Social media are deleting more posts they don't like--and entire accounts. And it's gonna get worse...
Most Americans are addicted to "social media"--Fakebook, Twatter, Instagrim and the like. After all, you get to discuss important ideas with other intelligent, sophisticated people.
Well that's a good theory, anyway. The reality is that if you try to post something the employees, managers or execs of the media giants don't like, they'll delete your post.
Literally, they remove posts they don't like.
If Trump or the government did this, the Left would scream bloody murder. "You can't do that, cuz CENSORSHIP! The First Amendment gives us the right to say anything we want!" But the First Amendment only bars government from censoring speech. Private companies can refuse to allow any post ("speech") they don't like. In fact the media giants have often deleted entire accounts that post ideas the giants don't like.
So we have an irony: The Left has always hated Big Corporations. "They're EEEBIL, dontcha know. They're run by eeeebil billionaires who want to screw us Little Folks, so we have to destroy da corporations and dere CEO's!!!"
But suddenly the Left has no problem with da eeeebil corporations, run by billionaires. And why? Because the formerly-eeeebil corporations are now the main weapons used by the Left to win power.
We can conclude that the Left has no way to detect either irony or hypocrisy.
Tucker Carlson reports on how this has been happpening. Amusingly, the reason the media giants usually give is "your post violated our terms of service," or "we don't allow hate speech." But of course this is utter horse-shit: Posts by leftists screaming that Trump should be killed are allowed to remain up forever, without any action by the social giants, as do posts by terrorist outfits screaming that "infidels"--that's you--should be killed. So clearly, social-media execs find SOME kinds of "hate speech" perfectly acceptable.
And it's about to get worse: Fakebook has announced that it's expanding its crew of censors, even announcing their names. And they're all leftists.
Surprise.
Well that's a good theory, anyway. The reality is that if you try to post something the employees, managers or execs of the media giants don't like, they'll delete your post.
Literally, they remove posts they don't like.
If Trump or the government did this, the Left would scream bloody murder. "You can't do that, cuz CENSORSHIP! The First Amendment gives us the right to say anything we want!" But the First Amendment only bars government from censoring speech. Private companies can refuse to allow any post ("speech") they don't like. In fact the media giants have often deleted entire accounts that post ideas the giants don't like.
So we have an irony: The Left has always hated Big Corporations. "They're EEEBIL, dontcha know. They're run by eeeebil billionaires who want to screw us Little Folks, so we have to destroy da corporations and dere CEO's!!!"
But suddenly the Left has no problem with da eeeebil corporations, run by billionaires. And why? Because the formerly-eeeebil corporations are now the main weapons used by the Left to win power.
We can conclude that the Left has no way to detect either irony or hypocrisy.
Tucker Carlson reports on how this has been happpening. Amusingly, the reason the media giants usually give is "your post violated our terms of service," or "we don't allow hate speech." But of course this is utter horse-shit: Posts by leftists screaming that Trump should be killed are allowed to remain up forever, without any action by the social giants, as do posts by terrorist outfits screaming that "infidels"--that's you--should be killed. So clearly, social-media execs find SOME kinds of "hate speech" perfectly acceptable.
And it's about to get worse: Fakebook has announced that it's expanding its crew of censors, even announcing their names. And they're all leftists.
Surprise.
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10:42 AM
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