{"id":115299,"date":"2020-11-19T06:13:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T03:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/big-techs-free-speech-suppression-is-dangerous-information-warfare-devine\/"},"modified":"2020-11-19T06:13:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T03:13:49","slug":"big-techs-free-speech-suppression-is-dangerous-information-warfare-devine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/big-techs-free-speech-suppression-is-dangerous-information-warfare-devine\/","title":{"rendered":"#Big Tech’s free speech suppression is dangerous information warfare: Devine"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Big Tech’s free speech suppression is dangerous information warfare: Devine<\/strong>”
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\n It may just have been the fact that they were beamed in virtually to the hearing room, but our billionaire Big Tech overlords looked more cyborg than human when they testified before a Senate committee Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/a> CEO Jack Dorsey, 43, in funereal black, with a castaway beard and nose ring, stood stiffly in front of an austere shelf of white bowls and empty bottles and talked about \u201chumans\u201d versus \u201calgorithms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, 36, was freckly and clean-shaven, but came across as equally robotic. He wore a white shirt, blue jacket and strip<\/a>ed tie against a bland backdrop of silk drapes and a potted plant.<\/p>\n

Both spoke in a slow monotone.<\/p>\n

Science<\/a>-fiction devotees could be forgiven for imagining that Facebook and Twitter had assigned holograms to answer senators\u2019 questions while Jack and Zuck hung out at one of their San Francisco mansions and played the new Call of Duty video game<\/a>: Black Ops Cold War.<\/p>\n

Obviously, that can\u2019t be true. They don\u2019t like each other. Dorsey even \u201cunfollowed\u201d Zuckerberg on Twitter in December, and no one knows better what an ostentatiously hostile act that is. He could have used the \u201cmute\u201d button, and no one would have been any the wiser.<\/p>\n

In any case, Tuesday\u2019s Senate hearing was called to address Big Tech censorship of The Post\u2019s Hunter Biden laptop story, which had provided bombshell evidence that Joe Biden knew about his family\u2019s \u00adlucrative influence-peddling scheme.<\/p>\n

It was the second time in three weeks Zuckerberg and Dorsey had been hauled before the committee, not that they seemed overly concerned.<\/p>\n

Pretty soon, a disturbing pattern emerged. Democrats want more censorship, not less, as long as it silences conservative voices.<\/p>\n

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) described what Twitter and Facebook had done to silence The Post and other conservative voices as \u201cnot censorship, that\u2019s moral and civic responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said he wants more censorship of the president to stop him tweeting because \u201cvery dangerous [and] unprecedented waters\u201d are ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre there steps that you are prepared to take?\u201d<\/p>\n

Booker also complained that Facebook hasn\u2019t banned former President Trump adviser Steve Bannon and wasn\u2019t fast enough to ban the \u201cStop the Steal\u201d page set up by Trump supporters to challenge election results.<\/p>\n

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) went a step further, telling Dorsey he must do better to censor \u201cclimate denialism.\u201d In other words, \u201cimpose our agenda or else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHelping to disseminate climate denialism . . . further facilitates and accelerates one of the greatest existential threats to our world,\u201d Coons said.<\/p>\n

This is a sinister trajectory, whereby the power of Big Tech is used to perpetrate a globalist left agenda and silence opposition.<\/p>\n

The rot set in more than a year ago, when Twitter and Facebook caved in to bullying by left activists to equate ambiguous election \u201cintegrity\u201d issues with the unequivocal evils of terrorism and child exploitation.<\/p>\n

This opened a Pandora\u2019s box of \u201charms\u201d that may have influenced the election in ways we can barely perceive.<\/p>\n

One Trojan horse used to bully Big Tech into doing the bidding of Democrats was the myth of \u201cvoter suppression\u201d that took on added power in the context of pre-election Black Lives Matter protests. This shibboleth of leftist thinking equates voter suppression with racism. It also equates protections against electoral fraud, such as photo identification or signature verification, as voter suppression. Ergo, Voter ID equals racism.<\/p>\n

Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is an energetic proponent of the voter suppression myth, which she blames for her loss in 2018. Kamala Harris echoed Abrams\u2019 claims last year and alleged that \u201cvoter suppression\u201d also cost \u00adAndrew Gillum the 2018 governor\u2019s race in Florida.<\/p>\n

But the truth is that black voter registration in Georgia outpaced white voter registration between 2010 and 2018, despite the fact that state voter-ID requirements were tightened, according to the Manhattan Institute\u2019s Jason Riley.<\/p>\n

Nationally, black voter turnout in 2012 was actually higher than for whites \u2014 at 66.6 to 64.1 percent \u2014 according to the Census Bureau.<\/p>\n

Yet the false narrative has been cemented by liberal media to the point where Facebook and Twitter urgently introduced policies to address \u201cvoter suppression\u201d before this year\u2019s election, which ultimately weighted information in favor of Democrats.<\/p>\n

Dorsey on Tuesday described Twitter\u2019s election-related censorship as a consequence of pressure from \u201cthe public\u201d (a\u2009k\u2009a progressive activists).<\/p>\n

Twitter implemented a \u201ccivic-integrity policy to address misleading or disputed information that undermines confidence in the election, causes voter intimidation or suppression.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also app<\/a>lied warning labels to more than 300,000 tweets from Oct. 27 to Nov. 11, he said, about 2.2 percent of all US election-related tweets, including at least 65 times to Trump but never to Biden.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg must have received the same memo, as Facebook introduced new policies to \u201ccombat voter suppression and misinformation\u201d including \u201ca network of independent fact checkers.\u201d His claim of \u201cindependence\u201d is dubious based on history, including Facebook\u2019s decision to throttle The Post\u2019s Hunter Biden story, which was neither \u201chacked\u201d nor \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHate speech\u201d is another totem of the left, an amorphous concept used to describe an idea or person that runs counter to progressive ideology.<\/p>\n

Coons mentioned a letter he and 14 colleagues sent Zuckerberg urging Facebook to \u201cdo more to address hate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

The devil is in the definition. For some people, every word out of Trump\u2019s mouth is \u201chate speech\u201d that they have tried to stamp out for four years. Twitter\u2019s suppression of the president\u2019s tweets was the culmination of those efforts.<\/p>\n

The pandemic offered another opportunity to stomp on American liberties. Twitter\u2019s and Facebook\u2019s \u201ccivic integrity\u201d policies were extended to suppress the speech of lockdown critics.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake, this is information warfare. It has given a Big Tech elite, whether human or algorithmic, unchecked power over our elections.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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