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Trump: Twitter "Shadow Banning" Prominent Republicans
Twitter ^ | 7/26/2018 | President Donald Trump

Posted on 07/26/2018 5:05:59 AM PDT by tellw

Twitter “SHADOW BANNING” prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; banning; election2018; election2020; internet; shadow; shadowban; shadowbanning; trump; trumptweet; twitter
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To: tellw

I have to refresh the page several times to get Trump’s tweets. Seems kind of clunky for a communications web site.


21 posted on 07/26/2018 5:36:36 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: tellw

22 posted on 07/26/2018 5:40:45 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: teeman8r

twitter is a private company. they can ban as they please.

...

Even so, Trump is drawing attention to something that needs it.


23 posted on 07/26/2018 5:49:28 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: tellw

Perhaps he should visit the USA. We don’t need a reason.


24 posted on 07/26/2018 5:52:21 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Get in the Spirit! The Spirit of '76!)
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To: tellw

Liberal Big Tech keeps citing the law that says “we’re not responsible for content users post”. But that’s only true if you aren’t monitoring, censoring and otherwise filtering it.
If you’re intentionally shutting people out, it shows you ARE taking responsibility and gain the liability.


25 posted on 07/26/2018 5:54:32 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: tellw

All the social media is willingly in the service of the America haters.


26 posted on 07/26/2018 5:55:17 AM PDT by I want the USA back (This week's hysterical obsession: sex tape. Last week's: tweet on iranian threat.)
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To: akalinin

No. It does not. That said, if Twitter isn’t in violation of its own terms of service and/or pulling a fast one on investors somehow, the POTUS is barking up the wrong tree.


27 posted on 07/26/2018 5:58:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Olog-hai

The Replorable Song on youtube.


28 posted on 07/26/2018 6:00:47 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: tellw
"We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once!"
29 posted on 07/26/2018 6:03:10 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: shelterguy; bert
-- You send a post thinking it went through but it was actually blocked. --

Yep. And you think it went through because it shows up to you, it doesn't looked blocked at all, it shows up "normal." But web pages served up to others NEVER show your post. Hence "shadow" part of the ban.

30 posted on 07/26/2018 6:08:42 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt; shelterguy

I’m shadow-banned on u-toob. I can see my comments but no one else does. So much for leftist tolerance...


31 posted on 07/26/2018 6:31:28 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: tellw

My phone went on the blink, and Twitter was completely blocked. I don’t send tweets, only read Trump’s. So I perused the “permissions” that Twitter said I signed on for:

1. The app can activate my camera and audio without my confirmation.

2. The app can read through my contacts and text messages.

3. Can receive text messages.

4. keep up with my location.

5. read contents of SD card.

6. view network connections, view Wi-Fi connections

7. and others.

The Google apps said the same thing.

The flash player asked to be updated and stipulated the same things.


32 posted on 07/26/2018 6:36:28 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Olog-hai

The Bee Gees did a song about Twitter?


33 posted on 07/26/2018 6:38:14 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: tellw

Dirty Tricks this is why 90% of replies to Trumps tweets are posts of Lieberal flith trolls spewing hate.

Twitter wants to create the false impression the majority feel this way against the President.

Playing on an unlevel territory. Rigging the game.

Dirty tricks is how the Left plays but soon they gonna Pay.

They have filled their cup of wrath.


34 posted on 07/26/2018 6:38:17 AM PDT by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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To: tellw

As I keep saying, it’s time for antitrust action against twitter, Facebook, Google and Amazon. Part of the settlement should be no regulation of “hate speech”. No biased “fact checkers”. Only thing they should be allowed to ban is clearly illegal activity like child porn, terrorism, making terroristic threats, etc.


35 posted on 07/26/2018 6:40:30 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: barmag25

Launch a salvo at Twitter the day Facebook stock dives 20%. This guy is brilliant!


36 posted on 07/26/2018 6:49:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Momaw Nadon; bert
Facebook has been doing this for a long time and has really stepped it up with the #WalkAway Campaign.... (for some reason /sarcasm)

They do it under the guise of directing articles and posts to "fit your interest". Basically, they don't want ignorant leftist to be exposed to real educational material, because who knows what might happen. They might #walkaway. The facebook jokers are doing it even when you post articles and comments that should show up on all your "friends" feeds.

37 posted on 07/26/2018 6:59:00 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: faucetman
I was thinking of Andy Gibb’s 1978 song Shadow Dancing; seems like the logical tune to make a “shadow banning” parody song out of.
38 posted on 07/26/2018 7:02:28 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: rockrr

Basically, they get a kick out of the idea that evil conservatives are wasting their time on well thought out posts that nobody will see.

The left are swinging Richards.


39 posted on 07/26/2018 7:02:41 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: tellw
I'll almost bet even money that if I were Facebook, Alphabet (Google and YouTube) and Twitter, I'd start making REAL nice with the Trump Administration or that dinner with President Obama dated February 17, 2011 will come back to bite them in--well, you get the idea.
40 posted on 07/26/2018 7:18:25 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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