I'm not sure if this is due to mass-nuking of conservative accounts by Twitter, conservatives leaving the platform voluntarily in protest of the Trump ban, or some combination of both, but accounts with large conservative followers are seeing a massive plunge in follower counts:
If you're a liberal, there's no need to reply by saying how happy you are that this is happening, or how justified you think it is.
I'm already well-aware that huge numbers of liberals favor censorship of their adversaries and venerate the power of tech monopolies.
I'm already well-aware that huge numbers of liberals favor censorship of their adversaries and venerate the power of tech monopolies.
2005: Those who object to measures deployed in the name of fighting "foreign terrorists" harbor sympathy for those terrorists.
2021: Those who object to measures deployed in the name of fighting "domestic terrorists" harbor sympathy for those terrorists.
Rhetoric never changes.
2021: Those who object to measures deployed in the name of fighting "domestic terrorists" harbor sympathy for those terrorists.
Rhetoric never changes.
Long before Trump was banned, many Palestinian journalists and activists suffered the same fate, after Israel claimed they spout "hate speech" & "incite violence."
Why? Because Israel is more powerful, and tech companies will censor to appease power. https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-deleting-accounts-at-the-direction-of-the-u-s-and-israeli-governments/
Why? Because Israel is more powerful, and tech companies will censor to appease power. https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-deleting-accounts-at-the-direction-of-the-u-s-and-israeli-governments/
Here's @jmpalmieri -- long-time close Clinton aide and Dem operative -- explicitly *boasting* that FB and other Silicon Valley monopolies are now censorsing conservatives because Dems are now in charge of Congress & they want to aggrandize the powerful: https://twitter.com/jmpalmieri/status/1347064818944118784