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if twitter blocks you, you can publish your stuff on myriad other services for free. i guess same with a phone company, if they cut you off you can just sign up

if twitter blocks you, you can publish your stuff on myriad other services for free. i guess same with a phone company, if they cut you off you can just sign up with another provider ... is it censorship if the phone company cuts you off for non-payment?

adventured 6y ago
If Twitter were acting strictly alone, that might be a reasonable point. In the case of Facebook, they possess monopoly power and their ability to censor speech is elevated above most of their peers (save for Google). Twitter however did not act alone. The tech giants conspired together to mass censor speech they politically disagree with in the 2020 presidential election. It's not a conspiracy theory, it's not secret in any regard, they were openly and directly sharing block lists with eachother and acting against only the political party they consider their adversary (rather than equitably enforcing their terms of service, behavior that has been going on for years now). Their executives should be in prison for that level of criminal collusion toward election interference given their extreme collective monopoly status. Merely breaking the companies into pieces is not enough.
- WClayFerguson 6y ago
  Bravo! Well said. Unfortunately the execs doing the censoring in Big Tech are not currently breaking any laws, because their billionaire K-street lobbyists contribute enough funds to the legislators to stop them from taking action to make censorship illegal. There's absolutely no reason to allow Twitter to censor, because it's become the modern version of the telephone system, and the world is relying on Twitter in today's world in an even more important way than telephone texting. The only people arguing in favor of censorship right now are the Democrats, and it's SOLELY because Silicon Valley is reliably left leaning, and will only censor Republicans.
- zokula 6y ago
  Never go full Trumptard.

adventured 6y ago

If Twitter were acting strictly alone, that might be a reasonable point. In the case of Facebook, they possess monopoly power and their ability to censor speech is elevated above most of their peers (save for Google). Twitter however did not act alone. The tech giants conspired together to mass censor speech they politically disagree with in the 2020 presidential election. It's not a conspiracy theory, it's not secret in any regard, they were openly and directly sharing block lists with eachother and acting against only the political party they consider their adversary (rather than equitably enforcing their terms of service, behavior that has been going on for years now). Their executives should be in prison for that level of criminal collusion toward election interference given their extreme collective monopoly status. Merely breaking the companies into pieces is not enough.

WClayFerguson 6y ago
Bravo! Well said. Unfortunately the execs doing the censoring in Big Tech are not currently breaking any laws, because their billionaire K-street lobbyists contribute enough funds to the legislators to stop them from taking action to make censorship illegal. There's absolutely no reason to allow Twitter to censor, because it's become the modern version of the telephone system, and the world is relying on Twitter in today's world in an even more important way than telephone texting. The only people arguing in favor of censorship right now are the Democrats, and it's SOLELY because Silicon Valley is reliably left leaning, and will only censor Republicans.
zokula 6y ago
Never go full Trumptard.