Posted on 07/25/2018 6:46:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A new report from left-leaning VICE News revealed that Twitter is hiding the accounts of certain high-profile conservatives from users — which Breitbart News has been covering for years. A new report published on Wednesday by VICE News details the ongoing censorship of conservatives on social media. This time, the offender is Twitter. Through an objective analysis, VICE News reporter Alex Thompson concluded that Twitter is hiding the accounts of certain high-profile conservatives from its user through a process referred to as “shadowbanning.”
The Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel, several conservative Republican congressmen, and Donald Trump Jr.’s spokesman no longer appear in the auto-populated drop-down search box on Twitter, VICE News has learned. It’s a shift that diminishes their reach on the platform — and it’s the same one being deployed against prominent racists to limit their visibility. The profiles continue to appear when conducting a full search, but not in the more convenient and visible drop-down bar. (The accounts appear to also populate if you already follow the person.)
Breitbart Tech’s Allum Bokhari reported on this latest form of Twitter shadowbanning Monday.
Some initially speculated that concerns about conservative account “shadow-banning” on Twitter were nothing more than a conspiracy. However, the report also concluded that high-profile liberals aren’t facing the same account restrictions.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Lefties that won’t go along with the Hillary/Obama agenda are also shadowbanned. See Jimmy Dore.
Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit need an anal probe from the Federal Election Commission for in-kind political donations for this crap.
Need to make censorship a criminal offense.
And some anti-trust investigations/prosecutions.
>> and it’s the same one being deployed against prominent racists to limit their visibility.
Al “Jew them down” Sharpton is shadowbanned?
Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson is shadowbanned???
I think Dennis Prager is already working on a case against Youtube and possibly other sites. Discovery will be interesting.
That should be a no brainer. They are supporting those who are pro pedphile and banning those who don’t.
Apparently a Caliphony fed judge dismissed Prager’s lawsuit against Google-Youtube
MARCH 26, 2018 7:49pm PT by Eriq Gardner
Google Beats Lawsuit Accusing YouTube of Censoring Conservatives
...In the lawsuit, Prager’s company asserted that YouTube professes viewpoint neutrality but censors conservatives by putting age restrictions on certain videos. The decision-making is far from even-handed, Prager contends, pointing to, among others, a restricted video titled “Are 1 in 5 women in college raped?” compared to better treatment for a Real Time with Bill Maher video about The Hunting Ground...
...”Plaintiff does not point to any persuasive authority to support the notion that Defendants, by creating a ‘video-sharing website’ and subsequently restricting access to certain videos that are uploaded on that website, have somehow engaged in one of the ‘very few’ functions that were traditionally ‘exclusively reserved to the State,’” she writes. “Instead, Plaintiff emphasizes that Defendants hold YouTube out ‘as a public forum dedicated to freedom of expression to all’ and argues that ‘a private property owner who operates its property as a public forum for speech is subject to judicial scrutiny under the First Amendment.’”...
They profess to be neutral and erratically apply their “standards”.
Dennis Prager lost his case. I think he is appealing. Also appealing his case, he heh.
Sounds like conservatives need to mount class action suits against those sort of organizations. (Failure to provide equal access)
Are Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. “public accommodations?”
That’s the question.
“BAKE THE DAMN CAKE”
Can Google show why education non-explicit materials were demonetized and moved to adult only restriction?
Since there is a commercial transaction, is there any accountability?
Unless they are a public accommodation they can do anything they want.
I guess Sleepy Sessions has never heard of our Anti Trust Laws that make this a FELONY with Certain Bankruptcy and Shutting the Business Down while Management goes to PRISON!!!
I have a conversation going on another website about this, and I dare say there are a lot of shoes that will likely drop about this stuff. Did you see that NIXVM thread?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3673550/posts
We should make social media censoring of conservatives illegal.
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