hey, you two sorry to be late to the IG. I had a meeting during that time. I want to comment on something @DrJasonJohnson said about #AgentOrange45 being removed from platforms in the discussion today on #CrossTalk After party.
meant to tag @TiffanyDCross & @DrJasonJohnson.
Here's the key to what is missing from these conversations. These were his personal accts. Not the government ones. tried to make this point clear because there are distinctions that are missed. said this at the @FBoversight presser
When people use the whole well this means they can do this to those of lesser stature or the most marginalized the problem is they have always done that. That's their practice. @DrJasonJohnson they allow those with status to go unchecked breakings ToS until it's too late.
As I've told people before. I was de-platformed from YouTube 2009 because I was criticizing the lack of diversity in tech, in media ads on my channel. While they allow those like Alex Jones and others to make false content and disinfo & incite violence.
All of which under the cover of free speech. While using the silencing of the most marginalized voices as a cudgel.
We've @StopOVAW tracked this clear bias on these platforms for years. They never rethink their models until something catastrophic happens.
Waiting til these people amass a following before they are held accountable is the real problem. But when you deplatform marginalized voices how do they amass the same level of following to counter the disinfo and conspiracies? Just imagine what 10 yrs of content would have been?
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Some of will never understand the anger I harbor. Anger that lived in my soul when I was 19 and I left my home behind in part because of this man that took out ads to get 5 innocent boys in Harlem killed for something they did not do. The army of blue came to Harlem & never left.
To leave all I knew behind including dear friends to end up here. Fighting battles I was not prepared for but did it anyway. Eventually debates on the hill and with a WH that at least listened. And yet my country voted in a white supremacist, the very one I thought I left.
To my warnings along with other amazing BW that identified a problem that the platforms, nor media wanted to hear from us. Women who like me had enough of a history to know what could happen. Some of it passed down. Whispers our elders shared.
hey, y'all MPD has no control over the security of federal buildings.
The key is federal. This means those in charge of the federal gov't does. The person that incited the violence is in charge of the security as you can see Pence just got the national guard deployed.
It really should be enough for impeachment but seriously they had no problem deploying them when it was BLM in front of the white house when he wanted to use them to get to the church. I saw guns in the capital. did you?
Remember there were men in camouflage that weren't identified and the Mayor didn't know who they were. Who do you think deployed them?
this commentary is something I'm seeing without complete context and including WHO was able to change what was seen as impossible. All the quote tweets also avoid this.
It's so hard for so many of you to give credit where it's due. #gasen
Let me complete this thought for those that don't quite understand.
This run-off system was designed to disenfranchise Black voters. One of many this country participates in. We are the target. Barriers and obstacles that have been a consistent American staple for us.
I had a debate with someone today about this ridiculous comment they like to use.
if we have a group named "white" xyz we would be wrong. I find this argument so telling. Did the KKK have white in the name? does proud boys have it? Does the wolverine watchmen have it?
it's the same absurd premise that FB uses when they say they will take down any white supremacists groups from the platform. How do you know by the name? Like the algos are looking for white supremacy, not the names they are making up.
the concept of code words used is lost on most of you. like urban, rural, middle america, & etc used in racist ways. They are just words, right? This is why disinfo works some of you literally need to see the words white supremacy coming out of their mouths to even believe it.
America takes actions to prevent people from voting. Gerrymandering, redistricting, dividing colleges in half to dilute the power of their vote, moving polling places, stripping the right from those that have already served their time. Voter ID laws, intimidation, gutting the VRA
In Florida now another form of poll taxes by removing those that owe the state any fees. Holding up registrations. finding excuses to purge people from the rolls like exact match. Now during the pandemic TX removing ballot boxes instead of increasing them.
Telling people they can't come in to vote with a mask on using voter id as the weapon. Using exact match on signatures to throw out ballots. Slowing down the mail. Forcing people to have provisional votes cast. Changing the rules in last few weeks to confuse voters.