Posted on 07/28/2020 12:45:38 AM PDT by RandFan
On Monday night, as President Donald Trump began posting about the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 following a viral video of a doctor touting its ability to not only treat but prevent the disease, Twitter removed at least three of the president’s tweets, leaving no trace of what the president wrote on the social media platform.
Tensions between the big tech website and President Trump appear to have reached a new height, as the platform has now censored several posts by President Trump that appear to have promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19.
The president began sharing articles and tweets promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine after a viral video of frontline doctors revealing their experiences treating COVID-19 in the field.
In place of President Trump’s tweets is a message from the platform that reads “This tweet is no longer available.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalfile.com ...
Which is exactly what the Leftists are trying to accomplish here. They would love to see Trump abandon his hundred million followers on Twitter for some obscure social media backwater that even today has barely 2 million members - 99% of which are already hard-core Trumpers.
We had the answer Day One. None of this shut down craziness and death had to happen.
Trump said so Day One.
The proprietor of a social media business is the gatekeeper. Free Republic operates in a similar fashion. It has published the rules for engagement. If the moderator decides, an active member can be zotted without recourse, because it is not PUBLIC.
Get with it, my FRiend.
Quick test. Just go to Google and do a random search on any random hot topic. Typically it may come up with a billion or more results. How many of them are from Facebook? Not even 1%.
And Google doesn't even cover even one percent of the internet:
“ According to a study published in Nature, Google indexes no more than 16 percent of the surface Web and misses all of the Deep Web. Any given search turns up just 0.03 percent of the information that exists online (one in 3,000 pages).Apr 1, 2015”
it is categorical error to assume that volume somehow equals influence, when around 80% of the population have social media accounts.
I have never been on social media and my life is much richer because of that.
You assume that just because someone is on social media it means they spend their lives on social media or are going to be influenced to vote one way because Twitter told them to. Not so.
As for Twitter censoring or deleting anything. ..it means zilch.
Twitter/Face/YouTube banned Alex Jones and Infowars no?
Well right now he is more available and as popular as ever. You can still go to Infowars.com and watch any video of his and read any articles you want. His radio show is as popular as ever and you know what? Twitter can't do sh*t about that.
https://www.infowars.com/
You also forget the huge audience and massive influence that talk radio hosts like Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, Savage et al have using good old fashioned radio.
Rush has more influence with one broadcast than a million Facebook posts.
Does that mean the social media messages of all US Congressmen/Congresswomen will be taken down, TOO?
I mean -if they’re trying to be ‘unbiased’-then NO politicians should have access.
Founded by and American and Dan Bongino has since invested in it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler
Parler is a United States-based microblogging and social networking service launched in August 2018, promoted as an alternative to Twitter and particularly marketed to political conservatives in the United States.[4]
Parler (French: parler, lit. ‘to speak’) was founded by CEO John Matze in Henderson, Nevada in 2018.[5][6][7] Matze graduated from University of Denver in 2014 with a computing degree.[1] Its rollout was in August 2018.[4][8]
From December 2018 through 2019, the service’s user base grew after prominent politically conservative personalities, among them Brad Parscale, Senator Mike Lee, and activist Candace Owens, signed up to and publicized the network to their social media followers on other platforms.[6] Gavin McInnes and Milo Yiannopoulos have also joined.[1] Parscale had met with Matze in early May 2019 prior to signing up.[7] (As of July 15, 2020, Parscale had posted 10 times, four of which were complaints about Parler’s functionality.[9]) Other users include conservative personalities banned from Twitter or other networks.[8]
According to Matze, as of May 2019, Parler had about 100,000 users.[6] Parler said its user base had more than doubled in June 2019 when around 200,000 accounts from Saudi Arabia signed up to the network after allegedly suffering mass censorship and suspensions of accounts on Twitter.[10] Parler described these accounts as part of “the nationalist movement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”. Twitter had deactivated hundreds of accounts that pushed talking points favorable to the Saudi government, describing them as inauthentic accounts in an “electronic army” pushing the Saudi government agenda.
Donald Trump ally David Clarke Jr. said he would join Parler in March 2020 after Twitter deleted several of his tweets for promoting coronavirus disinformation.[11] Many right-wing and conservative media and political figures joined Parler in June 2020, including Donald Trump Jr., Dan Bongino, Rudy Giuliani, Katie Hopkins, Alex Jones, Mark Dice, and Ted Cruz.[12][13]
In early June 2020, Dan Bongino announced he had purchased an “ownership stake” in Parler.[14]
Trump should now ask the networks for a half hour in prime time for himself and a group of practicing physicians to discuss the cure for COVID-19. Let them dare to say no.
The war against this drug is one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen. It’s been widely prescribed for over 60 years but once Trump spoke about it everyone started pretending it was Hydrochloric acid.
I guess that settles it.
WHY?!
Is it because of Big pHARMa and Gates impending vaccine?
No. It’s because hydrochloro...whatever...cannot be patented, and big pharma can’t charge thousands for your treatment, therefore making them bazillions of dollars.
From what I’ve read so far, it’s about $20 or so, maybe $30 if you throw in some expensive vitamins (and zinc is required) and that means big pharma can’t make huge profjts.
Short answer, it’s money.
Jack Dorsey himself has said Twiter is like a public square.
Jack Dorsey: Twitter users consider it a public square
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FHgkHToH2M
I think you need to read the SCOTUS decision from 1949 on public squares that are privately owned. Free speech is protected. The plaintiff in that case was trying to preach and was refused.
“Now who didn’t see this coming?”
I knew it would happen, but thought it would be closer to the election.
“The President should direct the DOJ to pursue rights violation investigation of Twitter.”
The President can “direct” from now until Doomsday. In the end Barr will do exactly what he wants to do.
“There may come a time where we here at FreeRepublic will be reading a last post...and then fade to black screen.”
A couple times when FR has been “down”, I’ve worried that the bad guys have killed it forever.
But as I see it, that is NOT the issue. The matter that Twitter management is addressing is an ongoing feud that could greatly damage its status as an impartial arena if the participants do not play nicely with each other.
Donald Trump does not always play nicely or graciously, but as the rich kid using his position not only to dominate, but to vilify others.
Many times he has engaged in name-calling, raw rudeness, and other bludgeoning tactics, rather than using reasoning and persuasion, methods of convincement which can be presented without slinging mud as an ad hominem tool to get the support of people who do not think.
The Twitter management does not have to put up with such behavior from anyone, including a citizen who is the current executive for no more than eight years. Twitter has to answer to its own conscience as well as to its supporting clients, not just to PDJT who in the end will just be again DJT.
For this moment in history, he is free to use many other forums in which he can conduct his vendetta(s). Some of those other forums will not permit mudslinging and flame wars over topics which are not themselves sources of indignity to its supporters, detractors, or reporters.
It seems to me that in this case Twitter will not alter its operation to be some elite's bully pulpit, causing a loss of business (which in actuality it is presently undergoing).
Let your brain control you, pal, not your emotional response or blind allegiance to DJT despite his lack of manners.
Trump’s foes engage in Twitter behavior 1,000 times more audacious than Trump’s, yet their posts remain. They do not “play nicely” with others.
So it isn’t a case of Twitter protecting its business; it’s a case of censorship by liberals. Nothing more; nothing less.
Again, yoou are being blind to the idea that ths is not about HCQ and its benefits. Has Twitter excluded ANY discussion outside of PJDT and Fauci about this medication? See my pPost #95 again.
It’s not the information available that makes a difference; but, the information accessible. That 16% indexed by google accounts for 90+% of the information most people see, and even a subtly influence can make a huge difference in what the general pubic perceives. Add that to the monolithic drumbeat of of social media, and it is very significant.
I don’t do social media, either, and I don’t miss it; however, we are probably outliers in this regard. Radio is dying, just as quickly as newsprint; that’s just a fact. Their audience is older and their methods outmoded. Why listen to a “program” when you can listen to personalized content? Podcasts are much more concise, and more targeted—and younger consumers prefer the format over traditional means.
I’m not arguing that it’s good or right; however, the social media giants act as gateways for content providers—the problem isn’t whether you can post your content on your .0001% esoteric blog, or if your message will be given real a chance in the modern public square. This censorship is bad for public discourse, and constitutes a hazard to our republic.
There goes the First Amendment... and most of the sheeple will not even realize it!
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