Posted on 08/19/2016 8:28:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The internet is abuzz this week with new revelations about the towering edifice of hypocrisy and left-wing censorship being built by the controllers of Twitter.
Exactly four weeks ago, Twitter permanently banned gay conservative commentator and humorist Milo Yiannopoulos from the platform, claiming that he incited abuse of comic actress Leslie Jones after, get this, she reacted harshly to his critical review of her performance in the new “Ghostbusters” film.
The exchange was fairly innocuous, with Jones acting peeved and Milo displaying the rapier wit of a sharp stand-up comedian, and the final straw came when Jones blocked him, and Milo Tweeted: “Rejected by another black dude…” and posted her photo.
Witty, harsh, certainly not racist, but mocking Ms. Jones’ tough appearance (something her character in the new “Ghostbusters” film did as well, to a large degree), Milo’s tweet was his last, for Twitter’s rulers are promoting an image akin to a “safe space” where uptight leftists will never be “triggered” by anything the leftists don’t like. Now, if you look for Milo’s final Tweet, you’ll see this.
But Twitter’s double-standard when it comes to users “inciting” violence is beyond measure. On August 15, leftist and lesbian feminist journalist for The Guardian, Julie Bindel Tweeted that “All men are rapists and should be put in prison and then shot.”
How sweet.
Julie’s still going strong on Twitter. And if Milo had been left-wing and said the same thing, one suspects he would still have a platform on the Tweet-deck as well.
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PING!
As goes Target, so goes Twitter...
Socialist Media
Who decides what is extremist language?
Posting here is the closest I come to any kind of “social media.”
The NSA appreciates your input....
Twitter is run by left wing Democratic scumbag hypocrites.
Are you surprised?
Welcome to the world.
Well, there is that, then there is
former community organizer, or perhaps former foreigner.
Of course, there is always, former grifter, but then, that would be dishonest, as she is still is one.
FoxNews was (at least for a time) the answer to this problem in cable news. If the Twitter platform is really worthwhile a competitor will jump up to address this void. If not, the medium will go away on its own anyway. F ‘em.
It’s nice to know that somebody does.....
Saudi prince owns 5.17% of twitter. Hmmmm.
Mrs. AV
The logical descendant of Mao’s Cultural Revolution comes to Twitter.
Same here - and some of my comments have "disclaimers" accompanying them to indicate that some truths may sound like one is proposing something bad - especially if the peruser's goal it to try to find something to run with and frame a person for believing in the Constitution....
Face Book replaced the picture in an anti-Hillary story with a Ben-Hur ad, the link and title for the story was still there but the sd picture dominated the post.
The left is going neo Nazi, the right needs to go against them and create conservative only sites for right wing commentators.
They may be purging the right.. but they’re also shadow-banning and silencing the left. The difference is removals are easy to see...
I’ve said this here before: Black lives matters hashtags have been removed from the trending list and auto-fill after they begin trending. Their leadership has also been strangely silent regarding many recent shootings and have not been openly riling up the masses via social media. The national mainstream media which had always jumped to conclusions regarding the police shootings, has also opted out of coverage for some of these shootings.
One can only conclude: The media both news and social are colluding to suppress news stories unfavorable to Hillary.
BLM is one of them, as Trump is running as the law and order candidate. If he begins to make inroads with the black community, I suspect they will again create agitation, and allow their voices on social media to be heard.
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