Twitter and YouTube are biased political players attempting to influence the election and other world events through censorship
I think the above has been clear for a long time.
I have never been part of Twitter, although if memory serves I initially set up an account. But as soon as I checked out the site, I realized it repelled me and I wanted nothing to do with it. And that was before it started censoring people.
Which it’s been doing for quite some time. For example (hat tip: Ace):
I kid you not! At Knesset hearing on Antisemitism, @Twitter rep tells me they flag @realDonaldTrump because it serves ‘public conversation’, but not Iran's @khamenei_ir call for GENOCIDE, which passes for acceptable 'commentary on political issues of the day'. cc. @CotlerWunsh pic.twitter.com/AXwjkrvlql
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) July 29, 2020
And YouTube isn’t far behind. There’s this, which happened just today (hat tip: commenter “Cap’n Rusty”). The poster is John Hinderaker:
Earlier today, Center of the American Experiment hosted a live-streamed presentation by Heather Mac Donald titled “The Truth About Crime, Race and Policing.” Heather’s talk, which lasted for around 40 minutes, was fact-filled. It delivered a knockout punch to the Black Lives Matter “systemic police racism” narrative, which can’t stand up to empirical analysis. Thousands of people watched the livestream on an event page, on YouTube and on Facebook. We intend that a vastly greater number–hundreds of thousands–watch the archived video on YouTube, Facebook and other platforms.
But within an hour after the program ended, YouTube deleted the video on the pretense that it violated YouTube’s “Community Guidelines.”
YouTube said it violated their community guidelines. Hinderaker sent off the following to YouTube:
This is obviously a mistake. The speaker is Heather Mac Donald, one of America’s top authorities on crime and policing. She is the author of a bestselling book on the subject, has testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the topic of her speech, and was described by a former Attorney General of the U.S. as “the greatest thinker on criminal justice in America today.” Her talk was data-rich and totally beyond criticism based on YouTube’s “Community Guidelines.” Please reverse this erroneous decision immediately.
Powerline put the video up at YouTube again, so I’m posting it here (watch it while you can!):
It also can be seen here.
Heather’s video is excellent and should be widely disseminated, since it demolishes entirely the fraudulent foundations of the Afro-marxist BLM movement, but, as long as very few Republicans in Congress (and shockingly few members of the “conservative establishment”) show any willingness to fight against the blatant censoring of conservatives by Big Tech, it may not be available for long. Heather and Tucker are despised and reviled so rabidly by leftists precisely because they are the most articulate, most rational, most evidence-based and most-widely-watched opponents of the left, and thus the most dangerous to progressive tyranny.
They’re behaving in a manner perfectly consistent with other Democratic Party supporters.
Lie, slander, cancel, control.
And destroy.
They have the power to do so and who’s going to stop them?
It’s merely the high-tech equivalent of what the Democrats in the House did to Barr several days ago. Of what the MSCM has been doing for years.
By the way, Barr isn’t their first victim and likely won’t be their last:
https://quillette.com/2020/07/29/why-democrats-are-trying-to-shut-me-up-about-climate-change-and-renewables/
Yep, a real clear, close-up look at Democratic Party governance. The “good guys” (and don’t you fergit it!)
It’s not just the outright deletion type Censorship; that’s crude but effective for sure. There’s also the censorship that’s invisible, e.g. Twitter Shadow Bans, YouTube silently unsubscribing your followers bit by bit, being ignored by YouTube recommendation engine, being demonetized by YouTube.
Additionally, if you espouse views to the right of the Overton Window, there is a high probability that you will be blacklisted by payment processors. This can mean not just your site’s credit card facility but also your personal paypal and credit cards suddenly being withdrawn. It has already happened to people. In the present day, a dissident on the Right can be unpersoned and driven from all but the cash and barter economies.
I wonder how many monks looked with bemusement upon the first few hundred titles of incunabula hitting the market and immediately foresaw the Thirty Years War, Peace of Westphalia, Grotius, Robespierre, Henry Effing Kissinger, etc.? None. We’re in a similar place.
Had said monks known what was coming down the pike, the logical thing would have been to go smash every printing press and break every printer on the wheel. Just saying.
“Trump moves to hold social media companies liable if they ‘alter or editorialize users’ speech'”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/29/trump-administration-moving-forward-social-media-e/
At my age it is all deja vu. The only difference is perhaps 50% believe this BS and the dnc-msm are 100% all in with the violent thugs, and those who are funding the nihilists.
Hinderaker, at Power Line, now reports that YouTube has decided to allow the video, but has labeled it “inappropriate” for young viewers, for no particular reason.
“Your free speech is violence, but their violence is just free speech” Glenn Reynolds
The social media giants have “community standards” which forbid Hate Speech.
What is hate speech?
Hate speech has very little to do with the “N” word or Holocaust denial. Those are the “public presentation” of hate speech. “Hate speech” is a misnomer. It gives you the impression that those who want to criminalize or outlaw hate speech want to get rid of hatred and/or get rid of ALL hate speech. That’s just not true.
Hate Speech is a specific set of speech: things said by “oppressors” which the “oppressed” (or “marginalized”) find objectionable.
Here’s a short list: speech that is deemed racist, anti-transgender, homophobic, xenophobic, anti-Muslim. However, there’s more. Factual claims can be considered hate speech, for example: speaking about affirmative action. That can be hate speech because it harms the marginalized’s self-respect. Speaking about immigration, legal or illegal, harms the self-respect of our immigrant communities. Defending traditional views of the family and marriage also harms the dignity of those with non-traditional sexuality.
Even superficially neutral topics like “welfare reform” can be “dog whistles” and thus be considered hate speech.
Hate speech theory demands that the marginalized speak out in ways that undermine the oppressor.
The oppressor group must shut up. And listen.
The above loosely borrowed from remarks by Arthur Milikh at a FedSoc event.
Years ago I created a twitter account but I never used it once and it just “died”. I saw the ugliness of a twitter mob and it reminded me of the rampaging and murderous Enragés during the French Revolution.
Kate:
Perhaps because it would interfere with their indoctrination?
I saw a mention on another blog that the age limitation meant people had to log-in to YouTube to see the video, which a lot of people won’t bother with.
Stealth banning.
BrooklynBoy…”Years ago I created a twitter account but I never used it once and it just “died”. I saw the ugliness of a twitter mob and it reminded me of the rampaging and murderous Enragés during the French Revolution.”
In 2013, I wrote ‘Freedom, the Village, and the Internet”, in which I observed that “if we are now living in an “electronic village”…even a “global village,” as Marshall McLuhan put it several decades ago…then perhaps that also means we are facing some of the unpleasant characteristics that can be part of village life”…such as shunning and character assassination via rumors.
I reran the post in 2018, with musical accompaniment:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/54775.html
Censorship and steering.
Slaves, you know your rulers based on who you are not allowed to criticize. Pay attention.