Posted on 12/10/2022 8:17:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
“1984” author George Orwell warned that “if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” That line has never been more relevant than in the aftermath of the second release of Twitter documents this week.
Many liberals had denied the social media giant was engaging in censorship by using the more pleasant term “content modification.” Now documents show Twitter executives burying “disfavored” views as “visibility filtering” and “amplification” limits.
Calling executives the “head of legal, policy, and trust” (Vijaya Gadde) and the “global head of trust & safety” (Yoel Roth) doesn’t alter their status as some of the greatest censors in history.
Yet the license for this massive system clearly came from Twitter’s very top. Shadow banning and “visibility filtering” are consistent with the policies of ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, who pledged the company would “focus less on thinking about free speech” because “speech is easy on the internet. Most people can speak. Where our role is particularly emphasized is who can be heard.”
So we now know that Twitter was not only banning dissenting voices on subjects ranging from COVID to climate change but was throttling or suppressing the traffic for disfavored writers.
All the Orwellian euphemisms and cheery titles will no longer disguise Twitter’s raw censorship. Once empowered by Agrawal to determine “who can be heard,” Twitter executives showed how censorship can become an insatiable appetite for speech controls. Sitting in the San Francisco headquarters, the “Trust” officials found an array of conservative views unworthy to be heard. The “filtering” of free speech quickly became a choice on what views are worthy of attention.
After all, if you cannot trust “Trust” professionals, whom can you trust?
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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This is exactly why Musk should have released the Twitter Files through Hurley to provide the necessary CONTEXT. Taibbi falls short and Barium Wipes is a Leftist.
Elvis is in T R O U B L E.
No he’s not. He’ll get a do-nothing “think tank” job for $200,000 a year.
When called before congress, he will say, “I can’t remember” 500 times while smirking and laughing.
but everyone knew the democrats were up to their eyeballs in it
Vijaya. Gedde is not American. Which is why she censored free speech.
These people need to go to prison for mass infringement of the Constitutional rights to freedom of speech. Seriously.
There should be an investigation into all of Big Tech. That includes Microsoft and Apple. All of Big Tech is ripe for break up. Point at hand, Microsoft was seeking approval for the purchase of Activision this week. It’s ONLY as $69 Billion deal. That’s outrageous and out of control. I compare that to my first job in Tech back in the 1980’s. It was with the world’s largest manufacturer of electronics connectors; a $5 Billion, Fortune 150 company. That’s a huge difference from tech today.
The Twitter Files also makes it apparent that the Federal government is ripe for a breakup. That however is different than Big Tech. It means large portions of government need to be shuttered. That includes the FBI, DHS and vast portions on the intel agencies under the DNI. They all participated in censoring Americans. They no longer defend American freedoms. They destroy American freedoms. Individuals that participated in censorship need to serve long prison sentences.
Only these actions will begin to restore trust in government and business.
So Jack gave an ignorant State actor corporate control -- that's fascism, a particularly dangerous kind of know-nothing fascism.
These people are also protected by the GOP leadership who speak through both sides of their mouth and do absolutely nothing... even for such egregious crimes.
In a couple of years, if this guys name came up, people will ask "Who is Elvis?"
They know that they will get away with it. Hence they are so blatant. They don't really care if you know what they are doing.
The pattern is simple.
1- They do something.
2- we point out that they are doing something
3- The accuse us of doing the something they did
4- media carries their water
5- We defend ourselves
6- We provide evidence that the democrats did it
7- we get called conspiracy nutcases
8- after about 3-6 months, the media accidentally acknowledges the democrats did it.
9- the media calls it old news
10- democrats say, “so what if we did, what are you going to do about it”.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Folks -- why didn't the DNI or FBI just pick up the phone, and call Trump! Simply ask POTUS - who at that time was our Chief Executive - and ask him directly for his source for that particular tweet?
Just shows the Deep State is guilty of treason - these people need to be immediately arrested!
He’s alive! Those plastic surgeons are wizards. Got rid of the hair lip, I see.
The generally accepted view is that the First Amendment solely applies to speech limited, modified or canceled by the government and not by nongovernmental organizations. Therefore free speech manipulated or banned on their platform, while repugnant and self-serving, is not unconstitutional. But what is unconstitutional and is not getting as much pushback as Twitter itself is agencies and factions of the US government calling Twitter’s attention to speech which they want banned by like minded Twitter bosses. This is unconstitutional and punishable.
People in general (not FR) wouldn’t feel so stupid and duped if they understood just how common and often libtards lie without batting an eye.
They do it every day of the year on fake news.
… while repugnant and self-serving, is not unconstitutional...
However, this was government abuse by proxy. Weekly meetings with FBI and other collusion with Deep State operatives.
The terrible, horrible, no-good consequences of stolen elections and government corruption!:
American Thinker ^ | 10 Dec, 2022 | Patricia McCarthy
Posted on 12/10/2022, 10:04:11 AM by MtnClimber
Joe Biden in office is an unmitigated catastrophe for the country in one way after another.
Elon Musk was true to his word, as far as we know, with regard to his promise to release Twitter documents, first by Matt Taibbi then by Bari Weiss.
Thus far, he has exposed that social media site’s calculated censorship of any and all information that might silence conservative voices, including President Trump as well as reflect badly on the Biden family, Dr. Anthony Fauci, lockdowns, and vaccines.
He has done exactly that, probably not to the fullest extent, but he’s released enough to prove how much Twitter, the mainstream media and all the other social media sites interfered with the 2020 election.
Their interference amounts to both fraud and treason. The Democrats engineered the Biden victory and subsequently bragged about it.
Twitter’s big part of the game has finally been revealed for all to see. Twitter, on their own or often due to orders from the Biden White House and/or the FBI, de-platformed anyone who posted anything remotely critical of the Biden regime and/or its horrific policies, especially those related to COVID lockdowns and vaccines.
The left cheats; they can’t win if they don’t cheat so they regularly cheat. Nothing makes that clearer than the 2022 midterm elections in Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Polls show that about sixty percent of the American people believe the 2020 election was stolen; those people are not all Republicans.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com …
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