The Pendulum Of Internet Censorship Swings Leftward Again
"There has been a purge of left-wing accounts from social media, with socialist organizations being targeted on Facebook and multiple Antifa-associated accounts suspended from Twitter."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-pendulum…
"There has been a purge of left-wing accounts from social media, with socialist organizations being targeted on Facebook and multiple Antifa-associated accounts suspended from Twitter."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-pendulum…
There has been a purge of left-wing accounts from social media, with socialist organizations being targeted on Facebook and multiple Antifa-associated accounts suspended from Twitter.
https://twitter.com/Andre__Damon/status/1353385644404465665
The New York Post reports the following:
nypost.com/2021/01/22/twi…
nypost.com/2021/01/22/twi…
https://twitter.com/AntifaSac_/status/1352433178879827968
This follows a mass purge of right-wing accounts in the wake of the Capitol riot earlier this month, a swing-back of the censorship pendulum that surprises nobody who knows anything about anything.
I encountered many arguments in support of the right-wing purge from the online left while it was happening, and none of them were good.
"They're only banning fascists," they told me. "Why are you defending fascists?"
"They're only banning fascists," they told me. "Why are you defending fascists?"
"They always censor the left," they told me. "We're just happy that now they're censoring fascists too."
"Well it's not like leftist revolution will be planned on social media anyway," they told me.
This is it, right here. This is the goal. Trying to narrative manage people into conformity didn't work, so now they're working to reinstate the supremacy of mainstream gatekeepers:
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1350477531854622723
When you realize that corporations are America's real government, the whole "it isn't censorship if it's a private company doing it" argument is seen for the joke that it is.
To support the censorship of online speech is to support the authority of monopolistic tech oligarchs to exert more and more global control over human communication.
When you learn that this censorship is being actively coordinated with the official government, it’s even more of a joke.
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1348815760936734720?s=20
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