It can be big trap

Deprivation of the right to freedom of speech can only be the result of a decision of the legislature, and not the leadership of private companies that run social networks, the German Chancellor believes.

More engagement risk for Twitter than Facebook

Donald Trump had 88mn followers on Twitter, the 6th most followed account, and on Facebook he had over 33mn followers. President Trump’s follower count represents 47% of Twitter’s daily active users (DAUs) (though clearly not all followers are DAUs), with his account averaging 34 Tweets per day in 2020 (up from 21 in 2019). Additionally we see churn from the conservative community within Twitter as a modest 1Q DAU threat, however SensorTower suggests DAUs on Parlor (a conservative focused alternative) is roughly 130k (0.37% of Twitter’s US DAUs) as of January 8th. Our call is that after some deactivation newsflow near-term, strong political activists will stay on Twitter for other content.

Content risk and Section 230 back in focus

In June, The DoJ had a proposal to rollback some Section 230 protections, which specifies that Internet companies are generally not liable for user posted content. While a Democratic administration may be less focused on significant reform of Section 230, recent events may make content legislation more likely. While we think social platforms may welcome content guidelines, risks of a rollback of Section 230 include: 1) potential civil liability arising from victims of Online content, and; 2) expense risk from need to increase content review capabilities. Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has been vocal in embracing an update to Section 230, while Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, noted “Eroding the foundation of Section 230 could collapse how we communicate on the Internet, leaving only a small number of giant and well-funded technology companies”

Peloton, a company known for its internet-connected bikes and treadmills, is wading into the Stop The Steal mess. The company is now preventing users from creating a #StopTheSteal tag from within the app, saying the tag does not “meet our guidelines” when a user goes to create it.

Tags on Peloton function as community identifiers. When people join a tag, it appears under their name on the company’s leaderboard during workouts, and they can socialize with other members of that tag. Anyone can create a tag, and new tags are popping up in response to the #StopTheSteal ban. Groups like #StopTheSteall, #StopTheSteel, #StopTheCensorship, and #StopTheFraud are all marked as “new” in the app.

Amazon is removing products related to QAnon from its storefront, including self-published books that support the conspiracy theory, clothing, posters, stickers and other items. Products that “promote, incite, or glorify hate or violence toward any person or group” are not permitted on the platform, the company told TechCrunch. Merchants who attempt to skirt the restrictions could be banned from Amazon’s marketplace.

Note how Amazon openly and forcefully breaks current US laws.

You can't make this shit up.

https://twitter.com/Policy/status/1349059275461685250

Yes, any view could be banned, depending on what is considered politically correct at the moment by the heads of these private firms.

What cannot happen without a revolution overthrowing all the governmental institutions of the US including the constitution and bill of rights and all case law is speech, writing, messages sent by any outlet that is banned by any government entity in the US (there are exceptions for immediate endangerment).

You again try to use word "revolution" not understanding that it is change of social system, progressive jump.

And remember- law is the will of the ruling class transformed into legal regulations. So all that we can see now - the will changed, the laws will follow.

And it does not matter whether the US government is the instrument of the ruling class and the ruling class is bourgeoisie or proletariat as long as those institutions are intact.

Nope, it is ALL that matters.

As ALL recent actions are actions of degrading ruling capitalist class.

Let me repeat

When capital is placed at the forefront of social organization, money begins to determine everything. Therefore, for capital, the ideal regime for organizing society will be such when everything (absolutely everything) is turned into a market. Including politics.

If politics is arranged like a market - with bargaining, free competition, professional political products and services (politicians, political strategists, mass media, PR, elections, etc.) - then in such a market the one who is able to pay the most wins. That is, the one who can buy specialists, technologies and form the necessary public opinion. That is, capital.

In such a mode of operation, the real, irreplaceable dictator in the form of specific persons or groups is always in the shadows. And in the arena of the political circus, professional political clowns are constantly changing, carrying out orders behind the scenes. Wasted and discredited actors are periodically thrown into the trash and replaced by new, even more fun characters. The electorate is happy. Capital as well.

and this is where we are going

When an economic and political crisis occurs in the countries of the patented Freedom'n'Democracy™, which threatens the very existence of capital (like global crisis of overproduction, a revolutionary situation arises and a revolutionary movement gains strength), capital throws off the mask of bourgeois democracy and goes into a regime of open dictatorship: with curtailment of rights, terrorist coercion of the exploited, intimidation and destruction of those who disagree, search for a common enemy, establishment of military order, mobilization, intensive brainwashing propaganda, channeling the attention of the masses to false goals (like militarism, nationalism or religious obscurantism), total control, tightening the screws, etc.

This is fascism. The power of capital without the mask of democracy. Its shapes and colors can be different, depending on the situation and cockroaches in the head of sponsors and organizers. But the basis is always one thing:

Fascism is an open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary forces of monopoly capital, carried out with the aim of preserving the capitalist system.

We just now have two parts of ruling class loudly and forcefully discussing the way they want to implement modern fascism.

More "progressive" part is winning now, being total idealists they hope that it is enough to shut up everyone who do not agree. But do not worry, all same fascist steps will follow anyway, just order will change.

Pelosi and such guys do not understand that system is similar to wheel in regards that if you push it further to do more regressive things it will continue movement and will crush everything progressive and good that will be on the way. It will spread and promote reactionary things. So, idea to fight Trump with internet bans is dangerous and stupid.

Case law based on the constitution equally protects private firms throwing out anyone they want based on what they say or believe. The same law that protects free speech from government interference permits private firms to censor and ban based on what is said (not based on race, gender, etc.).

And all of this has nothing to do with communism, or whether communists from other countries get US visas, or anything Hegel, Marx or Lenin has to say. Or what China does or does not do. The US has a constitution protecting free speech from the government and nothing that is going on has violated it.

You try to make some sanctity out of the laws :-)

Yet

The law is sacred to the bourgeois, for it is his own composition, enacted with his consent, and for his benefit and protection. He knows that, even if an individual law should injure him, the whole fabric protects his interests; and more than all, the sanctity of the law, the sacredness of order as established by the active will of one part of society, and the passive acceptance of the other, is the strongest support of his social position.

Friedrich Engels

YouTube has suspended President Trump, claiming he uploaded a video that violates its polices.

Trump will be banned from the platform for a week, effectively until the end of his presidency, with comments on all other videos on his channel also disabled indefinitely due to ‘safety concerns’.

YouTube also stated that the suspension was enacted due to the ‘ongoing potential for violence’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Instagram that Congress is "looking into media literacy initiatives" to help "rein in" the press to combat "disinformation" in the wake of last week’s U.S. Capitol unrest.

Pinky left are dangerous beasts.

Months after failed attempts to come to an agreement with the government of Australia, Google is now threatening the dramatic step of shutting down its search engine in the country altogether.

It stems from the initiative that seeks to ensure companies and content providers are compensated fairly for the value their content generates for Google and parent company Alphabet Inc.

On Friday at a Senate hearing on the matter Google Australia Managing Director Mel Silva told lawmakers, "If this version of the Code were to become law, it would give us no real choice but to stop making Google Search available in Australia."

Didn't want your local search engine? Google will threat you like dirt.

@Eno

It is not socialist media :-) Just idiotic tag attached.

@firstbase

It always had been such, at least last 50 years. Now just veil started to go off from "nice" brides face.

Discord has banned the server used by the controversial subreddit r/WallStreetBets for what it says are repeated violations of the company’s hate speech policies. The ban comes as the subreddit’s moderators briefly took the group private, saying they were struggling to keep up with an influx of new users.

A spokesperson for Discord said the ban was not a result of “financial fraud related to GameStop or other stocks,” but added that the company is “monitoring this situation” and will “cooperate with authorities as appropriate.”

“The WallStreetBets server has been on our Trust & Safety team’s radar for some time due to occasional content that violates our Community Guidelines, including hate speech, glorifying violence, and spreading misinformation,” a spokesperson said in a statement. “Over the past few months, we have issued multiple warnings to the server admin.

This guys constantly shift the window.