Posted on 01/13/2021 7:09:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Late last week, after a "fiery but mostly peaceful protest" in Washington DC, a slew of Big Tech media companies including Amazon, Twitter, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Reddit began deplatforming — i.e., censoring, dropping, un/dehosting (I can make up words, too), banning, dropping, purging, suspending from their sites — sometimes permanently — people and/or institutions with whom they disagreed, most prominently President Trump (R). Twitter Safety lamely justified its censorious action:
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.
In a parallel, but unrelated, social media development, more shocking news filtered out Saturday when the millions of followers of Meghan Markle and her husband (formerly known as a Prince) Harry learned:
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have abandoned social media and will no longer use platforms such as Twitter or Facebook.
Harry and Meghan, who amassed more than 10 million Instagram followers as working royals, are rejecting social media as part of their new "progressive role" in America. A source close to the couple said they had "no plans" to use social media for their new Archewell Foundation and were "very unlikely" to return to platforms in a personal capacity.
The couple are understood to have become disillusioned by the "hate" they encountered on social media. Meghan has spoken about the "almost unsurvivable" experience of online trolling.
"Wh-a-a-t?!" millions shrieked! This loss, combined with the wrongthink earlier purging, deplatforming, dropping, unhosting, or otherwise disappearing, prompted millions to do the same. Casting aside the dominant social media sites, they turned to increasingly popular alternative sites such as Gab, MeWe and Parler. But then...boom! Google, Amazon, and Apple have disappeared Parler on some pretense.
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I don’t see Harry and Megain giving up social media. They love the attention too much.
I’ve been praying for America, and the entire world, to wake up and abandon this social media bullshit we’ve been consuming for 20 years. It’s becoming a toxic pool of bottom feeders and trolls. We need to go back to face-to-face social interaction, churches, taverns, markets. Social media has made our society sociopathic.
This is behind everything
Watch “Nancy Pelosi explains how to use the Media to Smear political opponents” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/vK5DCQhXKlY
I get the idea, but there was no fire at the demonstration.
Royal Ping! 👑
Dear Queen Mum;
Please send a check...
Demonstration? “Bloody Insurgency” is the new title I’ve been hearing all overnight on the radio airwaves. SMH
“love the attention too much.”
Too many people laughing at them.
Understand why the Left is attacking Big Tech. They want all digital communications under the control of the UN, and not under “private” US companies.
They aren’t going to give up social media. They are just trying to figure out ways to monetize anything they post. They may also be economizing right now by not paying to replace those 10 million bots who “follow” them.
That’s exactly what they have been doing for years. When the media reports “sources say”, they are the sources.
Meg might have at one point. But I seriously doubt Harry does. Consider the fishbowl he grew up in and what it did to his mum.
Social Media bump for later....
Call it what it really is: unsocial media.
Big Tech has tipped their hand and shown that any, literally anyone, can be cut off from followers and supporters at a moments notice.
Smart people are taking notes.
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