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Tech Titans seen here toasting Obama for screwing Americans. (hat tip ucansee2 photoshop)
Posted on 08/06/2018 3:31:05 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Conservative media is ramping up its battle with Facebook after the platform banned Alex Jones’s Infowars website from its platform.
Conservative sites questioned whether Jones was being signaled out because of his politics, and whether Apple and other tech companies that have also censored Jones were abusing their power.
The Drudge Report’s banner headline for most of Monday was “Apple regulates hate.” It also included a link high on its site to the conservative Gateway Pundit site that said: “Are Tech Giants Working Together to Censor Conservatives?”
Infowars editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson criticized Facebook's decision as political censorship.”
“This is a co-ordinated move ahead of the mid-terms to help Democrats. This is political censorship. This is culture war,” Watson tweeted.
Prominent right-wing internet figure Laura Loomer also decried the bans.
“Infowars played a big role in helping @realDonaldTrump get elected. BIG TECH is currently trying to influence elections by banning Conservatives. I'm actually depressed,” she tweeted.
Facebook on Monday said that it had decided to take down Infowars and its founder Jones’s pages because they violated company policies.
“[U]pon review, we have taken [the pages] down for glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies,” Facebook wrote in its post on the matter.
Spotify and Apple had already booted Infowars from their platforms. After Facebook’s announcement, YouTube said that it too would ban Alex Jones’s channel from its site, after he tried to circumvent his 90-day livestream ban by directing users to his livestreams on other video platforms.
Facebook had faced criticism for allowing Jones remain on the site, despite his pushing of conspiracy theories — including that the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, in which 20 school children were killed, was staged. He has also said that the survivors of a shooting earlier this year at a high school in Parkland, Fla., were “crisis actors.”
The company’s move on Monday to boot Infowars from its platform earned it praise from high-profile celebrities and politicians, such as Chelsea Handler and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.)
“[Facebook, Apple and YouTube] are private companies that shouldn’t knowingly spread lies and hate. They took a good first step today by removing Infowars,” Murphy tweeted.
Reaction to the move was not unanimous, however, and on the left and the right there was some criticism of Facebook for censoring anyone using their platforms.
Congressional Republicans previously have raised fears about conservatives being banned from social media platforms.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has repeatedly slammed major technology companies, claiming that they’re biased against technology companies.
Axios reported last week that McCarthy had written a letter to House Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) pushing to have Twitter testify about anti-conservative bias on its platform, following a Vice News report alleging that conservatives were being “shadow banned” on Twitter, because some Republican lawmakers names did not appear in the autocomplete search results.
“Any solution to this problem must start with accountability from companies like Twitter, whose platforms have enormous potential to impact the national conversation — and unfortunately, enormous potential for abuse,” McCarthy said in the letter.
McCarty had also hammered Google in May after the website’s “knowledge panel,” which displays facts on about things users search, showed “Nazism” among the California GOP’s ideologies.
In May, Facebook said that it would start an anti-conservative bias review led by former GOP Sen. John Kyl (R-Ariz.). As a part of the review, company executives also met with officials from the conservative Heritage Foundation.
In June, Twitter, conducted a set of quiet meetings with Republicans to hear them out as well.
Tim Miller, a former spokesman for Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign, argued the initial hesitancy by Facebook and other tech companies to boot Jones shows they are taking concerns of bias seriously.
“I think in some ways the Infowars case reinforces how sensitive tech companies are to conservative concerns,” Miller said. “The fact that this was a drawn-out process shows that tech companies are taking this seriously. They don't want to turn off conservatives. Conservatives use their product.”
Tech Titans seen here toasting Obama for screwing Americans. (hat tip ucansee2 photoshop)
You don't seem to understand how half a trillion dollar capitalized businesses work. Do you think you are going to make a dent in their subscriber base because you put up some kind of website? Do you have the means to build buildings full of server farms?
It takes a monster of an infrastructure just to start competing, or do you think you can do it in your garage?
Not to be crass, but either you start somewhere and build or learn to shut the hell up and stop whining. Those are your choices.
No, my best choice is to demand we use the power of government to *FORCE* all communications companies to carry all speech. I'm calling my Congressmen and Senators tomorrow. We need to drop a Nuclear Hammer on Google. We need to put the fear of God into those F***ing bastards who would rule us!
Zuckerberg was being tasked by Obama-----colluding for years.
And when candidate Obama looted Facebook of personal data for his campaign. Zuck was right there helping Obama take whatever he wanted.
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Let's stroll down memory lane. (hat tip edzo4)
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An extraordinary moment caught on film...tech masterminds of the universe in one place, toasting each other for screwing Americans in the name of Obama. Tech titans holding vast info on Americans plot the plan to compile a data base on Americans to be used in Democrat campaigns.
THE ORIGINS OF OBAMA'S POLICE STATE---DATA BASE ON AMERICANS CAUGHT ON FILM. (Mercury News photo)
Freeper edzo24 hat tip.
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What electronic frauds are being perpetrated that allow tinpot Obama to use the US govt against innocent Americans....and Republican candidates that stand in his way?
ITEM-—Facebook misrepresented itself to advertisers so that it could charge more for ads. This is a criminal offense.
REFERENCE A couple of newspapermen were jailed b/c they cooked the books WRT readership —— to charge more for ads.
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Investors should be mailing their FACEBOOK Annual Reports to their attorneys as we type.
The SEC prosecutes when publicly-held companies falsify Annual Reports.
This action should trigger sufficient blow back that Facebook suffers even more stock drop.
AJ rocks! He is on the front line fighting for all our rights.
” Do you think you are going to make a dent in their subscriber base because you put up some kind of website? Do you have the means to build buildings full of server farms? “
So in summary: “I want it, and I want it now!
Well, sorry. It doesn’t work like that. You are not entitled to be heavyweight champ when you dont even want to exercise. You need to build a better mousetrap, and that isnt going to be in a few weeks.
“No, my best choice is to demand we use the power of government to *FORCE* all communications companies to carry all speech. “
So the Fairness Doctrine? Good grief has some people on our side lost the plot! Exactly when did some of you learn to stop worrying and learned to love big government?
Does this “force” apply to FR too?
“At this point I don’t give a sh*t about “constitutional” arguments.
Oh? Hopefully you remember that when the libs use that argument against you. Hopefully you aren’t going to still play pretend like you give more of a damn about the constitution than they do.
You arent required, forced, or in need to use these services. You just are too dense to not use them, and now demand the state “fix” it so you can stay hooked because anything else isnt as “fun”.
“The framers of the constitution never envisioned this, and if they had, I dare say they wouldn’t have tolerated it. “
You mean like they also didn’t envision a lot of guns we have, like the left says when they advocate for unconstitutional crap?
This is what they are up to.
https://www.scribd.com/document/383918384/The-Censorship-Master-Plan-Decoded
Jones is just the first step. If they succeed taking him out, all the rest of the dominoes will fall.
You arent required, forced, or in need to use these services.
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What a ‘novel’ thought.
Love it when someone asks their phone where the closest (gas station, pizza shop, sandwich shop etc) then when they look and see the same phone has EVERYPLACE they have been the ‘screams’ start..
HOW DARE THEY ‘TRACK’ ME?
I seriously doubt it BUT maybe one day they will catch on.
Did Diet Smith Industries/Dick Tracy realize all the trouble the ‘2-way wrist radio’ would cause some 75 years later?
It's not going to bother me to have them force more freedom of speech on me. If i'm running a communications system, I might have to carry the traffic, but I certainly don't have to watch it.
You arent required, forced, or in need to use these services.
I don't have to use the internet either, but it is now one of the dominant methods of communications by the public. Perhaps you should look at this.
https://www.amren.com/news/2017/08/day-internet-dies/
“Let me be clear that this was an arbitrary decision. . . I woke up in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet. . . It was a decision I could make because I’m the CEO of a major Internet infrastructure company. No one should have that power.”
A guy woke up in a bad mood, and on a whim kicked a group off the entire internet. (Yes, it was a bad group, but that is beside the point. )
It is disappointing PDJT isn’t tweeting and having a press conference about freedom of speech and censorship...this is big enough for that. This is serious.
Autocomplete on my devices still doesn't suggest the name, "Trump", whenever I type the word, 'President'.
A year and a half into his presidency, it still suggests, "Obama".
Alexis the canary in the coal mine....they are preparing for 2020 election.
They probably won’t ban or censor conservative accounts outside of US; so Europe, Canada and other places for social media accounts will still work.
BUMP!
Gab. ai
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It's deathly serious. That's why I think he won't be satisfied with one tweet denouncing it. I think (and hope) that he is actually planning some tangible action to counteract this move forcefully.
There have been multiple search engines started to compete with Google. It's not simple starting a alternative. How well is Vimeo doing compared to YouTube? It takes years, even if successful, to do this. It's hard to get people to change ingrained habits for using certain sites. It now has people's email, calendar, favorited videos, etc. Stop being so simplistic as suggesting starting a alternative website.
This needs a authoritarian type approach from the top. We are in a war. We fight like they fight. The Left is no longer "liberal" nor "progressive". Watch the new movie "Death of a Nation". The Left is now most accurately called the Fascist Left. And to beat such a formidable foe, we have to fight like they fight.
Tim Miller is colluding to silence conservatives and anyone else they don’t like.
And this is just the subtle tactics we can see. Others have noted how they deliberately manipulate search results. I think there is a lot of behind the scenes manipulation.
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