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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4741044" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p><a href="https://freerepublic.com/focus/friend-news/3923934/posts" target="_blank"><strong>I WONDER HOW MANY OF THESE OPPRESSIVE CORPORATIONS WILL EXPERIENCE MILITANT ATTACKS IN 2021?</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Can right-wing populist sentiment be banished from American life by the brute force of social-media censorship? We’re about to find out. After Wednesday’s mob invasion of the Capitol that disrupted the counting of electoral votes, big tech firms have moved, aggressively and in unison, against Donald Trump and his supporters. The companies say they want to marginalize the violent fringe, but their censorship will grow it instead.</p><p></p><p>On Thursday and Friday came the Facebook and Twitter bans of Mr. Trump.</p><p>Given the extraordinary circumstances, some commentators who normally oppose web censorship were untroubled.</p><p></p><p>An exception who deserves to be listened to is Alexei Navalny, the Russian democracy advocate and scourge of Vladimir Putin who was poisoned last year. He pointed out that, unlike the open election process that ousted Mr. Trump, social-media decisions to de-platform elected officials are unaccountable and arbitrary.</p><p>“Don’t tell me he was banned for violating Twitter rules. I get death threats here every day for many years, and Twitter doesn’t ban anyone,” Mr. Navalny tweeted.</p><p></p><p>He added that while Twitter is a private company, “<strong>we have seen many examples in Russian and China of such private companies becoming the state’s best friends and enablers when it comes to censorship</strong>.”</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://heavy.com/news/2020/08/what-caused-apple-fire-arson/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">WHAT CAUSED THE APPLE FIRE?</span></strong></a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]324472[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4741044, member: 18222"] [URL='https://freerepublic.com/focus/friend-news/3923934/posts'][B]I WONDER HOW MANY OF THESE OPPRESSIVE CORPORATIONS WILL EXPERIENCE MILITANT ATTACKS IN 2021?[/B][/URL] Can right-wing populist sentiment be banished from American life by the brute force of social-media censorship? We’re about to find out. After Wednesday’s mob invasion of the Capitol that disrupted the counting of electoral votes, big tech firms have moved, aggressively and in unison, against Donald Trump and his supporters. The companies say they want to marginalize the violent fringe, but their censorship will grow it instead. On Thursday and Friday came the Facebook and Twitter bans of Mr. Trump. Given the extraordinary circumstances, some commentators who normally oppose web censorship were untroubled. An exception who deserves to be listened to is Alexei Navalny, the Russian democracy advocate and scourge of Vladimir Putin who was poisoned last year. He pointed out that, unlike the open election process that ousted Mr. Trump, social-media decisions to de-platform elected officials are unaccountable and arbitrary. “Don’t tell me he was banned for violating Twitter rules. I get death threats here every day for many years, and Twitter doesn’t ban anyone,” Mr. Navalny tweeted. He added that while Twitter is a private company, “[B]we have seen many examples in Russian and China of such private companies becoming the state’s best friends and enablers when it comes to censorship[/B].” [URL='https://heavy.com/news/2020/08/what-caused-apple-fire-arson/'][B][SIZE=7]WHAT CAUSED THE APPLE FIRE?[/SIZE][/B][/URL] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1610423901794.png"]324472[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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