‘No Conservative Group Is Safe from Social Media Censorship
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy claimed conservative Christians are being routinely silenced on social media during a speech this month to the Council of National Policy, concluding “no conservative group is safe.”
“Increasingly, people like us are belittled and forced out of the public square,” declared McCarthy. “Conservative Christians are being silenced in corporate America and the mainstream media — including on social media, where some of the most important conversations of our day are taking place.”
“There are troubling reports that Amazon excluded the Alliance Defending Freedom from its charity program after a smear campaign by a left-wing activist group. As you know, ADF is not some fringe group. It is one of the most respected public-interest law firms in the country, with two cases pending before the Supreme Court,” he continued, adding, “Those cases — Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado and NIFLA v. Becerra — will determine the very future of religious freedom in America.”
“If ADF is not safe from discrimination, no conservative group is safe… And this is not an isolated incident. During the height of the 2016 election, we learned that Facebook employees ‘routinely’ suppressed conservative stories so they wouldn’t show up in Americans’ newsfeeds,” McCarthy proclaimed. “And Twitter has censored run-of-the-mill pro-life advertisements for being ‘inflammatory.’ Think how backward that is. To some in the media and Silicon Valley, the pro-life message is ‘inflammatory’ — but not abortion itself, which tears apart innocent human beings in the womb.”
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Wasn't this same thread seeded before?
Absolutely. Pity the poor christians. Pity the poor conservatives. Pity the American Nazi Party. Pity the Ku Kluxers. And most of all, pity the poor, "I'm so right because I'm so white," folk.
Ah well. Don't worry about it, Gorsuch kicked the working folk in the teeth and the billionaires got another payday.
Social Media Censorship? Don't think so. I saw many right wing---so called conservative----things on FB claiming that John McCain was a traitor. An absolute lie but there it was. No censorship. Lie speech is free speech, right?
If Klan members and other Christian extremists keep finding that their more vile posts get deleted or their accounts get closed by the social media provider, why don't they just start their own social media service for hate groups and theocrats? That would make far better sense than just whining about it like some of the right wingers here do.
“Increasingly, people like us are belittled and forced out of the public square,”
Though I myself do not see any evidence of this behavior in my region, I would say that perhaps if "people like us" would stop attempting to ram their brand of religion down everyone else's throats they might be better received.
Huh, that's amusing - since everywhere I look - Facebook, Twitter, My neighborhood webpage - Christians are allowed to preach, advertise their fund raisers and condemn people like me to Hell. I do not consider that censorship (by the way - none of those media outlets are the government).
Nicely said, I'll meet you in hell
If you get there before me save me a good spot & I will do the same.
I'll bring the marshmallows for s'mores.
I'll be happy watching born again scum being splayed and barbequed there.
I have 3 religious fundies that constantly post religious screeds on my Facebook feed and they haven't been banned or censored yet.
An atheist group that I am part of often has its posts censored.
So just create your own platform.
Back when nv was still operational I tried to spend some time as well on Fox's news chat forum. Unfortunately once I stopped (stagticily) attacking Obama (to gain acceptance) all of a sudden my posts started getting "poofed" and I was laughed at for even trying to post.
At that time at least, the conservatives certainly had "their own platform".
Conservative platforms get blown up with hate so vile even the owners realize it hurts their causes...
Besides, what motivates the worst RW trolls is to disrupt and eventually get "liberal sites" shut down.
When NV closed only a few RW instigators celebrated proclaiming, "We Won". What does that tell ya?
I miss the vine as it was in the early days before the right wing invasion.
I agree it is not near as involved, far reaching or connected, but Fox news chatroom was definitely a good old boys club that promoted and protected their own ideological points of view.
I understand many conservative leaning folks have a lot of crap thrown their way on the social media. I think I avoid all most all political crap on facebook by keeping my account in the private category and not crossing over to using facebook's news links at all.
My facebook rarely has "spam"of any sort and Is a great way to keep in touch with what little distant family I have left.
Like I told a good very conservative friend of mine that was telling me about all the liberal spam crap he got constantly ... "Drop the public category on your facebook account and just allow who you want on to your social media account by setting it up as a private facebook account in their settings."
I never intended to go public with my facebook it was and is for my friends, my family and myself. Period
If I want to comment on stuff I come here these days.
Keeping my facebook, No spam, no crap and still quite usable and useful. (and free...lol)
yes it is - it's also considered "social media" since it's a section to be... well... social, correct ? do you think social media means something else besides posting comments and being.. well.. social ? This site itself is also social media - were you aware of that ?
i constantly see the "conservatives" on here whine about "unfair moderation" and whining about "liberals" supposedly taking over this site - do you not read any of the comments ? it happens almost daily including a "conservative" who whined when they found out they had to lock their seeds
yes, that's my advice to the "conservatives" - especially when they whine about moderation or having to lock their seeds, they should just stick to debating using their seeded opinions on issues, correct ?
(don't you just love the constant use of the "victim card" ?)
CoC "BF"
I wonder how many conservatives trump has blocked on twitter....oh wait, none.
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Do you take checks?
Got an off topic. Null and void.