The Digital Tower of Babel Controlled by BIG TECH Fascism

12/10/2020: Sky News Australia: Sky News host Paul Murray says big tech disproportionately censored pro-Trump content as opposed to content from those who "peddled many of the craziest lies" over the past four years. 

Mainstream media was driven by the left to ensure President Trump was not re-elected, according to Mr Murray. The media stopped covering the president and would cut him off mid-speech throughout the campaign, he said. 

Mr. Murray said big tech ignored President Trump’s achievements and brought every scandal to the "front of the queue.”

“To avoid the alternative to Donald Trump having any negative baggage coming with him, they literally did not talk of any scandals,” he said. “Remember when Twitter banned any conversation and any serious reporting about Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden? 

"It is disproportionately those who led to the mistake of Donald Trump who were censored, as opposed to those who peddled many of the craziest lies of the past four years." 

Mr. Murray pointed to a recent move by YouTube to remove all videos of Donald Trump’s narrative of what occurred at the recent presidential election. 

“YouTube is now going to not put a warning on videos that help explain Donald Trump’s version of what happened at this election, they are removing them, totally gone, banned,” he said. 

When freedom of speech is gone, that’s not a great move.

By Tristan Justice: 1/1/21: The president of Uganda temporarily banned Facebook and Twitter from the country this week in the final hours leading up to elections on Thursday, arguing the platforms engaged in unfair censorship to prop up the opposition candidate.

Don Wanyama, a spokesman for Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, took aim at Facebook for stripping accounts linked to the incumbent’s campaign.

“Facebook is interfering in the electoral process of Uganda,” Wanyama said. “If people wanted to have evidence of outside interference, now they have it.”

The censorship prompted Museveni to implement a ban on all big tech operations in the African country as its voter’s head to the polls. 

Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, Skype, Snapchat, Viber, and Google Play were among a long list of online platforms that were down.

Twitter, which joined Facebook and Instagram to permanently ban President Donald Trump from its platform last week, condemned the censorship on Tuesday. “We strongly condemn internet shutdowns,” the Silicon Valley tech giant released in a statement, while they themselves were shutting down thousands of conservative accounts in an online purge.

Tristan Justice is a staff writer at The Federalist. Follow on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact at Tristan@thefederalist.com.

Comments from the People of Uganda Regarding The Ban on Big Tech Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, Skype, Snapchat, Viber, and Google Play):

• I hope other nations follow suit. They even censor their own President, so censoring other nations who don’t agree with their worldview will also be censored.
• He has done a good bold move because we know how social media are biased and sold out. They can easily manipulate youth and can silence the voices of those not in their favor.
• Great job Uganda. We are proud of you! We all deserve freedom from tyranny!
• Well done. You are leading the way. Elections must be held without any external influence. 
• Great job to people of Uganda for standing up to the bullies called Twitter and Facebook. 
• All countries should follow. Platforms shouldn’t have a political agenda. Block out social media a few months before elections. 
• Wish more leaders had the balls to put Big Tech in their places. 
• Will other leaders show the same manliness by banning such rogue companies. 
• They are doing tech terrorism. Can’t be allowed to do so. Can’t allow them to mislead our people.

2/1/21: by Ryan Green: It’s not just President Trump and MyPillow Mike Lindell who are facing the wrath of Twitter. Now, the social-media giant suspended Focus on the Family, an influential Christian-based family organization.

The supposed crime? Its “Daily Citizen” publication stated factual information regarding the biological sex of Rachel Levine, President Biden’s assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services.

“Big Tech titans are the new emperors of the twenty-first century, wielding an inordinate amount of power by silencing individuals and organizations that don’t comport or cave to their political or social point of view,” wrote Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family.

The tweet included: “Dr. Levine is a transgender woman, that is, a man who believes he is a woman.” It seems, according to Twitter, simply acknowledging biological fact is now “hateful.” The article itself had absolutely nothing to do with Dr. Levine’s “trans” identification. It had to do with his fitness for the job based on his previous record. 

We’ve asked Twitter to explain what was wrong with our wording and even asked them how we might describe Dr. Levine to their liking. At this writing, we haven’t heard back.

Over the course of the last week, President Biden has been stressing the need for unity - but You will comply - or be silenced.

1/26/21: by Mimi Nguyen Ly: Twitter suspended MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell, with a message, “You’re trying to follow user that doesn’t exist,” before it said Lindell’s account was suspended for violating Twitter rules. Lindell’s Twitter had over half a million followers.

Trump repeatedly called for peace and condemned violence. Despite this, he was banned from Twitter and other social media, while some supporters were also banned by Twitter and fired by employers.

A supporter of former President Trump, Lindell was advocating election integrity amid allegations of widespread voting irregularities and 2020 election fraud.

Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s, and Wayfair will no longer carry MyPillow products, after groups such as Sleeping Giantspushed companies to stop doing business with him. Sleeping Giants, a leftist activist group, shared this on Twitter. The group accused Lindell of encouraging the breach of the Capitol by calling for election integrity. Sleeping Giantscampaigns to pressure companies to shun conservative and right-leaning entities. It also shared the news of Lindell’s suspension from Twitter.

“These groups were hired to attack and crush my companies to cancel MyPillow. They’re attacking people, like Bed Bath & Beyond,” Lindell told NTD News. “They succumb to the pressure. And you know, that’s their choice. But this is the time we have to make a stand and not back down to media and cancel culture. We can’t live in fear this time. We got to all stand together. And I’m not talking politics. I’m talking people.”

Lindell is also facing possible litigation from Dominion Voting Systems over his accusations their machines and software contributed to election fraud. Lindell said he hopes Dominion will sue him so he can present evidence.

Zachary Stieber, NTD News, and Reuters contributed to this report: From The Epoch Times

1/17/18: By Jim Hoft: Anti-conservative hate group Sleeping Giants, worked since the 2016 election to bankrupt conservative groups by targeting their advertisers. Matt Rivitz devoted his life to destroy and eliminate opposing voices in America. Rivitz and his hate site Sleeping Giants smears and slanders conservatives. Their goal is to keep the internet free from conservative, patriotic voices.

Sleeping Giants waged an intense campaign to pressure Breitbart’s advertisers io pull their ads from the website. 

Breitbart lost 90 % of its advertisers in 2017. Sleeping Giants pressured investors in 2017 in Renaissance Technologies to pull investments because the company’s CEO, had a financial stake in Breitbart. 

Sleeping Giants also boosted a boycott of Fox News. Rivitz’ group posted the name, position and email address of a Hulu vice president and encouraged tens of thousands to email her and demand the streaming website boycott Ingraham’s show.

Sleeping Giants, along with other far-left groups, aim to drive conservative media off the web through social media campaigns directed at their advertisers. By scaring advertisers with phony allegations of “hate” and “bigotry” against conservative media, Sleeping Giants hopes to scare advertising revenue away from targeted websites.

Now, Sleeping Giants is frantically demanding that Twitter censor accounts talking about their founder!

Jimmy Wilson: 1/10//21: Americans live in a “corporate oligarchy” where major companies and big tech giants Facebook and Twitter control thoughts and actions, Phill Kline, Director of the Amistad Project, said. 

“(Facebook CEO)  Zuckerberg spent more money than the federal government on the 2020 election,” said Kline, while commenting on the growing censorship of conservative views, including the move by most major social media sites to block President Trump.

“You’ve got broad-based censorship supported by the left,” Kline said. We don’t have a free country anymore. 

He added, “they determine what we get to read, think, and how we get to act on what we think. And that’s not a free America.”

Dan Gainor, the VP of MRC TechWatch,  commented big tech corporations are the “most powerful companies in human history.”

“Google controls search for 92% of the world, and Twitter, of course, reaches all the influencers.”

The companies decided “collectively” that conservative speech must be shut down,” Gainor added. “So they start with the president… but look who’s still on, the leader of Iran who called for genocide of Israel. It’s crazy.”

via newsmax

Jimmy Wilson: 1/12/21: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman said Merkel thinks Twitter’s ban on President Donald Trump’s accounts is “problematic,” the Associated Press reported Monday.

Steffen Seibert, Merkel’s spokesman, told reporters in Berlin that those running social media platforms “bear great responsibility for political communication not being poisoned by hatred, by lies and by incitement to violence.” 

However, he said that freedom of opinion is an intrinsic right carrying “elementary significance,” according to the AP. “This fundamental right can be intervened in, but not according to a decision by the management of social media platforms,” Seibert continued. “Seen from this angle, the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the U.S. president have now been permanently blocked.”

via westernjournal

Ryan Green: 10/21/20: Lawmakers are concerned with foreign interference in the election, but what if the call is actually coming from inside our house? Project Veritas reports allegations of election interference by Google, using its monopoly to warp search-engine results and content on its platforms to favor Democrats. Its latest undercover video features a disgusted technical manager at Google accusing his employer of “playing selective god” with its market domination to advance its “leftist agenda.”

“I feel suffocated at Google,” said Ritesh Lakhkar, a technical program manager in Google’s Cloud division, to a Project Veritas undercover journalist. “Because on one side you have this professional or unprofessional attitude, and on the other side, you have this ultra-leftist attitude, and your entire existence is questioned.”

Lakhkar said Google exercises deity-like control over the information Americans receive. “You’re like playing selective God,” he said.

The video doesn’t tell us much that we don’t already know - Google manipulates search results for its own purposes.

Inaction in Washington has stood in stark contrast to the antitrust scrutiny Google faced in Europe, where regulators slapped the tech behemoth with $9 billion in fines.

via hotair

Jimmy Wilson: 1/9/21: Twitter, Facebook and Instagram permanently banned hundreds, if not thousands, of Trump supporters and prominent allies - before banning the president himself. Nearly every account that helped promote the Stop the Steal rallies or challenge the election results were banned, including Ali Alexander, Michael Coudrey, Gen. Mike Flynn, Sidney Powell, and Lin Wood. Countless smaller accounts that supported the president were also getting suspended.

These same companies showed absolutely no concern when Black Lives Matter domestic terrorists were plotting their next attacks on their platforms, often with the endorsement of Democrat politicians.

Parler Chief Executive John Matze responded to the threat; “Apparently they believe Parler is responsible for ALL user generated content on Parler. By the same logic, Apple must be responsible for ALL actions taken by their phones. Every car bomb, every illegal cell phone conversation, every illegal crime committed on an iPhone, Apple must also be responsible for.”

By 7 pm, it was reported President Trump joined Parler. By 7:46 pm, Parler was banned from the Google Play store.

Buckle up. They want you silenced.

via thegatewaypundit

Ryan Green: 1/12/21: Twitter joined other social media in permanently suspending Trump’s accounts. Subsequently, many other conservative users found themselves deplatformed by the tech giant. Trump has also been blocked from Facebook and Instagram.

Twitter argued several of Trump’s tweets violated its Glorification of Violence policy. Unsurprisingly, there are countless Twitter accounts that regularly call for harm or violence in violation of this policy, yet have been allowed to persist.

Ayatollah Khamenei, the leader of Iran, has a Twitter account that consistently glorifies violence, yet the brutal dictator has not faced censorship or suspension. After the beheading of a French teacher and a mass stabbing in a church in Nice, Khamenei focused vitriol on those murdered, claiming the “rage” of Muslim extremists had demonstrated its “vitality.”

Gab, a more friendly alternative social media platform to Twitter, claimed it is gaining 10,000 users an hour in the wake of Twitter permanently suspending President Trump’s account.

Twitter Shares Tumble More Than 10% After Site Permanently Bans Trump

via joemiller

Jimmy Wilson: 1/10/21: Twitter acts in favor of one interest and one interest alone: its own, even when it means destabilizing American people. Twitter attempted and largely succeeded in silencing dissent to policies that were against its own interests. 

Twitter banned Dr. Scott Atlas for defending President Trump’s position on mask mandates. He cited scientific studies, containing absolutely no false information. Twitter banned The New York Post for accurately reporting about Hunter Biden’s laptop. 

The company permanently banned Trump and began a purge of conservative voices. They say to protect America from a coup. That is a lie. They did it because their political enemies are now out of power, and they mean to keep it way.

Twitter played a central role in destroying Americans’ lives through lockdowns, lying about Hunter Biden to win an election, and enabling the world’s most brutal regime to practice genocide in peace. They don’t care about suicides, overdoses, missed cancer screenings, or poverty caused by these actions, they only care about money and power. 

Blood is dripping from Jack Dorsey’s hands across the globe and here at home as he counts his billions. This has to do with Dorsey being a liar who orchestrates mass disinformation for profit.

Twitter doesn’t want to serve you; it wants to rule you. And it is well on its way. Twitter is the enemy of freedom, the enemy of liberty, and the enemy of the American people. It must be treated as such.

via thefederalist

1/4/21: Richard Moorhead: Massive Double Standard. Facebook purged a massive “Joe Biden is Not My President” group without warning, deleting the group after it reached 1.7 million members. 

Left-wing liberal Democrats vocalized identical sentiment throughout Trump’s presidency, claiming President Trump was not the head of state on the basis of discredited Russia conspiracy theories. 

 Big Tech has a far different standard for criticizing the legitimacy of Biden even though 39% of Americans believe the 2020 presidential election was rigged on the basis of widespread voter fraud.

To fight back against Big Tech censorship, the group established a news aggregator to highlight news and events to the group. Joebidenisnotmypresident.news will be impervious from Big Tech tyrants to silence and delete content critical of Biden.

People who did not like President Trump got to say he was not their president on Facebook. However, in keeping with digital fascism, Facebook banned republicans who feel the same about Biden.  Isn't Facebook dictatorship great for freedom of speech?

Post Editorial Board: 1/28/20: For all their talk of “neutral platforms,” the Big Shots at Big Tech - Twitter, Facebook and Google - are running a protection racket. They dictate what Americans see and read, and what other media companies must do. It’s a clear threat to democracy.

Twitter’s strong-arm tactics censored The Post ever since we began reporting on Hunter Biden’s emails. First, it froze our account and banned our stories; then, it agreed to unfreeze us - but only if we deleted our original tweets.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sounded like a mob enforcer and shakedown artist and he knows media outlets depend on social media, and Google search algorithms to help readers access reporting.

Sen. Ted Cruz wasn’t fooled: “ “Mr. Dorsey, who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report, and what the American people are allowed to hear?” “Why do you persist in behaving as a Democrat super PAC, silencing views to the contrary of your political beliefs?”

Dorsey tried to claim it was a mistake, but The Post account remained locked. "Can the New York Post, post on their Twitter account?” Cruz asked. “if it was an honest error, why do they only happen to one side? Sen. Marsha Blackburn noted, Twitter “censored” President Trump 65 times and Biden zero. “

Twitter and Facebook, which also moved to suppress The Post’s reporting, cannot claim there’s anything wrong with the stories. Asked if they had any “evidence” of that, Dorsey and Facebook CEO Zuckerberg both admitted they didn’t.

Ryan Green: 1/12/21: Parler alleges breach of contractual notice of termination requirement, and political motivation: “Friday night one of the top trending tweets on Twitter was ‘Hang Mike Pence.’ But AWS has no plans nor has it made any threats to suspend Twitter’s account.”

The takedown of Parler by the cabal of Google, Apple, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), joined by other vendors who now are afraid to deal with Parler, is one of the most dangerous moments for internet freedom.

The claim that Parler represents some unique risk to public safety is a lie driven by politics. The truth is that Parler was taken down because it is viewed by leftist tech giants as pro-Trump, and the growing home to conservative media stars and others disaffected by liberal social media platforms.

Parler sued AWS. You can read the Complaint and Motion for Temporary Restraining Order (pdfs). From the Complaint in the full article. And yes, Twitter uses AWS. How convenient to wipe out their competition.

We need to consider our alliances. The reality is that these internet oligopolies are so politically corrupt that their exercise of omnipotent power is a threat to all our freedoms.

via legalinsurrection