How Steve Bannon Has Exploited Google Ads To Monetize Extremism | Talking Points Memo

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This article was originally published on ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1396251
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Just one more reason I bailed on all things Google a couple years back. They went from Do No Evil to making money off hate. I realize they aren’t the only ones. But they are the biggest.

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“The company kicked Bannon off YouTube, which Google owns, after he called for the beheading of Anthony Fauci…”

IANAL, but how is this not a criminal offense?

Pretty sure if you or I publicly called for the beheading of a federal official, we’d be in jail by now.

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Bannon continues to sow hate, violence, and vaccine disinformation. So Google worked out a solution that continues to be a cash cow for both Bannon and Google. Google gets to say that they "tried. " Ya know I think Steve’s free speech rights would still be protected, even if Google selling ads that support his hate and enrich themselves and Bannon in the process. Bannon’s crap would still be there on the internet for anyone to see. I am just guessing that Google could stop this, if they thought it were in their best interests.

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I don’t say this because he’s a dog sniffing horses ass, but throw this clown in jail already. He can wait there.

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Why am I not surprised?
But I am surprised that Jack Dorsey is gone from Twitter, but that’s a good thing.

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On the eve of Jan. 6, Bannon said, “We’re on the point of attack”

Of attack.

I wonder what a military guy means by that -s-

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" …The strategic alliance of snake-oil vendors and conservative true believers points up evidence of another successful long march, of tactics designed to corral fleeceable multitudes all in one place—and the formation of a cast of mind that makes it hard for either them or us to discern where the ideological con ended and the money con began…"

2012, The Long Con. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con

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@Bronto How insightful! I wanted to ask similar thing. Have we scientifically learned anything of peoples’ brains from the whole covid anti-vaccine phenomena and TFG-ism? Insightful or interesting journal papers published? How can I profit from the stupidity of these rubes?

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In fishing, you offer them what they want, while you do the opposite of what they want  : - )

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Not sure if the apparent error is TPM’s or ProPublica but the company name you cited, August Partners, is actually Augusta Partners. https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/RegAgentOwnerResults.do?zip=80109&lastName=SHEA&nameTyp=REGAGEN&organizationName=&city=CASTLE+ROCK&streetAddress1=4432+PRAIRIE+ROSE+CIR&nameSuffix=&streetAddress2=&dateFrom=01%2F01%2F2015&firstName=AMANDA&province=&dateTo=10%2F01%2F2021&stateCd=CO&middleName=