Posted on 08/06/2018 12:57:48 PM PDT by Bobalu
The corporate thought police moved in unity today to unperson Alex Jones and his Info Wars media site from popular social media platforms.
Imagine if BP, Exxon, Chevron and Sunoco all moved, on the same day, at the same time, to charge $5.00/gal for gasoline at their service stations. That would be illegal collusion to take advantage of a monopolistic position. Thats essentially what happened today when Facebook, YouTube, Apple and Spotify simultaneously banned the Alex Jones broadcast from their platforms; in an effort to purge him from the internet.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
How long before the ISP’s start doing the same?................
Wasn’t there fakenews reported about Donald Trump Jr. that three organizations had to retract on the same day?
Poor analogy by Sundance.
Imagine charging $5/gal to specific individuals because they disagreed with you.
That is what is going on and the real goal of Net Neutrality.
Dear Farcebook, screwYouTube, crApple and Scatify,
If you censor speach
it ain’t free speech.
You belong in china or north korea.
According to Q, Alex Jones is controlled opposition. Alex’s father was CIA.
It’s for your own good, you are not sophisticated enough to know what you are seeing. The left continue to show their true totalitarian colors.
Bringing the total of $2.4 Trillion (only 7 COUNTRIES in the world w/GDP that have a similar value/influence)
These 4 tech companies exercise what appears to effectively express an assumed "sovereign power"
The conservatives better get off their duffs and create a conservative alternative to FB, YouTube, and the others, or they will be completely shut off the Internet before long.................
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” - First Amendment to the United States Constitution
Does not apply to private companies and their property...............
'How to pick up Jewish chicks': Vile antisemitic picture shows human remains on a shovel - but Facebook refused to remove it.
Facebook has been accused of "enabling vicious Jewish hatred" after telling users an image depicting human remains on a shovel below the tag line "How to pick up Jewish chicks" did not breach its standards.
Just days after back flipping on its decision to censor an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing, the social media giant is again under fire over its handling of posts reported as offensive.
In reply to complaints about the shovel image - which was widely shared, "liked" 21,000 times, and received more than 37,000 comments - Facebook said: "We reviewed the post you reported for displaying hate speech and found it doesn't violate our community standards."
Under its community standards policy, Facebook says it "removes hate speech" that attacks people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin and religious affiliation.
"We allow humor, satire or social commentary related to these topics, and we believe that when people use their authentic identity, they are more responsible when they share this kind of commentary," the policy says.
The image was posted to a page attributed to a Queensland man late last month and shared 2280 times. It has now been removed but tens of thousands of comments, many of which are anti-Semitic, were still visible in the thread as late as Thursday.
A Facebook spokesman said the image was removed for breaching community standards and that the company was still investigating.
But 24 hours after being asked, the spokesman could still not say when the photo was taken down. Facebook could also not explain why only the photo was initially removed and not the entire thread - which is standard when a post is pulled.
But 24 hours after being asked, the spokesman could still not say when the photo was taken down. Facebook could also not explain why only the photo was initially removed and not the entire thread - which is standard when a post is pulled.
His was a dentist. Not CIA by any means.
And what if that doesn't happen? Do you have half a trillion dollars in your back pocket?
Nobody's going to take that massive market share with a couple of coders in a garage somewhere.
If we don't smash them with the government, they aren't going to get smashed. Freedom of Speech is going to get smashed.
Isn’t he banned here?
What am I missing?
Google and Facebook are government/private chimeras, much like Soviet “private” enterprises.
How doess the 1st Amendment not apply to private companies or their property?
Yes. A previous thread on this topic has been pulled.
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