(Previous) Trump has taken the extraordinary step of threatening to close down social media platforms. The threat came after Twitter added fact-check links to his tweets for the first time. The battle between the president and the social-media companies has been brewing for a time. But now it feels as though an all-out war is looming between Donald Trump and Twitter ahead of the US presidential election, in November. Last night, a couple of Trump tweets raging about "fraudulent" postal ballots in US elections featured - for some users but not all - a strapline linking to what Twitter called "facts about mail-in ballots." This then led to a page debunking the president's claims but featuring articles from two organisations he regards as his sworn enemies, CNN and the Washington Post. It took him no time to fight back. Then, on Wednesday morning, the president woke up and raised the temperature even further with this two-part tweet: "Republicans feel that social-media platforms totally silence conservatives voices. "We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. "We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. "We can't let a more sophisticated version of that... happen again - just like we can't let largescale mail-in ballots take root in our country. "It would be a free-for-all on cheating, forgery and the theft of ballots. "Whoever cheated the most would win. "Likewise, social media. "Clean up your act, now." Conspiracy theories So does he mean any of this? It is very hard to see Congress passing laws to strongly regulate or close down social-media platforms. The president refers to free speech. But as a private company, Twitter is free to police its platform as it sees fit. Nevertheless, for Twitter's chief executive, Jack Dorsey, this is undoubtedly just the start of a clash that will continue right up until the November election. In recent days, he has been under huge pressure to do something about President Trump's tweets. Now, he has acted but not in a way that might have been expected. There has been a furore over the way the president has used Twitter seemingly to endorse a baseless conspiracy theory about one of his critics, the TV presenter and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough. Twitter chief Jack Dorsey has resisted pressure to delete some of President Trump's previous tweets President Trump has repeatedly suggested the death in an accident, in 2001, of one of the Congressman's aides, Lori Klausutis, is a "cold case" that deserves to be reopened by the police. And that led the widower of Ms Klausutis to write to Jack Dorsey, pleading with him to remove the president's tweets because of the pain they were causing her family. So far, Mr Dorsey has refused, apparently convinced the president's Twitter feed has protected status because it is part of the public record. Nor was there any attempt to correct the inaccuracies in the tweets. Adding a fact-check to the tweets about mail-in ballots appears to fit in with a new Twitter policy on protecting elections. It warns users they may not post or share content that may interfere in elections or might suppress participation. Last night, another baseless conspiracy theory - this time about a made-up crime involving Donald Trump in 2000 - was posted by an account called TheTweetofGod. It too has neither been removed nor fact-checked, perhaps because Twitter realises it would be accused of inconsistency. The president's Facebook page also features his diatribes about mail-in ballots and Joe Scarborough, with no sign of any fact-checking or limits on sharing such material. But that's not to suggest it will escape his ire. Last week, the president tweeted: "The radical left is in total command and control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google." And he intended to "remedy this illegal situation". There have since been reports the White House might set up a special commission to investigate the claim. Whatever the social-media companies do about their most famous and controversial user is bound to cause anger on one side or another. They can look forward to a long hot summer.
The thing is that these social media companies have protections but when they start to Censor the content on their platform they start to lose those protective rights. When they go from platform to Publisher! Twitter is Notorious for censoring 1 side, Conservatives! This is a cut from the Joe Rogan episode where they had Jack Dorsey the ceo of Twitter and his head of compliance. 2+ hour podcast. Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk
Was just going to post this.. Trump threatens social media shutdown over Twitter fact-check label Trump threatens social media shutdown over Twitter fact-check label Let's see how more government regulation and intrusion into private businesses resonates with conservatives. Surely they cannot support a president who threatens to shut down and regulate things like we're in China.
Tim is just throwing a bunch of empty accusations at them. Some former YouTuber and high school drop-out is giving us a lecture on policies and compliance. The way she shut down his arguments is pretty obviously with a lot more reason and thoughtfulness; if you think he actually proved something reasonable you are definitely not thinking on the level of people who actually have the brain capacity to learn law, business compliance and do something viable with their knowledge. On the other hand we have a kid YouTuber. Cool.
21 of 22 bannings were conservative voices and Twitter banned a Biological Female for saying trans men aren't women which is TRUE! Twitter banned a person for insinuating death but just temp banned someone who ACTUALLY called for someone to be killed but that was a conservative they wanted dead. YouTube isn't much better and Facebook is the fucking devil! Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk
I believe the appropriate conservative response to this goes something like, "you're free to take your business elsewhere to another social media platform", or "you're free to start your own social media platform". Yet for so long we've been told to parrot the narrative that it's the libtards who are so easily triggered and emotionally unstable. Strange.
They can ban whoever they want for whatever reason they want. The fact that they are actually listening to these b.s. accusations and trying to adjust somewhat is good enough. "Minds" was supposed to be the social network of free content and no regulation, go create an account there and enjoy. Why are you on Twitter when it's predominantly filled with leftist ideology? The problem is that technology companies created new ecosphere of communication where right wing views are a minority. And now conservative snowflakes are crying for being left out. Sucks to be a minority I guess.
You right wingers don't like twitter? Hey man, this is a free market right? Start your own social media platform. Call it Quitter. Lol....Fukn snowflakes.
Tit for Tat - what gives anyone the right to regulate Free Speech in America? Re-thinking this - I suppose it comes down to any private company making any rules they want. Good/Bad. j
I dont have the time or energy to watch that stuff - all due respect. To be totally honest I cant stand politics. j
Exactly. But why do you think it's bad? Let's say you have a business and you don't like the way customers are behaving, maybe they are simply yelling at other customers or worse threatening someone. Wouldn't you be allowed to kick them out? Why can't a company be left leaning? Fox is basically right wing and we're not trying to regulate them to be more inclusive of the leftist views.
So what? Since when is that a crime? They are free to have any kind of bias. They have absolutely no obligation to represent all ideologies. Aside from a few "high profile" cases, I'm surprised they even have time to get into all this shit. There are terabytes of data to be analyzed, moderated and reviewed. All kinds of crazy stuff. Right wing accounts probably represent a small fraction of the shit their algorithms sift through. Not to mention manual moderation. And if enough people "report" a post it will at least get flagged for review, so it's not really a surprise to see more actions taken against non-liberal views.
Looks like the big man baby is throwing another tantrum and threatening to break his own toy by suing social media companies for calling out his lies. Where are all those "small government conservatives" now? Their silence is....deafening. Trump to sign executive order on social media amid Twitter furor GOP = gaslight, obstruct, project