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President Trump Vows Conservatives Will Not Be Removed From Social Media

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This morning, President Trump took to Twitter to lambaste the Social Media Mafia that is gradually, but inexorably, squeezing conservative voices from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. It is about time.

While a lot of energy has been expended on the treatment of Alex Jones’s bizarre little media empire, there is actually a much larger issue. Or rather two of them.

The main issue is that no matter what Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg think is happening, their platforms–and that word is important–is engaged in extreme and pervasive viewpoint discrimination. Yesterday, Prager University reported on several of its videos being blocked and there were widespread reports of Facebook not allowing any Prager U posts to appear in the timelines of subscribers. There are many other instances:

As I’ve posted on twice (here | here) Facebook and then Twitter have banned a campaign commercial for a candidate for the US House of Representatives. This action is somewhere between borderline and blatantly illegal as federal law forbids censoring, editing, or refusing to run campaign ads. The only question here is whether Facebook and Twitter have to obey the same law as newspapers, radio, and television.

What is happening here is that these social media platforms are trying to have their cake and eat it both. Under the Communications Decency Act, these platforms were given safe harbor from liability for illegal materials being disseminated by them. This gave them a protection publishers do not have. They are now, in the service of leftwing ideology, trying to act a de facto publishers, by controlling content viewpoint, while, at the same time, demanding the immunity of their platform status.

The second thing going on is that the right leaning media is beset with poseurs and quislings who misrepresent what is going on and used adherence to alleged principles to encourage the major social media platforms to put competitors and those they consider to be less worthy out of business. Whenever a supposed conservative tells you, “Alex Jones is not the hill to die on,” you should immediately know who you are dealing with. You’ve either got a moron who doesn’t understand what is happening or you have an elitist who sneers at people who aren’t quite as good as they are and is sure that they will never be subjected to having their business destroyed by those making these decisions.

To the left, not just the militant SJW left but to the garden-variety-gets-their-views-from-the-NYT-editorial-page leftist, there is literally zero difference between Alex Jones and the American Enterprise Institute. So when you throw Alex Jones under the bus, you are doing nothing more than keeping the crocodile from eating you right now, your distaste for Jones, notwithstanding.

That Facebook and Twitter can pull a candidate’s campaign ad and demand they edit it before it can be distributed should terrify everyone and demonstrate to us all just how fragile the ability to use social media is for those with unpopular views.

My personal view is that the social media platforms have demonstrated they are rapacious monopolies on the model of Standard Oil of the late 19th century. At a minimum, Google, Facebook, and Twitter need to be forced to spin off their advertising sales businesses and their tech development businesses into separate, independent entities. They also need to be forced to either act as platforms or act as publishers. They are either responsible for their content and are able to control it…or they are free from liability for what is distributed on their platform but they can no longer make any judgments on user content or conduct.

It is great that President Trump is aware of this and he seems exercised enough that he may not forget about it.

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Source: https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/08/18/president-trump-vows-conservatives-will-not-removed-social-media/


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    • Cousin_Jack

      If it hasn’t been tackled yet, it won’t be. You can’t discriminate against people because of their race, colour, sex, anything really, but we know you can discriminate against someone because of who they support. If one side censors the other then the other side should censor the other too, thats the only way public attention will be brought to it, to bring it to light. You want to stand around and have your voice taken away, don’t complain when it is, don’t expect others to be your voice when the only reason you won’t speak is through laziness or fear. You allow it to happen you’re as guilty as performing it.

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