SJW purge is taking over
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/youtube-facebook-purges-journalists-845790/
Rolling Stone
Hate speech = thought crime
Time to shut down FB and Twitter, just for precautionary reasons
Private platforms can remove whatever they want to. It's their freedom as a platform. They have also removed porn for years but you don't hear a lot of freedom of speech concerns when your eyes were being spared from millions of dick picks. Host your own platform if you have an issue and you can post whatever you like.
You’re describing the latitude afforded to publishers. Not platforms. That’s the issue that’s going to be resolved here
Platforms have a little thing called terms of service which people agree to when they use it. If the terms of service state they don't want something on their platform they can remove it and they can update their TOS whenever they want.
OP, a problem with the title of your thread is that the author of the article you quote is a left-winger who would be considered a “SJW” by Trump supporters. Imo, this supposed politically motivated “purge” is really the result of an industry that worked for years to avoid and prevent regulation now hastily trying to cover their ass in the face of growing public skepticism of social media and tech in general. As the author points out, this is hurting legitimate journalists and imo would undoubtedly hurt the left more than the right in the event of a new US invasion of a country or an Occupy-like movement. (The real Left, not the straw-version as seen on Fox)
The new left doesn't want to stand together for anything. The media itself started the purge by going after Alex Jones. There will be reckoning when the freedoms are lost, but it will be likely too late.
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