You say that our government should not guarantee freedom of speech on social media. Well, here is what they are doing now. Since they know the government will take no action to guarantee freedom of speech, they are already beginning to change their policies and algorithms to ensure that Trump is not re-elected. Twitter is going to choose which Trump tweets get reprioritized, so fewer people will see them. Google is going to directly modify their algorithm to see if they can reprioritize favorable Trump articles or give priority to article critical of Trump. These social media giants are directly meddling in election outcomes. I thought we didn't like it when Russia meddled? But somehow you think it is ok when Google and Twitter do it? The fact is that we no longer have freedom of speech. It is quite dead now, both because of social media censorship and because of the cultural marxists demanding that we are not allowed to say anything that would offend their delicate sensibilities, including voice anything conservative or they call you a nazi.
Brumar, you wanted this world and now you are getting it. I hope you enjoy the totalitarian state we are becoming. I know I don't and won't when it gets worse. The powers tech companies and the Democrats are using against Trump today will be used against anyone who goes against their Utopian Socialist/Communist/Totalitarian dream in the future. It will progress all the way until we have a Chinese system of government and economy. It will be an Orwellian nightmare and we will all learn what it's like to live as the Cubans, Chinese, Russians, and North Koreans do.
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Twitter To Censor Trump Tweets Ahead Of 2020 Election
Twitter announced on Thursday that it would censor President Trump's tweets going into the 2020 election by "down-ranking" those which violate their rules via algorithms.
Offensive material from the POTUS will also receive a label that applies to all verified political candidates and government officials with over 100,000 followers, according to the Washington Post.
Before users can view the language in newly flagged tweets, they will need to click on a screen that says, “The Twitter Rules about abusive behavior apply to this Tweet. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain available.”
The company also said it will set up a special team tasked with enforcing the policy, and the notification label would appear only on rare occasions. - Washington Post
Twitter will deprioritize the labeled tweets so that they would be seen by fewer people according to the report, which adds that the policy will go into effect immediately and will not apply to other influencers and leaders. It is also not retroactive.
"In the past, we’ve allowed certain Tweets that violated our rules to remain on Twitter because they were in the public’s interest, but it wasn’t clear when and how we made those determinations," the company wrote in a Thursday blog post. "To fix that, we’re introducing a new notice that will provide additional clarity in these situations, and sharing more on when and why we’ll use it." |
