For more than a decade, Marxists have aced the high tech game. Google has for years promoted liberal sites over conservative ones. Reddit locked down its The Donald site. And of course, Facebook and Twitter are censors worthy of Red China.
Vanity Fair called the warning labels suppression. Well, if Twitter can do this to the president, Twitter can do this to you. None of these credentialed geniuses saw this coming.
The magazine quoted Alan Rosenblatt, a social media strategist and partner at Unfiltered Media, who complained., "If this is the kind of content that is shaping the conversation, then it creates a more fertile environment for the campaign that they’re advocating on behalf of to gain an advantage. Right now we’re in the middle of it. Many states have already started voting, so it’s a big deal."
Why are they so worried? Isn't Biden ahead by 12 points?
The story said, "Democrats believe, because they’re making viral content — publishes a video, these monitors are believed to spread the word through a network of Twitter direct-message, or DM, rooms. (The DM rooms are invite-only and limited to 50 members. Many Trump supporters belong to as many as 20 DM rooms.) Then hordes of Trump supporters report the video to Twitter, citing a violation of Twitter’s terms of use. And that, Rosenblatt said, is thought to trigger the sensitivity label."
Democrats know how it works because they wrote the manual.
A new generation of Americans is learning the importance of protecting speech we don't like. This is not some high-minded principle. This is basic survival because censorship eventually consumes us all. The Founding Fathers were practical.
The high tech CEOs are unsophisticated. They caved to Marxists to censor Americans. Now Americans are schooling the Marxists on how this works.
No one outside his family has any love for Joe Biden.
ReplyDeleteOr inside his family, either.
Hard to believe. After he made them all millionaires. Of course if he's not elected they could all become inmates.
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Delete'Or inside his family, either.'
DeleteThat was my first thought too. They want to ride that broken-down old pony to the White House.
Bravo!
ReplyDelete“They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.”
ReplyDeleteGotta LOVE those sayings we learned as kids back in the 50s and 60s. Old Skool’s The Best Skool.
Someone who thinks that they SHOULD be allowed to dish it out, but that they SHOULDN'T have to take it.
DeleteIf there's a better definition of a bully, I can't think of one.
I always liked, "He who smelt, dealt it" (used it A LOT!). Could apply to a number of recent accusations aimed at The Donald.
DeleteRight on both comments!
DeleteAs John McClane said to the cop calling for backup after the fkying DB terrorist broke his front windshild at Nakatomi Plaza "...Welcome to the Party, Pal..."
ReplyDeleteThat'd be "Flying"
DeleteYou are right about Google, Don.
ReplyDeleteSo why do you them? Why do you use their name?
Instead of Google us Duck, duck, go or Bing.
Instead of saying "Google (your search term here) say" search" (for whatever)
You are an enabler.
But I love you!
John Henry
I wouldn’t be surprised if the heads of twitter are working on a “fix” for this situation. For them, it is working as designed, not as desired.
ReplyDeleteturmabout, fair play, etc.
ReplyDeletejohn brunner wrote about this in "stand on zanzibar". around 1969. it's an astoundingly prescient novel. basically, the story describes how the nature of social interaction and information distribution has changed since the technology of ever present mobile computing and communication evolve...forty years before cell phones became possible. read it, mr. and mrs. everywhere...