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Remarkably tepid response.

• kortilla 6y ago
  It has to be. EFF is pro free-speech and pro privacy (fights censorship tools and government back doors to encryption, etc). Huge powerful corporations coordinating to censor someone is antithetical to their mission. However, they can’t take the pro free speech stance here because most of their donors are generally leftists who absolutely despise Trump. So the only move is to put the mission on the back burner and kowtow to the zeitgeist.
  • jelliclesfarm 6y ago
    even ACLU managed to squeak a protest via their counsel. weak squeak..but a statement nevertheless. https://www.newsweek.com/aclu-counsel-warns-unchecked-power-twitter-facebook-after-trump-suspension-1560248 https://www.newsweek.com/aclu-counsel-warns-unchecked-power-... : [..]A legislative counsel member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) warned Friday that the suspension of President Donald Trump's social media accounts wielded "unchecked power," by Twitter and Facebook. Kate Ruane, a senior legislative counsel at the ACLU said in a statement that the decision to suspend Trump from social media could set a precedent for big tech companies to silence less privileged voices.[..]
    • adventured 6y ago
      Meanwhile Twitter lets "Hang Mike Pence" go trending with 14,000 tweets (that oh so peaceful, non-violent Twitter, not deserving of being removed from the Internet, unlike Parler). Everyone knows what's going on, the nature of the blatant double standards and bias that have gone on for years now (with eg left wing celebrities openly, routinely calling for violence with zero consequences). The Republicans were dumb enough to not do anything about these speech-controlling monopoly platforms while they had a chance. Now we've got big tech CCP censorship rolling through the virtual streets.
    • miek 6y ago
      Wow, it's nice to see this type of response from ACLU.