The Social Media Hive Mind

I no longer have freedom of expression in the way that most of you still do because the social media platforms throttle my ideas. And you know why this isn’t the biggest story in the world?

This morning I tweeted a link to a great video that describes in detail how Twitter “throttles” the tweets of any content that disagrees with their political views.

That’s the hive mind distracting you. Here’s the video Twitter didn’t want you to see. . . . . . . ALERT .. . . . . Lots of profanity!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAAUD7jtFas

By the way, I don’t think Twitter or any other social media platform have evil intent. But apparently they think I do. That’s a big perceptual problem.

. . . . Scott Adams

This is related to an earlier post regarding President Trump and supporters being blocked by twitter by Mike Keen. . . . Ace of Spades

https://medium.com/@mikekeen/twitter-censoring-trump-supporters-a1f1d9a87cda#.t891ouhiu

For those who are curious . . . HIVE Mind

a notional entity consisting of a large number of people who share their knowledge or opinions with one another, regarded as producing either uncritical conformity or collective intelligence.

This is ABSOLUTELY right.

Twitter deliberately shuts down free speech when it’s from a conservative angle.

Any.way.it.can.

There is a whole class of Tweeps that routinely have to rebuild their presences because they are shut down, often, simply because liberals target them for complaints. Meanwhile, Sarah Silverman, Rosie, Cher, etc. say the most obscene things about their President and....crickets.

Also, try joining Twitter as a new account.

New accounts are directed “Who to follow.” This week, it was Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, etc.

REALLY?? Two weeks after a new President is inaugurated?

Twitter can’t stand that Trump is using its platform, and it also shadow bans his tweets, meaning they don’t show in the feed. You have to check his page, even if you follow him.

As many my know I use hashtag #RustyIrony for a lotta observations. This time for the biggest social media giants… Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Yahoo etc. All these are the direct result of unfettered ideas and the “wild west” free market known as the internet. Unbridled capitalism as it most laissez-faire… and they have become billionaire$ at very young age. Many of these most successful free market capitalists are liberals politically #GoFigure. So now after the triumph of their mega-capitalism, they now seem to seek to herd us into the anti-capitalist single mind of “progressive” thinking.

Often the “offense” is “hate speech”. The whole concept of “hate speech” is to censor, and any opposition (mostly to the Left) is quickly labeled such. #RustyIrony… it appears only one side of the political spectrum is really being censored. I spose it’s basic human nature to want to control all one can, and if you have billion$ you control a LOT! So after using the biggest most uncensored free market platform in history... if someone says or writes something these mega-capitalists don’t like, they go all authoritarian on us. As these are now private international corporations… they have the right to censor… but it seems a bit “we got ours through the free market, but now it says things we don’t like… so you we’re going to unfree your market.” #Hypocrite. Is President Trump next to be silenced?

Nice remarks.

Masking the truth, promoting fake news, controlling what we and don’t see on the web are all subtle violations of Freedom of Speech.

And without Free Speech and communication, how do ever expect to rule and maintain a Republic fairly and intelligently.

And why should a Google or Facebook or Microsoft be allowed to scan my personal emails? There is a fundamental right to privacy being violated.

Rightly there needs to be permissions granted to access my personal data and correspondence.

I’m hoping the Trump administration gets around to these issues perhaps in the second terms. For now, there are plenty of other things that are more important to fight, but sooner or later we need to get back our freedom of private and non-commercialized association with other people.

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