Twitter's alleged bias towards left-wing trolls.

riffmongous

Bambi wrote: »

Full on capitalism, don't remember ever mentioning it. Sounds like a bad idea to me.

Always telling when an Orwell quote stings someone, though.

Never said you did, but most of those agreeing with your post would be the first to complain about any other kind of state interference with a private company.

I'm sure the man who fought for the POUM would be turning in his grave if he knew who was using his quotes nowadays

Conservatives whingeing about the free market.


Beautiful.

Hellokitty1212

Acosta wrote: »

What did she say that was racist?

Twitter can ban whoever it wants. It's their business. But there's plenty of very racist Irish far right accounts still active on twitter by the looks of it.

She’s on record saying every Irish person is racist and the more we deny we are racist the worse we are.

suicide_circus

Sonics2k wrote: »

Then surely it was a cornerstone of fascism when OAN and Fox news were in massive support of Trump and pushed his agendas?

Fox News itself is the largest news network in the US and has the largest viewership.

Sure i'll go along with that. Difference is i suppose that Fox, while large, is nowhere close to having a monopoly.

Google/Facebook/Twitter have a monopoly over the internet and are all of the same political stamp...the same stamp as the POTUS.

I hope i'm wrong.

.anon.

Hellokitty1212 wrote: »

She’s on record saying every Irish person is racist and the more we deny we are racist the worse we are.

Do you have any links to that?

Dafterss

Twitter bias should not matter in ireland as we are very center not left wing or right wing
The right wing are more vocal and violent in america in ireland there are very few right wing or left wing

Manach

Deleted User wrote: »

Conservatives whingeing about the free market.


Beautiful.

Leftists making gross simplifications:

Classic.

It was a Republician president, T. Rooseevlt that put in place the key Anti-trust provisions that kept in check the equivalent of Big-Tech back in the day from abusing their dominant free market position: Just as Apple, Google and Twitter are doing now.
But try not to let historical context intrude into that hermatic world view.

Dyr

Sonics2k wrote: »

Then surely it was a cornerstone of fascism when OAN and Fox news were in massive support of Trump and pushed his agendas?

Fox News itself is the largest news network in the US and has the largest viewership.

Very interesting that only example you have is FOX and some other channel no-one has heard of, stacked against all the social media giants.

And the social media giants are where the corporate power lies now, not only controlling social media but controlling the ability to access social media.

Dyr

Deleted User wrote: »

Conservatives whingeing about the free market.


Beautiful.

Bit weird to think that monopolies stifling competition is something the free market types would be in favour of. Sure twas Mr Free Markets himself, the bould Ronnie Reagan, who broke up the previous communication monopoly that was stifling the telephony market in the US.

Monopolies tend to be more a feature of authoritarian regimes. Marx was a bit of a fan of them

Sonics2k

Bambi wrote: »

Very interesting that only example you have is FOX and some other channel no-one has heard of, stacked against all the social media giants.

And the social media giants are where the corporate power lies now, not only controlling social media but controlling the ability to access social media.

Trump literally tweeted repeatedly about OAN and promoted it, it may be smaller but he's been pushing it for a long time now.

They're private companies, they set their own policies. It's the whole bakery thing all over again. America has always promoted a free market, and the Republicans have always pushed for low Government interference. Suddenly that's become a problem for them.

I see that the Ayatollah Khomeini is still on twitter. Modi as well. They did ban Orban or his party for a while.

What will probably happen now is that many countries will create their own social media.

Silentcorner

Deleted User wrote: »

I see that the Ayatollah Khomeini is still on twitter. Modi as well. They did ban Orban or his party for a while.

What will probably happen now is that many countries will create their own social media.

In all honesty, the sooner Facebook/Google and Twitter are broken up the better, they should never have been allowed to get to the size they are today.

Twitter are in trouble anyway, they were dying a death back in 2015 until a certain reality star came down an escalator and the rest is history, they offer a poor advertising platform, they have struggled to monetize, I see a buyout in the near future.

Sonics2k

Sonics2k wrote: »

Trump literally tweeted repeatedly about OAN and promoted it, it may be smaller but he's been pushing it for a long time now.

They're private companies, they set their own policies. It's the whole bakery thing all over again. America has always promoted a free market, and the Republicans have always pushed for low Government interference. Suddenly that's become a problem for them.

Definite hypocrisy there of course. But on both sides, because if you believe that the Government should interfere in Cakes then maybe Government should interfere in social media, by making the companies unbiased carriers not publishers. I think that is the debate on section 230 in the US.


Maybe that horse has bolted.

suicide_circus

Deleted User wrote: »

I see that the Ayatollah Khomeini is still on twitter. Modi as well. They did ban Orban or his party for a while.

Yeah but they're not held to the same standard obviously. The CCP have multiple checkmarked accounts while carrying out genocide and sending people to gulags but then the CCP are not political opponents of Jack Dorsey.

Sand

For Forks Sake wrote: »

This is pretty much why US conservatives have to get over their hangups about 'big government' and get comfortable with regulating private interests. Free speech was an 18th century cause when the public square was owned by the government and they might prevent you from speaking there. The fanatical defense of private interests (including free speech) made sense in that context. Personal liberty and private interests were natural allies against big government.

But in the 21st century the public square (social media) is owned by private interests and free speech adherents need to align with big government which can tame private interests. Now personal liberty and big government are natural allies against private interests.

Dyr

Sand wrote: »

This is pretty much why US conservatives have to get over their hangups about 'big government' and get comfortable with regulating private interests.

Both Republicans and Democrats were comfortable with breaking up monopolies until the monopolies started lining their pockets

Mad_maxx

Sonics2k wrote: »

Then surely it was a cornerstone of fascism when OAN and Fox news were in massive support of Trump and pushed his agendas?

Fox News itself is the largest news network in the US and has the largest viewership.

its the largest cable news network , not the largest network overall

Sand

Bambi wrote: »

Both Republicans and Democrats were comfortable with breaking up monopolies until the monopolies started lining their pockets

Agreed, it isnt a Reps vs. Dems issue. Indeed, there isnt any major disagreement between those two parties. US elections are forcing Americans to choose between Coke and Diet Coke. When ultimately the profits go to the same owners.

Richard Hillman

Twitter/Facebook jumped the shark when they suppressed the Hunter Biden stuff. Their reasoning was absolutely tosh, something nowhere near consistent to the past and since then.

Kermit.de.frog

Kathy Griffin's tweet which she reposted a couple of days a go including Trump's decapitated blooded head doesn't even have so much as a warning on it never mind being removed.

Twitter were 100% correct to ban Trump and should have done it long a go.

However, to leave violent Tweets like Griffin's up is very hypocritical in my opinion.

That's not 'art', it's disgusting.

suicide_circus

Kathy Griffin is a sideshow.

Twitter have literal genocidal despots with verified accounts.

rossie1977

If Kathy Griffin is your idea of a "left winger" it just shows the bubble you are currently in.

Twitter has removed thousands of actual left wing accounts
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49683029
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/twitter-china-removing-disinformation-1.5610073
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/twitter-political-account-ban-us-mid-term-elections

OneEightSeven

Jack Dorsey posted this after Parler was banned from Google and Amazon is suspending Parler tonight. Parler was the most popular download before its ban. Social media is now a left-wing oligarchy and Jack isn't trying to hide it.

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1348139031599595522

francois

OneEightSeven wrote: »

Jack Dorsey posted this after Parler was banned from Google and Amazon is suspending Parler tonight. Parler was the most popular download before its ban. Social media is now a left-wing oligarchy and Jack isn't trying to hide it.

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1348139031599595522

Hyperbolic and hysteric.

Nozebleed

whats goin on with big tech is disgraceful. it wont be long before employees of google,twitter etc are targeted directly.

biko

There seems to be a big purge going on right now on Twitter.

Jack Dorsey is like a bouncer at a club.
There are people at the club he don't like.
He tells them to leave, but he also rings all other clubs down the street so they can't get in there either.

Cody montana

biko wrote: »

There seems to be a big purge going on right now on Twitter.

Jack Dorsey is like a bouncer at a club.
There are people at the club he don't like.
He tells them to leave, but he also rings all other clubs down the street so they can't get in there either.

Who was removed from Twitter?

biko

Shares of Twitter were down more than 2% in after-hours trading, moving lower after the company said it was permanently suspending U.S. President Donald Trump’s account.

Shares of the stock recently traded at $50.20, down 2.4% from the closing price.

conorhal

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Conservatives whingeing about the free market.


Beautiful.

What free market?
This week put the lie to that and the left's constantly refrain of:
"It's a private company, they're not obligated to platform you, if you don't like it, make your own Twitter!"
Conservatives create Parlor
Lefty whingebags: "you can't do that, Google and Apple ban that app!"

Where is the free market in a tech oligopoly that shuts down any competing business?

biko

Cody montana wrote: »

Who was removed from Twitter?

Ordinary people following media personalities

https://twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1347925523150876672?s=20

https://twitter.com/kilmeade/status/1347758050019573760?s=20

https://twitter.com/JoeTalkShow/status/1347678021759729665?s=20