Facebook, Twitter's thuggish censorship and election interference mean no citizen is safe
By: Adriana Cohen
This article is so right on about social media and it’s fascist tendency to content control and censor based content controls via their biased fact checkers. Government needs to remove their 230 protections and maybe break them up if they intend to have the kind of power over the free flow of info demonstrated by the current issue
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Twitter and Facebook acted no different than Communist state-run media organizations that corruptly block the distribution of information and news
Big Tech is the biggest threat to democracy -- and must be reined in by Congress -- before our rights enshrined in the Constitution protecting free speech and freedom of the press are placed in the dustbins of history.
On Wednesday, Twitter and Facebook acted no different than Communist state-run media organizations that corruptly block the distribution of information and news stories they don't like.
These social media networks run by high-tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley -- in the tank for the Democratic Party -- barred a sourced New York Post story exposing alleged emails between Joe Biden's son Hunter and a powerful Ukrainian executive while Hunter Biden was on the board of a Ukraine natural gas company -- getting paid as much as $50,000 per month despite no industry expertise -- while Vice President Biden was the point man on Ukraine during the Obama administration.
Not only did Facebook and Twitter block users from posting the bombshell report calling Joe Biden's statements denying knowledge of his son's business dealings into question, amongst other valid concerns, but also Twitter locked the New York Post's account and that of White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
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"It's not a temporary blockage," McEnany told Fox News host Sean Hannity. "When I log on to my Twitter account, it says I'm permanently banned. They essentially have me at gunpoint and said unless you delete this story, a news story by the New York Post, I cannot regain access to my account."
If this type of thuggish censorship and election interference doesn't send a chill up your spine, what will?
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The reality is that if the arrogant overlords in Silicon Valley can censor the president's tweets, which they do regularly, as well as a top White House official and major newspaper for reporting on a presidential candidate during an election, then no American citizen or media outlet is safe from similar censorship.
On Thursday, the power-trippers at Twitter continued their out of control censorship by silencing high-ranking members of Congress and links they post to government websites.
If the arrogant overlords in Silicon Valley can censor the president's tweets, which they do regularly, as well as a top White House official and major newspaper for reporting on a presidential candidate during an election, then no American citizen or media outlet is safe from similar censorship.
"Twitter is now blocking an official government website to protect Joe Biden," tweeted House Republican Whip Steve Scalise. "WATCH what happens when you click the link to @JudiciaryGOP's website.
Twitter censors the United States House of Representatives but not propaganda from Communist China and Iran.
Let that sink in."
Twitter Safety said in a tweet this week that it limited distribution of the New York Post's story because of its 2018 policy that "prohibits the use of our service to distribute content obtained without authorization." A bogus standard they seem to apply only when it comes to protecting Democratic candidates like Joe Biden from damaging stories -- not the president, his family or administration.
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An obvious double standard that illustrates how these social media networks are not the neutral gatekeepers they pretend to be.
For example, the left-wing New York Times' recent release of President Donald Trump's tax records -- allegedly obtained from hacked and/or unauthorized sources -- was not blocked by Facebook or Twitter. The same is true with the secret recordings of first lady Melania Trump that were deceptively distributed by a former aide yet given free rein by the same networks. Twitter and Facebook allow the hashtag #MelaniaTapes to trend without incident.
But a story that dings Joe Biden during a presidential election?
That gets aggressive blocking and tackling by Big Tech's henchmen.
This shouldn't surprise anyone given the far-left political leanings of those who work in Big Tech including the head of site integrity at Twitter, Yoel Roth. In January 2017, Roth compared the Trump administration to Nazis by tweeting: "Today on Meet the Press, we're speaking with Joseph Goebbels about the first 100 days...--What I hear whenever Kellyanne (Conway) is on a news show."
On Oct. 28, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are scheduled to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee. Will Senate Republicans and attendant members of Congress permit these almighty monopolistic platforms to continue its wide-ranging abuses?
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Or will they finally protect the most sacred pillars of a Democracy -- free speech and free elections?
History awaits.
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If I were the CEO of Twitter I'd have tweeted a selfie of me flipping off the Republican Senate. Lies and disinformation doesn't deserve a platform no matter what the Russian propaganda ministry tells us.
Any whiney little bitches who think FB and Twitter are being unfair should just delete their accounts. Please. Life is measurably better without them. Friends are people in your phone contacts, not unlimited strangers on the internet. This site is tiny and doesn’t present a discordant threat to the fabric of the country in any measurable way. Major social media is different, and could become the downfall of our society if it hasn’t already.
Conservatives are welcome to start their own private companies, perhaps "WhiteFacebook" or "Big'OT's" (Big Originalist Trumpers) where they can censor any rational thought as they do on their right wing media today. No one is stopping them from forming their own companies, but that's not what they want, that would take work and money. Instead they'd rather try to force existing private media companies to host and validate their bullshit narratives, lies and conspiracy theories and when they don't get their way they scream "Censorship! Censorship! Violation of free speech!".
No one has been hearing any major groups on the left screaming and complaining of free speech violations or censorship when they aren't given equal time on right wing media platforms such as Fox or Breitbart. The left understands those are pure partisan companies who are actively crafting a right wing narrative that would be demolished if they were to host counter-content.
The majority of Americans are sane and rational. The MSM is "mainstream" because they do present facts that are appreciated by the majority.
Mainstream: noun - the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are regarded as normal or conventional; the dominant trend in opinion, fashion, or the arts
The majority of Americans reject ignorant bigoted Trumpism, as does the MSM. This shouldn't be a surprise and there is nothing wrong with it. It is not a violation of free speech because the irrational conspiracy theorists still have plenty of other avenues to shovel their horse shit as they do daily on their right wing media sources, they're just not considered "mainstream" because the majority doesn't agree with their right wing narrative. If the majority did agree and validated such sick ideologies then right wing media would be the MSM.
Should Fox be forced to host content it doesn't agree with? Should right wing radio be forced to host counter narratives that debunk the conspiracy theories they have been spouting for decades? Should Church pastors who have been pushing right wing narratives and right wing politics on their parishioners be forced to give the alternate liberal point of view? Of course not, just like Twitter and Facebook can't be forced to host content they know are outright lies or unproven conspiracy theories.
Those whining and complaining of censorship are truly ignorant of the facts and obviously don't understand the 1st amendment.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances"
So if conservatives in Congress ever did pass a bill forcing Facebook and Twitter to comply and host conservative lies and conspiracy theories THEY would be violating the 1st amendment.