Quote (InsaneBobb @ Feb 7 2021 01:53pm)
"You guys"? I have no idea what you're talking about. And I've watched a ton of conservative voices get banned from twitter, youtube, and facebook (YouTwitFace). Others have been demonitized (even though ads are still run, so youtube let's them stay to make money off them, but doesn't pay out).
The larger concern I'm seeing is in regards to platforms like Parler. "Don't like our rules, make your own!" Okay, Parler did. So then Amazon discontinues their service without warning or evidence of wrongdoing, and takes no action against Twitter, where illegal activity is literally planned out and even livestreamed constantly.
Payment methods such as Patreon, Stripe and whatnot cutting off users (primarily conservative) without warning for activity that is perfectly legal is of equal concern. If you remove someone's ability to transact online, how does an online business function?
When you say, "If you don't like our terms of service, build your own" does that mean not just the site, not just the server farm, not just the ddos protection, not just the online payment platform, but the bank too? How deep does it go where "We can stop doing business with you because we don't like your perfectly legal political message?"
If you don't like Amazon's service make your own server farms, or contract a different one. According to Parler's own words they were capable of being up and running within 12 hours of Amazon taking them down.
Amazon does not host Twitter, it hosts one small section of twitter that does not include it's feed of tweets.
If I hadn't heard conservatives say for the past 20 years "if you don't like it start your own" with regards to literally everything (including as an argument to say that businesses should be allowed to kick out black people) then I might have more sympathy.
but the real issue is that conservatives were kings of the algorithm for probably 5 years, and were only suspended when they started sending porn to people (like Sargon) or doxed the families of school shooting victims (Alex Jones). Meanwhile leftist YouTube got the exact treatment you guys are complaining about now. Pro-trans content still rarely gets monetized and is always de-prioritized in searches. I know you want to pretend that these companies are super left, but they aren't. Real leftist content actually gets flagged and removed from searches because criticizing the capitalist system that makes YouTube wealthy is decidedly against their interests. Conservative people are now playing by the rules that leftists have been playing by for their entire existence, and you think it's unfair because conservatives were always given the advantage until now.
This post was edited by Thor123422 on Feb 7 2021 02:24pm