Posted on 02/21/2018 9:25:01 AM PST by AU72
Overnight Twitter exploded with rage, sending #TwitterLockOut to the top of the trending list. People like Ben Garrison, the famous cartoon artist, are reporting they have lost thousands of followers in an instant and more are dropping out by the minute. It appears that only conservative accounts are included in the follower purge.
#TwitterLockout - just saw 2k followers go poof~ What's up Twitter? BenGarrison Cartoons (@GrrrGraphics) February 21, 2018
RED ALERT!
Twitter is Banning Hundreds of THOUSANDS of Conservative Accounts Tonight.. I literally just lost 5,000 Followers within the last 10 minutes.
All hands on Deck America, #TwitterLockOut Matt Couch ?? (@RealMattCouch) February 21, 2018
In a matter of hours it seems twitter removed over 2,500 followers from my account.
Anyone else experiencing this today? #TwitterLockOut Veteran For Trump (@Veteran4Trump) February 21, 2018
#TwitterLockOut shit it just dropped another 1,000 Joe Biggs (@Rambobiggs) February 21, 2018
How in the world did I lose 500 followers in less than 3 hours?! ??@carrieksada @thebradfordfile @DebbieAAldrich I noticed yall lost some too: must be those pesky Russians. SAD #TwitterLockOut #MAGA pic.twitter.com/r1rxPew9c5 Donald J. Thump (@POTUSThump) February 21, 2018
Gab TV broadcast the reports they are getting by the thousands of people locked out. Twitter seems to be labeling Trump supporters "Russian bots" and banning them until they provide confidential information most people don't want Twitter to have.
BREAKING: Twitter falsely labels thousands of users as bots, locks them out of their account?? https://t.co/nIzzClqMBU Gab: Free Speech Social Network (@getongab) February 21, 2018
This is not unexpected. We have been reporting on Twitter tomfoolery for quite a while now and have been waiting for the main purge to begin. This looks like the big one. In order to get back into their accounts, Twitter is requiring a phone number to be attached to the account. Gab TV thinks it could be a data grab. At the same time, Twitter is having a scandal at Periscope involving minors being groomed by pedophiles and talked into doing sexual acts online for adults. Critics say Twitter hasn't done much to stop it. The Daily Mail reported on it back in December:
In a video shown to The Sunday Express, a girl aged around seven or eight is seen sitting in her living room, with her mother just metres away, while paedophiles post sexual requests. Speaking to the paper, Shaun Stockdale, 34, from Hull, said he noticed a large number of users clicking onto the video and was disturbed by the comments being posted underneath. 'It became clear pretty soon that these were not children her own age, they were grown men paedophiles exploiting her for their own gratification.
Periscope and Twitter are aware of these issues but it was still going on as of last week when I reported two videos that were brought to my attention showing minor girls being harassed and groomed by sickos. The same thing happened to #MeToo during a live stream and I was unable to block the harasser.
You butterply me cherryboy?
** I joined Gab and cannot for the life of me figure out how to navigate the damn site **
I am on both, and Gab is slower, and not as easy to get around.
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Its how they’re defined anyway.
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>>>Yes, regaining equal footing in the communications system of the United States ought to be our party’s primary concern,
You all are aware that these firmz being discussed are largely publicly held companies that issue stock which has voting rights?
Here are some tickers you might consider investing in:
DIS, CBS, CMCSA, FOX, TWTR, FB
Twitter sounds like a monopoly, Facebook too, maybe time for some government investigation by DOJ, IRS and Congress!
Yes, or conservative Youtubers are having their content taken down. It looks like a massive coordinated effort. The left and their social media Gestapos are getting desperate but they will fail.
Just like why their communism fails, they can't control human nature, no matter how much power they have. They are exposing to the world their tyrannical nature and people of all stripes will reject them.
CGato
They want Hogg's gun control message out there unopposed. The whole darn thing has been coordinated. It's highly un-American but these REAL fascists don't care. Power over you and me is all they care about.
The deep state is desperate and needs guns out of our hands so they can better deal with President Trump. They know we, and the 2nd Amendment, have his back. They are stupid and will fail however this plays out.
CGato
Yes. Several weeks ago I began listening to him...he is on fire, no doubt.
This kind of thing is happening all across the Internet with Google, YouTube, etc.
Colin Flaherty, whose specialty is shining the light on the epidemic of black mob violence has had an ongoing fight at YouTube for years.
I think people who are saying we as conservatives should just not use these products, and I think that is a grave mistake.
I say this as someone who does NOT use FaceBook and does NOT use Twitter, or any of those other things. I think they are both narcissistic and a waste of time. But that doesn’t mean I don’t think they are important for what they stand for.
We are seeing a fusion here of ideology and industry in a way that we have never seen before, and anyone who cares about this country should be alarmed at what is going on.
It is a deliberate and concerted effort at censorship that spans an industry from Apple to FaceBook to YouTube.
If we allow ourselves to be marginalized by simply withdrawing, that is going to be a mistake, because it is going to embolden them further.
We have already done this to a large degree in the media. We don’t even bother to change it or really even take it seriously anymore except for acknowledging the damage it is capable of. Conservatives have surrendered the Media (which is dying a slow death anyway, particularly the print media) and retreated to the Internet.
They are making a concerted push to establish leftist dominance on the Internet, and if we just let them succeed, mark my words, we will regret it as a nation.
You have a lot of good points in this thread. I’m not quite there yet but you do make good points on this type of communication.
I’m just wondering where are the investors in these companies? It’s pretty obvious these CEO’s are out to hurt conservatives, which self-identify as conservatives 2-1 over those who self-identify as liberal or so I’ve read in the past.
I thought Sarbanes-Oxley was supposed to protect the investors from CEO’s making bad decisions such as these. There are twice as many conservatives out there than liberals so that would be definitely hurting their companies by having these type of policies. Are they just good at hiding this from their investors or should we start looking at Sarbanes-Oxley to reel in some of these insane CEO’s?
CGato
>> You all are aware that
Don’t think they give a #.
There’s an obscene disconnect between the activist options you’re describing and the unfortunate preference to assail the vicarious MSM.
But Hell, you’re like the 6th FReeper willing to mention the firmz... and God bless you for that.
guys with the initials TW
Seems like the door is open to create some conservative social media platforms too?? Not that I want to stop anybody from joining, just places that conservative stuff wont get hidden and banned.
Probably not though, most conservatives would not have the time to make it succeed like facebook, twitter and youtube, and why would libs leave their safe space to do anything where a conservative might happen to challenge their thinking. I might spend 15 minutes a day on facebook now just to catch up with what is happening with extended family...
I saw an old liberal school friend I connected with, make a post about getting his workers comp bill today and it was up 25%. He was blaming Trump... I said oh, I thought workers comp was a state fund not federal?? what state you ask, why California of course. I am sure if he responds, it will be Trumps fault his State had to charge more... Nothing at all to do with all his fellow Californians milking the workers comp fund I am sure!
Never used it myself. Never wanted to be a Twit.
Thanks AU72.
I heard one guest host say he us recovering from the flu.
Twitter shadow banned my tweets and disappeared followers many times over a year ago.. The last straw was when Twitter sent me an email saying my account was locked because I was hacked and that I’d have to click on their link to reset my password.. The email they sent also showed me two messages that both hackers tweeted on my account.. They were “Great, that’s all there is to do”.. How ominous is that?! Decided I’m done with Twitter.. don’t really miss it.
I agree wholeheartedly with your cogent post. I do not do facebook or twitter or instagram or anything else. I had an old twitter account - really old - that I never used. So I followed Bongino. He packs a lot into his show. Useful information too.
I’m in twitter jail right now.
It’s how you know when you’re over the target
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