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That is odd, it didn't seem to happen when the Republicans were in power. Actually, quite the opposite. We saw a tremendous amount of censorship of Right conten

That is odd, it didn't seem to happen when the Republicans were in power. Actually, quite the opposite. We saw a tremendous amount of censorship of Right content and people.

iammisc 5y ago
I was going to say... when scary GOP was in power, the largest websites literally censored and removed the GOP president, to the applause of the left, except for the few reasonable people, like Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard.
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lazyeye 5y ago
Maybe its no longer democrat/republican. Maybe its big tech and whatever directly or indirectly threatens it. For example, big tech likes to source workers globally (bigger labour pool, cheaper wages) so any form of patriotism/nationalism, no matter how reasonable or modest, is an anathema to it.
- kokanator 5y ago
  You could be very correct on this. I do see that the Big Tech leaders tend support left candidates/positions consistently. Perhaps this is because it is beneficial to their business as a whole and nothing to do with their ideology. Regardless, of whether it is to support their business or the ideology, censoring ideas should not be tolerated.
  - lazyeye 5y ago
    Interesting article recently on Quillette that talks about this and supports the idea that big tech doesnt really practice true diversity, they hide behind it. https://quillette.com/2021/07/21/silicon-valleys-cynical-treatment-of-asian-engineers/ https://quillette.com/2021/07/21/silicon-valleys-cynical-tre...
    - kokanator 5y ago
      Great and enlightening article. Thank you.
jasonlotito 5y ago
> That is odd, it didn't seem to happen when the Republicans were in power. Except it literally did. It literally happened when a Republican was president. > We saw a tremendous amount of censorship of Right content and people. A tremendous, but more than the left? Not at all. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/two-new-studies-show-again-that-facebook-doesnt-censor-conservatives/ https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/two-new-studies-show-again... I don't know, most of the reports that looked into this couldn't find anything to back this up. Numerous studies back this up. So please, share studies that back up that statement, because so far, the evidence doesn't support that theory.
- iammisc 5y ago
  I'll do a study. which democratic president was censored on Twitter? You're assuming all pages are equal. Censoring the Daily Wire is not the same as censoring the local stop climate change page, for example (not that DW has been censored). Your study counts all pages equally, but frankly, it shouldn't. Censoring the POTUS is more dire than censoring some small leftist organization, because POTUS is more influential. Perhaps weight the censorings by # followers or a similar metric. We know that right wing alternate media is more popular than left wing, so my hypothesis would be a weighting would reveale something more dire.
  - mc32 5y ago
    Even better, what presidency got to tell Social Media what was disinformation and not?
  - jasonlotito 5y ago
    I'll do a study: Which president broke the rules of Twitter so frequently, they got their own special rules above and beyond anyone else? Seems to me like Twitter and FB worked really hard to keep POTUS on their platform despite him routinely violating their ToS. So, literally, the opposite of what you are claiming.
- kokanator 5y ago
  Your reference does not support your claim. It simply shows more right traffic and content. This does NOT prove censorship claims. Simply activity. Here is a database of confirmed censorship: https://censortrack.org/ https://censortrack.org/

That is odd, it didn't seem to happen when the Republicans were in power. Actually, quite the opposite. We saw a tremendous amount of censorship of Right content and people.

iammisc 5y ago

I was going to say... when scary GOP was in power, the largest websites literally censored and removed the GOP president, to the applause of the left, except for the few reasonable people, like Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard.

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lazyeye 5y ago

Maybe its no longer democrat/republican. Maybe its big tech and whatever directly or indirectly threatens it. For example, big tech likes to source workers globally (bigger labour pool, cheaper wages) so any form of patriotism/nationalism, no matter how reasonable or modest, is an anathema to it.

kokanator 5y ago
You could be very correct on this. I do see that the Big Tech leaders tend support left candidates/positions consistently. Perhaps this is because it is beneficial to their business as a whole and nothing to do with their ideology. Regardless, of whether it is to support their business or the ideology, censoring ideas should not be tolerated.
- lazyeye 5y ago
  Interesting article recently on Quillette that talks about this and supports the idea that big tech doesnt really practice true diversity, they hide behind it. https://quillette.com/2021/07/21/silicon-valleys-cynical-treatment-of-asian-engineers/ https://quillette.com/2021/07/21/silicon-valleys-cynical-tre...
  - kokanator 5y ago
    Great and enlightening article. Thank you.

jasonlotito 5y ago

> That is odd, it didn't seem to happen when the Republicans were in power. Except it literally did. It literally happened when a Republican was president. > We saw a tremendous amount of censorship of Right content and people. A tremendous, but more than the left? Not at all. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/two-new-studies-show-again-that-facebook-doesnt-censor-conservatives/ https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/two-new-studies-show-again... I don't know, most of the reports that looked into this couldn't find anything to back this up. Numerous studies back this up. So please, share studies that back up that statement, because so far, the evidence doesn't support that theory.

iammisc 5y ago
I'll do a study. which democratic president was censored on Twitter? You're assuming all pages are equal. Censoring the Daily Wire is not the same as censoring the local stop climate change page, for example (not that DW has been censored). Your study counts all pages equally, but frankly, it shouldn't. Censoring the POTUS is more dire than censoring some small leftist organization, because POTUS is more influential. Perhaps weight the censorings by # followers or a similar metric. We know that right wing alternate media is more popular than left wing, so my hypothesis would be a weighting would reveale something more dire.
- mc32 5y ago
  Even better, what presidency got to tell Social Media what was disinformation and not?
- jasonlotito 5y ago
  I'll do a study: Which president broke the rules of Twitter so frequently, they got their own special rules above and beyond anyone else? Seems to me like Twitter and FB worked really hard to keep POTUS on their platform despite him routinely violating their ToS. So, literally, the opposite of what you are claiming.
kokanator 5y ago
Your reference does not support your claim. It simply shows more right traffic and content. This does NOT prove censorship claims. Simply activity. Here is a database of confirmed censorship: https://censortrack.org/ https://censortrack.org/