In a long overdue decision, President Trump issued an executive order to take away legal protections that unsocial media currently enjoys. For far too long, unsocial media platforms have acted like publishers rather than platforms for open free speech. Instead, unsocial media has targeted conservatives on their platforms by restricting and censoring their posts.
These unsocial media platforms are bending to the left’s rage over the results of the 2016 election. The left blames unsocial media for President Trump’s win in 2016 and they’re demanding conservative voices, including the President, silenced.
Twitter’s “Shadow Banning.”, Fascistbook’s “De-Boosting,” Pinterest censoring LiveAction, Google’s “Algorithmic Censoring,” and YouTube’s “Demonetizing and Restricting” of PragerU educational videos. These unsocial media sites have engaged in a pattern of discrimination against conservative voices for years.
Twitter executives have openly said they block conservatives posts from being seen using an algorithm called “Shadow Banning”. Fascistbook often deletes posts and suspends accounts. There are many more examples on different unsocial media sites that target conservatives while liberals are never restricted by their posting content. It is open censorship against conservative political groups.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act: 47 U.S.C. § 230, a Provision of the Communication Decency Act states: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider” (47 U.S.C. § 230). In other words, online intermediaries that host or republish speech are protected against a range of laws that might otherwise be used to hold them legally responsible for what others say and do. The protected intermediaries include not only regular Internet Service Providers (ISPs), but also a range of “interactive computer service providers,” including basically any online service that publishes third-party content. Though there are important exceptions for certain criminal and intellectual property-based claims, CDA 230 creates a broad protection that has allowed innovation and free speech online to flourish.
For over 20 years, unsocial media enjoyed these protections. This exemption provides legal protections for internet hosting sites from being held libel for comments and content. Instead the unsocial media platforms pulled a “Bait and Switch” on their platforms. The last straw was when Twitter tried to censor President Trump’s tweets by labeling it as misleading information and linking the post to left wing fake news sites. It’s time to review if Section 230 still should apply to unsocial media platforms.
The President as over 80 Million followers on Twitter, and I am one of those followers. I use Twitter to follow other news outlets that I consider real objective non-biased journalism. I also follow the fake news media to get a cross-section of the propaganda that fake news posts. I do that to compare what the President is posting against the other news outlets coverage of the President’s comments. What is very clear is the fake news media, what compromises greater than 90% of the news industry, is extremely biased against the President. Often times openly lying about the President’s speeches and news conferences. So the President uses Twitter to get his message out to the public.
Twitter uses “Fact-Check” labels to identify what it calls misleading or false information. If you clicked on the links that Twitter embedded in the President’s posts, it would take you to articles from the Washington Post and other publications of Fake News. The fake news publishers are extremely hostile to the President and to conservatives opinions. Much of the media is loaded with former leftist political operatives that the fake news media calls journalists. They are not journalists, they are opinionators. They are not objective unbiased reporters. They are political hacks giving their opinions on far left political analysis. Conservative opinions are rarely given a voice on these shows. The majority, over 90%, of news channels are leftists opinion shows. This is the state of what passes for journalism today. Pathetic.
This is way overdue for a long time. If the unsocial media sites were as fair with how they treat posts on both sides then this would not be an issue today. The bias has been going on to for too long and now, Twitter is getting it’s wings clipped. Other unsocial media sites are soon going to see their monopoly empires crumbling down. This time, Twitter picked a fight with the wrong man.
The head of Twitter’s fact-checking team, Yoel Roth, has previously tweeted that the Trump administration are Nazis, compared adviser Kellyanne Conway to Joseph Goebbels and said fly over states are racist. The hostility by Twitter employees is open for everyone to see on their platform. This clown works as an Twitter executive.
Yoel Roth, whose official title at Twitter is head of Site Integrity, faced backlash on Wednesday after his history of anti-Trump tweets emerged less than 24 hours after the social media giant put a fact-checking warning on two of the president’s tweets.
Twitter prompted readers to check the facts in Trump’s tweets after the president on Tuesday suggested that California’s mail-in balloting initiative would lead to substantial voter fraud in the November general election.
The social media giant said Trump’s claims about mail-in ballots being ‘substantially fraudulent’ were found to unsubstantiated by fact-checkers at CNN, the Washington Post and other media outlets. Both CNN and Washington Post are fake news sites.
Do you think Twitter will flag Lieawatha Warren’s hate post? Nope! Posts like this by leftist kooks are encouraged. If a conservative said something like this on Twitter, they would have been flagged, forced to delete the post, and the account would have been suspended for a day, week, a month, or even permanently removed. There is a clear double standard with unsocial media sites.
Journalist Andy Ngo, who is neither a conservative nor a liberal, is regularly threatened with violence by antifa fascists on Twitter. This goes against Twitters community rules, but nothing ever happens to those making threats. Fake News CNN’s Don Lemon said violence is justified when antifa does it. Imagine if a Fox News reporter said that? There would be howls of leftists demanding the firing of that reporter. CNN’s fake news hack gets a pass and twitter allows the fake news posts with no fact-checking edits.
Fascistbook fact-checks everything and all their fact checkers are leftist liberals. They edit and remove conservative content and sometimes they ban the accounts of conservatives. I know, because I’m one of those conservatives Fascistbook banned from their platform for posting my opinions.
Google which manipulates their search engine to steer content towards and away from the searcher regularly hides information. I know that to be true because I cross-check my search results with DuckDuckGo and Bing. With Google, I have to use multiple search phrases to locate the information I’m looking for.
What’s disturbing about Google is there connection with Communist China. They are partnering to develop surveillance tools with a Communist government company called Semptian. They are allegedly using these tools for censorship and internet surveillance of its citizens. The surveillance data is then given to security agencies in China, known for human rights abuses.
Communist China requires companies to surrender their Intellectual Property to do business. In effect stealing American technology. Why Google would want to work with the Communist Chinese rather than the US Military displays their anti-American bias.
Prager University is a non-profit company run by Dennis Prager a conservative radio talk show host. They post on YouTube 5 minute educational videos that cover topics that range from the Bible to American history. The content is safe for children to view and the educational value is very excellent. Unsocial media disagrees with PragerU.
On college campuses, the leftist hate indoctrination is so prevalent that they will accuse PragerU of committing acts of terrorism. Take a look.
PragerU has been banned from advertising on Twitter and Spotify. Over 200 PragerU videos are restricted on YouTube, even several videos about the Bible and the 10 Commandments. Fascistbook has label PragerU as Fake News.
The left’s fact checking is about feelings and not about facts. There is no independence on these platform. One of the reasons is that when the left disagrees with a post, they will run to unsocial media fact-checkers to complain. They will threaten advertisers with boycotts and demand the post and posters removal from the unsocial media platform.
The bottom line is unsocial media want to control free speech. Communist China applies this censorship of speech and the left wants speech restrictions here in America. You’re not entitled to your opinions and you cannot question the left’s facts. If you do then you will be punished. It is an attempt to manipulate the 2020 elections. If you can suppress the other party’s message, you can control the information stream and narrative. This is why the left wants to silence the President and your voice.
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