Posted on 12/14/2022 7:50:17 AM PST by PhxRising
Over the last few days, Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and Bari have all reported out pieces of Donald Trump’s deplatforming, which is easily the most famous digital unpersoning in history. It is also the least compelling story in the series. While it’s good to finally know exactly what happened, it really just was what everyone assumed: Trump was not banned for violating policy. Trump was banned because Twitter employees, who donated literally 99% of their political contributions to the Democratic Party, demanded it be done regardless of their own rules.
Altogether, the Twitter Files — an ongoing story — paint a portrait of clear and inevitable partisan bias at one of the most dominant speech platforms in history. A small handful of very left-wing executives, who naturally perceived most opinion right of center as dangerous, worked tirelessly to limit those opinions from view. Empowered to censor “unsafe” content, and protected by a team of people who shared their political orientation, the executives produced, in a legal and decentralized manner, a key component of our defacto state censorship apparatus. While we don’t know for sure this is also happening at Google, Meta, or TikTok (which is for some reason still allowed to operate in this country), I think it’s a safe bet we’re looking at an industry-wide affliction.
But I do have questions...
The Fifth Estate is a fundamentally different kind of power. It’s more difficult to consolidate than media, and more difficult to control than even our government divided by design. Its impact is also far more difficult to predict. This is because technology is above all things defined in terms of newness, which not only makes it disruptive of pre-existing power, but destructive of itself — a sort of anti-power that only guarantees change.
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I hope Jerk DORKY and his libtard minions lose their pants to lawsuits
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The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the “Twitter files” (Thread with images)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4116151/posts
It’s okay and expected for a private news outlet to publish slanted stories. However, Twitter is a privately-owned public chat venue, just like a southern lunch counter. The Supreme Court has ruled that it is illegal for such venues to discriminate on the basis of race because they speak as governments, on behalf of the entire community.
That’s illegal. However, when it comes to speech discrimination, that’s the purview of the Constitution. It’s unconstitutional for a privately-held public venue to discriminate against speech which the owner disagrees with. The owner is speaking as a government, on behalf the entire community.
“While we don’t know for sure this is also happening at Google, Meta, or TikTok...”
When they started coordinating and synchronizing their bans it became obvious. Including platforms banning people for things said on other, supposedly “competing” platforms, even though that can’t in any way be construed to violate any terms of service.
I guess it’s true we don’t “have the receipts” like we do for twitter, but they are most definitely doing the same thing, and either coordinating with each other, or perhaps more likely now in light of recent revelations, being coordinated by the same players in the government.
Except the company is owned by Elon Musk now, so Musk will be the one who probably has to defend against the lawsuits, for things that were done by his predecessors, and based on evidence that he revealed to the public, enabling the lawsuits.
Really, people should be suing the government.
Bkmk
History is NOT going to be kind to democrats...
And until Musk acquired Twitter it was taking direction from the US Government (or at least Government employees and agencies).
This is illegal from a bit of information I have been reading.
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