Barton Thorne, the principal of Cordova High School, told students during morning announcements that they needed to be aware of the censorship happening on social media.
“I’m not going to tell you what to think, I just want to help you think,” he told students on a video that was later posted on YouTube.
“This isn’t about Trump,” he said. “This is about speech.”
Twitter chief Jack Dorsey considered the messaging platform’s ban of US President Donald Trump was a right move, but said it sets a “dangerous” precedent and represents a failure to promote healthy conversation on social networks.
Of late, much attention has been focused on acts of censorship by Twitter. What has garnered far less attention is what Twitter chooses not to censor, and the examples are shocking both in content and in the hypocrisy that Big Tech shows in its effort to destroy Twitter’s competitor, Parler.
What’s even more impressive is he did this while traffic was up 700% and under attack from leftists. Gab is currently having servers upgraded to handle the large influx in traffic but we’re told it should stabilize soon.
President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that the efforts by Big Tech companies to deplatform him and his supporters was a “big mistake” that would only anger more Americans.
After thumbing its figurative nose at the Constitution of the United States and the First Amendment that liberals supposedly love… Twitter’s move to eject President Donald Trump from the platform has cost them $5 billion, almost overnight.
In 1964, an Ohio Ku Klux Klan leader named Clarence Brandenburg told a Cincinnati-based reporter that his hate group would soon be holding a rally in a rural area of Hamilton County. In the filmed portions of that rally, which later became the focus of legal prosecution, robed men, some with guns, could be seen burning a cross and making speeches, infamously demanding “revengeance” against Blacks (they used another word, of course), Jews, and the white politicians who were supposedly betraying their own “caucasian race.” They also revealed a plan for an imminent march on Washington, D.C.
Facebook issued a statement saying that it was removing all content with the phrase, used by supporters of President Trump to question the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, because it violates the company’s policy against “coordinating harm.” Facebook said that it made the decision in light of the pro-Trump riot in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
According to Reuters, the stock was down as much as eight percent in Germany Monday morning — the first trading session since the suspension. In the US, the company’s shares lost almost seven percent in early premarket trading.
Twitter Inc. is leading social-media stocks lower Monday as investors digest a new reality for the services after Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump from its platform and Facebook Inc. said it would restrict him at least until the end of his term.
The announcement from Twitter TWTR, -5.91%, which came late Friday, followed a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters midweek. Twitter charged that Trump’s tweets after the riot served to glorify violence and went against the company’s terms of service. Facebook FB, -3.54% had announced Thursday that Trump would be barred from its platform at least until the inauguration.
Twitter shares are off 6.6% in Monday morning trading, while Facebook shares are down 3%. Shares of Apple Inc. AAPL, -2.25% and Alphabet Inc. GOOG, -2.18% GOOGL, -2.14%, both of which pulled right-wing social-media app Parler from their app stores citing lax moderation policies, are off 2.2% and 1.7%, respectively. Shares of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -1.94%, which booted Parler from its AWS web-hosting platform, are down 1.4%.
“While the week will certainly be remembered for far more shocking events, it’s not lost on us that we may be at the precipice of a change to long-standing internet rules of engagement,” Bernstein analyst Mark Shmulik wrote. “Perhaps the limited time left in Trump’s presidency eased social media worries of a presidential retaliation, while a more cynical view we’ve heard suggests that these platforms took actions precisely because of the Democrats’ recent Senate win.”
Cynical? Really?
Wow …
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The Left could have let us rest for a year. They could have celebrated defeating their nightmare bogeyman with their mindless zombie and his token minority “second,” and controlling all three tiers of government. They could have mocked and maligned us on television, film, and social media all night long, and we wouldn’t have cared less. We wouldn’t have whined and whimpered like they did for four years. We would have gone about our richer lives, attended to our family, friends, and faith, then, after a year, looked into replacing the Democratic Marxist rabble and their Republican enablers with real conservative candidates who would resume making America great again. I would have focused almost entirely on the culture war, in prose and fiction, trying to strengthen our side. But they couldn’t do it. Their Silicon Valley overlords just had to come after us all at once, attacking our lines of communication — Twitter, Facebook, Google — which they control, and Parler, which they don’t. So, to quote Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in the otherwise godawful The Godfather, Part III, “Just when I thought I was out — they pull me back in.”
What we have been witnessing in just the past few days should shock every single one of us – even if you are a leftist. When even the President of the United States and others have their ability to speak freely ripped away from them by the likes of Facebook or Apple or Twitter or Google or YouTube then you know the dark cloud of tyranny and fascism has indeed descended upon America and the West.
The company deleted Bannon’s podcast channel, called The War Room, hours after Guilliani, President Trump’s lawyer, appeared on the podcast. YouTube said that Bannon’s channel violated its rules.
Liberals who rejoice over the Big Tech hammer that came down on President Donald Trump last week are missing the point, according to an organization that has made its disdain for the president crystal clear.
Conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Caroline Glick, and John Bongino are leaving Twitter voluntarily following the social media platform’s banning of President Donald Trump and many of his supporters on Friday.
