[curlyQueue]

Strong comment. Humor me by explaining this coordinated attack in the context of what is guaranteed by the first amendment, perhaps I am missing something?:

- YouTube says it will no longer allow users to upload videos claiming that President Trump lost the 2020 presidential election due to fraud.

- A video message from president Donald Trump calling for peace and to go home, was deleted by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on Wednesday as a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol.

- Many conservative twitter users are reporting significant drops in followers, likely because many small accounts are being purged too.

- Reddit banned /r/DonaldTrump, the largest pro-Trump forum on the site, and Discord banned the server “The Donald” while acknowledging there was no evidence the chat played any role in inciting violence at all.

- Michael Flynn was kicked off Twitter permanently

- Steve Bannon’s YouTube channel was permanently suspended.

- Parler was taken off Google’s Google Play store, and Apple has threatened to follow suit.

- Twitch, a streaming service owned by Amazon, and Snapchat, both suspended Trump’s accounts.

- Shopify took down two online stores affiliated with Trump, one belonging to his campaign and the other to the Trump Organization.

- Finally — Trump’s Twitter and Facebook is indefinitely suspended until “at least” the inauguration.

I am not even mentioning the hypocrisy that has occurred... No effort by these companies, or anyone really, to stop violence by leftist causes. No such drastic measures taken. If you know something I don’t, again— make me informed.

I’m sure I haven’t covered all of it. But please, out of respect and the sharing of ideas: I ask for 15 minutes of your time (don’t know why i care so much lol) but seriously! Give these a watch, he does a much better job than I can covering why this is relevant to free speech and censorship, in a succinct manner:

https://youtu.be/8SicsQervb4

https://youtu.be/xH9XWNz0GW4

[alphabettsy]

Like I said you should read the first amendment. In the time that you spent typing all this you could’ve just read it.

I never said it wasn’t censorship or even that the system was fair, just that it’s not a violation in any way of the first amendment.

[curlyQueue]

I have, and it becomes a first amendment issue when you build the case, like I did, and like everyone who’s tracking this. I hope you can acknowledge that. And surprisingly, it didn’t take me that long to put that together, maybe 3 min lol.

And let me add, this issue is certainly from a more direct angle than the one all these companies have taken: silencing a group of people even though you’re unable to directly link “incite violence “ to all events, all people, and all platforms unilaterally.

Cheers to the future removal of 230! That’s coming, no matter what’s next (AFAIK, both sides are for that) Unless of course... a back deal has somehow been made which we don’t know about.

[alphabettsy]

I’m completely missing the government suppression of speech. Can you point it out?

Section 230 repeal fixed things how?

[curlyQueue]

Sorry I thought I did via examples? My bad, let me say it directly:

It’s the people who work for the “government,” working directly with corporations to suppress speech.

230 won’t protect corporations from libel suits filed against them. On top of the massive suit coming from John Matze, many more will follow.

Happy Sunday