Aloha kākou and Happy Aloha Friday. Twitter finally backed down and finally released the account of the New York Post. I like the New York Post, not because it’s the oldest newspaper in the country that was established in 1801 by Federalist and Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton. But because it a variety newspaper that combines real news and celebrity entertainment. What you would expect a real newspaper would be about, with breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and so much more.
When Twitter locked the New York Post twitter account because of the story of Hunter Biden’s shady and criminal business dealing, it caused outrage on the internet. Congress started hearings with the Big Three Tech Fascists, Twitter, Fascistbook, and Google.
Dorsey bin Lying
The CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey could not justify why his company decided to censor the New York Post’s story on Hunter Biden. Twitter locked the Post’s account after The Post refused Twitter’s demand that it delete six tweets that linked to stories that the company claimed without any evidence were based on hacked information. The Post never budged, and kept the tweets on the account during the standoff.
Twitter claimed The Post violated its policy on sharing “hacked materials” by tweeting links to bombshell exclusives on Biden’s emails without ever saying how it came to that conclusion. Even though the six tweets at issue were invisible to users by replacing them with messages saying, “This Tweet is no longer available.” Although The Post’s story was released to other media outlets, Twitter continued its heavy handed lockout.
This is a pattern by the Tech Giants to retroactivity revise their oppressive rules to censor free speech. Even though the Tech Giants enjoy legal protections, they decided that they are the arbiters of what can and cannot be posted on their platforms. This goes against Section 230 of the Comminutions Decency Act that gives them legal protections in exchange for being open platforms.
It could be argued that the Tech Giants are private companies and can do whatever they want, but when afforded with certain protections from legal liabilities and censoring users, then they are acting like publishers limiting content. That goes against the protections that Section 230 grants them. Those protections should be removed since their platforms are no longer open and free.
The fact that the Tech Giants are politically biased also makes them in violation of Section 230. They’re supposed to be a neutral platform. We know that all three platforms do censor political content they don’t like. They were even bold enough to censor President Trump’s tweets.
This is election interference and it is very illegal. By controlling political content on their platforms they can in effect suppress voter information to rig the election. During the 2016 election, Big Tech, the democrats, the Fake News Media, the pollsters, and Hildabeast Clinton all believed the election was over. Everyone predicted that the Hildabeast was going to win. The left blamed the Tech Giants for President Trump win. They vowed not to allow President Trump a second term.
One of the reasons why I like using Twitter is because many of the News Outlets that I read on a daily basis post on Twitter. I also get 911 and police information. Hawai’i Country Emergency Management, State and County information, National Weather and other information besides just chatting with friends. It more than just social media communications.
There’s no mistaking that the majority of the Fake News Media is bias and does openly spread misleading information. Or information that is deliberately false to create a narrative. This is all symptomatic of modern journalism’s great moral and intellectual failing: its unbearable smugness.
Many of the news outlets that I follow don’t have the broadband reach as the legacy news channels. The newer up and coming news outlets use unsocial media as their only means of distributing information.
If the Tech Giants refuse to stop censoring content on their platforms, then it’s time to break-up their monopoly. Especially Google where information is deliberately suppressed in search results. Facistbook, which owns Instagrumble, and other sites restricts content across all their platforms. These companies have to be broken up to allow a more distributed and fair content of information.
Revising of Terms of Use on the fly has to stop also. This is also a habit the unsocial media giants do to change the rules and then punish people by restricting their content.
I would rather see this as a resolution than making the platforms legally responsible for content posted by users. That would just restrict speech even more. By breaking the Tech Giants up, then they can be more competitive in the social media market. Just like when Ma Bell was broken-up it allowed the explosion of new communication companies with greater competition and cheaper costs. That’s the ideal solution.
Today’s weather started sunny skies with and few clouds. By afternoon, the clouds are moving in over the islands. It looks like rain in the forecast. Tradewinds are lite today. We got only a trace of precipitation in the rain gauge overnight. Temperatures are in the upper 70’s with humidity at 83%.
Kēia Ka Lā ʻOkakopa Kanakolu