Posted on 06/06/2019 8:11:26 AM PDT by Liberty7732
Steven Crowder’s gigantic Youtube site was demonetized Wednesday after a gay writer at Vox complained repeatedly about being made fun of in a hurtful way. Within hours, online seller Shopify said they would stop selling Crowder’s hugely popular merchandise, such as the Mug Club.
Later in the day, Glenn Beck’s Facebook page was notified that it was put in “time out” and won’t be able to post until Saturday for posting clickbait. This followed Tuesday’s demonetizing by Twitter of pro-life fireball Lila Rose and her Live Action accounts.
Twitter. Facebook. Youtube. All within 48 hours. This gives, at the very least, the appearance of a coordinated attack on conservatives. Perhaps even collusion within an industry.
Every right-of-center, or just not politically correct, creator on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter understands the censorious nature of the leftists that run and populate the social media universe. But this expands considerably when it includes companies such as Shopify and efforts to shut down personal actual web sites by major web platforms such as WordPress.
Crowder is not only conservative, he’s decidedly politically incorrect and is always pushing boundaries. But he also has a team in daily contact with Youtube to make sure they are following the so-called “community guidelines.” He actually tries to follow the rules.
Vox’s Carlos Maza sent out a tweet storm where, in the end, he called for demonetizing Crowder, because Maza is a leftist and that’s what they do:
“Anyway, if you want to help, I guess you can go to this dude’s videos and flag them? But @YouTube isn’t going to do anything, because YouTube does not give a f*** about queer creators. It cares about ‘engagement,’ and homophobic/racist harassment is VERY ‘engaging.’”
At first, Youtube said there was no violation of their rules. But later, they changed in mid-stream and demonetized all of Crowder’s videos. That is a huge hit to a guy with nearly 4 million subscribers and a full production company to pay for.
Then later yesterday, Glenn Beck’s The Blaze got a notification that it would not able to post items on its Facebook page until Saturday. Officially, the reason was for sharing clickbait. But one Facebook flagged was a “completely legitimate story,” according to a spokesman who said it was about a mom who recorded abuses of her handicapped child at school and was seeking changes.
The other story Facebook tagged as clickbait was a video by Will Witt, with PragerU, who does humorous on-the-street interviews on hot topics.
“This is the second time in a month we’ve had to fight Facebook over something ridiculous,” the spokesman said. Their fight has temporarily paid off as they seem to be able to post again — although with no explanation from Facebook.
On Tuesday, Lila Rose tweeted:
“Twitter banned @LiveAction & my account from all ads. When we asked why, @Twitter said we could resume ads, only if we deleted the following content from our Twitter AND website:
-Anything about abortion procedures
-Investigations of Planned Parenthood
-All ultrasound images”
That’s a pretty impossible standard for a pro-life organization. And it includes their web site. This is nothing more than simply attempting to completely shut down Lila Rose and Live Action.
Ben Shapiro went off on the Crowder action yesterday, but it applies to all of them:
“If you’re in the public eye, you’re going to be mocked and insulted in ways you find deplorable. If your solution is to target the platform for destruction — or to target advertisers who advertise on a wide variety of political programming — you’re the actual problem.
It’s far more dangerous to the country and the discourse to work to shut down the entire public square on behalf of your feelings than it is that people sometimes call you mean names. Grow the f*** up.”
But they won’t. Anti-free speech is a congenital condition of the left. Other solutions will be in order.
Crony capitalism "allows for preferential regulation and other favorable government intervention based on personal relationships." (http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/crony-capitalism.html) Google's being required to modify its product in order to do business in China is the opposite of preferential.
But even if we suppose that Google's knuckling under to China somehow makes their future Chinese earnings not theirs or not private, it doesn't pass the laugh test to conclude as you seem to that their current servers are not their property to allow use of or not as they choose.
If all the main privately owned platforms get together to kick you off at the same time, it's RICO.
“I actually set up a small-scale monitoring system which worked beautifully, and which looked at bias in search rankings that people were seeing before the 2016 election, looking at Google, Bing, and Yahoo, not just Google. I was able to preserve more than 13,000 election-related searches, more than 90,000 web pages to which the search results linked,” he explained.
“I was able to analyze this looking for bias toward either Clinton or Trump in search results. I found a very clear bias toward Mrs. Clinton, enough to shift possibly 2 or 3 million votes
Is there any evidence of collusion, rather than simply shared viewpionts?
The simultaneous timing. It's probable cause and worth having the DOJ investigate.
The Senate could be doing its part, too, by bringing in the CEOs for more hot seat testimony and drafting some anti-trust legislation. Of course we'd need Graham,but he's gone all soft and quisling again.
You twist and you turn, you take partial definitions and you ignore full concepts.
Do a search on "crony capitalism" and "symbiotic relationship between big business and big government". You know what "symbiotic" means, right? I even used the word up thread and you ignored it.
Crony Capitalism isn't about "personal", close emotional relationships. It's "laughable" if you think that it is. It's about symbiotic relationships.
Google creates a tyrannical search engine for China and China reciprocates by giving Google the business (or a "preference" if you insist).
But even if we suppose that Google's knuckling under to China somehow makes their future Chinese earnings not theirs or not private, it doesn't pass the laugh test to conclude as you seem to that their current servers are not their property to allow use of or not as they choose.
I said theoretically. Big Government and Big Business symbiotically using their monopolistic powers to control the free flow of information, gain profit, and accumulate property is the antithesis of free market gained, real private property.
When Big Business gets Big Government to squeeze out competition (existing or future), that weakens its ethical claims to its accumulation, agreed. It's a long, long leap from that to government A dictating the use of said accumulation based on actions regarding government B; that's a Pandora's box not all of whose contents we may like.
Are you really taking the position that social media has no affect on elections?
and that the left having complete domination and censorship of conservatives on social media will not swing elections in their favor?
I suppose you think that the television networks have never had influence on elections either.
Are you really taking the position that social media has no affect on elections?
and that the left having complete domination and censorship of conservatives on social media will not swing elections in their favor?
No. Are you propping up straw men to beat rather than addressing what I've actually posted?
Beck laughed at some of those who were banned before him.
Really? Who?
We are way past that point.
It does not matter.
People will folow the strong horse.
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