Conservatives who have long chafed over being marginalized and muzzled on social media are fighting back with a newly formed coalition.
Conservatives Against Online Censorship launched Tuesday in an effort to “draw attention to the issue of political censorship on social media,” starting with Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube.
Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, called social media “the most expansive and most game-changing form of communication today.”
“It is these facts that make online political censorship one of the largest threats to free speech we have ever seen,” Mr. Bozell said in a statement. “Conservatives should be given the same ability to express their political ideas online as liberals, without the fear of being suppressed or censored.”
The coalition’s unveiling comes with unrest over bias on the rise as conservatives balk at being blocked on social media and decry the growing influence of the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center in helping tech platforms identify and jettison “hate content.”
Last week, for example, the music-streaming service Spotify touched off alarm by announcing it had partnered with the SPLC, as well as the Anti-Defamation League, Muslim Advocates and GLAAD, to remove or refuse to promote any track that contains “hate content.”
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3 comments:
Good luck with that... Fighting a up hill losing battle...
Facebook already was proven to be biased and sensors people and still after being caught and putting an ad on TV, they still do it, becasue people like you whom are obtuse, think and believe what they say even when they are proven liars...
Social media is not a " Free Speech " forum. They are all commercial venues. It's not like scanners CB radio and old telephone party lines and HEE HAW. There is no such thing as Net Neutrality and a democracy of opinion in any forum you pay for access too.
>>>Social media is not a " Free Speech " forum.<<< If that is the excuse for extreme bias on their part, then users are entitled to a disclaimer. Something along the lines of "Please be aware that this site only publishes those points of view we consider far-left democrat, anti-Trump/GOP, progressive, and generally bat-shit crazy".
When social media censors for political reasons, they give up all pretense of being open to diverse opinion. And people have a right to understand that the info they are absorbing is highly tainted.
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