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Yep. Personally, I want a free and open internet. Mainly because I've noticed a trend where social media sites have started censoring anything except far-left o

Yep. Personally, I want a free and open internet. Mainly because I've noticed a trend where social media sites have started censoring anything except far-left opinions.

stronglikedan 5y ago
You're being downvoted, but what you say is objectively and demonstrably true. Unfortunately, the people it doesn't directly effect rarely hear about it from their news sources, so they rarely believe it to be true. Even more unfortunate is that it may indirectly effect them one day, because first they came for the conservatives...
- serverholic 5y ago
  It’s true. I’m centrist and I’ve noticed it.
- PpEY4fu85hkQpn 5y ago
  You have been successfully propagandized. Extreme right wing outlets dominate Facebook interactions almost every day. How is it possible to have a victim complex about something so obviously not true? https://twitter.com/facebookstop10 https://twitter.com/facebookstop10
- weeblewobble 5y ago
  What you're describing is a mainstream political position. Our last president talked about it constantly. Googling "big tech censorship" brings up tons of articles from mainstream media. Just a random sample: WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-tech-twitter-facebook-google-youtube-sec-230-common-carrier-11627656722 https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-tech-twitter-facebook-googl... EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-should-be-worried-about-big-tech-censorship https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-shou...
otterley 5y ago
What are you talking about? You can find conservative voices all around Twitter and Facebook.
- serverholic 5y ago
  Other platforms exist. Reddit has been steadily clamping down on content they don’t agree with.
  - otterley 5y ago
    One can find plenty of conservative content on Reddit, too. /r/Conservative/ for example. And there is healthy debate in /r/politics as well.
    - serverholic 5y ago
      /r/politics is extremely left-leaning. It's only a matter of time before /r/conservative gets quarantined. I bet they're already planning it.
  - PpEY4fu85hkQpn 5y ago
    Perhaps the American Right is incompatible with a healthy society. Which is why some of the most extreme ones are booted off of platforms - because they consistently break the rules that every user agreed to follow.
    - sgregnt 5y ago
      "American Right" you mean anyone that is more conservative than a dem party? That's an interesting opinion to hold...
      - PpEY4fu85hkQpn 5y ago
        The same party that calls anyone less conservative than them "socialists" and "communists" interchangeably. "Conservative" isn't an accurate term for the American Right because in any other industrialized nation they would be considered an extremist party even by the conservatives. They are authoritarians doing their best to unravel democracy.

Yep. Personally, I want a free and open internet. Mainly because I've noticed a trend where social media sites have started censoring anything except far-left opinions.

stronglikedan 5y ago

You're being downvoted, but what you say is objectively and demonstrably true. Unfortunately, the people it doesn't directly effect rarely hear about it from their news sources, so they rarely believe it to be true. Even more unfortunate is that it may indirectly effect them one day, because first they came for the conservatives...

serverholic 5y ago
It’s true. I’m centrist and I’ve noticed it.
PpEY4fu85hkQpn 5y ago
You have been successfully propagandized. Extreme right wing outlets dominate Facebook interactions almost every day. How is it possible to have a victim complex about something so obviously not true? https://twitter.com/facebookstop10 https://twitter.com/facebookstop10
weeblewobble 5y ago
What you're describing is a mainstream political position. Our last president talked about it constantly. Googling "big tech censorship" brings up tons of articles from mainstream media. Just a random sample: WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-tech-twitter-facebook-google-youtube-sec-230-common-carrier-11627656722 https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-tech-twitter-facebook-googl... EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-should-be-worried-about-big-tech-censorship https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-shou...

otterley 5y ago

What are you talking about? You can find conservative voices all around Twitter and Facebook.

serverholic 5y ago
Other platforms exist. Reddit has been steadily clamping down on content they don’t agree with.
- otterley 5y ago
  One can find plenty of conservative content on Reddit, too. /r/Conservative/ for example. And there is healthy debate in /r/politics as well.
  - serverholic 5y ago
    /r/politics is extremely left-leaning. It's only a matter of time before /r/conservative gets quarantined. I bet they're already planning it.
- PpEY4fu85hkQpn 5y ago
  Perhaps the American Right is incompatible with a healthy society. Which is why some of the most extreme ones are booted off of platforms - because they consistently break the rules that every user agreed to follow.
  - sgregnt 5y ago
    "American Right" you mean anyone that is more conservative than a dem party? That's an interesting opinion to hold...
    - PpEY4fu85hkQpn 5y ago
      The same party that calls anyone less conservative than them "socialists" and "communists" interchangeably. "Conservative" isn't an accurate term for the American Right because in any other industrialized nation they would be considered an extremist party even by the conservatives. They are authoritarians doing their best to unravel democracy.