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Saturday, October 24, 2020

Big Tech Interferes


As a young person reading "1984" and soon after watching the film I never could imagine that something like it, or worse, would be facing me in America.  Both sides of my family came here in the late 19th and early 20th centuries fleeing oppression in Europe and Mexico.  Now we are facing it from a quarter, ironically a product of the capitalism that set us free, but is now seeking to enslave us to those who have had unbounded success and have unlimited wealth.  And now:
 

Silicon Valley is interfering in the 2020 election.  The tech companies did not start with the suppression of The New York Post‘s expose' of Hunter and Joe Biden's conspiring and shaking-down foreign officials for billions of Dollars.  

The evidence is in FBI hands, but since we have learned the FBI had been sitting on evidence for a year when the release of it to the press would have dashed the Schiff-Pelosi impeachment effort the stakes for this election have exploded into a new, much larger dimension. We think the FBI is in serious jeopardy that is well-earned as the bureau cooperated with the Obama Administration to spy on the Trump campaign.  This could destroy the bureau that has not been in this much trouble since it became known Director J. Edgar Hoover was a compulsive cross-dresser.

The FBI came up with nothing and let the government spend $48 million to determine the Steele "dossier," which it was not as a dossier which is defined as "a sheaf of documents.  The Steele document was a 38 page paper we could write in a day, but the Democrat National Committee paid $14 million for it.  There is real money in crime at the Federal level. Meanwhile in California's Silicon Valley...

Facebook and Twitter censored President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign 65 times but have not censored Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his campaign even once, according to a new report from the Media Research Center’s (MRC) 

Techwatch analyzed two years of social media posts from Trump, Biden, and their respective campaigns, between May 2018 and October 16, 2020. The analysis did not include any ads from political action committees (PACs) or super PACs in support of Trump or Biden. It also focused on social media posts, not paid advertisements, from the campaigns.

Twitter

Twitter labeled, fact-checked, and removed tweets from the President and his campaign 64 times since Trump’s election in 2016.  The company appears to have ramped into high gear this past May.

Twitter put “public interest” notices on Trump’s tweets about mail-in voting, COVID-19, and the Black Lives Matter protest verified at: https://twitter.com/realDonald)  They a satirical video retweeted by the President following a fact-check from the Poynter Institute's PolitiFact at https://www.politiFact.com/fa

The company also deleted three Trump tweets, sump tweets about hydroxychloroquine on July 28, 2020.

Twitter has also cracked down on memes that Trump tweeted or retweeted. The company removed a meme from his June 30 tweet showing the president saying, “In reality, they’re not after me. They’re after you.” Logan Cook, a meme creator who goes by the handle Carpe Donktum, made a video mocking the Democrats’ reaction to Trump’s 2019 State of the Union address. After Trump retweeted it, Twitter removed the video following a copyright complaint. Twitter also removed a Carpe Donktum video showing two toddlers hugging one another with fake CNN chyrons at the bottom after Trump retweeted it.

In 2017, a Twitter employee deactivated Trump’s account  leaving the President’s account offline for 11 minutes. The company put a “sensitive content” filter on top of two Trump tweets featuring Drudge Report headlines in 2018.

According to the Daily Beast, Twitter has suspended nearly 10 percent of the unverified accounts Trump has retweeted since his inauguration. “Twitter’s always been fair to me, until the President of the United States retweeted me,” one user told the Daily Beast.

The Trump campaign’s accounts have also faced censorship on Twitter. The platform removed four of Team Trump’s videos and suspended the Team Trump account for sharing the Hunter Biden story proving once again that being rich does mean being smart. Twitter executives have  documented a bias against the President in a way that will soon put them under Federal regulation regardless who wins

The new Administration, Republican or Democrat now sees Twitter, Facebook and Google as political threats and they will move to severely geld these companies in ways that will cost billions!.

The company has also taken actions seemingly to protect Biden. It placed a “sensitive content” label on the video of Joe Biden telling Charlemagne tha God that he “ain’t black” if he doesn’t support Biden over Trump.  This action has only made government action more imperative.

Facebook

Facebook censored President Trump and his campaign five times and Instagram removed one video.

Facebook removed a video attacking antifa from Trump’s personal page and his campaign’s page, claiming the video violated their “organized hate policy” by featuring an upside-down red triangle!

Facebook also moved to suppress the Hunter Biden story even before a fact-checker could address its claims.  This is a move that defies good sense and understanding.  What fools!

Also according to MRC, Twitter and Facebook employees have given over 90 percent of their political contributions to Democrats so far in 2020 which is amazing as these are supposed to be smart people.  Can they not see the insanity of following the path of Venezuela?

While some of Trump’s tweets and retweets arguably took Biden’s quotes out of context, it still seems remarkable that Facebook and Twitter have acted against Trump and for Biden!  

On Friday, the Republican National Committee (RNC) filed an FEC complaint, accusing Twitter of giving an “in-kind contribution” to the Biden campaign by censoring the Hunter Biden expose.

Neither Facebook nor Twitter responded to PJ Media’s requests for comment and it seems that those with incredible success and wealth are choosing repression and slavery for the rest of us.

We thank PJ Media for an excellent source piece from which this was drawn.

Adrian Vance

 

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