Time For A Mass Exodus From Facebook And Twitter
By: Adriana Cohen
defiantamerica 2021-08-27 01:30
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Time For A Mass Exodus From Facebook And Twitter
Bravo to podcast star Joe Rogan for encouraging his millions of followers on biased Twitter to join him on Gettr, an alternate social media network, in response to Twitter banning Dr. Robert Malone, a scientist and contributor to mRNA vaccine technology, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and virtually anyone who strays from its left-wing political ideology.
Regardless of if one agrees with Malone’s or Greene’s controversial statements, we’ve got a serious problem in America today when Twitter allows the supreme leader of Iran — a designated state sponsor of terror by the U.S. State Department since 1984 — to have an account, but not a former president, an American scientist and an elected member of Congress.
In fact, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted threats of violence against former President Donald Trump and presumably members of his former administration. “Martyr Soleimani is an eternal reality that will live on forever. His assassins – including Trump & the likes – will disappear in history’s garbage bin, but of course after receiving retribution in this world for the crime they committed, God willing.” So, according to Twitter, the leader of a terror state can threaten to “disappear” a former U.S. president and threaten retribution against him and other U.S. citizens and that’s A-OK, but Americans who do not threaten violence, they simply express alternate points of view or controversial opinions, are jettisoned from the platform.
Let that sink in.
Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms — run by rabid left-wing political activists and biased “fact-checkers” — pretend they’re not politically biased and are just censoring “misinformation” on their networks is comical considering how disproportionally and aggressively it targets, silences and de-platforms conservatives en masse, while giving a pass to the left.
If you recall, Twitter and Facebook relentlessly “fact-checked” Donald Trump’s social media posts while he was president before banning the leader of the free world entirely in January 2021 for missives they didn’t like, but they don’t bother to fact-check, censor or ban malicious lies and “misinformation” spread by Democrats. The debunked “Russia collusion hoax” conspiracy theory disseminated by left-wing legacy media outlets and liberal politicians, including Hillary Clinton and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., are one glaring example.
Why do those documented liars who trafficked the yearslong Russia, Russia, Russia conspiracy theories still have their social media accounts but not Trump, many of his supporters and other conservative members of Congress?
Ballotpedia, the nonpartisan political encyclopedia, published a tally of elected members of Congress who’ve either been suspended or banned by Twitter, Facebook or YouTube to date. The list includes Reps. Jim Banks, Briscoe Cain, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Barry Moore; and Sens. Ron Johnson, Rand Paul and aforementioned Trump. Now add Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who was also wrongfully censored and locked out of his Twitter reelection campaign account in August 2019 for allegedly violating its arbitrary “terms of service.”
What do all these elected government officials have in common? Surprise! They’re all Republicans. Not a single Democrat politician made the list.
You don’t say …
And let’s not forget Twitter’s outrageous banning of the New York Post’s factual reporting regarding Hunter Biden’s shady foreign business dealings exposed in his controversial laptop in the runup to the 2020 election. Undoubtedly, Twitter’s unjustified censorship of the Post’s well-sourced and accurate reporting in near proximity to the election may have influenced the outcome. If undecided voters in key swing states had learned about Hunter Biden’s sketchy business dealings with questionable foreign entities and the “Big Guy” Joe Biden’s reported involvement potentially compromising U.S. national security, how many would have voted differently?
Hence Big Tech’s censorship isn’t just plain wrong; during an election cycle, it’s arguably election meddling — a crime.
Of course, we won’t see Biden’s Justice Department going after Democrats’ Big Tech donors in Silicon Valley to “preserve the integrity” of our elections anytime soon. They’re too busy targeting moms and dads at school board meetings.
If Big Tech were unbiased, as Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have claimed before Congress, why haven’t they suspended all the so-called journalists and blue-check-verified pundits who trafficked the debunked “Russia collusion” hoax? The mega misinformation campaign was waged by Team Hillary and the Democratic Machine to delegitimize the Trump administration, sowing distrust in U.S. elections.
If you recall, it was CNN that broke the story on TV of the discredited “dossier” paid for by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee. And then the rest of “Hate Trump” media piled on, fanning the conspiracy theory — for years — before the special counsel investigation concluded there was no “there there.”
Why are all those complicit in that five-alarm conspiracy theory permitted to remain on social media? You already know the answer: to stack the deck against half the country and keep Democrats in power.
Enough is enough. Censorship is not only un-American and ripping at the fabric of our Democracy; it also impacts elections when Big Tech monopolies silence free thinkers and right-leaning voices while amplifying their political counterparts.
It’s a rigged system that has dangerous, far-reaching ramifications.
That said, it’s high time for prominent voices and influencers with large social media followings in media, politics, business, sports and entertainment who value freedom of speech — and free elections — to join Joe Rogan and encourage their followers to engage in a mass exodus from Twitter, Facebook and other social media that silence speech.
In fact, it’s all Americans’ patriotic duty to speak out against censorship and take a stand against Big Tech’s dismantling of the First Amendment — before they come for you.
It’s only a matter of time — just ask oppressed Chinese citizens assigned a “social credit score” by the Chinese Communist Party that punishes citizens who speak out against the government or say anything of which the regime doesn’t approve.
Bottom line: If Americans continue to accept Big Tech’s ever-growing censorship and massive control of freedom of expression, a similar fate could await. The time to act is now.
Tags
Who is online
673 visitors
These are privately owned companies with their own rules. Follow the rules and you will not be censored. It's really that simple.
Those on the right wanting the companies broken up or shut down are socialists.
I stand by the content of the seeded article on the issue. The Big tech social media and their related fact checkers of all types need to be regulated federally as utilities are. They need to guarantee all customers the use of their facilities regardless of content control or censorship desires regardless of the owners personal wishes as a cost of doing business. PG&E can’t decide who to sell natural gas to or not. Big tech and all forms of social media and
(My comments continued)
fact checkers should meet the same standard.
Why? Are you for government intrusion and regulation in private businesses?
Are you against all government intrusion and regulation of private businesses?
Not usually at all, but if they are at or near monopoly status then, yes, I am in favor of regulating them like utilities are.
And here I thought you supported capitalism.
In general yes, but not blindly so like when I was more of an establishment type conservative who bought into all of wall st and unlimited free trade. I still support small business and local businesses. I’m a nationalist populist conservative now. I believe in fair trade now and no long blindly oppose tariffs to resist unfair trade that destroys heartland Americas jobs.
Also, had you actually read the article, it wasn’t at all about what you addressed. The opposite actually! It’s about us responding to their fascist content control and fact checkers censorship by leaving them en mass. When it comes to big tech social media and their platforms, there are now alternatives to each of the big ones and they are becoming immune to what Amazon did to Parler last year.
(My comments continued)
So many new independent options in competition with each of the types of big originals. That’s what this is about. We Christians and conservatives will not comply with the demands of big tech and will create our own internet universe independent of them.
(My comment continued)
Bottom line is that we will not comply with their demands and will pack up and leave on our own and fully segregate the internet across all its platforms from mail to financial services to well everything that can now be cancel cultures in the big places. We are following the advice of those who told those of us with the means, to build our own.
(My comment continued further)
It will be interesting how a place like this which has both conservatives and liberals straddles an overall segregated social media environment where both sides will come from different universes the other side won’t set foot in.
Years ahead of you on that.
Were it not for keeping up with high school classmates, life long friends, church during lockdowns, and coworkers from my old job of 33 years, I’d not have ever been on Facebook at all. Never did Twitter, switched my Safari search to Duck Duck Go, and try to substitute Rumble for You Tube.
Well, let's see. When Parlor first started up, conservatives were flocking to it and (presumably) leaving the twitverse. Seems they got tired of the echoes and went back to the twitverse.
Personally, I don't care. Just don't go passing laws making the government the overseer of any of the platforms.
There has been no migration of conservatives back to Twitter.
No big loss for Twitter.
Actually it has been a big loss for them.
True .... it gives the twits who stay more time to stroke each other’s egos. It’s a win, win for them.
There own private echo chamber which is the leading edge of what the rest of big tech social media will become. The alternatives are emerging and have learned from the initial Parlers mistakes and are not dependent upon any aspect of big tech social media or big corp. like Amazon.
Well, what was I thinking?
More like strokes in a mutual circle jerk
You were doing what?
We are six weeks away from the public debut of Truth Social and all the new stuff like Parler, Gab, GETTR, MeWe, Telegram, Good Gopher, Rumble, and others will move into its orbit, free of wokeness, cancel culture and control by the existing order. They are developing an entire online universe of services to go to when others shadow or hard ban is for expressing our beliefs.
An echo chamber is still an echo chamber, whatever you call it.
And that is what Twitter and Facebook will become followed by You Tube, echo chambers.
Left echo, right echo. Nothing accomplished. Preaching to the choir doesn't really win converts.
It is better to be in an echo chamber singing to a choir than it is to be in a mixed group playing by the rules imposed upon us by the other side. It is better to segregate and separate completely in every aspect of our lives than it is to live together where the other side has all the power/ makes all the rules.
A mass exodus from Facebook and twitter in an excellent idea, provided that you’re not doing it just to join the next new social media fad. These products represent the very worst that humanity has to offer itself, convincing their victims that they are so fucking important that the world needs to know their opinions, what they are eating right now, and their hourly selfie. Guess what: you’re not. Influencers need to get real jobs and get a grip on their hubris.
I actually enjoy a few attractive young ladies who are “influencers.”