Posted on 11/29/2020 2:54:27 PM PST by Rummyfan
That Twitter has just censored (“suspended the account” in their parlance) the film version of Lee Smith’s “The Plot Against the President,” directed by Amanda Milius, is not in the least surprising.
It’s only the latest example of what Twitter does, what we have come to expect of it—censor or whatever euphemism you want to apply because the massive site, we are informed ad infinitum, is a private company and can do what it bloody well pleases without having to pay the slightest obeisance to the Bill of Rights or even the Magna Carta.
Yes, it’s good publicity for the film, an accurate retelling of the horrifying Russiagate story, but that’s no excuse.
Whatever Jack Dorsey and his minions dislike, whatever threatens them, is automatically banned or, at best, temporarily tolerated with some supercilious notation about its supposed wrongheadedness. (And they claim they’re a public facility—like the phone company.)
Almost never do they say with any specificity why they are censoring. They just do it.
What is surprising is that so many of us are still on Twitter, addicted as any homeless crackhead in Santa Monica while fattening the coffers of a maniacal “progressive” billionaire by living as inadvertent vassals on his online totalitarian estate.
I wanted to get out years ago but hung on, even through the extraordinary blocking of the New York Post’s reporting on Tony Bobulinski’s testimony regarding the China-centric business dealings of Hunter Biden and the “big guy,” an act of hyperpartisanhip worthy of Goebbels or Beria.
That may have been the proverbial straw on the back of the proverbial camel for me.
I got out shortly thereafter and intend to stay out.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
Leaving, taking your business elsewhere, is the only way to destroy the pernicious influence of Twitter and the other tech giants. I’ve said it before, but this time I’ve done it myself. (Finally.)
And we can’t expect the government to do it for us.
Especially if Biden’s election goes through (I know, thankfully getting iffy), the chances of Section 230, the provision allowing Twitter and the others to avoid legal responsibility for what they publish, is unlikely to change. Big Tech literally owns the Democratic Party.
And if Donald Trump has a second term, I’m, alas, skeptical he will do much. He’s evidently addicted to Twitter as well. He should also get out.
I’m not going to spend time criticizing the narcissistic reasons so many media players, even those on the right who are mistreated, stay on. Obviously, I was one of them.
But I will address, via a personal anecdote, the question of whether both sides actually can discuss the issues together in a collegial manner, putatively the intention of Twitter, although totally ludicrous in its execution because the site’s bias against one of the sides is so extreme, even to the point of banning or censoring them (again, a distinction without a difference in the real world).
I closed my twitter a week ago...
You have to sign up for the rest of it but I think the excerpt covers the gist of it.
Now Is the Time for All Good Men and Women to Get Off Twitter
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AMEN!!!
I never got on but yes... time to GET OFF TWITTER.
I enjoy blocking the Marxists
Put the article link in the space provided by this website & you can see the rest of the article - gets past paywall:
Same.
This!!! 1000% this!
We ALL need to migrate off Facebook and Twitter and cut the cord to cable.
Quit feeding those who want to enslave us.
Parler exists. MeWe exists. We need to grow those platforms.
To see an example of how it is done right, look at The_Donald and how they migrated off Reddit.
They just hit 296.6 million pageviews for the month. Their traffic has been steadily growing since they migrated off Reddit after Reddit tried to suppress them.
https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thedonald.win
That is how it is done. It just takes each of us to do our part.
Geddy Lee sings: “I’ve seen all good people Tweet their heads each day,
NOT SATISFIED,
We’re on our way!”
I quit that site a year ago. I was not greatly active, but I was witnessing things which disgusted me.
I think that it was a year ago. Maybe 11 months, maybe 10, but I think that it was last November when I closed that door.
I am on Parler. It is a soothing place to be right now. I got my first porn shot when I clicked on someone’s comment to see the conversation. Porn ... but so far ... no censoring.
Are we sure that real men and real men are on TWITter?
I “suspended” Twitter and Facebook weeks ago.
Never had a Twitter or Facebook account in my life. My philosophy has always been stay off the grid.
I’ve been suspended from twitter for a few days now. Alyssa Milanno was blabbing about coming together with Biden and I said only if she would show us her ti*s first.
When Twitter began, I kept hearing the idiotic posts that folks were making on it and decided it wasn’t worth my time or effort to get on it. And haven’t regretted that decision in the least.
Many FReepers post articles about hating twitter.
Many Freepers post articles that are from twitter.
gave it up years ago...
I never got on twitter either. I took Rush’s word for it that it was 90% garbage.
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