom under oath except by committing perjury, a specific criminal offence, carrying a sentence of up to 14 years. This surfaced in the infamous Watergate hearings in 1972, when G. Gordon Liddy was willing to lie before the court and take whatever punishment would follow from that. This is why the Liberals were so desperate to prevent anything resembling an inquiry over the SNC scandal. It’s why they terminated the Parliamentary inquiry. Those are under oath. It’s why they agreed to a settlement in their firing of Mark Norman. They didn’t want all the greasy lobbying of their principal funding source in New Brunswick, Irving, coming to light, and their vendetta against Norman. Governments avoid courts like the plague if there’s any risk of anything dangerous (to them) coming out. Marie Henein had the Trudeau government’s balls in a death-grip, and they knew it.

        So yes, you cannot lie in court and get away with it unless you can find some well-paid lackey to lie convincingly for you. It was highly revealing the extent to which the Liberals went to prevent Gerald Butts from ever having to say anything of substance. That fucker knows ALL the sins of the current government in precise detail; hence he had to be protected at any cost and defended from having to say anything truly damaging under oath.

        But we all agree on the main point; governments are in the business of lying, all the time to everyone.

  2. . . . the one venue where they cannot should not lie: a courtroom under oath.

    FTFY.

  3. The Ontario NDP must have had the SCREWS turned on her.
    Yesterday she had stated you have a right to choose vaccinations and today…
    You have NO Constitutional rights.
    You have to take this vaccination as mandatory.
    Stupid Bitch.

    The Liberal Minister of Health is also putting the SCREWS on the Alberta Health Minister wanting her ‘science’ as to why they don’t follow their ‘science’.

      1. Every attempt to link to ocla leads to a dead end. That didn’t take long to shut down an opposing voice. Anyone have another link?

  4. I wonder if Rand would let folk walk around with an SMG? Canadians, even the so-called conservative ones, would be dead set against allowing that, and they’ll cry the same river as the left when asked why.

    1. The top acronym match for SMG is Scotts Miracle Grow (when “acronym SMG” is entered into DDG). I suspect you’re referencing a submachinegun?

      Is concealed carry as dangerous in your eyes? I wouldn’t have a problem living somewhere where I knew my neighbours carried either concealed or your scary submachinegun so long as I knew that 1) I could too 2) it’s illegal for ex-cons to carry and they would be imprisoned for life (or shot without charges to the shooter) if they violate that rule. Yes, I live in Canada.

      1. The whole idea of trusting the government to keep guns out of the hands of criminals is pure idiocy. Also, a man who has paid his debt to society is a citizen, like anyone else.
        Also, if a man cannot be trusted with a gun, then he can’t be trusted with a baseball bat or a chainsaw, and shouldn’t be on the streets in the first place.

          1. +++John Chittick! More polite, safer (especially on the long term), and more fun!
            They never coulda stopped kids from waterskiing drunk if they hadn’t have disarmed us first!

    2. SMG…have not heard that acronym used since 7203 Cornwallis (Gold)…out on the MTR. Should look up the specs on that puppy…Any Machine shop could build one in their morning shift..or two..??

      Garden hose MG, but for close in stuff, would work just fine..!!

  5. A bit off topic, but somewhat related to this offering. Rand Paul makes a point that his video was censored, but treats that issue in a secondary nature. He should be LIVID. And, not because his video was taken down. I fully (100%) support Facebook and Google and Twitter’s ability to remove content. What I don’t support is how all these entities conspire (in violation of the RICO Act) and circle the wagons (illegally) to assure that a start up company can not get a grasp on their market share. Payment centers refuse to do business with them under the direction of the aforementioned. Data centers refuse to host due to the direction of the aforementioned. App stores refuse to list them under the direction of the aforementioned. All these acts are very, very illegal.

    Essentially, it is conspiring and in direct violation of RICO. It’s no different from all the oil companies getting together and deciding they will all raise their prices totally circumventing capitalistic competition. However, in the case of Silicon Valley it is far more direct and all encompassing. They, basically, work together to assure that competition cannot be established. Want an example? GAB (a twitter challenger) had all their apps (Apple) ripped out from under them. Then, their payment declined them as a client (PayPal). So, essentially two major entities removed a client providing positive revenue flow much to each’s detriment. They got their marching orders.

    That is what Rand Paul should be addressing in this video.

    1. You’ve hit the important point (no, soi-disant conservatives, you don’t have a right to use someone else’s computer for free) but you’re way off base on the details. RICO only applies if a crime has been committed, and choosing not to do business with someone due to their politics isn’t a crime. Sherman Act prosecutions are rare, virtually impossible to prove legally, and tend to be used as political weapons by the government. You have to prove “due to the direction of the aforementioned” and that just doesn’t actually happen. Google isn’t calling up PayPal and Azure and saying “cut these guys off”. Even if they were, none of the people they’re ostracizing compete in the same markets as Google, PayPal, Facebook et al so there’s no restriction of competition to trigger the Sherman Act.

      What’s happening is the same thing that’s already been happening for decades to, er, a certain ethnonationalist group named after a meteorological phenomenon. Everybody agreed that those guys were beyond the pale and so it was fine to black hole them from the Internet and financial systems, freedom of expression be damned. Now Big Tech has decided we’re beyond the pale and the precedent has already been set.

      What Big Tech is doing is a serious problem, but it’s not more serious than granting even more power to the government to dictate to private companies how they operate. Because that never goes the way you think it will.

  6. FAUCI needs to be TARRED – Feathered – and chained up in a Pillory….till that POS expires….then thrown to the Hogs.

    For a DEATH DEALER, its only fitting..NO.??

    1. Fauxci has become so enamored with his celebrity that he is blinded to how HISTORY will treat him. He will be absolutely pilloried after retirement and death. But … he actually BELIEVES he is a god!! A sciency god!! And the Left will pile on. He will be made a total scapegoat for every government FAILURE to make a dent in multiple COVID spikes.

      It won’t be DiSantis held responsible … it will be Fauxci … who rose to notoriety under Trump

  7. I’m old enough to remember when ‘the internet’ was announced to facilitate the MOST FREE exchange of information and ideas and expression ever before in the history of mankind …

    Google was the gold standard for search algorithms … finding EVERYTHING possibly related to your search parameters.

    It didn’t take long for the BIG TECH MONOPOLIES to seize control and censorship of the ‘FREE’ platforms they promised. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It’s no more complicated than that. Evil people have been granted far to much power and privilege over their competition.

    Let’s hope Rumble makes a dent in Google/Apple/Facquebook … as a certain commenter here snarkily challenges them to do …

    1. Unfortunately, the free exchange of ideas occurs in fewer and fewer places.

      Case in point is the Trudeau Liberals $600 million taxpayer subsidy to the news organizations.

      $600 million for censorship of Canadian viewpoints.

      Time for new platforms and forums.

      And a big thank you to Kate for all of the years and effort to make SDA into the free forum that is is today.

      1. Yep. Had Kate book marked at the top of my favorites list right from the start. I don’t know how many years it has been but its been quit a while.

  9. I love that every time that youtube does this kind of nonsense Rumble, Odysee and SuperU, and no doubt a number of other platforms, grow bigger and bigger. YT doesn’t seem to see that they are sowing the seeds of their own destruction. Of course, it will take a long time as they are so big but it will eventually happen.

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