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Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by wu-ikkyu »

protomyth wrote: post #285

I'm starting to think that the problem is Facebook sets the importance of politics much, much higher than the users of Facebook. It really seems like the folks doing the programming are political animals, and most of us are more concerned with the personal connections we have made. I think they are really bad at understanding our circle of people we deal with and are using a variety of factors that just aren't as imp…

I recently noticed this with Google News in Chrome. The recommended stories in my feed were creepily relevant to my current location and interests. And yet, the top 2-3 results were not at all -- they were about some ridiculous political rumors/squabbles on CNN/Fox. I never visit those sites and also do my absolute best to be completely ignorant of such political "news". It was blantantly obvious they were forcing irrelevant political nonsense to the top of my queue.

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Post by pvg »

jrs95 wrote: post #297
pvg wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flagging doesn't make things unreadable.

Interesting. Thanks for correcting me on that. I thought I had seen that before; but perhaps that always requires moderator intervention.

There's a 'showdead' flag you can turn on in the prefs, that will show you stuff that has been flagged to death. When in the very rare cases something gets moderated in a comment (like removing someone's private info), there's a moderator comment saying so.

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by wu-ikkyu »

pjc50 wrote: post #41

Could do with some examples of said views so we could see whether it's a false equivalence, or whether some of the "views" in fact comprise incitement to violence etc. Note that there is no "true neutral" in this world; neutrality itself is a political position that helps certain people and hinders others.

How many examples do you require?

Conservative comedian Owen Benjamin being banned from Twitter for life is but one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wehNVE7_G24

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Post by fallingfrog »

Does that include the army of right wing trolls that appear out of nowhere to hurl racist invective or curse words at you every time you post something like "way to go"! on the page of a progressive candidate? I can't be only person who experiences this. A lot of times it's in all caps, and usually the person's Facebook profile features them holding an assault rifle. The insults range from "stupid mother fucker" to "you're a tool of the Jews" to just "retard". Am I to understand that conservatives want to be more free to post that kind of stuff?

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Post by Semirhage »

yosito wrote: post #276
rjkennedy98 wrote: post #212

I talked to an ex-twitter employee I met in Ireland at bar. He told me very candidly that twitter employees loathed Milo Yiannopolous and were actively trying to figure out any way to ban him. Not a fan of Milo, but there are clearly agendas which can't be extricated from politics.

Well, the shooting he incited in Maryland today should be enough of a reason to ban him.

The shooting of the journalist at the rally or the shooting at the newspaper? It’s so hard to keep track of American shootings!

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by NathanCH »

yosito wrote: post #276
rjkennedy98 wrote: post #212

I talked to an ex-twitter employee I met in Ireland at bar. He told me very candidly that twitter employees loathed Milo Yiannopolous and were actively trying to figure out any way to ban him. Not a fan of Milo, but there are clearly agendas which can't be extricated from politics.

Well, the shooting he incited in Maryland today should be enough of a reason to ban him.

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Post by sheepmullet »

yosito wrote: post #276
rjkennedy98 wrote: post #212

I talked to an ex-twitter employee I met in Ireland at bar. He told me very candidly that twitter employees loathed Milo Yiannopolous and were actively trying to figure out any way to ban him. Not a fan of Milo, but there are clearly agendas which can't be extricated from politics.

Well, the shooting he incited in Maryland today should be enough of a reason to ban him.

The fake news seems to be jumping on Milo when the shooters motives are currently unknown.

Re: Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views

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Post by jrs95 »

pvg wrote: post #302
jrs95 wrote: post #297

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. Thanks for correcting me on that. I thought I had seen that before; but perhaps that always requires moderator intervention.

There's a 'showdead' flag you can turn on in the prefs, that will show you stuff that has been flagged to death. When in the very rare cases something gets moderated in a comment (like removing someone's private info), there's a moderator comment saying so.

I thought I had turned that on but I probably forgot to click “update” afterwards. Thanks!
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