The Big Tech March to Silence Free Speech

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PEPPERJAX said:
There sure as hell did. I have never had a twitter account or followed any goober on their platform. It will be entertaining to just sit back and watch the events unfold while eating popcorn & grinning like a drunk bastage.


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I might make one just so I can delete it.
 
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The Threats and Violence Twitter Won’t police

January 12, 2021 | 4:52pm | Updated
By David Marcus

Of late, much attention has been focused on acts of censorship by Twitter. What has garnered far less attention is what Twitter chooses not to censor, and the examples are shocking both in content and in the hypocrisy that Big Tech shows in its effort to destroy Twitter’s competitor, Parler.

Amazon, Apple, and Google have all acted to shut Parler down supposedly because it hosts calls for violence, but a simple search of Twitter shows that it regularly allows such calls itself.

Twitter hosts a #KillTrump hashtag. In all of the glorious English language there is no clearer, plainer, or shorter way to call for violence than the word kill followed by someone’s name. But there it is. One of these tweets reads “#ArrestTrump not enough #KillTrump.” And this isn’t new, back in June the hashtag #AssassinateTrump was bouncing around the website with gems like “Someone take this clown out NOW.” That tweet is still up.

And while Trump’s alleged calls for violence, in fact he explicitly called for peaceful protest, got him banned, the Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted this in November, “. . . Palestine will be free, while the fake Zionist regime will perish. There’s no doubt about this.” So encouraging a completely legal challenge to election results gets our President banned, but the leader of Iran’s brutal state threatening to wipe out Israel is no problem at all.

There is a Twitter account that calls itself “Pigs In A Blanket, Fry Em Like Bacon,” a call to kill police that is also found in myriad tweets. There is currently a tweet up from the day of the Capitol riots that reads “I hope the Trumpers out there all die of Covid. When Congressman elect Luke Letlow did die with Covid there were tweets celebrating or calling it justice.

Antifa, which engaged in riots all summer in Portland has several Twitter accounts that they use to organize. In July a left wing Portland journalist tweeted during a riot, “Heads up all, it looks like Andy Ngo is here.” Author and Antifa critic Ngo has been physically assaulted by the group. Clearly she knew she was putting him danger.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/12/the-threats-and-violence-twitter-wont-police/
 
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I’d like to know the condensed version of what the contract read between the parties regarding content. Could be Parler has a case, depending on how good their lawyers are.

Edit: And if Amazon is found to not have acted in the same manner wrt similar statements from groups/people/organizations on the left, they got some splainin’ to do to a judge.
 
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I think what everyone needs to understand, and the left needs to admit, is this is just the beginning. If it is determined that corporate America is on board and these tech platforms see little to no adverse consequences due to their actions recently, then the full scale assault on 1A speech wrt conservatives will be de-platformed entirely. We’ve already seen a massive amount of vile content from the left that is permissible by these tech platforms. What’s left is for anything center to center right to build their own platforms for disseminating information and ideas. But we’ve now witnessed an EMP of sorts by the tech titans and they are not friendly toward dissent. This past week was the first real salvo. And it was telling.
 
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Grand Vol said:
It's even more amazing the left is perfectly okay with someone monitoring their speech.

I mean, as long as they agree with them, it's okay.
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Curious. Do you agree with Trump that Section 230 should be repealed or not?

If you do agree with Trump, then you obviously cannot take the simultaneous position that social network providers shouldn't monitor speech on their sites.
 
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Vol737 said:
I think what everyone needs to understand, and the left needs to admit, is this is just the beginning. If it is determined that corporate America is on board and these tech platforms see little to no adverse consequences due to their actions recently, then the full scale assault on 1A speech wrt conservatives will be de-platformed entirely. We’ve already seen a massive amount of vile content from the left that is permissible by these tech platforms. What’s left is for anything center to center right to build their own platforms for disseminating information and ideas. But we’ve now witnessed an EMP of sorts by the tech titans and they are not friendly toward dissent. This past week was the first real salvo. And it was telling.
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Oh please, Karen.

All your handwringing will break your pretty nails, hun.

Don't fret. Just remember that when "dissent" = violent insurrection, the adults are gonna give you a time out.
 
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AirVol said:
Twitter is a private business and is doing what it wants with no repercussions. So the private businesses that are shut down should open back up. It’s what they want.
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Whoa. Did you miss the nonstop hearings on Capitol Hill over the past year? Gimme a break.
 
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AirVol said:
What you don’t understand is Twitter is shutting down free speech. Did they delete anyone that threatened Trump? Nah, didn’t think so. Progressives are the ones that have free speech, anyone else needs to stfu and get over it.
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Lie.

Link or not true.
 
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Septic said:
If the Piratebay can figure out how to get around hosting issues, one would think that a message board service ought to be able to figure it out.
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Yeah, AWS didn't cut Parler off out of the blue. The two had been going back and forth for months about the moderation issue, yet Parler didn't have a plan B. That's on them.
 
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MontyPython said:
Curious. Do you agree with Trump that Section 230 should be repealed or not?

If you do agree with Trump, then you obviously cannot take the simultaneous position that social network providers shouldn't monitor speech on their sites.
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It comes down to what level of editing, deleting and "fact checking" they are doing. How can it be that hard to monitor and delete threats of violence, pornography and such? Let everything else go since they do have section 230 protection.
 
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