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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Until the crazies get your web host to drop you.
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
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