WATCH: Walmart Leverages Tech Censorship For Lower Ad Rates According to Arkansas YouTuber
Boogie revealed that the tech censorship crisis may be inspired, at least partially, by advertisers’ desire for a lower rate.
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During an appearance on the H3 podcast, the famous YouTuber revealed a personal conversation he had with a contact in Walmart advertising who said they do not care about big tech censorship, but are looking forward to the lower advertising rates they expect to pay as a result.
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter have all faced some extent of an advertiser boycott, with the blame levied on users who are deemed not to be “advertiser friendly.”
This has been YouTube’s excuse to demonetize popular right wing channels, and likely went into consideration for Twitter when they summarily banned Infowars, and Facebook and Instagram last week when they went a step further and said they would ban any user who so much as posted a link to Infowars video content or Alex Jones.
Boogie2988, a YouTube streamer who became famous for his parody videos, video game live streams, and for chronicling his weight loss journey, offered a nuanced take during the podcast.
“I know a lot of people that work at Walmart,” Boogie said on the podcast, “And I know people that work in advertising at Walmart, and somebody from Walmart, and I won’t say which person specifically, said to me ‘We don’t really care about any of that censorship crap, we don’t really care about any of the drama.’”
He continued, quoting his conversation with an anonymous Walmart advertising employee, “‘We care about lowering our bids, so we’re going to do a six months or one year hiatus, and when we come back, we’re going to have much lower bids.’”
If true, it would seem the exodus of large advertisers from big tech platforms, and the sacrifice of many large content creators that followed, may be driven almost entirely by finance.
If YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are perceived as dangerous places to advertise, the cost of doing so on the platforms would naturally decrease exponentially.
As Twitter user Justin Whang wrote succinctly, “Advertisers played YouTube like a fiddle.”
BATTLEGROUND MICHIGAN: Tires Slashed Outside of Conservative Pro-Trump Gathering
This is a taste of what is to come for 2020, as the deranged left resorts to violence and property damage.
By Shane Trejo
A vandal, believed to be a liberal enraged about Donald Trump, slashed tires of multiple vehicles outside of a conservative pro-Trump event last weekend.
The act of property destruction occurred outside of the Michigan Conservative Political Action Conference (MiCPAC), which took place on April 27 in Holt, MI. While the event’s hundreds of attendees were participating in activism and discussions, vehicles with large bumper stickers and window decals were targeted for vandalism.
This man’s car was targeted because of his large pro-Trump back window decal.
One of the cars vandalized belonged to Alex Larner, who is Director of the Michigan Conservative Union (MCU), the state’s longest-running organization promoting limited government and traditional values. His car was likely targeted because it displayed patriotic bumper stickers bought from Alex Jones’ web store.
“What happened that day wasn’t just a tire slashing,” Larner said in an exclusive statement to Big League Politics. “It was an attack on one of the core foundations of our public, freedom of speech. Where dialogue is abandoned for vandalism, there goes freedom to die.”
Larner’s tire was slashed in an act of senseless politically-motivated destruction.
This anti-Trump vandalism occurred just days before Jones and other right-wing media voices were arbitrarily thrown off Facebook. It is becoming much more difficult and dangerous to be an open conservative in the former land of the free.
“The globalists and dinosaur media have created a culture full of Marxist malcontents brainwashed into believing that violence is the only solution,” Larner added.
Larner believes it is important to “counter the false narrative” by standing “with knowledge and truth” rather than violence. The MCU accomplishes that with their annual event, MiCPAC, and is targeted by the hate-filled left as a result.
“We are in an information war, and my bumper stickers will stay on as salvos for freedom, fighting the fight for the hearts and minds of America,” Larner said.
With Michigan being arguably the most important battleground state heading into 2020, more liberal vandalism and violence can be expected as they desperately try to evict Trump from the White House.
‘ANYONE EVER SEEN COCAINE?’: UNEARTHED VIDEO SHOWS BERNIE LECTURING YOUNG CHILDREN ABOUT DRUGS
‘I’m only 5 years old,’ says child
MAY 4, 2019
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2020 presidential candidate, once asked a group of children if they had ever seen cocaine and if they smoked cigarettes when he was the mayor of Burlington, while talking to kids as a part of his old television show.
In an episode of Sanders’s show “Bernie Speaks with the Community,” which was created in the 1980s, he is sitting on top of a wooden picnic table with a microphone speaking with a group of children about a variety of issues, with a focus on drugs. Politico obtained footage of the show and released it Friday.
“Do any of the older kids you know have some problems with drugs?” Sanders asked the children. “Who wants to talk to me about that? What about drugs? Is that a problem?”
“I like coke!” one little boy said.
“Tell me about that,” Sanders asked.
“I like Coca-Cola!” the boy corrects himself.
“Oh, Coca-Cola. Alright, but who knows about cocaine?” Sanders continued.
“Anyone ever seen cocaine? Do any of the kids know people who use drugs like that?” Sanders asked. “You don’t have to tell me who, but I bet you do.”
A couple children at the table said they might have seen cocaine, and he cut them off.
“Hold it!” he said, later adding the drug “screws up your mind,” before changing the subject to cigarettes, asking the children, “Who here smokes?”
“Come on, raise your hand.”
“I don’t smoke because I’m a little kid,” a child sitting in someone’s lap responded. “I’m only 5 years old.”
Sanders is a front-runner in the 2020 presidential fight, with a crowded field of Democrats who hope to take on President Donald Trump. However, Sanders’s former press secretary decided to join former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign for president, deciding to not work for her former boss.
Trump accused the Democratic National Committee of conspiring to oust Sanders from the 2020 Democratic primary in an April tweet.
BIDEN ALIGNS WITH FAR LEFT DEMS: “WE AGREE ON BASICALLY EVERYTHING”
Duly noted
MAY 4, 2019
Report: Democrat Leader Jerry Nadler’s Son Works for Firm Suing Trump – This is Material Real Conflict of Interest – He Must Recuse!
May 4, 2019
Another material conflict of interest perpetrated by the Democrat Party. Dem House Leader Jerry Nadler has a son working for a firm suing President Trump. How is this legal?
The Mueller team was conflicted to the hilt with numerous members having donated to, worked for or represented the Hillary team or the Democrat Party. Now the Democrats have another major conflict of interest.
It’s reported that the Head of the House Oversight Committee, Democrat Jerry Nadler, has a son who works for a law firm suing President Trump. According to Big League Politics –
Democrat congressman Jerry Nadler, leading the investigative charge against President Donald Trump, has a son whose firm is trying to get access to Trump documents for their clients in numerous lawsuits against President Trump.
“Congressman Jerry Nadler has a big conflict,” our source tells Big League Politics in Washington, D.C.
“His son (Michael Nadler) got a job with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP in 2018. That’s convenient because Jerry Nadler and the Democrats just won control of the House in 2018. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher hire Jerry’s son and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher are the main Nemesis against Trump and the Trump Administration on numerous lawsuits. Now the Nadler family will gain access to thousands of Trump documents via Jerry’s subpoenas!,” our insider stated.
Michael Nadler has a LinkedIn account that confirms he works for Gibson Dunn and Crutcher.
He also brags about receiving an award for helping sanctuary families –
The young Nadler also brags about working for far-left New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General who resigned after being accused of abuse by at least four women.
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher represented CNN’s Jim Acosta in his ban by the Trump White House.
They also have sued the U.S. State Department on behalf of the Center for Reproductive Rights, as part of the group’s effort to unearth details of the Trump administration’s alleged changes to regularly issued government human rights reports. (They don’t like that President Trump took Obama era reporting out of a government report that detailed concerns about abortion rights.)
In the days up to the 2016 election, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher offered to represent Trump sex accusers for free.
Jerry Nadler has a material conflict of interest and he should recuse himself from anything related to President Trump! This is real and egregious.
CNN Preparing America’s Serfs to Eat Bugs
By Chris Menahan
CNN wants America’s underclass to prepare themselves for a future where they’re forced to eat maggots while our ruling oligarchs with their boots placed firmly on our necks dine on foie gras and steak and become richer than ever.
They tweeted out the same video twice in one day:
That last one was tweeted right after this one celebrating Big Tech’s mass deplatforming:
They want to take away our ability to make a living and force us to eat maggots.
Facebook, Google Pour Big Money into Lobbying Congress While Blacklisting Conservatives
By Sean Moran
Facebook and Google increasingly influence Congress as the social media giants censor conservative and alternative voices, dominate the Internet, and violate Americans’ privacy.
Facebook announced on Thursday that they have banned several conservative personalities such as Infowars host Alex Jones, Infowars contributor and YouTube personality Paul Joseph Watson, journalist and activist Laura Loomer, and Milo Yiannopoulus. The social media giant also banned Louis Farrakhan from its platforms.
Facebook said that they banned these personalities because they were “dangerous.”
Amid calls for greater regulation of social media companies’ potential anticompetitive behavior, censorship of conservative and alternative voices, and privacy violations, Facebook and Google have remained at the top of Open Secret’s database of top spenders lobbying Congress.
So far in 2019, Facebook spent $3,400,000 and Google’s parent company, Alphabet, $3,530,00 in lobbying Congress. Alphabet also ranked as the eighth total highest spender in lobbying in 2018, spending $21,740,000, while Facebook spent $12,620,000.
Facebook’s influence has continued to rise over the years. In the early years of President Barack Obama, Facebook spent below one million dollars in 2008 and 2009. From 2011 to 2018, Facebook’s lobbying spending skyrocketed and reached historic highs in 2018, when they spent $12.6 million.
In 2019, Facebook lobbied heavily on H.R. 1644, the Save the Internet Act, a Democrat bill which would restore the Obama-era Federal Communications Commission (FCC) net neutrality regulations, which arose as the result of Google’s heavy lobbying of the Obama administration. In 2019, Google also lobbied on the Save the Internet Act.
In 2018, one of Facebook’s bills on which they lobbied Congress was H.R. 2520, the Browser Act, sponsored by then Rep. and now Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), which would require social media companies such as Facebook and Google to obtain explicit permission from users for collecting their private data. The Browser Act would also stipulate that these social media companies cannot deny services to users who do not opt-in to these companies’ collection of their private data. In 2017, the Browser Act was the most important issue on Capitol Hill.
Sen. Blackburn said that her legislation would establish one set of rules that would balance the relationship between ISPs and Facebook and Google. The legislation would also prevent the social media giants from unfairly profiting off of Americans’ private data without their explicit consent.
“We need one set of rules for the entire internet ecosystem with the FTC [Federal Trade Commission] as the cop on the beat,” said Senator Blackburn. “The FTC has the flexibility to keep up with changes in technology and its principal mission is consumer protection. The BROWSER Act will enable consumers to make more educated decisions regarding the nature of their relationship with tech companies.”
In contrast, Alphabet’s most prominent issues in Congress in 2019 and 2018 related to labor and antitrust, as well as telecommunications and technology.
Facebook and Google’s dominance on the Internet has become increasingly apparent as Google has approximately 90 percent of web search traffic, whereas in digital advertising, Google and Facebook amount to nearly two-thirds of American digital ad spending, with Amazon at a “distant third” at under nine percent.
In 2018, Google lobbied Congress fourteen separate times on multiple pieces of legislation that would have increased liability for companies that enabled sex trafficking.
Facebook and Google’s influence in Congress extends to its trade group, the Internet Association. In the fourth quarter of 2018, the Internet Association spent $840,000. In total, the social media giants spent $2.6 million in 2018 for lobbying. In 2019, the association has spent $690,000 so far. Over the last two years, the Internet Association has focused on the Save the Internet Act as well as on legislation that would increase edge providers’ liability for hosting content that enables sex trafficking.
Facebook and Google influence political elections as well. During the 2018 election cycle, Alphabet donated:
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$223,269 to former Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D-TX) Senate campaign to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a prominent critic of Silicon Valley censorship.
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$149,741 to Rep. Jacky Rosen’s Senate campaign (D-NV) to unseat Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV).
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$135,625 to Rep. Josh Harder’s congressional campaign.
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$124,508 to former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s unsuccessful re-election campaign.
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$97, 364 to former Sen. Claire McCaskill’s failed re-election campaign.
During the 2018 midterm elections, Facebook donated:
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$75,005 to O’Rourke’s Senate campaign.
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$37,954 to Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) 2017 special Senate election against former Alabama judge Roy Moore.
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$34,534 to Heitkamp’s Senate election.
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$31,326 to McCaskill’s Senate campaign.
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$29,387 to Rosen’s successful campaign to unseat Heller.
As Facebook and Google and other social media giants continue to increasingly censor and blacklist conservative and alternative voices, more and more conservative voices have called for addressing the social media giants’ dominance of the Internet. Facebook and Google’s influence in Congress also relates to political confrontations; during a hearing in December 2018, the then-ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee delivered a sharp rebuke of Republican accusations of Google’s political bias affecting its search engines, even though Google was his top donor.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in April, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he envisions three potential remedies for big tech’s violation of free speech and dominance on the Internet.
Cruz’s three solutions include:
- Amending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
- Antitrust measures to address big tech’s dominant status on the Internet.
- Addressing potential cases of fraud and deception.
“No one wants to see the federal government regulating what is allowed to be said, but there are at least three potential remedies that can be considered by Congress or the administration or both,” Cruz said.
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