CHINESE-FINANCED, CHINESE-STYLE CENSORSHIP OF AMERICAN HEALTH DISCUSSION: “Twitter says they are “broadening our definition of harm to address content that goes directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information.”
They say they have partnered with a number of authoritative sources, among which prominantly stated is the World Health Organization (WHO)...
WHO has been severely criticized for showing obvious bias in favor of China to the point they denied human to human transmission even though they were informed by Taiwan of it prior to the denial, and to the point Bruce Aylward from WHO shocks all with his astonishing response to journalistic questions on Taiwan’s handling of corona.
Interestingly Twitter specifically cites a ‘fact checking’ organization from Taiwan as ‘authoritative.’ The Taiwan Fact Checking Center so happens to be funded by the Chinatrust Commercial Bank...
Twitter received a huge investment from Russia early on in 2011 amounting to $400m plus another $400m in secondary funding.
“On October 14, 2015, former Google chief business officer Omid Kordestani became executive chairman, replacing Jack Dorsey who remains CEO,” according to the Wall Street Journal. Kordestani is an Iranian-American who was born in Tehran and grew up there before moving to USA.
There was much discussion recently about a new American investor accumulating significant stock shares of twitter to kick out Dorsey. His attempt was held of by Silver Lake who offered a $1 billion investment to buy $2 billion worth in share buybacks.
Silver lake invested in China’s Amazon equivalent of Alibaba all the way back in 2011 and invested in the fintech giant of China Ant Financial. Their investment in Alibaba was hugely profitable...
Nor is Twitter the only mass communication platform engaging in censorship. Tencent funded Reddit has been a key initiator of the current panic and hysteria we are seeing...
The chorus on r/worldnews back then was what is now actively enforced under strict censorship on many subs, especially on r/coronavirus. With the ‘message’ somewhat simple.
First, China has gotten a handle of this, the propagandists say, because they enforced a lockdown, and so lockdowns works, and thus all must lockdown – Twitter now deletes your tweets if you say lockdowns maybe don’t work, according to their new policy.
If such even martial law is not implemented, they move to 100% out there fear projections of imagine if 1% of the world dies from this, that is a hundred million people with devastation and so on.
They of course completely ignore the fact China has somehow only had 3,000 deaths, and South Korea contained this fully without lockdowns. But that our own governments parrot this now and our own media, shows the very effective strategy of China.
Their domestic censorship is “decentralized and fragmented, and the burden of information control is downloaded to private companies,” says a report on Chinese bot propaganda related to corona and other events, especially the Free Hong Kong protests.
They have basically ‘exported’ this model in a way that bypasses the constitution itself and corrupts the very cherished western principles in manipulating or corrupting communication platforms to engage in open mass censorship.
To the point Twitter censors prominent leadership figures in the middle of a public debate while the stakes are the highest: life and death itself...
Ban public officials and agencies from using it to speak to the people. Establish a publicly funded platform that safeguards free speech. We need a true online public square owned by the people, not Silicon Valley and the CCP!
If the federal government can afford to archive every single transmission on earth, why can’t they provide every American with free-speech website server space?
I know right? NSA can make Iranian nuclear centrifuges explode halfway around the world, but we can’t get a few web designers to make sure that Rand Paul’s senate presentation can’t get scrubbed from existence!
They can force telecoms networks to archive and deliver all your communications, but YOU are just about the only entity without access to those archives
Cause we are not Venezuela, we don’t just take a private company. Nothing wrong with providing a service for the public interest however, especially when it is in the interest of freedom
why can’t they provide every American with free-speech website server space?
Because web site server space is already effectively free. There are numerous places you can create a blog in two minutes and say anything you want. And if you're worried about "them" not allowing whatever on their free site, you pay for hosting for about $5/month and do whatever you want. Free speech is not in short supply on the web.
The problem is that the reg-left own the forums where everybody might see your content. It would be like the reg-left owning the public square in the middle of your town, but you're only allowed free speech on the outside fringes. Sure, anybody can come there, but in practice few would.
It's a new world, and unfortunately the reg-left has taken over. What we need are public forum laws for sites that claim to be open forums that forbid banning on the basis of political beliefs -- any political beliefs. And yes, that means extreme beliefs. Communists, fascists, terrorists, socialists, racist assholes, on and on, but free speech means free speech. The way to combat bad beliefs is never censorship.
Exactly. The problem is network effects which is one of the classic arguments in favor of antitrust, which DOJ should be persecuting with extreme prejudice.
This is the most horrible legacy of Obama. While other industries and other people suffered during the recession, the big tech rose up and grew into a giant during his administration.
If you remember, the freest and most creative era of the internet was the first 8 years of the 21st century, mostly during the bush administration. Since Obozo was elected, the Big Tech slowly but surely took control with his blessing. Those social media lured you to register with your real identity and begin to dominate your daily online communication. And after Brexit and our president's surprising victory, the Big Tech was so convinced of the collusion hoax that they were hellbent to crack down on free speech. You see less and less fun stuff created and submitted by independent users, and more and more of the lamestream media. It's no longer a public square when the Big Tech is corrupted by power.
Obama is a symptom, not the issue. You're giving him way too much credit. He was just a puppet for the various masters that are running things: Deep State (CIA), China, Saudi Arabia, Soros, etc. They pumped money into various institutions to corrupt them and played the long game of getting control of things.
Bush, while not as much of a puppet, still had deep ties to the CIA via Bush Sr. I don't trust the Bush's.
One of the reasons I know Trump is clean is because he is so universally hated by the really bad guys. You'll note Bush dislikes Trump as well. That's how you know he isn't clean.
Because web site server space is already effectively free. There are numerous places you can create a blog in two minutes and say anything you want. And if you're worried about "them" not allowing whatever on their free site, you pay for hosting for about $5/month and do whatever you want. Free speech is not in short supply on the web.
True! But there are so many ways, from actually running your own on-prem server to hosted, cloud SaaS (like a webhost but cloudy) to IaaS (your own virtual or dedicated box) that you could dupe yourself redundantly across the web.
Speaking of which, bookmark the IP here in case the DNS gets woke ... no, don't, our DDOS filter here prohibits flying in directly.
That's absurd. There's no such thing as a publicly funded platform that safeguards free speech. How in the word do you expect a government program to work without bias? We can't even have an FBI that works without political influence, and you thing the government will let anyone say anything on THEIR platform?
Get real.
Not to mention the government banning anyone pre-emptively from a service is a free speech issue itself.
Banning politicians from using Twitter is not a free speech issue, it’s the opposite because twitter can decide who is allowed on the platform or not if they want to support that, they can resign. In my opinion having a public forum where free speech that is within the boundaries of the law is protected is preferable to a private entity controlling discourse with no legal recourse. FBI and other three letter agencies are a problem because they are unaccountable due to their secrecy. A public forum would be just that open and accountable where the exchange of ideas can happen freely
To censoring leftist cunts using a monopoly on social media, yes government is the answer. We’ve done great things with .win but it should never have come this far with reddit, Twitter or any other social network. If they are not held accountable for the election interference and stripping people of freedom of speech, they will keep doing it
The trending hashtags are 100% curated now. TDS hashtags with a fraction of pro-Trump hashtag retweets will get listed in trending because Twatter is employed with mostly SJWs and soi boys.
Twitter is garbage, but it's VERY disingenuous to post stock prices right now and claim it's their SJW left-leaning nonsense. The stock market tanked 33%, everyone is down right now
Again, I'm all for trashing twitter, but this isn't it
I swear that about half the population on Twitter are bots or activists. I look at some of these peoples' histories and 100% of the posts are political bullshit.
Exactly they're a 'public forum' and a 'public utility' and need to be legally regarded as such. That would make it criminal for Twitter to censor legal speech protected by the First Amendment.
Wouldn't it be funny if we The_Donald members bought up large number of Twitter shares and end up being like a collective majority, and then we demand Jack Dorsey be removed?
Only liberals could run an online social platform into the ground during a time period where everyone is sitting at home on the phones and computers starving for social contact.
If you think Twitter & Facebook are "businesses" looking to turn a profit, you're medically retarded. These are intel-gathering and (dis)information channels supported by think tanks and governments - they could give a fat shit about share prices.
Investors really lost out when that recent activist investor push was dropped. There's so much unlocked value in Twitter. If the public started buying stock to force Dorsey out we'd all make tons of money, but good luck convincing everyone at this point.
God i hate using Twitter. If you're going there to talk politics except a political bias and censorship towards the right. Don't really ever use Facebook either, i have a feeling that they're going down too. same issues like twitter
I'm actually on the minority here. I think Jack Dorsey is one of the few left mega rich where you can convince him on few things to the right side.
I saw both Joe Rogan Experience and the one with Tim Pool was espeically fun to watch, but it looks like it's more of his underlings are hyper left so many of ideas and feedback loop he gets is all hyper left.
that stupid laywer vaggiad or whatever her name was really showing just how much echo chamber is going on in those companies. Tim Pool owned her ass so hard that day
CHINESE-FINANCED, CHINESE-STYLE CENSORSHIP OF AMERICAN HEALTH DISCUSSION: “Twitter says they are “broadening our definition of harm to address content that goes directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information.”
They say they have partnered with a number of authoritative sources, among which prominantly stated is the World Health Organization (WHO)...
WHO has been severely criticized for showing obvious bias in favor of China to the point they denied human to human transmission even though they were informed by Taiwan of it prior to the denial, and to the point Bruce Aylward from WHO shocks all with his astonishing response to journalistic questions on Taiwan’s handling of corona.
Interestingly Twitter specifically cites a ‘fact checking’ organization from Taiwan as ‘authoritative.’ The Taiwan Fact Checking Center so happens to be funded by the Chinatrust Commercial Bank...
Twitter received a huge investment from Russia early on in 2011 amounting to $400m plus another $400m in secondary funding.
“On October 14, 2015, former Google chief business officer Omid Kordestani became executive chairman, replacing Jack Dorsey who remains CEO,” according to the Wall Street Journal. Kordestani is an Iranian-American who was born in Tehran and grew up there before moving to USA.
There was much discussion recently about a new American investor accumulating significant stock shares of twitter to kick out Dorsey. His attempt was held of by Silver Lake who offered a $1 billion investment to buy $2 billion worth in share buybacks.
Silver lake invested in China’s Amazon equivalent of Alibaba all the way back in 2011 and invested in the fintech giant of China Ant Financial. Their investment in Alibaba was hugely profitable...
Nor is Twitter the only mass communication platform engaging in censorship. Tencent funded Reddit has been a key initiator of the current panic and hysteria we are seeing...
The chorus on r/worldnews back then was what is now actively enforced under strict censorship on many subs, especially on r/coronavirus. With the ‘message’ somewhat simple.
First, China has gotten a handle of this, the propagandists say, because they enforced a lockdown, and so lockdowns works, and thus all must lockdown – Twitter now deletes your tweets if you say lockdowns maybe don’t work, according to their new policy.
If such even martial law is not implemented, they move to 100% out there fear projections of imagine if 1% of the world dies from this, that is a hundred million people with devastation and so on.
They of course completely ignore the fact China has somehow only had 3,000 deaths, and South Korea contained this fully without lockdowns. But that our own governments parrot this now and our own media, shows the very effective strategy of China.
Their domestic censorship is “decentralized and fragmented, and the burden of information control is downloaded to private companies,” says a report on Chinese bot propaganda related to corona and other events, especially the Free Hong Kong protests.
They have basically ‘exported’ this model in a way that bypasses the constitution itself and corrupts the very cherished western principles in manipulating or corrupting communication platforms to engage in open mass censorship. To the point Twitter censors prominent leadership figures in the middle of a public debate while the stakes are the highest: life and death itself...
https://www.trustnodes.com/2020/03/28/twitter-institutes-china-like-mass-censorship-after-receiving-one-billion-from-alibaba-investors
Ban public officials and agencies from using it to speak to the people. Establish a publicly funded platform that safeguards free speech. We need a true online public square owned by the people, not Silicon Valley and the CCP!
If the federal government can afford to archive every single transmission on earth, why can’t they provide every American with free-speech website server space?
I know right? NSA can make Iranian nuclear centrifuges explode halfway around the world, but we can’t get a few web designers to make sure that Rand Paul’s senate presentation can’t get scrubbed from existence!
They can force telecoms networks to archive and deliver all your communications, but YOU are just about the only entity without access to those archives
why make a new one?
just nationalize twitter
declare it a public utility and nationalize itt
I dunno... “Government-run Twitter” tastes bad no matter how you cook it...
Cause we are not Venezuela, we don’t just take a private company. Nothing wrong with providing a service for the public interest however, especially when it is in the interest of freedom
Because web site server space is already effectively free. There are numerous places you can create a blog in two minutes and say anything you want. And if you're worried about "them" not allowing whatever on their free site, you pay for hosting for about $5/month and do whatever you want. Free speech is not in short supply on the web.
The problem is that the reg-left own the forums where everybody might see your content. It would be like the reg-left owning the public square in the middle of your town, but you're only allowed free speech on the outside fringes. Sure, anybody can come there, but in practice few would.
It's a new world, and unfortunately the reg-left has taken over. What we need are public forum laws for sites that claim to be open forums that forbid banning on the basis of political beliefs -- any political beliefs. And yes, that means extreme beliefs. Communists, fascists, terrorists, socialists, racist assholes, on and on, but free speech means free speech. The way to combat bad beliefs is never censorship.
Exactly. The problem is network effects which is one of the classic arguments in favor of antitrust, which DOJ should be persecuting with extreme prejudice.
This is the most horrible legacy of Obama. While other industries and other people suffered during the recession, the big tech rose up and grew into a giant during his administration.
If you remember, the freest and most creative era of the internet was the first 8 years of the 21st century, mostly during the bush administration. Since Obozo was elected, the Big Tech slowly but surely took control with his blessing. Those social media lured you to register with your real identity and begin to dominate your daily online communication. And after Brexit and our president's surprising victory, the Big Tech was so convinced of the collusion hoax that they were hellbent to crack down on free speech. You see less and less fun stuff created and submitted by independent users, and more and more of the lamestream media. It's no longer a public square when the Big Tech is corrupted by power.
Obama is a symptom, not the issue. You're giving him way too much credit. He was just a puppet for the various masters that are running things: Deep State (CIA), China, Saudi Arabia, Soros, etc. They pumped money into various institutions to corrupt them and played the long game of getting control of things.
Bush, while not as much of a puppet, still had deep ties to the CIA via Bush Sr. I don't trust the Bush's.
One of the reasons I know Trump is clean is because he is so universally hated by the really bad guys. You'll note Bush dislikes Trump as well. That's how you know he isn't clean.
Until the crazies get your web host to drop you.
True! But there are so many ways, from actually running your own on-prem server to hosted, cloud SaaS (like a webhost but cloudy) to IaaS (your own virtual or dedicated box) that you could dupe yourself redundantly across the web.
Speaking of which, bookmark the IP here in case the DNS gets woke ... no, don't, our DDOS filter here prohibits flying in directly.
Because that's would be in the public interest, and that's not what government is for.
That's absurd. There's no such thing as a publicly funded platform that safeguards free speech. How in the word do you expect a government program to work without bias? We can't even have an FBI that works without political influence, and you thing the government will let anyone say anything on THEIR platform?
Get real.
Not to mention the government banning anyone pre-emptively from a service is a free speech issue itself.
Banning politicians from using Twitter is not a free speech issue, it’s the opposite because twitter can decide who is allowed on the platform or not if they want to support that, they can resign. In my opinion having a public forum where free speech that is within the boundaries of the law is protected is preferable to a private entity controlling discourse with no legal recourse. FBI and other three letter agencies are a problem because they are unaccountable due to their secrecy. A public forum would be just that open and accountable where the exchange of ideas can happen freely
Jesus Christ. Government is the answer?! Back to school for you.
To censoring leftist cunts using a monopoly on social media, yes government is the answer. We’ve done great things with .win but it should never have come this far with reddit, Twitter or any other social network. If they are not held accountable for the election interference and stripping people of freedom of speech, they will keep doing it
cEnSoRsHiP wiLL nEvEr ApPlY tO mE! iT's JuSt FoR bAd PeOpLe!
GoOd PoInT YoU mAkE!
Twitter is garbage. I only go for james woods. Thats it.
Well Trump too.
Trump is the only thing keeping twitter alive, if he leaves half of its users leave and the other half lose their biggest REEEE material.
The trending hashtags are 100% curated now. TDS hashtags with a fraction of pro-Trump hashtag retweets will get listed in trending because Twatter is employed with mostly SJWs and soi boys.
Agreed! And I'll add for me - Lou Dobbs for his no BS real news coverage & polling questions. (& Pres Trump of course).
Twitter is garbage, but it's VERY disingenuous to post stock prices right now and claim it's their SJW left-leaning nonsense. The stock market tanked 33%, everyone is down right now
Again, I'm all for trashing twitter, but this isn't it
I'm a twitter shareholder
Either twitter does well and I make money, or they crash and burn and then twitter's crashed and burned
I win either way, baby!
You could help them crash and burn by selling your stocks.
https://i.insider.com/4cdabaf3cadcbb976a030000?width=600&format=jpeg&auto=webp
Big laugh at that very obviously manufactured hike leading up to the stolen 2018 elections.
To give some reference Facebook is down about 14% this past month while Twitter is down about 30% in the same time frame.
To add to this Facebook was under $50 in late 2013 which is the start of that chart. Facebook is now $163.
So, FB investors tripled their money while Twitter investors lost nearly half.
Twitter should have gotten in on that DARPA money rip
Bruh if they are down during a time when people are stuck inside with nothing to do, then they are in trouble.
As if propagandist twatter is in business to make money ...
The US accounts for just 31 million monetizable daily active Twitter users.
TheDonald.win is 5% the size of Twitter's US audience, soon to be 10%.
https://www.omnicoreagency.com/twitter-statistics/
There are 262 million International Twitter users (users outside the US) which make up 79% of all Twitter accounts.
Roughly 42% of Twitter users are on the platform daily.
The total number of Twitter users in the UK is 13.7 million.
38% of Twitter users are between the ages of 18 and 29, 26% users are 30-49 years old.
56% of Twitter users earn $50,000 and more in a year.
80% of Twitter users are affluent millennials.
I.e. White, self hating, trust fund twats living off mommy/daddy's dime in their little NYC or SF $5000/mo 700 SQ foot shithole.
To all you little faggots that fall in that bucket (and I'm sure there are many) - fuck you.
Well said. Your screen name is hilarious btw!
Good data, should be upvoted for effort and relevancy.
thanks
I have it in my CopyPasta file ready for posts about Twatter.
It has a significant overblown importance compared to the real world. It is not a random sample to draw inferences about the population at large.
Imagine how many of those 30million US accounts are engaged and informed (even if misinformed) about Politics.
That is one of the reasons we see the accounts appearing as having something to say over and over no matter which website.
They don't care about money. This is about controlling people's minds.
Without China propping it up...It would ne My Space by now.
Wow after 6 years they are worth 60% of what they were the day they went public lmao losers
Trump saved their asses. They should be thanking him. Twitter was about to die before he decided to run.
I swear that about half the population on Twitter are bots or activists. I look at some of these peoples' histories and 100% of the posts are political bullshit.
It's value is not in it's stock price, or it's profitability.
It's value is in it's ability to drive or suppress narratives.
Declare them a telephone exchange and enforce anti-censor laws.
Make it criminal for them to censor a user.
Exactly they're a 'public forum' and a 'public utility' and need to be legally regarded as such. That would make it criminal for Twitter to censor legal speech protected by the First Amendment.
I wish Nike would wake up too! Terrible anti American companies!!
Wouldn't it be funny if we The_Donald members bought up large number of Twitter shares and end up being like a collective majority, and then we demand Jack Dorsey be removed?
Then we can finally call it Twatter and we're all twats
Ding-dong-deedlyooskie-dead company walking. When will they ever learn, do not FUCK with autists?
Only liberals could run an online social platform into the ground during a time period where everyone is sitting at home on the phones and computers starving for social contact.
Get woke, go broke, take over another company.
Remove its platform protections, for crying out loud. Where is Ajit?
Fuck twatter and dorsey
hey hey, let's not be hasty now...
Fuck Twatter.
YouTube too.
The best humor of the day, Game Grumps referring to the virus as "the Backstreet Boys Reunion Tour" to avoid being demonetized.
"Everyone stay indoors to avoid the Backstreet Boys Reunion Tour"
"We don't want your elderly loved ones to die from the Backstreet Boys Reunion Tour"
Freaking hilarious. Sad - but hilarious.
If you think Twitter & Facebook are "businesses" looking to turn a profit, you're medically retarded. These are intel-gathering and (dis)information channels supported by think tanks and governments - they could give a fat shit about share prices.
"it's not about the money it's about sending a message"
Join Parler it's like Twitter but with freedom of speech!
Tech has absolutely exploded since 2014. Where's TWTR? Oh, yeah.
Right idea, not exactly a relevant graph, in the midst of crazy volatility.
Stock-wise, Twitter's a nothing burger. Pull up its graph since inception; up and down with the winds, mostly in the same range as now.
Tech-wise, it's a near-dinosaur only kept relevant by 45.
Fuck that.
Keep doing what you're doing, Twitter.
Pedes, buy puts.
Investors really lost out when that recent activist investor push was dropped. There's so much unlocked value in Twitter. If the public started buying stock to force Dorsey out we'd all make tons of money, but good luck convincing everyone at this point.
God i hate using Twitter. If you're going there to talk politics except a political bias and censorship towards the right. Don't really ever use Facebook either, i have a feeling that they're going down too. same issues like twitter
Keep Jack and go bankrupt. Do the MySpace.
Joe Biden is thrilled that Twitter seems to be in hiding. He hated being alone.
He also grows facial pubes and pierced his nose during a mid life crisis.
Twitter a communist social networking platform...
I'm actually on the minority here. I think Jack Dorsey is one of the few left mega rich where you can convince him on few things to the right side.
I saw both Joe Rogan Experience and the one with Tim Pool was espeically fun to watch, but it looks like it's more of his underlings are hyper left so many of ideas and feedback loop he gets is all hyper left.
that stupid laywer vaggiad or whatever her name was really showing just how much echo chamber is going on in those companies. Tim Pool owned her ass so hard that day
With Paul Singer as his new master, Dorsey better put on his tap shoes and start dancing or be thrown out on his ass.
This is the stupidest post I’ve seen on here
This is the stupidest comment I’ve seen on here.
Burn baby, burn.
Im pretty sure the twotter shareholders APPROVE of the censorship.
They cater to the far left and thus drive away the majority of the population. Great business!
Glad to see "Project: Deep Dream" is starting to fail and hopefully "DARPA: LifeLog" will be right behind it, good riddance to both of them.
Dow still can't keep it together, though at least it didn't tank 3k points today. only about 400. sheesh.
Twitter is anal herpes.