Posted on 04/26/2018 10:09:47 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Pro-Trump social media stars Diamond and Silk, testifying Thursday before a House committee on Capitol Hill, decried Facebook and other tech giants for what they described as their "aggressive" efforts to "silence" conservatives.
The women, who have gained a conservative following and sparred frequently with Facebook over its policies, spoke as part of a hearing on social media "filtering."
“Facebook along with other social media sites have taken aggressive actions to silence conservative voices such as ourselves by deliberately restricting and weaponizing our page with algorithms that censor and suppress out free speech,” Diamond, whose real name is Lynette Hardaway, testified to the House Judiciary Committee.
The online sensations specifically claimed that Facebook's new algorithms were wrongly categorizing their account as "liberal," in turn causing it not to appear for conservative viewers.
“Followers stopped receiving notifications when we posted videos and content, followers was also mysteriously unliked from our page,” Diamond said.
The pair’s frustration stems from claims that their brand was being hurt and their videos were losing money -- due to policies they say are keeping followers from their content.
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I love those two...
I’m sue their shtick is too ‘close to home’ for the Liberals :)
In my line of work, “pay” and “reimbursement” are entirely different things. Not so for the Unhinged, I suppose.
If you haven’t seen their testimony here is the hearing:
https://www.facebook.com/DiamondandSilk/videos/1061080704041042/
They hand those congress scum their asses!
It is a hoot.
If magicians can’t keep their tricks a secret in court, then I certainly don’t think they processes by which social media and search engines prioritize, rank, or order content should be protected. As much as they claim these are ‘trade secrets’, I call BS. This is not the formula for dr.pepper with secret ingredients. These is simply programing and formulas for factoring relevance, and when a few small players can influence the information that people get access too, there should be some higher oversight or independent review to assure that social and political bias is not a part of that process.
Travel reimbursement is not ‘pay’.
Diamond and Silk are American treasures.
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Great job, Ladies! Keep fighting the Good Fight!
What I want to know is HOW did they say it to congress?
"Ehhhh... reimbursement for travel is not payment. "Payment" would be accepting financial profit for goods or services rendered. Were Diamond and Silk supposed to pay their OWN way to a rally? We're not talking honoraria here @DiamondandSilk"
It’s none of Capitol Hill’s business what private enterprise Facebook does about silencing anything they want to.
FB isn’t the problem here. It is the ever-threatening limitless unconstitutional power of the $4 trillion monster federal government.
I can’t get into it no matter how much I like Diamond and Silk.
It’s none of Capitol Hill’s business what private enterprise Facebook does about silencing anything they want to.
FB isn’t the problem here. It is the ever-threatening limitless unconstitutional power of the $4 trillion monster federal government.
Does anyone have a Youtube link for this. Just searched there and see nothing. FB sucks.
Great LINK to a delightful battle. An ambush in reverse!
Diamond & Silk did stuff the badges of those communist critters right.down.their.throat.
Thanks very much for the pleasure of seeing it.
Sorry, but there is little difference between a global sized communication platform and a global sized package delivery platform.
If a poor and private little bake shop owned by Christians refusing to bake a cake for queers is managed in the courts against the Christian baker, then FB will be seeing enough trouble coming soon to wish they were regulated as a public UTILITY.
Discrimination against speech is frowned upon.
Read the thread and find #4.
The issue is limited constitutional government protecting individual freedom and versus unconstitutional governmental tyranny enslaving the American People.
“Discrimination” (freedom of choice) is the right of every individual. The government has NO constitutional say-so about private discrimination of individuals.
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