Posted on 08/07/2018 3:34:15 AM PDT by markomalley
Following the removal of Alex Jones from Facebook, Apple and YouTube, for violating “hate speech” policies, Democrat Senator Chris Murphy tweeted “Infowars is just the tip of a giant iceberg.”
Monday afternoon Murphy tweeted, “I know Facebook and Apple and YouTube have gotten so big they sometimes seem like the government. But they aren’t. They are private companies that shouldn’t knowingly spread lies and hate. They took a good first step today removing Infowars. Infowars is just the tip of the iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and Youtube to tear our nation apart. These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it.”
Senator Murphy did not clarify just exactly who, or what outlets make up the rest of the “giant iceberg of hate and lies” — and many conservatives are leery where this may be going.
Earlier this year, Twitter announced it would start using an algorithm to crack down on “hate speech.” One of the key components of the algorithm would collapse abusive or potentially “low quality” tweets by detecting certain phrases and patterns. The algorithm would also tweak search results, to downgrade abusive tweets.
So far it appears that the new algorithm may be targeting conservatives. On Sunday, conservative commentator Candace Owens temporarily had her account suspended. Twitter later restored her account, claiming that it was an “error.” Last month, Vice News reported that several prominent Republican officials were not being featured in Twitter search results. This tactic has been referred to as “shadow banning.”
Twitter’s new algorithm has many conservatives leery where this may be going — their concern? Who gets to determine what constitutes hate speech?
That was tried.
In Germany, in Russia, and in Venezuela. It doesn’t play out that well.
Add TuneIn to the list of companies that removed Infowars today.
Democrats are now openly appealing to their tech giant donors to remove all sources that don’t kiss their asses 24/7. Really disgusting to watch.
1930s Germany or what?
Like it or not.. Here we are!!
Besides Google and Bing, there is Yahoo,Dogpile,Ask to name a few.
Planting the seeds of a future revolt or hot civil war.
Gab.ai
GTH, Murphy, you fascist pig.
“Glad I’m not a shareholder. This will not end well for these companies.”
Nothing will happen to these companies. Just watch the Zuckerberg hearing, the Congress had the noses so far up his butt they looked like conjoined twins. And Sessions and Trump are nowhere man on the subject.
How is that different from FR? FR does not create original content, but the users do.
One of their ploys was to let start ups do well and when the little guys expanded they'd flood the market, bankrupt then buy the company. They did that to Victor computer among others.
All it will do is force conservatives to set up their own websites.
Look for that site to take off.
We’ve been at ‘war’ since the inception of this nation for its very soul.
Evil never sleeps and never gives up control and power willingly.
A complicit and / or complacent media has done little to provide the insight into its very existence at the highest levels of our institutions.
It has openly supported and shilled for those who perpetuate the greatest evils against this union, now under constant attack, and not by foreign powers only.
So, the old adages still apply,, keep your friends close and enemies closer and keep your gunpowder dry.. and stay out of the ice fields.
They are planting the seeds of a second civil war, mark my word.
Yes, Jones is scum. But this is not a benign move and as this fool says, the tip of the ice berg.
We can thank this idiot fool congressman for giving away the game. Facebook is not saying Jones was banned for political purposes and denies that has anything to do with it.
This guy explicitly belies that cover story.
If you don’t know the difference you’re a bit too Slo, Flo, to understand.
Don’t always like Jones’ sensationalism, but I will support his right to be heard. Will visit his site more often just to annoy the left.
Infowars really is the tip of an iceberg. I pay no attention to Alex Jones or his site but the popular media is also full of lies and lies by omission and it as biased as any source. Thus their algorithms are calculated to remove opinions they don’t like, which would be anything right of center.
Just asking a question.
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