Posted on 11/19/2016 8:35:00 AM PST by OddLane
Contrary to the misconceptions perpetuated by the news media, the latest Twitter purge is not confined to accounts belonging to the alt right. Nor is it targeted exclusively at those accounts which violate Twitter’s terms of service. As acclaimed actor James Woods explained in his farewell to the social networking behemoth, this is actually a debate about freedom of expression and the narrowing limits of allowable opinion under our not-so-liberal hegemons. As we’ve been pointing out for months, Jack Dorsey and his underlings view their website as an outlet for repeating the metanarrative of the left and suppressing any dissenting views.
Whether it’s critiques of feminist dogma, attacks upon progressive mascots, or questions about the ongoing threats to Western civilization, his team will do everything in its power to squelch heterodox thought.
Now that Twitter’s champion has been consigned to the dustbin of political history, the retaliation will be swift and severe. Not content to choke off the advertising of Clinton opponents, the website will avail itself of every opportunity to silence the voices of anyone whose beliefs contradict those of Dorsey & Co., even if they scrupulously adhere to Twitter’s official guidelines.
The idea that this latest purge will be the last, or that it’s only aimed at white nationalist and white supremacist trolls-an argument posited by a conservative I engaged on Twitter in the aftermath of these bans-is simply not born out by the facts. Indeed, one of the most recent suspensions-since lifted-was meted out to Hboulware, a ferociously anti-alt right Never Trumper. Her crime? Criticizing a leftist…on Twitter.
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The importance of Twitter in this election has been greatly exaggerated. The only reason I signed up for it was so that I could participate in Lou Dobbs’ nightly surveys. Other than that I couldn’t care less for a forum that allows basically only one liners.
Trump was able to get his version of events out OVER THE HEAD of the networks on Twitter. That platform was important...Trump even specifically talked about it in his 60 Minutes interview last week.
People are moving to gab.ai. Twitter is soon to be a zero.
I don't know if I'd say that. Businessman Donald Trump used Twitter very effectively to became President-elect Donald Trump.
LOL! What a typical FReeper response. "I don't like this (new movie, new music, new technology, etc.) therefore it has no societal value."
The fact that they're conducting this purge, after they've already lost, is evidence of how effective right Twitter was.
The Donald Reddit was also incredibly effective.
And this, despite the MASSIVE censorship attempts of Twitter’s CEO and staffers:
A CALL WITH JACK: How Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, restricted advertising for Trump’s campaign
https://medium.com/@garycoby/twitter-restricts-trump-eb7e48ccf5ff#.8ow3igjkd
Just signed up am 172882 on the wait list?
Yes, I embedded a link to that within my article.
Must be random, you signed up before me and here is my number:
Done! You’re #162832 in the waiting list.
Twitter is dying, moves like censorship are helping it along. Remember something called myspace? Besides the twitter business model is deeply flawed so it will never be truly profitable.
Why is there a wait list?
And convince 'em, if you can, that the reign of good Queen Anne was Culture's palmiest day.
Of course you will pooh-pooh whatever's fresh and new, and declare it's crude and mean, For Art stopped short in the cultivated court of the Empress Josephine.
We are old. Could use some new blood , for sure.
We are old. Could use some new blood , for sure.
That is a very good question.
Correct. Twitter stock will soon be worthless.
Is Gab ai on the stock exchange?
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