Social media giants YouTube, Twitter, Instagram censoring content to the approval of Iran’s Islamic authorities

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In the twentieth century, the US government used anti-trust laws to dismantle US corporations with far less money and infinitely far less power. Never in the history of mankind has such absolute power in the information battle-space been in the hands of so few. If the body politic understood this and the ramifications of inaction, they would be terrified. And rightly so.

Our events, social media pages, are scrubbed, censored and blacklisted. Shouting into the wilderness is not the freedom of speech. Talking to yourself is not freedom of speech.

The Sherman Antitrust Act ought to be used to break the monopoly these social media giants wield over free speech in social networking sector. Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker sees the problem as I do and supports “legislation that requires social media to censor only direct threats, making it illegal to delete content on any other basis. Social media platforms must be viewpoint neutral.  That threat is necessary to counter the pressure Facebook obviously faces from Muslim governments like Pakistan’s. Losing a billion-plus-strong market like the 57 Muslim countries is obviously undesirable for Facebook, so its management is responding to pressure.”

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The value of that market would have to be balanced against the value of markets like the United States that could stand up for free speech. By seeming to cave in to the demand that Islam be the only subject that cannot be discussed openly and honestly, anywhere in the world, these social media companies are in the process of handing the first global triumph of sharia, enforcing its ban on blasphemy.

Pamela Geller: Social media First Amendment Lawsuit.

“Western social media firms under fire as Iranians hint at dialogue over censorship,” by Bethan McKernan, Independent, August 30, 2017:

Several social media companies in the West have been criticised for a perceived lack of transparency in alleged talks with the Iranian authorities on censoring content to the approval of the country’s strict religious authorities.

Instagram, currently available in the country – as well as Twitter and YouTube, which are blocked but widely visited by Iranians using proxy servers – have all been reported by local media in recent weeks as as co-operating with the authorities to aid them in blocking or censoring “immoral” content.

Newly installed communications minister Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi has been clear that he intends to shake up the status quo, promising citizens easier access to the internet and app platforms.

He has been quoted in several Iranian newspapers as claiming that the government is in fresh talks with social media companies to allow them to operate more freely within Iran as long as they adhere to the country’s strict “morality” rules.

“[Twitter] has announced that it is prepared to negotiate to resolve problems,“ he told a daily newspaper last week, adding that officials had also reached out to YouTube representatives.

In news reports earlier this month, outgoing communications minister Mahmoud Vaezi said that the Supreme Council of Cyberspace (SCC) had also begun talks with managers at photo-based service Instagram to block “immodest” pages from being viewed within the country….

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Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

Left/Liberal/feminazis will impose sharia everywhere if there is no resistance to such stupidity. Just like they banning a Model on Instagram for being too hot and sexy http://bit.ly/2v09Kyv

CAN IT get more Ridiculous ?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

liberal democrats are snivelling grovelling toadies of islam. Companies like face book, twitter and many others are boot lickers, when their usefulness to islam is over, they will be harvested and disposed of, as they are totally owned by the dictators of which insipid cowards like the high tech corporations aspire to, not realizing that they are not using islam to further their goals of supremacy, but are in fact islam’s tools of hatred and oppression.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Wormtongue comes to mind …

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Very appropriate.

Hussars2016
Hussars2016
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Robert Spencer – Aug 29 2017 LA
The VP of Facebook went to Pakistan an agreed for facebook to be Sharia Compliant removing everything critical of Islam.. This was only reported in Islamist Media.
Some suggested the VP did so because the Islamists threatened to kill his family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwiWaYXFZww

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Hussars2016

“Islamists” a dishonest neologism no less evil than islamophobia.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

One of the common ways for a non-devout muslum to be absolved of all sin is to kill and be killed in the way of jihad. So it’s just as likely, or perhaps even more likely, a non-devout muslum would slaughter the unbeliever in islum for allah. The ONLY guaranteed, sure fire, E ticket ride to allah’s heavenly whorehouse is to be killed in an act of jihad.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

It is getting to be as bad as Canada there.

JIm Kress
JIm Kress
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

“Republican” does not equal Conservative. The two party system, as it exists today, is a confederation of the Left. The best thing to do is eliminate political parties as a whole. George Washington did not want political parties as he made clear:

“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

FAREWELL ADDRESS | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1796

Once again has been prove prophetic.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago

It’s actually perfect fascism.

“Private” platforms that deliver a Totalitarian Narrative for any and all Government Uber Alles crowds. In exchange, the owners and C-level are immune from any responsibilities that would be expected of Ma Bell, Exxon, or even your local paperboy. Plus they are/were essentially granted an exemption from ‘free market’ principles in financing or economics.

I heard a rumor on Youtube that the platform would turn a ‘profit’ in 2020…

Alphabet has a market cap of 654 billion USD with an P/E (if you believe it) of 34.5.

I would bet that without the “secret” financing deals – as if two eyes and a brain can’t figure this out – Google and Youtube wouldn’t exist.

Remember Google is essentially a public utility that appeared out of almost nowhere overnight. The foundation of the business is access to immense political and financial resources.

We frequently read that someone should ‘start’ a new platform. Really? Is such a Combox warrior paying attention?

Back in the 90’s all of the techies – even giants with oodles of money and excellent technology – were passed over for sweetheart deals and access to enormous rivers of cash that could be spent – and were spent – in foreign nations most businesses could never access.

One reason we have only lost 90% of our manufacturing is that most Americans know better than to risk a deal even in China or Mexico, let alone the Ukraine, Russia, Qatar, Pakistan, or other seriously dangerous dictatorships masquerading as ‘nations.’

Yet Alphabet works in almost all of them. When I saw the list myself, the only ones I noticed missing were Somalia an Iran. And it’s obvious, that’s it’s not obvious, that they’re not. (i.e. I am sure they are there under a ‘skin.’)

How are you going to get that access? It’s essentially like accusing Pamela of having the power to ban herself from Britain and force the British to listen to Imams inciting terrorism. Normal folks – even our ‘rich’ – don’t have that access.

If a money manager or investment banker doesn’t have your cell phone on speed dial, so he can call you up and offer you a billion or so each month at nominal rates that would make it worth your time just to carry the paper …

… then you’re NOT a “Tech” genius at anything!

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

So these companies are getting some sort of backroom sweetheart deals not only from the governments of the dying atheist West but the totalitarian islamic theocracies of the world as well?

Juan
Juan
6 years ago
IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Juan

Excellent presentation. I imagine if this man went back to Morocco and was recognized his life wouldn’t be worth a penny.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago

I believe most on this site and others at war with the totalitarian leftists were aware of the so-called social-medias’ bent to undermine the First Amendment. They are unabashed propagandists, subversives seemingly given a free rein in their endeavor to sabotage and eradicate this Constitutional Republic and Western Democracy. Islam is obviously an Enemy of the State in collusion with the MSM and needless to say, the Fifth Column, social-media. There was a time this would be labelled treason but somehow, it is now deemed noble.

Until, the embedded, treasonous enablers within our judiciary, the government and its agencies are held accountable and or indicted, this Fifth Column will continue to whittle away at the First Amendment and that’s just the beginning. Iran, Radical Islam is not alone in its agenda to eradicate this nation. Islam has numerous allies, conspirators, alleged American but in truth, like the Democrats, they, too, loathe this nation.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

Amen Ziggy

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

Supreme Council of Cyberspace — a department of the Ministry of Islamic Truth I’m sure.

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