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In the last Senate Commerce Committee hearing Senator @tedcruz asked Dorsey why Twitter insists on behaving as a Democratic super PAC. This is why... https://thepostmillennial.com/big-tech-sovereignty-erodes-democracy
Over 99 percent of donations from Twitter executives, employees, and affiliates are sent to the Democratic Party, which does not include the support of activist interests that move through the platform. https://thepostmillennial.com/twitter-ceo-gives-10-million-to-anti-racist-center-at-bu
Kendi's ideologies draw a lot of criticism. https://twitter.com/InezFeltscher/status/1296515364105465856?s=20
Some note that while ideologies Twitter executives and employees support are allowed on the platform, they move to restrict and censor opposing views, as we recently witnessed with the NY Post. https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-new-york-post-account-restored-by-twitter-in-major-victory-for-free-speech
How does a platform decide it's okay to censor opposing views? Well...people called for it. Remember when the NYTs own editorial board suggested tech platforms take editorial privilege over President Donald Trump's tweets and posts. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/opinion/trump-twitter-facebook.html
Dominant tech firms, and press treat censorship and suppression, not only as a necessary evil, but as a civic duty. Passive disinterest and active resistance shown for reporting in favor of a preferred candidate during the 2020 presidential election has never been more obvious.
While unverified allegations alleging a conspiracy between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia were aggressively pushed by the press on social media, the New York Post story reporting on alleged misconduct by former VP Joe Biden was aggressively suppressed. https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-in-cyprus-was-behind-key-parts-of-discredited-dossier-on-trump-11603901989?st=gfsloymwtt9ciqw
The RNC responded to censorship by filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over Twitter's actions citing an, "illegal corporate in-kind political contribution to the Biden campaign." Here is the complaint. https://gop.com/rnc-files-complaint-with-fec-over-twitters-illegal-biden-campaign-contributions
While Twitter has policies against inciting harassment and violence, they allowed BLM DC chapter to utilize Twitter to mobilize a violent attack on DCs 4 District PD. https://twitter.com/DMVBlackLives/status/1321224898740629508?s=20
Looting has had and continues to have a devastating effect on the country. https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1321219983159033858?s=20
As looting and violence continued, coordinated influences from left leaning news publications and their representatives undermined the severity of the violence, while protesting against conservatives for drawing attention to it. https://twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/status/1321418804610686978?s=20
When dominant firms, lawmakers, and members of the press unify their political interests, corporate power becomes sovereign power, unrestricted and unrestrained. https://thepostmillennial.com/big-tech-sovereignty-erodes-democracy
Like algorithms, systems of governance are engineered, and it is difficult to predict how the impact of these human endeavors will affect the 2020 presidential election and continue to affect society at large.
In the aftermath of the Hunter Biden expose, suppression is a bigger issue, and one that many lawmakers and members of the press refuse to acknowledge as they instead court the favor of special interests. This substack by @mtaibbi dives further into this. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/with-the-hunter-biden-expose-suppression-136
