I am currently uploading a Dtube version as well. This version will be going public on YouTube tomorrow, but you can watch it tonight here on Steemit!
Video Topic Guide:
Reading and replying to comments - 0:00
Dissing some SJW mad at Spacex - 12:38
Talking about Black Panther and Rotten Tomatos Censorship - 16:50
Write to Rotten Tomatoes via the feedback link on the bottom left of their site.
Here is a template letter you may use if you desire:
Rotten Tomatoes,
I understand your desire to prevent racists from misusing your site as a platform for hatred, but your decision to censor negative user reviews of Black Panther severely compromises the objectivity and balance of your website. We rely on critical aggregators such as yours to give us an accurate picture of both critic and public sentiments towards a film, and this move on your part signals your willingness to distort public opinion whenever it is contrary to the popular narrative, and thus undermines your reputation in irreparable ways.
I strongly urge you to reconsider this decision. I have no problem with overtly racist reviews being deleted, but legitimate criticisms of this film (or any other) should not be silenced.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
(YOUR NAME)
Tj is a beautiful neckbeard.
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No, your pronunciation of Nietzsche is fine! :) (Way to play the (ironic) nazi card though!)
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Well sir, you cannot hide your intellectualism. Your cohesive adhesion to efficacy belies any attempt in doing so. This is a very interesting, cogent way of sowing seeds. Nietzsche may have found his superman.
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You should start to use some of your voting power here on steemit, if you want to forge a connection to your steemit audience as well.
I mean - it costs you nothing. And a like is worth a lot on steemit to a small channel anyway. It gives reputation and money. Just food for thought.
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agreed
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NOOOOOOOOOO to the title
Pretty rad Black Panther shot couple shots in Busan not that far away from my cribbo!
Will be looking forward to your Dvid
Edit: and lol to the rotton tomato comment
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It's Friedrich Nietzsche, not Frederik! We need to work a little bit on TJ`s German...
Try it like this: "freedrih" (This is not exactly IPA, but my personal phonetic transcription for TJ)
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Who would have thought ? haha...
Well, Rotten tomatoes has allways been middle of the road... Now you know what they stand for :/ sorry for you to learn the hard way xD (but i think u already got a taste of their medicine well prior to this "experience" don't you ? :p ) Anyway, thanks to you i won't be spending my hard earned SBD's for this !
All hail to the emperor of the asshole-empire xD
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Awww Thank you TJ for giving Steemit users a chance to see your video early, will definitely email rotten tomatoes ASAP. Thanks for the awesome content man have a good night!
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I'm linking to your post here in a new article I'm writing about free speech. Thanks.
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Nice try Scotty's brother. Also thank you for the form letter, I like to get outraged about censorship but usually I am too lazy to do anything about it.
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I guess it will depend on how broadly they define "hate speech".
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Black panther is a joke, I couldn’t get baked enough to enjoy the movie and I love all the marvel movies/shows...even like Luke cage. Thanks for the video Tj can’t wait for the next DP!
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Also if you like amateur nsfw content here’s my ladies profile ;p https://steemit.com/@lil-lover-girl
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Germans are Nazis huh? Well what do you know? Union Banking Corp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush
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https://steemit.com/movies/@sylviam/what-movie-series-are-you-looking-forward-to-in-2018
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Hey TJ, I love the mustache.
The last video really had the stand-up feel to it.
I wish there were more comedians as funny as you are, intentionally or not.
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It's rather sad how vitriolic any discussion which involves media with any sort of cultural bent has become. I am sure there are some people crying about this movie for the wrong reasons but that doesn't exempt it from actual criticism. I have been seeing a similar trend with the CW black lightning show... Not every opinion or critique is a strike against a culture or agenda because most are simply opinions which carry no malice.
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DASS RAYCIS!!!
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Doomed.i like, thank your post...!!!
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hahaha that German accent was great!
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It's cool to like "Black Panther" but it's JUST a movie. I wish my people would stop falling for the marketing schemes created by Disney making them believe that it's a Revolutionary Act to go see it. Anyway, I'm going to go see it because I've been anticipating the "Secret Wars" movie for a couple of years now and each film gives a little insight to the villains side.
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Hello, I'm Oatmeal Joey, and Black Panther was cool and hate speech is included by definition in the concept of free speech and the left says no it is not but it really is included.
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Unless it's the government shutting down people talking about the government, then it's not a free speech issue.
In fact, based on your understanding of it, Rotten Tomatoes can do whatever they like on their site because of free speech. It's theirs to control. They only let people license space and they don't have to do that if they don't want to.
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Mike, should a public utility be held to higher standards? My question is not really focused on Rotten Tomatoes but more so on Facebook and other empires that are very big. So big. Talk about monopolism. Talk about technocracy. Talk about corporatism. Facebook is bigger than many countries. There have been over 2 billion people on Facebook. My arguments and questions are centered on the rules of a big empire, be it a corporation, a government, or whatever.
If Facebook say they are fair and equal and balance and neutral, and NOT bias, and if they hide and terminate and block people on the right and not people on the left, then you have some irony or something maybe worse than that..........
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But Facebook isn't a monopoly. Nor is it a press outlet. Nor is that what you were talking about in your previous message. You were likening hate speech to free speech. I was saying that it's not a free speech issue as long as the speech is about the government. Speech that affects other citizens isn't the same thing.
Then, we were talking about Rotten Tomatoes having the right to remove anything from their website that affects the bottom line. Just like your blog doesn't have to publish left wing articles, Rotten tomatoes doesn't have you include or mention any outlets or scores they don't want to.
To your completely unrelated point about Facebook and the social media oligopoly I have a few questions and comments.
Where did Facebook ever say they were fair and balanced?
In fact, how could one insinuate anything of a "fair and balanced nature" of a platform with 2 billion people on it adding content to it 24 hours a day that exists to make money for its shareholders?
What would you see done about the oligopoly of social media and big tech companies. I think the only options are grassroots campaigns to show the problems with these networks and importance of supporting smaller alternatives OR government intervention which would force these companies to break up. I'd love to hear other solutions though.
Based on your original post you're most concerned with allowing places for hate speech to flourish unchecked. Luckily there are alternatives for that already like Gab: https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@cryptonewslife/gab-censorship-proof-free-speech-social-media-network
Ultimately, social media isn't "free." Nor is it a public utility. We all pay for it with our attention to ads and our freely given ideas and data. The platforms are owned by people who let us use them and who can ban people as they see fit or manipulate what is inputted into their networks.
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I am using Facebook as an example..... if you say you are neutral but then only publish left wing articles, then you might not be neutral... that is what Facebook does... and others do this too...
Some people think Facebook is like a public utility, like a monopoly, regardless of whether they are or not. They say they are neutral but they deactivate right wingers and more....
Yeah, social networks, websites, etc, can do what they want like you said but that does not mean they are right or just in that and there is more that people ignore in those details.............. you might be missing the point..... government is working with Facebook and other websites in doing very big bad things in this world.....
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My point is that no one is neutral, especially a corporation. As we've seen time and time again, corporations do what they must to make money. In the case of facebook that even went so far as using addictive design methods to lure people to their product time and again. In a sense, they were a massive driver to the wide launch of free-to-play gambling mechanics with Farmville and their host of other games in the mid oughts.
Meanwhile, Facebook is NOT a public utility. Anyone using the platform is making the platform money. Period. That money is not controlled by any coalition or governing body chosen by an electorate. The idea that Facebook is a utility is disingenuous.
"Deactivate right wingers" is also disingenuous. Rush Limbaugh has a page. Sean Hannity has a page. Tucker Carlson has a page. Fox News has a page. Breitbart has a page." All of these entities have millions of followers. Who is getting deactivated, and what about their message caused this situation for them?
What does "right or wrong" have to do with this? The government will work with whomever they must to retain power. We already know that. We already know the government was doing plenty of bad things long before Facebook came on the scene. You clearly don't think a company controlling it's platform is "bad." You just don't like when they control it in a way that doesn't align with your values. Because as much as we can malign Facebook, we can also say it's been used to foster a litany of public debate and grassroots organization.
The problem is that some people are incapable of public debate without personally attacking, threatening, and dehumanizing others. Such speech is unacceptable and does infringe on the rights of other people or businesses. There's not really a middle ground here as a corporation. That type of speech costs them money and they will take whatever steps necessary to deal with it as is their right under the law.
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You might be ignorant of how big and bad the censorship is and worse. Look at the algorithms and the shadow banning and look at how the corporations are working together with the NWO and with governments and they are doing all sorts of things. YouTube terminated my YouTube channel. And Twitter banned Milo and Roger Stone. Twitter said I was a Russian bot or spy. YouTube is banning people. They are doing so many things. They are hiding reports about what so many Muslims are doing in Europe for example. It is so bad. And you seem not to know this or you are lying and you do know what I am talking about. Soros was trying to ban the DrudgeReport.com WEBSITE in Europe and in other countries. You seem not to get what I am trying to say. You are stuck in something retarded. You are missing out on global revolutions.
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Number 3, yeah, we do better as humans as we do Steem and Bitcoin and blockchain and other things to be independent from the empires and as we go after decentralization and everything.
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this is hot. Thanks Dad
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2:46 killed me. xD
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