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Why does the left hate free speech and why do so many people let attacks on free speech slide?

What we had yesterday was a coordinated attack on free speech. Notice how Twitter bans Trump, Facebook, Instagram and Twitch freeze his accounts and Youtube bans Steve Bannons podcast and remove Parler an alternative pro free speech network from the android app store?

People say "Trump in cited riots". Yet these same social media companies did nothing to remove hate speech from the left. If you dont believe me type the words "white people" into the twitter search box and see what comes up.
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@ghostofapu Nothing? Are you sure? I think you need to do some basic research. And while you’re at it, have a look at the Republican led Senate Intelligence Committee’s findings on Russian interference in the election too.
acpguy · C
@AbbySvenz What do you think of this typical liberal that spoke of having kids brainwashed by the left? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxESK9Tn8o0
Entwistle · 56-60, M
@ghostofapu Google has the right to kick whatever it wants from the app store. Twitter can block or delete any account it wishes.
TinyViolins · 36-40, M
That's not an attack on free speech, it's a business decision made by companies to distance themselves from toxic individuals.

It's like when businesses drop their sponsorships of famous people that run into controversy or sports teams cut athletes that have gotten in trouble with the law. You don't have to like it, but they're perfectly within their rights to remove anything that represents their brand poorly
ghostofapu · 31-35, M
@TinyViolins Children cannot consent. I wouldnt have a problem with them having all the lesbian naked yoga videos up on youtube as long as they are consenting adults.
TinyViolins · 36-40, M
@ghostofapu That just sounds like you're censoring people based on ideological differences
spjennifer · 61-69, T
@ghostofapu

Twitter and other social media should be treated as a public utility.

Communist much?
Harriet03 · 46-50, F
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Hypocrite much? 🤔
Harriet03 · 46-50, F
@Graylight Mission statement: To make as many right wing nutjobs, bleed from the eyes as possible!
Statement ends..
Julien · 36-40, M
@Harriet03 earth need more people like you
Harriet03 · 46-50, F
@Julien All you need, is their own words..
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If you truely held the moral high ground, you’d have no need to silence your opposition.
4 years dividing your country..
They can get away with it because half the country is cheering on fascism because of blind hate 🍿
chrisCA · M
@SW-User Some Americans treat their Constitution in the same manner how some Christians treat the Bible. They have never really read it, and allow others to interpret it for them. They will cherry pick the parts that suit them, and their agenda.
SW-User
Yep! @chrisCA
Confined · 56-60, M
Welcome to the United Communist states
ghostofapu · 31-35, M
@chrisCA Sounds like he has. Communism was all about censorship. Even if you were a hardcore communist and founder of the soviet union like Trotsky they would erase you if you crossed them.
Confined · 56-60, M
@ghostofapu Exactly
@Confined Exactly. We are now being giftwrapped for China. Hunters cloak and dagger payola ties into this, and those idiots who stormed the capitol were not Trump supporters.
jimjim1969 · M
What don't you get? What happened at the Capital, is on him. God, like he needs twitter to exist.
Confined · 56-60, M
@jimjim1969 https://www.propublica.org/article/capitol-rioters-planned-for-weeks-in-plain-sight-the-police-werent-ready?utm_source=pocket-newtab
ghostofapu · 31-35, M
@jimjim1969 If thats the case then why isnt Biden banned from Twitter for Antifa and BLM riots?
jimjim1969 · M
@ghostofapu Did Biden insite an insurrection?
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Law suits for inciting a riot! Enough said!
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@ghostofapu that's what you think! On what site does Biden even post? NONE!
@ghostofapu Everybody needs to sue everybody. We could call it "Modern Western Socialism. "
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Hey! That's got a nice ring to it! Good hard copy!
Harriet03 · 46-50, F
Publishers have a responsibility..
It's the law dear!!
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TinyViolins · 36-40, M
@MarmeeMarch Yeah, the US Capitol gets invaded like every other week. I don't know why everyone is flipping out this one time
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BabyLonia · F
Do you think it right that social media sites like twitter, Facebook or similar worlds have the right to ban users?
BabyLonia · F
@KuroNeko whilst forgetting the responsibility such a privilege holds.
KuroNeko · 41-45, F
@BabyLonia absolutely. I mean you can shout "BOMB!" in an airport but you probably won't get on a plane lol
Entwistle · 56-60, M
@BabyLonia Yes.
Graylight · 51-55, F
1. No speech which incites violence is protected.

2. The platforms banning Trump and his ilk are privately owned companies. Remember that gay wedding cake guy? The one you all protested all the way to the Supreme Court about you were so angry he wanted what he wanted from a private business own her was free to refuse whomever she wanted? Same principle. Free speech is a protected right - it does not have the run of the land.

3. Care to offer and actual example of "hate speech" speech from the left on those same platforms?

Thought not.
There's now way all of this hate is coming from inside the USA. I don't know whey people can't see this.
chrisCA · M
I don't know? Did he violate the Terms of Service?
AbbySvenz · F
Repeatedly? @chrisCA
Not enough Tiddies in their lives
Entwistle · 56-60, M
Free speech has consequences and so it should.
Budwick · 70-79, M
Excellent insight.

You still have a twatter account knowing what jackwads they are?
SW-User
Trump deserved it after causing his base to breach the State Capitol. If he had just accepted his loss and not attempt a damn coup, his social media accounts wouldn’t have been banned.
Graylight · 51-55, F
Why are you a troll?
TinyViolins · 36-40, M
@Graylight He's not clever enough to be a troll. He's just an unfortunate soul that's been polarized by right-wing rhetoric for so long that he doesn't know any better. He genuinely believes there's an unfair double-standard here, but that's only because he has a heavily unbalanced newsfeed. He lives in an alternate right-wing reality because that's all his mind will entertain. Since people don't agree with him here, his instinctual reaction is to go back to his feed and consume more rage-porn masquerading as patriotism.
They're the same companies that will ban certain words before the "n-word", what do you expect? They're full blown hypocrites.
acpguy · C
Yet the liberals put out nasty stuff like this below. The idiot got fired by the typical academia type socialists but it was only to protect themselves and most likely gave him a big cash going away present.

https://www.rt.com/usa/512321-project-veritas-trump-reeducation-camps/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxESK9Tn8o0
I hope alternatives pop up, and these companies die off.

 
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