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To: DiogenesLamp; Red Badger; palmer
Oh, more “private” censoring of public speech.

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.

59 posted on 08/16/2018 4:40:35 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: semimojo

Twitter and the others hire companies like Appen to monitor social media.

Look it up.


60 posted on 08/16/2018 4:58:00 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: semimojo
Huh. I was able to get to the Gatestone Institute and pjmedia with absolutely no problem.

There are multiple levels of censorship. It is not all or nothing, there are numerous shades of gray.

I just read an excellent article last week on how Youtube censors people. I think it listed 10 ways in which Youtube does this, but I can't recall them all. I recall a few, and I shall mention them to you so as to illustrate my point that censorship can occur in stages.

According to the article, one of the easy methods YouTube uses to censor people is to deem their content "Adult", or "mature" or whatever they call it. Making people sign in to view content results in millions of views not happening, because many people simply won't go to the trouble.

Another technique they use is to push back unwanted content in the search results. They know people will usually just look at the first few pages, so if they make certain undesirable content is deep in the search results, people likely won't see it.

A third method they use is to disallow "buttons" to easily link to the content. This reduces the possibility that others will see it.

They can also disallow commentary, and that will also reduce viewing.

Another method is to demonitize the content they don't like, because many people post videos so that they can make money from them. By demonitizing them, they remove incentive for people to post content they don't like.

Another technique is to put forth claims that something in the content was objectionable, and then make the content creator have to challenge them to get it reinstated. Many won't bother.

There were several other things mentioned in the article, but I don't recall them.

Anyway, finally we have an actual ban or deplatform, which is their ultimate censorship technique.

So if you think censorship is an all or nothing proposal, you haven't really considered the topic all that much. If I find that article again, i'll send you a link to it. It was well written and quite good.

64 posted on 08/16/2018 6:20:18 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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