I don't know if that group used any particularly bad tactics, but on the surface that statement sounds like squashing free speech. IDK about germany, but I'm sure FB will do that in the US too. All because "it's our private platform and we are not the government so no first amendment here".
The third pedophiles.
The fourth BLM, or some type of socialist.
At that point you've built up enough bipartisan support to remove everyone from the platform who might possibly threaten ad revenue.
Unfortunately you've also made the platform so boring people will leave at the first chance.
Like what the eff. People can’t even freely mention an anecdote anymore if it is contrary to the set narrative?
What the eff happened to us in the last two years?
It’s frankly, disgusting and very concerning.
Did you notice that you shortened it from "Minaj claimed a friend of a cousin..." to "Minaj claimed a friend...?" Hey, you're human too just like all of us. We suck at passing along rumors.
It’s no different from the banning of the Wuhan lab escape theory that was banned because… I dunno some republican happened to like it? Meanwhile lots of virologists believed it should at least be investigated. But no, originally only racists could consider it as a possibility.
No, Twitter can eff off.
Nikki Minaj didn't tweet about a "bad reaction" but a completely fabricated third or fourth hand story about someone's balls swelling up.
She was also not banned. Twitter literally said they were taking no action against her.
Nikki then tried to rile up her fans by crying "I'm getting cancelled" despite the fact that she was clearly not.
That said, apparently swollen testes are reported in the VAERS as a reaction to the vaccine. Not a great amount but also non-zero.
Nothing is stopping Nikki from hosting her own website.
Yes, but then, why should there be laws that shield these services from any legal responsibility as to what their users post? The government shouldn't need to protect these businesses either and let them off the hook because of the scale of the moderation. it goes both ways. Private companies can accept whatever they want, the government doesn't have to protect them either, they are a private company after all. They should bear all the risk.
That doesn't mean I'm necessarily in favor of preventing these companies from moderating things. It just concerns me to see such obvious aspects disregarded.
But… it should concern people the concerted effort to censor anything including the truth if it doesn’t fit a particular narrative.
What is Twitter decided hey, they wanna be on the side of the police and now anyone reporting anything that goes against the police narrative gets banned, true or made up. Does that sound okay?
It’s effed up of people think that that’s okay because they are a private company and it’s their platform…