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Twitter is running a blackmail operation — cooperate or no traffic for you
NY Post ^ | October 28, 2020 | 6:46pm | Post Editorial Board

Posted on 10/28/2020 4:45:09 PM PDT by conservative98

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To: Alberta's Child

“It’s hard to complain about the conditions you find on a free platform, I’d say.”

How do you figure it’s free? Like socialism free stuff, one supposes - everything is free.
I didn’t even get into the socials needing to register as PACs; yet another reason the special treatment by the government should not exist.


21 posted on 10/28/2020 5:53:26 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: conservative98

Dem rags/platforms are all the same...”conform, agree with us, or be cancelled.”

This is how they promote their idea of free speech and democracy.

It is the same way NAZIs and Communists promotes their idea of “free speech and democracy”

North Korea and China are still doing it...and Democratics have learned well.


22 posted on 10/28/2020 6:37:17 PM PDT by Hypo2
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To: Alberta's Child

NY Post has a business Facebook, Twitter and Google account. They are paying for these services. Is Twitter like a utility? Is Twitter a publisher? They have legal protection as one but use their censorship like another? Can’t have it both ways. Either you’re the phone company oblivious to calls us or you are a news network editing content.


23 posted on 10/28/2020 6:43:45 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: LouieFisk

He’s wrong. It’s not free. They have business accounts on social media.


24 posted on 10/28/2020 6:45:45 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: butlerweave

Absolutely. I thought ‘what a stoner’. Surprised he can run a business.


25 posted on 10/28/2020 7:45:04 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: conservative98

On the day after the election, Trump should dump twitter.


26 posted on 10/28/2020 7:49:08 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: conservative98

Playing devils advocate, by banning the Hunter story doesn’t that drive people straight to the NY Post to read?


27 posted on 10/28/2020 7:54:51 PM PDT by Fledermaus (ONLY A MORON THINKS 6 FEET IS A MAGIC NUMBER!)
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To: Alberta's Child

They get a Section 230 exemption from liablity. By editing content they should not be protected.

So when they ban you or stop you from monitizing (sharing ad revenue thru traffic) for content “they” deem inappropriate they could be sued.

As of now they can’t be sued.


28 posted on 10/28/2020 8:02:07 PM PDT by Fledermaus (ONLY A MORON THINKS 6 FEET IS A MAGIC NUMBER!)
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To: conservative98

Why don’t all conservatives simply boycott and abandon Twitter and let it be what it wants to be?

Set up a conservative alternative.

Let the libs have it - it’s already mostly theirs.


29 posted on 10/28/2020 8:47:25 PM PDT by Arlis
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To: Arlis

Because then you are giving in to political corruption and what’s to make sure the next site doesn’t do the same.


30 posted on 10/28/2020 8:58:56 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Alberta's Child

Yes!


31 posted on 10/28/2020 11:37:41 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: conservative98

If anyone deserves a beat down its Mullah Dorsey. Fluckerberg next (what’s up with that haircut other than his ever growing forehead?) Lastly Poindexter Pichai at Google.


32 posted on 10/29/2020 3:15:54 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Alberta's Child

Other than the Section 230 protection


“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”

The section protects these platforms as being essentially utilities in regards distribution of content.

The platforms did not grow to their monopolistic proportions by behaving the way they do now, and they are using the monopoly power to abuse those they disagree with. Had they started as a monitored platform and continued that, it wouldn’t be a problem, but it didn’t so it is now that they are repurposing it to selectively block the communications they were created and grown to accentuate. They effectively replaced the paperboys and distribution network and then shut it down for those they don’t like at a critical point in time.


33 posted on 10/29/2020 5:42:25 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Arlis

Why don’t all conservatives simply boycott and abandon Twitter and let it be what it wants to be?

Set up a conservative alternative.

Let the libs have it - it’s already mostly theirs.


Because that takes time. It’s happening, but it’s the network and interconnections that has the value, and the platforms have the network and interconnections. It’s not something to be replicated in two weeks. The alternate platforms are there, but it’ll take time and coordination to implement the interconnectivity.


34 posted on 10/29/2020 5:46:33 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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