Posted on 01/11/2018 6:11:10 AM PST by Red Badger
That really makes me cross!
;-)
I do not use Twitter and never have, but I just did a quick scan of their “Rules”.
You are pretty much correct. Among other things, users are not allowed to post “hateful” comments - and of course they get to decide what is considered hateful.
I will say that as far as I can tell, their rules and terms of usage do not appear to mention “shadow banning”.
That would probably fall under the heading of ‘proprietary techniques’........................
I don’t see how anyone who pays for ads or twitter services of any type wouldn’t have a class-action law-suit related to this. Failure to provide services as described, knowingly denying services paid for, etc.
Twitter is free for users.
The rules are posted and you agree to use their free service under those rules.
It’s not any different than FR...................
>>Is that like double-secret probation?
Eat whaaaat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO9rJtNtmqc
Remain calm. All is well.
Hmm, so..
The Party only needs good seeds. The Party commands you to kill them
[Cambodia: THE FORCED LABOR OF ANGKAR LEU/CAP TREN 1975-79 (8/11) [KH-EN]
"https://youtu.be/UwWzNoU1JOM?t=1m52s"
Same ol' "Product", different "community".
Twitter is a publicly traded company
Twitter is a publicly traded company
Yes, I was using the generic term, not the legal one.................
Precisely. JR is the one who exercise freedom of the press here; all others submit to his publish/ban decisions. Which he Publishes, and which he bans is what gives FR its character - and serves the particular audience FR attracts.On the other hand, I think being ethical will dictate Twitter would tell everyone the rules upfront.
The defining characteristic of a conservative site is that it is openly, frankly, conservative. This is actually a facet of the virtue known as humility, the opposite of the vice of arrogance. Most liberals (who are not politicians, at least) want to evade the L-word. Especially, of course, journalists. They are all about No Labels, for themselves.Conservatives lack the advantages of incumbency in journalism and, for that reason, have no option but to adopt the stance of the philosopher. Which is to express humility, and not claim wisdom but rather to love wisdom and be open to facts and logic. The liberal, having the advantage of the propaganda wind of journalism at his back, pretends to actual wisdom and denigrates the opposition. The belong to the party of sophists against whom the philosophers of Ancient Greece marshaled their facts and logic.
You are right that being ethical would dictate Twitter openness about its actual political imposition on posters. But since their religion is sophistry . . .
Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.
....... The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further. The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary. Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify. In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building. As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames. What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs. There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence. |
Just like a VERY big and VERY old Christian religious organization...
We have ALWAYS been at war with East-Asia...
No; it isn't.
You wanna climb on a soapbox?
Do it in a public park; not on my front lawn.
FR does the same.
Just try spouting leftist propaganda around here for very long and see what happens!
HAve you seen Dilbert cartoons for the last 3-4 days??
I had understood there was pay for service as well for advertisers and businesses and such.
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