President Trump says ‘too many’ conservative voices being silenced on social media, declares he ‘won’t let that happen’ even though he puts up with the ‘sick behavior’ of the ‘fake news’

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Trump says ‘too many’ conservative voices ‘some good & some bad’ are being silenced on social media and declares he ‘won’t let that happen’ even though he puts up with the ‘sick behavior’ of the ‘fake news’

  • Trump blames tech companies for ‘closing down the opinions of many on the Right’
  • ‘Too many voices are being destroyed,’ the president tweeted on Saturday
  • Trump may be reacting to decision by tech giants to ban Infowars’ Alex Jones

By Phoebe Weston and Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.com and Reuters, 18 August 2018

President Donald Trump has accused social media companies of ‘totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices.’

‘Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won’t let that happen,’ the president tweeted early Saturday morning.

‘They are closing down the opinions of many people on the RIGHT, while at the same time doing nothing to others.

‘Censorship is a very dangerous thing & absolutely impossible to police.

President Donald Trump has accused social media companies of ‘totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices’

Censorship is a very dangerous thing & absolutely impossible to police,’ Trump tweeted early Saturday morning

 

Who is making the choices, because I can already tell you that too many mistakes are being made,’ Trump tweeted on Saturday

‘If you are weeding out Fake News, there is nothing so Fake as CNN & MSNBC, & yet I do not ask that their sick behavior be removed.

I get used to it and watch with a grain of salt, or don’t watch at all.’

The president continued: ‘Too many voices are being destroyed, some good & some bad, and that cannot be allowed to happen.

‘Who is making the choices, because I can already tell you that too many mistakes are being made.

‘Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!’

Though Trump was not specific, he was likely reacting to the recent decision by tech giants Google, Facebook, Spotify, and Apple to ban the controversial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Earlier this week, Twitter Inc banned Jones and his website Infowars from tweeting for seven days, saying their tweets violated company’s rules against abusive behavior.

The microblogging site said it had asked Jones late Tuesday to delete the tweet that contained a video, which according to a company spokesman had a segment that is an ‘incitement to violence.’

The tweet in question was deleted.

The Infowars account repeated the same content that Jones had posted on Tuesday night and the company took a similar action on Wednesday, the spokesman said.

The temporary ban means Jones and Infowars can browse and send direct messages to followers, but would not be able to tweet, retweet, or like.

Twitter’s rules against abusive behavior says that a user may not engage in the targeted harassment of someone or incite other people to do so.

Last week, major tech companies including Apple, Alphabet’s YouTube, and Facebook took down podcasts and channels from the Infowars author, saying he broke community standards.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told NBC News’ Lester Holt in an exclusive interview.he resisted banning Jones, the embattled conspiracy theorist and radio host, despite calls to do so from in and outside the firm

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey this week defended the social media network’s decision to put Infowars’ Alex Jones in a seven-day ‘timeout’.

Dorsey said he resisted banning Jones, the embattled conspiracy theorist and radio host, despite calls to do so from in and outside the firm.

‘We can’t build a service that is subjective just to the whims of what we personally believe,’ Dorsey told NBC News’ Lester Holt in an exclusive interview.

WHAT IS A TWITTER TIMEOUT?

Alex Jones account has been placed in read-only mode for seven days.

Twitter confirmed he can still browse Twitter posts, but can’t interact with other users by tweeting, retweeting or liking posts.

Jones was also required to delete the offending tweet, which included a snippet of video, Twitter said.

‘I feel any suspension, whether it be a permanent or a temporary one, makes someone think about their actions and their behaviors,’ Dorsey said.

When asked by Holt if he believes Jones will change his behavior, Dorsey said he did not know.

‘Whether it works within this case to change some of those behaviors and change some of those actions, I don’t know,’ Dorsey said.

‘But this is consistent with how we enforce.’

The ban was imposed after InfoWars creator Jones tweeted a link to an online video calling for supporters to get their ‘battle rifles’ ready against media and others.

Austin-based right-wing broadcaster Jones, who believes the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting was a hoax, won’t be able to tweet or retweet from his personal account for the next seven days, although he can still browse Twitter.

Dorsey said he feels ‘terrible’ at the pain Jones has caused the Sandy Hook families and acknowledged that the company had been slow to respond.

‘I think we have felt behind and we have felt that we have moved too slow in a lot of our actions,’ he said.

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Patrick
Patrick
5 years ago

It angers me when patriots like Pamela are censored.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  Patrick

Its part of gameplan to push islam in America like it is in UK/EU

And Finally Vatican Bishop confesses: “Senior Catholic officials are being paid off by George Soros to promote mass Muslim migration into Europe” https://tinyurl.com/y7hllebo

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago

It is about time Trump took a position on this. He smashed the counter jihad movement with his throttling of Pamela Geller.

Rick Reynolds
Rick Reynolds
5 years ago

Good speech Pam, well said! I really hope Trump steps up and enforces 1st Amend on all social media. It’s time we write their terms of service instead of having them dictate to us. Why should grown adults decide for other grown adults what they’re allowed to read or think?

The highest priority should be truth, no matter how ugly it is. If the Amish were killing people because they use cell phones (to use a silly example) why should this truth be hidden from all of us? We who are at risk from death by the Amish? Same goes for Muslims and anyone else.

I think people who have the money should sue these social media sites if Trump doesn’t step up. We cannot allow the Left to control the biggest means of reaching millions of voices. Also they must be forced to unban and restore all the accounts they unfairly removed, like those who told the truth about Islam.

Additionally rich foreigners, esp Chinese and Muslims should never be allowed to buy western assets that involve any dissemination of information because obviously they will censor any criticism of China, Islam, Russia, etc. That is exactly what happened to Twitter, some Saudi prince bought a part of Twitter and since then anyone who’s been critical of Islam has been banned (most if not all). This cannot be allowed in a free, democratic nation.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago
Reply to  Rick Reynolds

I’ve never done FakeBook or Twitter…..don’t even feel comfortable on Google….but there is no alternative….BING was difficult to navigate and all it did was repost the stories that are on Google….the same with Duck Duck Go…..

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Hello! JEFF SESSIONS!
You have another CLEAN UP at the FIRST AMENDMENT AISLE.
SWAMP could YOU so something?

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I’m hoping and praying that President Trump is waiting for after the MidTerm elections to get rid of Sissy Swamp Sessions…possibly in January 2019….pray with me.

Buck
Buck
5 years ago

Iam glad the president has done this . He seems to win out when the others fail

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

AJ BANS me whenever that snowflake hears the TRIGGER word of “Negroes”. So does MA. So I don’t get it why they are such crybabies when others BAN them?

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago

First, no one uses the word “negros” since the 1960s. You may be inviting attacks because you trigger it by using a classification of a race that is associated with slave trading and ownership. Perhaps if you used the word “Black” instead you wouldn’t invite attacks and animosity.

I am White and related to Chief Red Feather of the Cherokee Nation 8 generations back….if Blacks called me names that related to Southern White Trash, or hillbilly, or cracker…or any derogatory name of being White, I wouldn’t hesitate to correct them.

They aren’t “crybabies”…..it’s a ploy and method…if you read the RULES FOR RADICALS by Saul Alinsky, that is the standard play by Libtards….first do what you accuse others of doing …then when the other side complains you claim you’re being harmed by the very thing they did to begin with ….

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

Ummm NO! You do NOT understand language or onomatopoeia. Since we have been calling them the lieberal ethnic slur of “bl*ck” everyone agrees their behavior has become like this notorious adjective.

You yourself proclaim the power of words. Who the hell wants to be called “bl*ck”? Stop mocking Negroes and encouraging them to behave like “bl*ck”.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago

In 40 years I’ve never heard a Black person call the other Black person a “negro”. And you actually sound like a trolling trouble maker and racist. And you’ve set yourself up as judge and jury for the Black race…..BLOCKED

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

No, they do call themselves “n*gg*rs. Yeah, not from me. But just watching their videos. It’s OK for them to call each other that but not white people.

Making them the most waycist people around.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
5 years ago

Don’t forget, President Trump’s own Twitter account was shut down temporarily and it was blamed on “employee error”. Yeah, right.

GRA
GRA
5 years ago

This is 100% absolutely true. There is no bias against liberals that can compare to the bias they have for conservatives and patriots. Such behavior by liberals will be the death of our nation.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago
Reply to  GRA

Not if we don’t allow it….have you called your Senator and Congressmen lately? Have you contacted the FCC to complain? If not, then we are allowing it.

GRA
GRA
5 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

Yes I sure have. How about you?

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago
Reply to  GRA

You bet I have.

Big Johnson
Big Johnson
5 years ago

Alax Jones is out there too far. They did the right thing. If only they would do that with the really far left. I doubt it.

Badger
Badger
5 years ago
Reply to  Big Johnson

So you are against free speech? Never mind, I will not try to stop you from expressing your poisonous opinions because I am FOR free speech.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago
Reply to  Big Johnson

I don’t follow Jones, so I believe you….but there are others on the side of the Muslims that go even farther than him that they allow posting of horrific, violent things…..radical Muslims, BLM, SPLC….and others.
For that they should be investigated for “antitrust” issues, and since the messages go out on internet public access they should be investigated by the FCC….and shut down until they stop all censoring…

GPAltaBob
GPAltaBob
5 years ago

I got banned for 30 days from Facebook for making a joke about bacon!!! Facebook allows hate speech from some middle east and african people, but bans clean, non hateful jokes from Americans??

Badger
Badger
5 years ago

Fake news, just like hate news is free speech. Trump has got it right. He has to put up with ‘fake news’ and insults but there is nothing stopping him from compelling FB, Google and Twitter to stop censoring conservative views under pain of being dismantled.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago
Reply to  Badger

…the issue with FAke Book,Google and Twitter is claiming they are a public access company while at the same time stopping free speech guaranteed by our Constitution …and at the same time allowing Muslims to preach violence and death against non-Muslims…..they want it both ways….and for that their license should be revoked until they get it right.

Badger
Badger
5 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

agreed

Underzog
Underzog
5 years ago

Ideally, congress should hold McCarthy style senate hearings on social media’s push for neo Communism via censorship and other means; however, congress is too cowardly (Republicans, I mean)to do this One bark from the lib/commie media and they will cower. Look at Stephen King’s hearings on Islam. Only the anti trust division of the U.S. Justice Dept. might get involved. We can dissolve anti trust after they hit the social media, but this is war and I feel one has to use weapons I would usually oppose

1984  George Orwellesque
1984 George Orwellesque
5 years ago

LOL, Democracy dies in the dark.

Fact Free, Press.

Sanctimonious, hypocrite, repressive, regressive, oppressive, enemy of the people, i.e. Retrograde Libtard

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago

Dear President Trump…..call your head of the FCC and start taking them down….or at least tie them up in expensive litigation until they cry Uncle.

Then gather your wealthy conservative friends and put up a site where conservatives can post without being shadow-banned or taken down or censored…..problem solved.

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