Twitter Now Purging Regular Conservatives (Purge of Alex Jones was proof-of-concept)

Stream.org ^ | Published on December 10, 2018 | RACHEL ALEXANDER

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If Twitter hasn’t suspended or banned you yet, don’t feel relieved. You may be next.

When Twitter and other big tech companies started banning fringy rightwing characters over the past year or so, few people objected, because even most conservatives weren’t sympathetic to those purged. It’s hard to feel sympathy for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. But once the radicals were banned, it became far easier to ban others.

Now, people tend to talk about public issues mostly on the big tech platforms. Minority viewpoints can use them to get around the mainstream or legacy media. A biased article in The New York Times or The Washington Post is more likely to be challenged by a small website communicating with its readers through Facebook and Twitter, than by a conservative magazine.

Need to be Concerned We need to be concerned when big tech starts censoring certain types of speech, even if we disagree with it. Big Tech doesn’t have to provide platforms for free speech, since they’re private companies. The First Amendment doesn’t apply. The tech companies can censor as much as they want to without violating the Constitution’s free speech protections.

But when they censor conservative speech, they corrupt the free exchange of ideas they claim to value. Each one declares itself a place for people to freely exchange ideas. They claim to be neutral as to politics, religion, and other matters. But they’re not.

Google, Facebook and Twitter have all censored those on the right. How do they do it? By treating some speech as hate speech — even when it’s not. Criticism of Islam or transgender activism has become a top reason for censorship. Twitter recently revised its terms of service to prohibit this type of speech...

[Paladin2]

“Amtrak line through Springfield one of U.S.’s fastest-growing
10/12/2010 9:45:45 AM PDT · 50 of 58
Willie Green to Paladin2

Why not get super rich W. Buffett to put passenger trains back on the BNSF routes?

For the same reason that I’m opposed to Highway and Interstate privatization.
I don’t believe that the private sector should be permitted to have monopolistic control of public infrastructure.
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That was then...

[And I like trains - I just don’t want to be made to ride them.]

[Truthoverpower]

Who cares ?
We have FREEREPUBLIC
and
THEY CANT BAN OR CENSOR OR EDIT
OUR GREAT PRESIDENT. DONALD J TRUMP. MAGNUS

[no-s]

the achilles heel of the great de-platforming is that it's intended to de-monetize conservative activities, diminishing the reach of conservative marketing, and it's organized across tech sectors, with payment processors, ad agencies, and network services colluding to prevent unwanted competitors from entering the market.

ANTI-TRUST IS ASLEEP AT THE F*ING WHEEL!!!

[YogicCowboy]

No, it was easy for me to feel sympathy for Alex Jones, because I understood exactly where things were headed.

[a fool in paradise]

don’t discriminate in providing service

No rules have been violated when youtube, facebook, twitter ban

[adorno]

No rules have been violated when youtube, facebook, twitter ban

No rules violated? Sure, no 'official' rules. How about the rules of fairness? Discrimination is not just about segregation via race or religion or ethnicity or gender. It's also about ideology and ways of thinking.

[StAnDeliver]

Jack first tried this in earnest in October of 2015, when he became CEO of Twitter. Then again about 10 months later after Trump was the confirmed GOP nominee. Both times were attempts to appease Google as the primary suitor.

Jack wants Google to buy Twitter -- he gets the golden parachute and leaves the censorship to Google.

Both times Google rejected the bride, not because the price was too high but because they don't want the jackpot ie, shutting down the President.

If someone inside Twitter turned off @realDonaldTrump, WOW, Jack would be in front of a Senate select committee the next morning...

[a fool in paradise]

I posted a link to the 1946 educational film on Democracy and tolerance for different viewpoints and how private press can also censor information and be despotic.

[adorno]

I posted a link to the 1946 educational film on Democracy and tolerance for different viewpoints and how private press can also censor information and be despotic.

The problem with how we (the country) views the private press, is that, they are viewed as not being government, therefore, immune from the rules of freedom of the press and of free speech and freedom of religion. But, in fact, the press has become a de-facto branch of the government, where it's now virtually a mouthpiece of the government and actually sets policies which governments follow. Separation of church and state was/is a good idea. We need to insure that separation of the press from government is also a rule or law. Freedom of the press is in the bill of rights, but, in actual practice, it isn't.

[justa-hairyape]

Fastest intentional company collapses in world history. Amazing so many of these freaks are willing to fall on their swords for their false gods. Well, let the sword make its cut.