The New York Post articles contain email correspondence allegedly from Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son. They claim to show that Hunter Biden introduced his father to an executive at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. President Trump’s campaign has been using Joe Biden’s supposed links to Ukraine as the basis for repeated political attacks.

Twitter blocked users from sharing links to the articles, under a policy against distributing hacked information. “The policy, established in 2018, prohibits the use of our service to distribute content obtained without authorization,” the company tweeted. “We don’t want to incentivize hacking by allowing Twitter to be used as distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials.”

Facebook opted for a less extreme approach and reduced the reach of the pieces while they were being vetted by the platform’s fact-checking partners.

The decision to limit the spread of two investigative articles, particularly those written by a national outlet, was unusual, playing into long-standing conservative concerns about bias and social media censorship.

Actually we are witnessing attempt of corporations to replace the government, they want to fully abolish all other ruling class members outside small new oligarchy group.

Patreon is joining the ranks of tech companies cracking down on QAnon. Bloomberg reports the crowdfunding site is banning accounts “dedicated” to promoting the discredited conspiracy theory, while others that have pushed some QAnon content (but aren’t devoted to it) will have to alter their behavior to remain on the service. Projects that merely mention QAnon or are focused on analzying the conspiracy shouldn’t face any issues, Patreon said

OANN has become a poster child for Trump-focused misinformation on YouTube, but the problem is much larger than a single video or a single channel. It’s a network-wide issue, the result of YouTube staking out a position as one of the most permissive major social networks. That stance has served YouTube well for years, but it’s become a liability in the face of the Trump campaign’s ongoing scramble to delegitimize the results of the 2020 election. While Facebook and Twitter tighten their moderation rules and supercharge enforcement, YouTube is still struggling with how to respond to misinformation around the election.

I love US corporations, they become so open and just openly discuss that they want to do next.

Almost all AI will be used for censorship and oppression. Ruling class now thinks that they found the silver bullet.

Small countermeasure

In Mordor Sauron himself signed a federal law on sanctions for censorship of truthful Mordor media. Foreign social networks will be punished for restricting access to Mordor media content due to racial, national or political affiliation.

The law will also affect large foreign companies, including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. If they allow the Mordor media to be censored, they could be subject to sanctions in the form of blocking, traffic slowdowns or fines. The maximum amount of the fine will be three million rubles. Moreover, different sanctions can be applied simultaneously.

In accordance with the new law, the Prosecutor General, in agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will be able to assign a foreign website the status of allowing censorship of Mordor media.

YouTube will temporarily ban accounts for posting election fraud videos. Any channel that posts an offending video will immediately receive a strike and be blocked for a week.

Today, YouTube is furthering its efforts to crack down on misinformation in light of the chaos by announcing that any channel posting videos that spread false information about the election will immediately be given a “strike.” A first strike against a channel effectively blocks it from YouTube for a week, preventing it from uploading any videos, stories or live events.

Usually, YouTube gives first-time offenders a warning, but that practice has been suspended in light of yesterday’s events.

Nice, just nice.

Democracy and freedom of speech in full force.

Fascist state emerging fast.

I like very much this thread pointing out the calls by liberals for censorship and the actual censorship they impose in the realms they control.

But, "freedom" of speech mean freedom from government interference. YouTube and Twitter and Facebook are private firms and they can set their own rules. As long as there are no legal barriers to entry of firms in "social media" there is still de jure freedom of speech in the US. and there are laws that protect it. So, no, Twitter banning trump is not fascism, which is a characteristic of government policy. Twitter may even feel that the censorship protects against fascism, which partly thrives by politicians spreading fears and lies.

In contrast, in China, the government censors with no limitations what can be viewed and said and shown and printed. There are no alternatives other than country exit or changing the government. But there is no body of law, like a constitution, that claims freedom of speech in China is a right.

Trump has already shifted to other media sites and minor broadcast networks have experienced growth when other broadcast networks shifted their political slant - free entry, competition.

Now, there are real issues of monopolies here. And there are other issues - splintering of media sites by political views, so Facebook gets "liberals" and some other platform gets whatever the other side is called. And no one ever gets questioned about their views on those politically-narrow sites. Everyone sits in their comfort zone of ignorance and thoughtlessness with their enablers and yes-sayers.

This site is exemplary - it espouse contrary to mainstream (but learned and coherent) views and allows dissent from those as well as other views no matter how ill-informed and paranoid those are. But not without debate. There is some tech stuff to learn also.

Nope, the freedom of speech that matters is freedom from government interference with citizen's speech. Anyone can say they want to overthrow the ruling class or espouse communism or support China or criticize China, freely.

You can censor me (I know you won't) and I will just leave. So, I still have freedom to express my ignorance. Every existing site bans me, I can set up my own site. Freedom of speech.

Yes, freedom of speech means lots of stupid stuff are said and printed and spread and broadcast. We can post Lenin's views and Mussolini's views with no government stopping that. a YouTube influencer can spread corporate propaganda, freely

I don't see your talking about communism has anything to do with freedom of speech being protected by the government or censored by the government. Remarkably incoherent set of statements for you. But maybe I am just too stupid to understand them.

Apple and Google are facing new pressure to deplatform Parler, a social network founded as a less moderated and more conservative-friendly alternative to Facebook and Twitter. Activist group Sleeping Giants has called on both companies to ban Parler from their app stores in response to posts calling for violence against elected officials

Look how useful are closed ecosystems app shops...

How can you censor someone: 'Let's see, I, as the judge of the Holy Inquisition, will punish you because I think what you're saying is harmful,'" López Obrador said in an extensive, unprompted discourse on the subject. "Where is the law, where is the regulation, what are the norms? This is an issue of government, this is not an issue for private companies."

Just moments later, twitter deleted all of the above tweets from the @POTUS account and Trump had been block from access to it.

Trump also tweeted using his campaign, @TeamTrump account. Literally 10 seconds later the account was suspended.

Trump campaign digital director tweeted @DanScavino to use his account for Trump and was swiftly suspended:.

This further proves that all tech giants must be totally disassembled and buried.

Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.

In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action. Our public interest framework exists to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly. It is built on a principle that the people have a right to hold power to account in the open.

However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules entirely and cannot use Twitter to incite violence, among other things. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement.

also

Twitter suspending General Michael Flynn, attorney Sidney Powell and various other pro-Trump accounts

The CEO of the conservative-friendly social app Parler said that all of its vendors have abandoned the company following recent bans from Google, Apple, and Amazon.

“Every vendor, from text message services to email providers to our lawyers, all ditched us too, on the same day,” Parler CEO John Matze said in an interview with Fox News on Sunday.

This will all end very bad for everyone.

As next ANY view can be called as unsuitable and totally cleaned and banned.