Big Tech censorship | Trump Banned from Twitter

[Hart of the Matter]

You are misunderstanding, Trump has been banned, fine OK.
People then want full clarification of the reasons from the tech company involved. The company then lists its COC and specifies the reasons and their rules, again, fair enough, as many people have said, it's their bat and ball, they can do as they wish.
When those rules are not being applied across the many infringements that are
on their site, many openly advocating murder, death and destruction, then, understandably, they will be accused of censoring what they personally dislike,
and citing the rules becomes a flippant dismissal that will, again not go down too well. They're saying, by their inaction, that it's only what they don't like that gets banned, and again, there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Twitter stock has dropped, I believe this will hurt them, millions will/are switching to other platforms, which is another discussion.

Their stock may have also dropped if they had not suspended. Social media is under the spotlight anyway.

 

[BobKowalski]

You are misunderstanding, Trump has been banned, fine OK.
People then want full clarification of the reasons from the tech company involved. The company then lists its COC and specifies the reasons and their rules, again, fair enough, as many people have said, it's their bat and ball, they can do as they wish.
When those rules are not being applied across the many infringements that are
on their site, many openly advocating murder, death and destruction, then, understandably, they will be accused of censoring what they personally dislike,
and citing the rules becomes a flippant dismissal that will, again not go down too well. They're saying, by their inaction, that it's only what they don't like that gets banned, and again, there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Twitter stock has dropped, I believe this will hurt them, millions will/are switching to other platforms, which is another discussion.

They banned Trump because he led/promoted/encouraged an act of insurrection. They are banning accounts that amplified this act of insurrection. Amazon also removed other platforms from their servers that were seen to be enabling this act of insurrection and also encouraging further acts of insurrection.

There is a bipartisan move to impeach Trump for the same reasons and federal authorities are looking to prosecute on the same grounds.

It has nothing to do with banning something ‘they dislike’. All platforms were quite happy with the money they were making on the back of Trump. Insurrection though threatens their businesses way more than a drop in share price.

Trump and his followers are now being perceived as ISIS are perceived. A threat to America. A large percentage of his followers want to eliminate the FBI, CIA, Congress and the Justice Dept. They also want to scrap the constitution, and install the military to oversee a ‘new America’ under Trump and General Flynn.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Their stock may have also dropped if they had not suspended. Social media is under the spotlight anyway.

Doubt it, they have now, isolated an enormous sector of their
business, and people are sacking it in numbers. Still, it's their decision, although I'd be surprised if shareholders are ecstatic.

 

[RandomJ]

It’s interesting that many kicking off about this were the people defending that cake shop for not making a wedding cake for that gay couple. Strange how they were all for private businesses having the right to refuse services to who they want back then but as soon as their orange overlord gets banned they scream foul and chat shit about free speech.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

It’s interesting that many kicking off about this were the people defending that cake shop for not making a wedding cake for that gay couple. Strange how they were all for private businesses having the right to refuse services to who they want back then but as soon as their orange overlord gets banned they scream foul and chat shit about free speech.

Well I'm not one of those calling foul, because I'm all for private companies doing what they want, within the law, so Twitter, Amazon and Co. are welcome do so.
Personally, I hope the competition in this industry blossoms, and far
more, actors come into play, competition is healthy.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

It’s interesting that many kicking off about this were the people defending that cake shop for not making a wedding cake for that gay couple. Strange how they were all for private businesses having the right to refuse services to who they want back then but as soon as their orange overlord gets banned they scream foul and chat shit about free speech.

We need to make a list of these people and expose them. It just shows how quickly this whole qanon thing has sprouted from a seemingly insignificant homophobic confectioner.

 

[SWP's back]

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[buckshot]

How do you guys handle Freedom of Speech issues? It seems to me that some hate speech can have criminal consequences in England. Is that true and are there any other reasons your speech could break the law?

 

[buckshot]

BTW, legally we can call a cop a f#*?ing assh*le right to their faces and not be in any violation of a law. What a lot of Americans don't realize is that the cop can still shoot you or beat you to death and then claim you were threatened them. So we don't have true freedom of speech anyway and it certainly isn't equal because people with money's speech goes a lot further than average citizens.

 

[Scottyboi]

@Rascal I thought you’d like this thread.











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