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Small Conservative Outlets Are Being Shadowbanned En Masse
The Revolutionary Act ^ | 08/09/18

Posted on 08/09/2018 12:51:56 PM PDT by Liberty7732

The Revolutionary Act is a growing conservative news and commentary site, but it is still quite small compared to the big conservative players. That doesn’t mean, however, that the giant social media censors do not Hoover it up for squashing. The suppressive algorithms clearly cover the conservative spectrum and hit rightist content providers regardless of size, strangling conservative content from cradle to grave.

InfoWars being eradicated from multiple platforms within hours of each other was a draconian and possibly monopolistic measure against a site considered to be on the right but was really its own conspiratorial wing of the political spectrum.

Candace Owens “accidentally” being suspended for tweeting exactly what the bigot Sarah Jeong tweeted — but changing the races to make a point — really, really made her point with the help of Twitter. And that point is: the hate speech identified by the formula written by Twitter coders represents the extreme leftist position. That can be built into any identifying algorithm because a computer program does not know definitions until they are given by those coding the program. So blaming the computer software really doesn’t cut it; the algorithm reflects the algorithm writers.

The most common method we see at this stage in the evolution of the left’s flexing its speech-bleaching muscle is shadowbanning on Twitter and demonetizing on Youtube. There are the well-known targets, including PragerU, Steven Crowder, Mark Dice and others. But the targets are really all over the conservosphere, and all sizes are being shadowbanned.

A few of the smaller but growing sites that have been hit and damaged by social media censors include: Liberty Nation, Patriot Retort, Sparta Report, Canada Free Press and Whatfinger News. I’m sure there are many, many more. What’s interesting is that it seems that most of these sites continue to grow in views and readers, despite the efforts of the social media censors. The demand for alternative views that reflect traditional American philosophies remains strong. (If you know of a conservative site that has been shadowbanned or otherwise censored on social media, please send us that information.)

I have a personal Twitter account (@Rod_Thomson) because it was clear when we started The Revolutionary Act less than two years ago, that Twitter was already tipping the scales against conservatives. Spending time and resources building a Twitter feed for TRA did not make sense. My own small but growing account had about 4,000 followers. It grew to more than 8,000 with solid engagement depending on the tweet. Suddenly — like overnight suddenly — engagement plummeted a few months ago.

The material was the same but tweets that would average maybe 8 retweets and 15 likes and a few comments suddenly got 0 and 0. No engagement at all. I’m getting a little engagement now, but followers have actually decreased and the engagement is maybe one-tenth what they were. There’s no reasonable conclusion other than that Twitter’s anti-conservative algorithm shadowbanned even my small Twitter account. No one or almost no one is seeing tweets.

The same thing happened on the TRA Youtube channel. It is very small, but each video garnered 400 to 800 views. And that was growing as we just started the channel when we launched the web site. But suddenly, again, views on videos dropped to 50 to 100. We saw precisely the same dynamic as on Twitter. When I tried to boost a video to see the reaction, the boost was rejected for violating community standards. So, it was just as suspected.

Youtube could not demonetize us because we were not big enough to be making any money on the channel. But of course we can still be shadowbanned, which will block the The Revolutionary Act from ever being able to monetize. And in truth, we have put on hold any efforts with Youtube as they have been the most aggressive recently in cutting the legs out from under conservatives.

So far, we have not seen any such tampering with our Facebook page as engagement remains strong and followers continue to grow. The difference between our Facebook engagement and our Twitter and Youtube engagement is fairly astonishing. But it feels like only a matter of time before the left’s hammer of censorship falls on Facebook, too.

But the Revolutionary Act will not stop putting forth truth. We will follow on the founding words of George Orwell: “Telling the truth in a time of universal deceit is the revolutionary act.”


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KEYWORDS: liberalfascism; newmedia; shadowban; shadowbanning
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1 posted on 08/09/2018 12:51:56 PM PDT by Liberty7732
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To: Liberty7732

Again, the irony of politics. “Liberals” are anything but. They’re the most narrow minded wastes of oxygen alive.


2 posted on 08/09/2018 12:54:54 PM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: Liberty7732

You better start raising unholy hell about this crap. They are banning free speech. It will hit FR if we don’t stand up. I hear crickets!!


3 posted on 08/09/2018 12:55:53 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will "shut down the government to get the WALL in September"r)
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WRT social media shutting out conservatives....here’s something you can do right now.

ACTION NOW——SOCIAL MEDIA NEEDS TO GET THOUSANDS OF LETTERS FROM USERS

INFORM YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PROVIDER, YOU ARE COMMISSIONING AN INDEPENDENT AUDIT OF YOUR ACCOUNT.... .for the following reasons:

According to the Association of CPA’s, an audit is a systematic and independent examination of books, accounts, statutory records, documents and vouchers of an organization (non-profit or publicly-held) to ascertain authenticity of financial statements as well as non-financial disclosures and to codify that the account presents a true and fair view of the issues at hand.

An audit also attempts to ensure that the account is properly maintained as required by federal and state law. The auditor perceives and recognises the issues, and conducts a examination, obtains evidence, evaluates the same, and formulates an opinion on the basis of informed judgement which is communicated through an audit report.

Issues such as selling ads based on account-holders, collection monies on behalf of an account-holder, disposition of monies, billing procedures, and the detailed reporting of these issues to principles and stake-holders.

This includes the federal government, state government, the SEC, liability companies, as well as the account holder.

Areas commonly audited include: compliance audits, internal controls, quality management, project management, and collection and disposition of monies. As a result of an audit, principles and stake-holders may effectively evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, for the edification of the account-holder and the relevant federal and state governance agencies with a financial stake in the subject matter.

Financial audits are commonly performed to ascertain the validity and reliability of information, as well as to provide an assessment of a system’s internal control. As a result of this, each party can have an accounting given on financial statements based on on the audit evidence obtained.

Due to constraints and limitations that might be placed on the auditor, an audit seeks to provide reasonable assurance that the statements are free from material error. In the case of financial audits, a set of financial statements are said to be true and fair when they are free of material misstatements – a concept influenced by both quantitative (numerical) and qualitative factors.

Copies of the audit are to be provided to principles and stake-holders including legal oversight agencies, liability companies and oversight agencies, and officials of the state and federal government deemed stakeholders in the resultant financial accounting.


4 posted on 08/09/2018 12:56:05 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: raiderboy

You forgot Jim has his own servers.


5 posted on 08/09/2018 1:01:49 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: raiderboy

Yup, we really need 2 things to happen, and fast.

1) For Trump to slam these outfits and then direct all Federal agencies to start looking at ways to regulate them.

2) A MASS PROTEST (on the scale of the D.C. Tea Party marches) at Fakebook headquarters, or another target of our choosing.


6 posted on 08/09/2018 1:08:10 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: raiderboy

Too many not contributing! Don’t know why. It’s never been this bad.


7 posted on 08/09/2018 1:09:34 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: raiderboy

careful what you ask for..

They are private companies.. Get the government involved while trump is president might sound like a good idea, but he won’t be president for ever..

Once you give government the power to do something, they will turn it against you when it suites them.

The fix to the problem is to create our own sites, (like FR) and leave the others behind.


8 posted on 08/09/2018 1:13:29 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
all Federal agencies to start looking at ways to regulate them.

That exactly what we don't need. ANYTHING that increases the size of the federal government beyond military growth is the opposite of a conservative's goal.
9 posted on 08/09/2018 1:14:51 PM PDT by TexasGunLover
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To: Buckeye McFrog

1 is a BAD idea..

0nce regulated those regulations will be controlled by the government. Might be fine while trump or other republicans are in charge, what happens when a democrat/socialist gets hold of the rains?

2 is fine, but those on the right rarely have time to protest. We tend to just leave and stop supporting the company.

That protest hurts them more than 1000s standing outside their office.


10 posted on 08/09/2018 1:15:53 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

120 million dead in the last century mean nothing to you?

Government intervention into this problem is far, far, more deadly than not.


11 posted on 08/09/2018 1:24:02 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Biggirl

Servers are linked to servers. This is a move by the DAZIs to wipe out conservative speech. It was a conspiracy that started with a concerted effort to move on Jones. By the way nobody is forced to read Jones or anybody else. Think of it. The effort is to keep YOU from reading Jones or FR or Brietbart etc. Why do they want to block you from reading Jones? These commercial businesses are public accommodations. We learned with Blacks that private companies cannot deprive civil rights based on race. Speech is just as much a right as being Black. In fact, it is a 1st amendment right. If you sell a product to Democrat socialists i.e FACEBOOK or YOU TUBE you cannot deprive that product to conservatives i. e open access to the product being sold discriminating against conservatives. This has got to be stopped right now. Dont sit like a frog in boiling water.


12 posted on 08/09/2018 1:25:48 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will "shut down the government to get the WALL in September"r)
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To: raiderboy

Well, Fakebook and Discus have banned THIS - just try to post it there: Fakebook and Disqus ALSO BANNED THIS: It is worth noting that Fakebook CENSORS any mention of a website, www.CodeIsFreeSpeech.com that provides FREE downloads of 3D-printable firearm blueprints. And, since Facebook logins are so prevalent for posting commentary across the Internet, they are very effectively suppressing this “Forbidden knowledge”. Please go to the website, download some or all 10 of the free blueprints, and then, repost it to your friends and across the Internet, to the extent you can. Strike a BLOW against Fakebook and judicial CENSORSHIP! Support TWO amendments at once, the First and the Second!


13 posted on 08/09/2018 1:26:50 PM PDT by 2harddrive (Go to www.CodeIsFreeSpeech.com for 10 FREE 3D-printer gun blueprints!)
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To: 2harddrive

What a great site. Who are these people that want to block our reading something. Why is this tolerated in commerce? I understand private clubs etc but when you come to the market place you cant discriminate against conservatives and publish DAZI crap!! What is going on?


14 posted on 08/09/2018 1:36:18 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will "shut down the government to get the WALL in September"r)
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To: cableguymn

I agree with new sites big time. But they will deny access to the internet big trunk lines and that is exactly what they said in the 1960s “ THIS IS A PRIVATELY OWNED COMPANY!!” NO BLACKS!! Guess what? Scotus ruled under the commerce clause of the US constitution that you cant discriminate if you are in public accommodations or the stream of commerce. “Private” means nothing - ZERO on the Civil rights of all men and women. It is absolutely settled law. Why are the DAZIs trying to prevent us from hearing political speech?


15 posted on 08/09/2018 1:49:21 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will "shut down the government to get the WALL in September"r)
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To: Biggirl
You forgot Jim has his own servers.

There are many things that Jim depends on but presumably does not control—e.g., a bank for credit card processing, domain name service. These "rugs" could be pulled out from under him. These are exactly the kind of things that are threatening Gab.

16 posted on 08/09/2018 1:49:36 PM PDT by snarkpup ("The rules don't matter when you're infected with political rabies." - The People's Cube)
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To: raiderboy

I agree with you TOTALLY!


17 posted on 08/09/2018 1:50:21 PM PDT by 2harddrive (Go to www.CodeIsFreeSpeech.com for 10 FREE 3D-printer gun blueprints!)
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To: TexasGunLover

I agree. It would be supremely pointless for us to have successfully campaigned to stop the government takeover of the internet with “Net Neutrality” only to turn around and demand a government takeover of the internet because we were butthurt about how Facebook or Twitter manage their sites.


18 posted on 08/09/2018 1:59:25 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: 2harddrive

Thanks. I think we are realy on the right side of this. You know, I think Jim may be exempt. He doesn’t sell anything in commerce. I have given thought to those criticisms of this position effecting Trolling and anti leftist BS here but applying the Supreme Court Test on Race—The issue that opened it up was the Commerce clause. Jim is not in commerce. Even today if you have a private club you are not deemed in commerce per se. If he sold advertising like facebook and Twitter etc that is an entirely different animal. There is a troubling federal statute that I think in unconstitutional as hell in the :stream of commerce” I really hope that Jones seeks an injunction in federal court soon. I know he will have financial backing. If I were a federal Judge ,I would kick the hell out of that political viewpoint discrimination in commerce BIG TIME. Where is the ACLU?


19 posted on 08/09/2018 2:00:11 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will "shut down the government to get the WALL in September"r)
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To: Liberty7732

Liberal democrats do not believe in Free Speech. Liberal democrats are fascists. Freudian "projection" explains why they so easily accuse conservative Republicans of being fascists. It boils down to "accuse others of what you do". And this is why it is so important that we do *not ever* entrust our Constitution and God-given rights to the protection of liberal democrats. They were not always, but have become, "domestic enemies" of our freedoms.


20 posted on 08/09/2018 2:10:41 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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