#Deplatforming

Jay

OneFineJay

WordPress Dot Com, the publishing platform, has decided to exert *editorial control* on its largest Conservative site. Note that there's a level of control as always in the T&Cs to

Marc-André Argentino

_MAArgentino

1/ It appears that we are likely reaching a saturation point in new membership for QAnon Telegram channels. Taking a look at some of the more popular channels created from

John Backus

backus

If your company gets deplatformed from iOS + Android app stores, AWS, and Cloudflare, you're screwed.Modern black markets are filled w/ enough DDoS extortionists to drain all of your money

Paul Berkowitz

paulyberk

For me it's not just the (wilful?) misunderstanding of what is free speech versus deplatforming from the private sector. It's that a lot of you sat on your arses and

Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger?

HasBezosDecided

I'll not mourn Trump's suspension from Twitter, but I will say this is setting a very dangerous precedent that will come back and bite the left. They've just suspended the

Nate Fischer

NateAFischer

This is important and many misread the danger.Marginalizing/censoring/deplatforming dissenters from the establishment narrative will not just make everyone fall in line.But it will still cement that narrative’s power by atomizing

MarkBrahmin☀️

MarkBrahmin

1/ When you look at Styx's replies to cold takes like this, you wonder who watches Styx? Styx demonstrates the value of being a consistent, prolific content producer. Folks have

gay gemini mitski

HONEYLlKE

i think when discussing celebrity fuckups we should move the conversation away from “should i forgive them” to “what is my relationship to these people? why do i feel i

Elizabeth Joh

elizabeth_joh

Now that the President's been mass deplatformed, we see 2 conversations flying by each other. 1: raised in the legal community: notes the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to twitter/fb/ig but

Will they suspend me?

SuspendThePres

Eight long months ago I started an experiment. I needed to see if I would be held accountable. Not for the words I would write but for the words I

em

whoreganizer

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I’m re-sharing our recent report “Posting Into the Void.” Results indicate negative impacts of punitive content moderation (shadowbanning/suspending/deplatforming) are uniquely severe for sex working act

yung📉walken

as_a_worker

there has never been a time when radical ideas were not marginalized nor when popular passions didn’t lead to censoriousness over science, gender, politics, etc. the difference is we have

KAMLESH SINGH / BANA

kamleshksingh

The rising clamour for a clampdown on social media owing to the hate speech issue is self-defeating. #socialmedia 1/6 You cannot have arbit babus or algorithms police speech. Hate speech,

Geoff Shullenberger

daily_barbarian

Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance” offers a more plausible rationale for recent pro-censorship arguments than Popper’s better known Paradox of Tolerance. Popper thinks the open society is an end in itself; Marcuse

Will Stancil

whstancil

A. Tablet’s choice to run a lengthy interview with a racist anti-semite - not a story examining him, but an interview, in which he tells his own story - is

Jeff Giesea🌴

jeffgiesea

There's something deeply disturbing about near-monopoly platforms deplatforming users with no due process or transparency. YouTube controls more than 70% of the online video sharing market. Its parent Google controls

By continuing to use the site, you are consenting to the use of cookies as explained in our Cookie Policy to improve your experience.