The Tech Lords desperately want Biden to win, and they are doing their best to spike The New York Post story on Biden and Ukraine:
Both Twitter and Facebook took extraordinary censorship measures against The Post on Wednesday over its exposés about Hunter Biden’s emails — and leveled baseless accusations that the reports used “hacked materials.”
The suppression effort came despite presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign merely denying that he had anything on his “official schedules” about meeting a Ukrainian energy executive in 2015 — along with zero claims that his son’s computer had been hacked.
The Post’s primary Twitter account was locked as of 2:20 p.m. Wednesday because its articles about the messages obtained from Biden’s laptop broke the social network’s rules against “distribution of hacked material,” according to an email The Post received from Twitter.
Twitter also blocked users from sharing the link to The Post article indicating that Hunter Biden introduced Joe Biden to the Ukrainian businessman, calling the link “potentially harmful.”
“In line with our Hacked Materials Policy, as well as our approach to blocking URLs, we are taking action to block any links to or images of the material in question on Twitter,” a Twitter spokesperson told The Post in a statement.
The company said it took the step because of the lack of authoritative reporting on where the materials included in The Post’s story originated.
Go here to read the rest. The Tech Oligarchy mean to rule us. Time to destroy them. No truce with the Tech Lords. Spread this story to everyone you know.
I think the key term in their response is “authoritative reporting.” Gives them carte blanche to dismiss any and all inconvenient information, while allowing any crazy conspiracy theory sympathetic to their cause to stay up.
That alone is enough reason to vote for Trump, whatever his personal shortcomings may be.
Twitter has now locked Kayleigh McEnany out of her twitter account for the same spurious reason.
I’m not on social media other than to comment on a blog here and there, but it seems to me this is an “I am Spartacus!” moment.
How many accounts are they prepared to lock down? How many eyeballs do they intend to deprive their advertising customers of?
What’s amusing about this is (1) it’s transparency and (2) it being unnecessary. Swing voters are LIVs. They’re not going to notice or react, by and large.
If Rothenberg is right, Republicans are in danger of losing the Senate even without the ballot box stuffing coming down the pike. And the reason for that is what? A huge mass of the public has watched one episode after another of gross abuse of power by federal officials (starting with Lois Lerner), mob violence undertaken on a nonsense pretext, escalating harassment of ordinary people minding their own businesses in their workplaces or out on the street, completely sectarian law enforcement in major cities, a candidate who is manifesting symptoms of cognitive decline, a candidate whose close family are eyeballs deep in influence peddling, and a Speaker of the House who is obstructing relief measures until her clients are paid off. On top of that, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs has violated military protocol at just the wrong time and gone right up the line to insubordination. And, by and large, 1/2 the public just shrugs.
There are alternatives to Twitter. People ought to begin using them.
[B]y and large, 1/2 the public just shrugs.
Hard to fathom, isn’t it? I guess democracy dies in indifference instead of silence.
While I don’t have a Twitter account, I do check several people’s accounts. Today I had difficulty in connecting to those accounts. I knew what was happening immediately.
I’ve been thinking about this story, and the previous one, all day, and I find myself a lot more sympathetic to the populist position than I was 24 hours ago. Not because of any attraction to the populist argument, such as it is, but because of the revulsion resulting from the actions of the so-called elites in this country.
“Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptable,” Dorsey wrote in the tweet.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/twitter-ceo-says-handling-of-blocked-post-article-was-unacceptable/
mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa?
More like “sorry, not sorry you deplorables don’t understand our good intentions.”