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Social Media Drops The Hammer On Conservatives Crowder, Rose, Beck
The Revolutionary Act ^ | 06/06/19

Posted on 06/06/2019 8:11:26 AM PDT by Liberty7732

Steven Crowder’s gigantic Youtube site was demonetized Wednesday after a gay writer at Vox complained repeatedly about being made fun of in a hurtful way. Within hours, online seller Shopify said they would stop selling Crowder’s hugely popular merchandise, such as the Mug Club.

Later in the day, Glenn Beck’s Facebook page was notified that it was put in “time out” and won’t be able to post until Saturday for posting clickbait. This followed Tuesday’s demonetizing by Twitter of pro-life fireball Lila Rose and her Live Action accounts.

Twitter. Facebook. Youtube. All within 48 hours. This gives, at the very least, the appearance of a coordinated attack on conservatives. Perhaps even collusion within an industry.

Every right-of-center, or just not politically correct, creator on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter understands the censorious nature of the leftists that run and populate the social media universe. But this expands considerably when it includes companies such as Shopify and efforts to shut down personal actual web sites by major web platforms such as WordPress.

Crowder is not only conservative, he’s decidedly politically incorrect and is always pushing boundaries. But he also has a team in daily contact with Youtube to make sure they are following the so-called “community guidelines.” He actually tries to follow the rules.

Vox’s Carlos Maza sent out a tweet storm where, in the end, he called for demonetizing Crowder, because Maza is a leftist and that’s what they do:

“Anyway, if you want to help, I guess you can go to this dude’s videos and flag them? But @YouTube isn’t going to do anything, because YouTube does not give a f*** about queer creators. It cares about ‘engagement,’ and homophobic/racist harassment is VERY ‘engaging.’”

At first, Youtube said there was no violation of their rules. But later, they changed in mid-stream and demonetized all of Crowder’s videos. That is a huge hit to a guy with nearly 4 million subscribers and a full production company to pay for.

Then later yesterday, Glenn Beck’s The Blaze got a notification that it would not able to post items on its Facebook page until Saturday. Officially, the reason was for sharing clickbait. But one Facebook flagged was a “completely legitimate story,” according to a spokesman who said it was about a mom who recorded abuses of her handicapped child at school and was seeking changes.

The other story Facebook tagged as clickbait was a video by Will Witt, with PragerU, who does humorous on-the-street interviews on hot topics.

“This is the second time in a month we’ve had to fight Facebook over something ridiculous,” the spokesman said. Their fight has temporarily paid off as they seem to be able to post again — although with no explanation from Facebook.

On Tuesday, Lila Rose tweeted:

“Twitter banned @LiveAction & my account from all ads. When we asked why, @Twitter said we could resume ads, only if we deleted the following content from our Twitter AND website:

-Anything about abortion procedures

-Investigations of Planned Parenthood

-All ultrasound images”

That’s a pretty impossible standard for a pro-life organization. And it includes their web site. This is nothing more than simply attempting to completely shut down Lila Rose and Live Action.

Ben Shapiro went off on the Crowder action yesterday, but it applies to all of them:

“If you’re in the public eye, you’re going to be mocked and insulted in ways you find deplorable. If your solution is to target the platform for destruction — or to target advertisers who advertise on a wide variety of political programming — you’re the actual problem.

It’s far more dangerous to the country and the discourse to work to shut down the entire public square on behalf of your feelings than it is that people sometimes call you mean names. Grow the f*** up.”

But they won’t. Anti-free speech is a congenital condition of the left. Other solutions will be in order.


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KEYWORDS: censorship; despotism; homofascism; liberalfascism; pinklisted; propertyrights; rentfree; talktalktalk
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To: Liberty7732

So someone make alternatives and make a billion or six. I’m more than eager to leave Facebook and YouTube.


81 posted on 06/06/2019 11:23:21 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: kaktuskid

re: “They use cell towers which are regulated by the FCC. Therefore they can be regulated”

Ummm ... no.


82 posted on 06/06/2019 11:23:47 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: NobleFree
Facebook et al are free of charge.

Not to advertisers, or Russian political campaigns.

83 posted on 06/06/2019 11:23:57 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: crusher2013
Scale does matter in terms of law and regulations.

See my tagline. (Thomas Jefferson, BTW.)

84 posted on 06/06/2019 11:25:25 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

Great post.

Especially the part about government not being the only source of tyranny.

Thats a point way too many Conservatives forget.


85 posted on 06/06/2019 11:26:28 AM PDT by crusher2013
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To: JonPreston
Not to advertisers

Irrelevant to the alleged "rights" of nonpaying posters.

86 posted on 06/06/2019 11:27:04 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: MarkL
These social media "providers" have been given special protections by law, and are treated as "carriers,"

And the law that does so explicitly protects their right to block content they consider objectionable (see added highlighting):

47 U.S.C. § 230 (c)

(1)  Treatment of publisher or speaker

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

(2)  Civil liability

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of--

(A)  any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected

87 posted on 06/06/2019 11:29:45 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree
nonpaying posters.

Maybe the personal data Facebook collects & distributes on someone like you has no value, but mine does.

88 posted on 06/06/2019 11:30:13 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston
the personal data Facebook collects & distributes

Blocking posters reduces rather than enhances that pricing power. Still a fail for you.

89 posted on 06/06/2019 11:33:38 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: JonPreston

If social media sites are going this upfront about banning non-liberals and non-leftists, they are showing their belief that the FCC, Justice Department, etc., can’t or won’t touch them. Perhaps they are gambling that the Democrats will take the White House and the Senate, or both, next year. Alternatively, they are betting Trump is all hat and no cattle.


90 posted on 06/06/2019 11:34:36 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: NobleFree

FR doesn’t have the power to elect Presidents, Senators,Etc.
Or deny someone the ability to earn a living like sociall media does.

You seem blind to that fact.


91 posted on 06/06/2019 11:35:08 AM PDT by crusher2013
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To: NobleFree
Blocking posters reduces rather than enhances that pricing power

Not in the case of monopolies.

92 posted on 06/06/2019 11:40:21 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Wallace T.
Perhaps they are gambling that the Democrats will take the White House and the Senate, or both, next year.

That's what I think. This is an all out assault on Trump & the presidency. Any litigation won't be heard, never mind settled, prior to 11/2020.

93 posted on 06/06/2019 11:43:00 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston
Monopoly or not, blocking posters reduces the value offered to advertisers.
94 posted on 06/06/2019 12:01:53 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: crusher2013
FR doesn’t have the power to elect Presidents, Senators,Etc.

Neither does social media - or if it does, then voting cannot be trusted to the people.

95 posted on 06/06/2019 12:03:31 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree
Twitter. Facebook. Youtube. Their servers, like FR's, are their property to allow use of or not as they choose. The most that can be justly demanded of them is truth-in-labeling; if Twitter's going to ban ultrasound images, they should be required to say so clearly and up front.

Which is it? Is Big Tech allowed to use their property as they like or are they subject to truth-in-labeling requirements?

You can't have it both ways.

You contradict yourself.

Anyway, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube along with Big Government have become a crony capitalist monopolistic conglomeration of power.

Big Tech's property, gained by such a symbiotic Big Government relationship, is hardly "private property".

96 posted on 06/06/2019 12:09:51 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: NobleFree
Twitter. Facebook. Youtube. Their servers, like FR's, are their property to allow use of or not as they choose. The most that can be justly demanded of them is truth-in-labeling; if Twitter's going to ban ultrasound images, they should be required to say so clearly and up front.

Which is it? Is Big Tech allowed to use their property as they like or are they subject to truth-in-labeling requirements?

You can't have it both ways.

You contradict yourself.

Anyway, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube along with Big Government have formed a crony capitalist monopolistic conglomeration of power.

Big Tech's property, gained by such a symbiotic Big Government relationship, is hardly "private property".

97 posted on 06/06/2019 12:10:42 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: NobleFree

SM does have that power.

It can also deny a person the ability to earn a living.

It even has the power to threaten your life. They have toyed around with doxxing. Wait until Antifa shows up at your home or business because they don’t like something you posted.

Have you ever heard of the network effect?


98 posted on 06/06/2019 12:11:00 PM PDT by crusher2013
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To: NobleFree

Please provide a link to Facebook advertising revenues that support your claim.


99 posted on 06/06/2019 12:16:34 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: FreeReign
Which is it? Is Big Tech allowed to use their property as they like or are they subject to truth-in-labeling requirements?

Both - they may use as they like and must disclose the criteria of that use. No contradiction.

Anyway, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube along with Big Government have become a crony capitalist monopolistic conglomeration of power.

And your solution is more government? Fight fire with gasoline much?

100 posted on 06/06/2019 12:27:52 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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