Posted on 08/16/2018 10:28:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sometimes I think all the hand-wringing about some sort of online "war on conservatives" is silly. Sure, dude, maybe nobody is paying attention to your brilliant tweets because you've been shadowbanned. Perhaps Twitter's "Trust & Safety Council" really is keeping you from reaching the audience you deserve. Or maybe you're just boring and kind of dumb? I tend to be skeptical of these complaints, but it's possible that there really is an ongoing conspiracy to silence half the country. I have to admit, it would explain why I keep getting suspended from Twitter for no good reason. Maybe Twitter really is out to get conservatives, even us RINO cuck #NeverTrump traitors who probably love Hillary.
Just yesterday, I got locked out of my main Twitter account (@jtLOL) for 12 hours:
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Then it was restored, with the following in lieu of an explanation:
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What rule did I break? I have no idea, and apparently they're not going to tell me. How do I avoid breaking that rule again? Beats me. It's tough to avoid repeating the infraction if I don't know what it was. (Good lookin' out, Franz Kafka.)
Several other non-liberals I know also got a 12-hour lockout at the exact same time. Why? They don't know either.
At least this time, I only got locked out of my account. A few weeks ago I was suspended outright, based on false reports by alt-right trolls. My account was then reinstated, and this is the closest I got to an explanation:
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And this is just the latest incident. Last year I got suspended for using the wrong emojis to describe leftist darling Bradley Manning:
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That was dumb, but at least I knew my "crime."
Twitter can make up any rules it wants and enforce those rules any way it wants. And its users can point out when stuff like this happens to them for no given reason.
In the meantime, the effort to erase Alex Jones from the Internet continues. I do not like Jones, which is why I only pay attention to him when people are telling me why I shouldn't pay attention to him. Lately that effort has been driven by CNN's Oliver Darcy:
Twitter said Friday that the accounts belonging to far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his fringe media organization InfoWars would, for now, remain online, one day after a CNN investigation found that Jones' Twitter accounts appeared to have repeatedly violated the company's rules.
That's right: CNN is "investigating" tweets by a guy they don't like because Twitter hasn't given into the outrage mob and banned him yet. It's not enough that Twitter gives you the tools to block any other user, or mute them, or even mute entire conversations and/or certain words. That's insufficient. Nobody else should be able to see the stuff that you don't like.
And Darcy is staying on the case:
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Twitter already tried to ban the President once but had to retract and blame it on an eager employee.
Uh, I’m aware of that, thank you.
There is collusion between politicians, media and tech companies to purge Conservatives. It is rather scary to think about since history has had many purges that began like this.
TIME TO ‘BAN’ TWITTER
BOYCOTT THEM (and warn and boycott anyone who does business with them)
Are those "private" companies cronies of the government? Are they monopolies?
Monopolies are not illegal.
What is illegal is taking actions to MAINTAIN monopoly status, by denying others access to materials, equipment or services to compete with you, or controlling prices to make them unaffordable.
Crony capitalism is always present. It is not illegal either, unless there is ‘insider trading’ or ‘insider information’ not available to the public that allows someone to make a profit or save their assets from loss due to detrimental information being disseminated in private channels and not publicly.
The only recourse is to create a competing media that is favorable to your political outlook.............
Not likely to happen. Too many people will still be using them for them to make a profit..............
Old FReepers yelling at clouds fail to comprehend the power of modern social media.
Not if they won't let you.
Don't kid yourself. This isn't about getting banned from Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube. The ultimate goal is to purge all "offensive speech" (as defined by the SPLC) off the internet.
After "hate groups" are banned from the platforms, the next step is to go after the ISPs that allow them on the internet altogether. Make your own site as Gab did and they'll just hobble the apps.
In the old days, if you didn't like what the papers said about you, you could buy your own printing press and run your own newspaper. Today, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. control all the printing presses and all the ink and they're not selling any of it to you.
Gab is banning people now as well.................
President Obama (who many here called "lazy") spent eight full years filling every single position in DC with his loyal Obamunists. From the people at the top to making policy decisions to the mid-level bureaucrats carrying them out and down to the guy at the bottom sweeping the floors, practically everyone who works in an office building in Washington DC is a partisan liberal Democrat and voted for Hillary Clinton.
Most of these unelected people still have jobs and are working hard to hobble Trump's agenda.
I don't think that you understand that.
Oh, more “private” censoring of public speech.
I disagree. He can ask the Justice Department to look at anti-trust violations among all the companies involved, and he can also ask them to look for violations of other communications laws.
Regarding communications systems, laws against discriminating on the basis of creed should be universal, and viciously enforced.
There is little more threatening to the nation than denial of public speech on what are defacto public platforms.
I don't give a D@mn who owns the wires. The public owns the forum.
It appears to me that social media ought to be called anti-social media from the negative effects it seems to be having on many young people. When I was young kids didn’t walk into schools and blow fellow students away, stand around and laugh as some poor sucker drowns, or convince some poor kid to commit suicide and post it on the internet, or hold up a bank and post theirselves on the internet bragging about it. I think face to face friendship is a whole lot better than electronic friends.
The THREAT to the nation is the fact that the public is on those sites and will hear liberal lies without being allowed to hear conservative truths.
This will influence their choices for public office, and will launch the nation in the direction of socialism and idiocy.
The problem we face has not a D@mn thing to do with us, it has to do with the absence of our beliefs on public forums. It is the masses which must be exposed to our ideas, because without our ideas they will move ever leftward.
People going to jail for collusion and anti-trust violations.
Huh. I was able to get to the Gatestone Institute and pjmedia with absolutely no problem.
It's almost as if they had a trillion dollar global network infrastructure available to let them get their speech out there.
Oh, that's right. It isn't really speech if it isn't on Twitter.
Twitter and the others hire companies like Appen to monitor social media.
Look it up.
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