Posted on 10/31/2018 6:46:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Twitter allowed Cesar Sayoc, the man who allegedly sent apparent bombs to public figures around the country this month, to post more than 240 threats towards 50 different people on its social network without sanction. Meanwhile, the media managed to temporarily force free speech social network Gab offline after it was revealed that the Tree of Life Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting suspect had an account on the platform. According to CNN, an analysis discovered that “Sayoc tweeted more than 240 threats directed to at least 50 public officials, news organizations and media personalities.”
“The threats, and Twitter’s apparent inaction regarding them, raise new questions regarding social media and radicalization,” CNN declared, adding, “In this instance, Twitter may well have provided Sayoc with the material that radicalized him, and then it stood idly by as that radicalization led to hundreds of threats.”
Some of Sayoc’s threats reportedly included, “Your Time is coming,” “Your days are over,” “your (sic) next,” and “Hug your loved ones real close everytime U leave your home,” while he also sent pictures of decapitated goats to users.
CNN’s report did not include all of Sayoc’s targets on Twitter. Sayoc tweeted violent images of man-eating crocodiles to liberal Fox News contributor Rochelle Ritchie, a fact mysteriously left out by CNN, which instead focused on anti-Trump celebrity Kathy Griffin, who admitted she hadn’t even read the threat tweeted to her.
Free speech social network Gab, however, was forced offline this week after media outlets and figures blamed the platform for allowing Tree of Life Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting suspect Robert Bowers to make anti-Semitic comments on his account — where Bowers also made several posts attacking President Trump and the MAGA movement, which he perceived as Jewish.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Will Gab be back online? I’d write double standard but the left has no standards.
Problem: do FBI and police rush in to a private home and put leg irons and handcuffs on anyone talking big online?
Local newspaper sports commenters, controversial council issues going on the ballot and even rock stars’ lives are the basis of wildly hateful comments and even threats that moderators have to work to delete.
This doesn’t even count politics which for decades begins with: Bush started this or Obama is to blame-—years after both were out of office.
Which posters are insane and about to act and which will go on for years spreading BS? Who decides?
Immed iatly after the midterms President Trump needs to fire Sleepy Sessions and tell his replacement to go after Twitter, Facebook, and Google for anti-trust and have them regulated. If ever an industry needed government oversite its them.
Most of Hollywood would be in jail by now if that were to occur.
Someone is documenting the hate on the Left.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/179-death-threats-against-president-trump-are-live-on-twitter/
President Donald Trump has been threatened with death at least 184 times on Twitter, and 179 of those murder threats are still posted on Twitter’s website as of press time Monday evening 10/29/18.
Twitter allowed Cesar Sayoc, the man who allegedly sent apparent bombs to public figures around the country this month, to post more than 240 threats towards 50 different people on its social network without sanction. Meanwhile, the media managed to temporarily force free speech social network Gab offline after it was revealed that the Tree of Life Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting suspect had an account on the platform. According to CNN, an analysis discovered that “Sayoc tweeted more than 240 threats directed to at least 50 public officials, news organizations and media personalities.”
Thanks .
They say they’ll be back up before the election. A lot of alternatives to the services they got deplatformed from stepped up to provide what was needed, and they’re carrying out the changeover now.
remember Brazil’s Bolsonaro supporters had to migrate to Gab, when they were banned from WhattsApp. all the censorship going on is meant to shut down conservatives:
20 Oct: Bloomberg: WhatsApp Bans More Than 100,000 Accounts in Brazil Election
By Sarah Frier and Giulia Camillo; With assistance by David Biller
WhatsApp banned hundreds of thousands of accounts in Brazil as the Facebook Inc. messaging service struggles to contain spam, misinformation and political shenanigans ahead of a runoff election in Latin America’s largest country...
Facebook set up a “war room” to stem the tide of hate speech, false information and other damaging content during Brazil’s election this month, marking a test for the social network ahead of the November midterm elections in the U.S...
Bolsonaro wrote on Twitter that his opponent’s party “isn’t being damaged by fake news, but rather by the TRUTH.” ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-19/whatsapp-bans-more-than-100-000-accounts-in-brazil-election
30 Oct: ABC Australia: What’s the story behind Gab, the favoured platform of the US alt-right?
The Signal By Stephen Smiley and Angela Lavoipierre
And there are also other communities — for instance, there was an incident recently where there was something going on with Brazilian social media so a lot of Brazilians set up accounts on Gab.
(Will Sommers, The Daily Beast) “So essentially, communities that have sort of been exiled from other social media platforms end up on Gab.”...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-30/pittsburgh-massacre-whats-behind-us-alt-right-platform-gab/10444202
Has there been any judgment given by the investigators whether the devices were designed to not go off (hoaxes), or whether Sayoc was an incompetent bomb maker who did wish them to explode?
Boy do I smell lawsuits.
Twitter had enough time to monitor his “hate pattern” words and report them to the police. Failure to do so, while closing down other groups for just telling the truth, could constitute “a form of harmful neglect/negligence” as well as “bias”.
Worth a try, believe me.
Gab just hit 1 million on crowd funding through Start Engine. They are well funded, they are going no where, and the idiot corporate media and Big Tech censors just gifted them huge publicity. They just need to build out a payment service and ISP service to prevent being deplatformed in the the future. Minds (free speech Facebook competitor) just raised 6 million and is rolling. The Silicon Valley guys are going to censor themselves into the dustbin of history.
It’s a bit rough there but I enjoy the humor. Some of the folks are very quick on the news. Those behemoth silicone valley people need their corporations bulldozed and return the valley to orchards. If they’re nice maybe I’d see if they can pick fruit with the illegals on my cousins farm :>)
Yeah definitely... Twitter is completely humorless because of the speech police. On Gab you could be funny without having the Gestapo come down on you for it.
I have tried to use GAB on multiple occasions.
I have never been able to figure out what I am supposed to do or why I would want to do it.
Thanks for this link. Very informational and useful.
The Alt-Right’s Favorite Social Network Gab’s Plan To Use Blockchain To Make Itself Indestructible
Admittedly there is a small learning curve on navigating the site but it most is in the long run well worth the effort. Hang in there and before long you'll be cruising and navigating like a pro. It took me a short while and initially I was as confused as anyone else but now it's like I was born there. Working on my second year now.
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