Big Tech Continued Censorship

Hijinx

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The liberals on the court appear to be basing their judgement on what the CDC an the media say and NOT ON THE LAW.

It isn't up to the Court to decide what is best for us health wise, it is up to them to decide the Constitutionality of the law.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
It's Dangerous to Allow Politicians and Officials to Decide What Constitutes 'Truth'


Despite robust First Amendment protections for free speech rights, the U.S. is not immune to powerful people's desire to control information.

"We're going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation and misinformation," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) insisted last year.

In July, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki called on social media companies to act as government proxies by removing what the administration flags as "narratives dangerous to public health."

Interestingly, CPJ's Joel Simon predicted the pandemic would empower efforts to control information.

"[W]e must be mindful that when we get to the other side of the pandemic, we may be left with a narrative, being written by China, that government control over information was essential to combating the crisis," he warned in March 2020. "That would be a devastating blow to the global information system, one that could endure even as the memories of the terrible pandemic we are currently facing slowly fade."

Since then, he's been proven painfully prescient as politicians' concerns have morphed from fighting "extremism" to suppressing "disinformation" to a weird amalgam of the two, unified by the alleged need to control what the public says, reads, and shares.

That's not to say, by the way, that material tagged as extremism isn't extreme, or that posts called out as disinformation aren't false. To open a web browser is to encounter a wide world of bigotry, bogus concerns about vaccine safety, nonsensical charges about election integrity, and fact-free arguments over whether or not COVID-19 even exists. But bullshit isn't a recent invention.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Big Tech Accelerates Politicized Purge As Biden Issues “Special Plea”

YouTube takes down Bongino, DirecTV To Drop OANN, while a pressure campaign is waged against Joe Rogan’s Spotify program


Joe “I am the Democratic Party” Biden issued a “special plea” to social media companies to “please deal with the misinformation and disinformation [about COVID] that’s on your shows. It has to stop.”

The clip is bizarre in many ways, not the least of which is the repeated references to the military stepping up juxtaposed against his “special plea” for Big Tech censorship (who are, apparently, in doddering Joe’s estimation not yet doing enough to censor ‘wrongthink’).

Biden is Commander in Chief of the United States military per the Constitution. He has zero Constitutional authority over social media companies, yet the implication seems clear here: Big Tech needs to step up as the military has done to help fight against “one of the most formidable enemies America has ever faced.”

Stop laughing. He is serious. And that is horrifying.

Big Tech, never one to back down from Biden’s leftist government “pleas,” has responded by going to war with conservatives, purging them from social and alternative media just as the military under political hack Lloyd Austin is purging ‘wrongthink’ from its ranks.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Facebook user’s lawsuit claims Vermont statute violates free speech rights



According to court papers, Vinson, who is white, saw a Facebook post by Brattleboro resident Christian Antoniello in June 2020 responding to Black Lives Matter protests against the Minneapolis police murder of Minnesotan George Floyd.

“How about all lives matter,” Antoniello posted in a meme on his personal page. “Not black lives, not white lives. Get over yourself no one’s life is more important than the next. Put your race card away and grow up.”

Vinson responded with her own Facebook message.

“Disgusting,” she wrote before commenting that Antoniello “thinks this is okay and no matter how many people try and tell him it’s wrong he doesn’t seem to care.”

Vinson shared the post with a Facebook group called “Exposing Every Racist.” She urged people to “leave a review” on the page of Antoniello’s local business, the Harmony Underground marijuana and CBD supply shop.

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“As a result of the citation, Ms. Vinson’s speech has been chilled,” her lawsuit states. “She has been reluctant to post on Facebook, especially posts criticizing local businesses, because she has a real and imminent fear of future prosecution.”





How about Christian Antoniello freedom to speak ? Vinson was certainly attempting to inhibit his speech she disagreed with .
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Elite Panic In The Cathedral!


I wrote yesterday about the Joe Rogan problem our elite faces today, where even such leading intellectual lights as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle must take up the solemn duty of condemning their Spotify colleague who actually does the work his contract demands. Of course, the company’s decision to essentially add a “dangerous, do not ingest” warning to Rogan’s interviews is just a prelude to more crackdowns, as Zaid Jilani recognizes:





As Jilani notes, there has been a demonstrable increase in the number of leftists who favor censorship by any entity necessary — including private corporations — all in the cause of shutting down speech that they find irritating or inconvenient to the narrative they favor:

Young’s transformation from countercultural champion of freedom of speech to corporate censorship advocate and defender of the public-health bureaucracy didn’t occur in a vacuum. Progressives have become increasingly censorious over the past few years. A majority of Democrats now believe that both private tech companies and the U.S. government should “take steps to restrict false info online.”
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Facebook Just DELETED AND BANNED US Trucker Freedom Convoy To DC, Elites Are Panicking HONK HONK




 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

It won't end with Spotify and Substack



Cybertoonz content moderation 1
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

YouTube pulls Heritage interview with Virginia mom who challenged school board over COVID policies



In the interview, as in the initial speech, Jensen discusses what she considers the minimal risk the virus poses to school children.

"COVID is not being spread in the classrooms," she said. "It is not being spread by children."

The interview was posted to the Daily Signal's YouTube page and amassed close to 60,000 views before being removed on Friday for what You Tube said was a violation its COVID-19 "medical misinformation policy."

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts suggested YouTube's decision shows the power of Big Tech and its ability to essentially censure what it considers mis- or dis-information,

"This is why Big Tech needs to be held accountable," he said. "Merianne Jensen is a loving and caring parent who wants what’s best for her family. Who is YouTube – or any corporate actor – to think they have a right to silence her point of view?"
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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What GoFundMe’s Trucker Convoy Targeting Says About Tech


GoFundMe made this fact clear when it suddenly seized $8 million that people had donated in support of the Canada trucker protest, known as the “Freedom Convoy.” Not only did the tech company refuse to give that money to the truckers, who were protesting heavy-handed pandemic mandates, but it then announced that it would give the money to other causes. Only after people angrily pointed out that they donated the money to the truckers did GoFundMe agree to refund them.

There’s only one possible explanation for these actions: An intolerant, extreme, and exclusionary worldview. GoFundMe is the same company that facilitated donations to groups like Antifa, which organizes riots, and the armed mob that captured an entire Seattle neighborhood and kicked out the police in 2020. It takes a special kind of radicalism to accept anarchy in the streets yet oppose civil disobedience by protesters who simply wanted to save their jobs and preserve their freedom.

And GoFundMe isn’t alone. Much of Medium Tech suffers from the same ideological extremism. While Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple draw the most attention for silencing people and imposing their views on society, scores of smaller tech companies do the same thing on a regular basis.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Greenwald warns of censor-happy Big Tech's relationship with national security bureaucracy



"They have huge contracts, the Pentagon, the CIA for cloud services, for all kinds of other services, and so often their censorship is purely aligned with U.S. foreign policy," he said.

"And I'm so grateful for the First Amendment because without it, I'm certain that we would have all kinds of laws being enacted empowering the state not just to ban ideas, but to criminalize them as well."

Greenwald added that while the Constitution bans government from direct censorship, entities have apparently found a loophole in that lawmakers summon tech executives to Congress and threaten "regulatory reprisals" if they don't censor more.

"It also bans the government from pressuring or coercing private actors to censor on their behalf in the way the Constitution prohibits," he said. "And that's exactly what's been happening and still is happening ever more so with this war."
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

YouTube Won't Distinguish Between Misinformation and Reporting, So It Suspended My Channel


Not only does YouTube punish channels that spread misinformation, but in many cases, it also punishes channels that report on the spread of misinformation. The platform makes no distinction between the speaker and the content creator. If a channel produces a straight-news video that merely shows Trump making an unfounded election-related claim—perhaps during a speech, in an interview, or at a rally—YouTube would punish the channel as if the channel had made the claim, even if no one affiliated with the channel endorsed Trump's lies.

I learned this firsthand on Thursday after YouTube suspended my show—Rising—for violating the election misinformation policy, despite the fact that neither my co-hosts nor I had said anything to indicate that we believe the election was rigged.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Twitter suspends John Solomon's account for story on peer-reviewed COVID study




Twitter on Thursday suspended the account of Just the News CEO and Editor John Solomon for tweeting a story about a peer-reviewed study on COVID vaccines published in a respected medical journal by a research university that has worked with the both National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization.

The platform claimed the story was "violating the policy on spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19" even though the story quoted federal agencies' context for the issue raised by the story.

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The story is about a study by Swedish scientists that found when the Pfizer vaccine's mRNA enters human liver cells it triggers a number of reactions that yield a reverse transcription that turns the mRNA into spike DNA and notes the story was first reported by another news outlet.

The peer-reviewed study was published in the respected medical journal Current Issues in Molecular Biology. and was conducted by Lund University in Sweden, a medical research institute that has done contract work with NIH and often cited by the WHO.

The story also points out the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said the reverse transcription process would not happen, as also reported by at least one other news outlet.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Leftists Demand Big Tech Preemptively Censor Trump’s Truth Social



In “Big Tech Could Save Us From ‘Truth Social,'” author Samuel O’Brient, who has a history of demanding censorship because he believes “Limiting Free Speech is Essential to Democracy,” argues that Big Tech companies should preemptively nuke the anti-political censorship platform simply because it is associated with the former president.

“Trump clearly wants to use Truth Social to rally his troops again and fire them up for another run at the White House. There’s almost no way that such a mission won’t include inciting violence in some form,” O’Brient wrote this week. “If Truth Social becomes a venue for hate-spewing and further insurrection-plotting, these big tech giants can buy themselves a lot of goodwill by honoring their credos and standing up to protect American democracy.”

While corporate media are still largely focused on downplaying the number of people abandoning propaganda sites run by the political actors in Big Tech, leaders at Truth Social know that a war on their attempt to offer a “family-friendly” social media site is coming and they are prepared to stop it in its tracks.
 
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HemiHauler

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Leftists Demand Big Tech Preemptively Censor Trump’s Truth Social



In “Big Tech Could Save Us From ‘Truth Social,'” author Samuel O’Brient, who has a history of demanding censorship because he believes “Limiting Free Speech is Essential to Democracy,” argues that Big Tech companies should preemptively nuke the anti-political censorship platform simply because it is associated with the former president.

“Trump clearly wants to use Truth Social to rally his troops again and fire them up for another run at the White House. There’s almost no way that such a mission won’t include inciting violence in some form,” O’Brient wrote this week. “If Truth Social becomes a venue for hate-spewing and further insurrection-plotting, these big tech giants can buy themselves a lot of goodwill by honoring their credos and standing up to protect American democracy.”

While corporate media are still largely focused on downplaying the number of people abandoning propaganda sites run by the political actors in Big Tech, leaders at Truth Social know that a war on their attempt to offer a “family-friendly” social media site is coming and they are prepared to stop it in its tracks.

Truth Social will take care of itself. It’s already a flop, nowhere near the number of idiots are signing up for it as the investors envisioned. And once the idiots who did sign up figure out they are getting a recurring monthly fee, they’ll leave as quickly as Donald left to go play golf all the time.

I guarantee none of you fools here who managed to create an account there will stay once you have to pay for it. None.

I’d love to go create an account there just to troll the idiots but I’m afraid they’ll install god-knows-what on my network. And besides, I’m sure the TOS are such that zero dissent is allowed for fear of hurting the fee-fees of the ❄️ ❄️ Imagine that: “Truth Social” where actual truth will be unwelcome.
 

HemiHauler

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Poor Donald - yet another business failure. That’s what you get when you hire “Trump University” graduates 😂🤣😂🤣😂
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Texas AG Flagged On Twitter For ‘Hateful Conduct’ After Calling Biologically Male Rachel Levine ‘A Man’




“Yesterday I stated an irrefutable scientific fact: Rachel Levine is a man,” Paxton wrote. “I pointed this out after USA Today named him a ‘Woman’ of the Year. But Levine is not a woman. He has one X and one Y chromosome and other male-sex characteristics. I just follow the science.”

“For simply saying this matter-of-factly, Twitter blocked it as ‘hateful.’ Users can now only access my statement through a trigger-warning filter. And even then, users can neither like it nor comment on it,” he continued. “At the same time, hundreds of other verified accounts saying the exact same thing remain untouched and unfiltered.”

“This whole insane episode represents a two-pronged attack from the left — both of which I’m vigorously fighting against. First is the left’s war against human biology, and especially against women. Second is their weaponization of Big Tech against conservative voices,” Paxton added.
 
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