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dc2k08 | 5 years ago

Twitter and facebook both enabled the spreading of a fake news conspiracy in 2020 that the death of drug-addled criminal during the course of a difficult arrest in which a multiethnic police crew applied the protocol that had been signed off on by a black police chief was the result of anti-black racism.

Consequently sections of cities were burned, stores were looted, people were attacked and killed.

These riots, we were instructed to believe, were "mostly peaceful" and helped lessen the impact of covid19.

When is big tech and the mainstream media industry going to be held responsible?

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vkou|5 years ago

There have been thousands of BLM protests, with millions of people participating them across the entire year. The overwhelming majority of them have been peaceful. The overwhelming majority of the violence inflicted during them has been done by... Police forces. Most of it was done against people legally protesting, not against looters, trespassers or vandals.

Meanwhile, one 'stop the steal' capitol insurrection resulted in five deaths, the evacuation of congress, and the interruption of the peaceful transfer of power.

If every BLM protest killed five people, you might be able to draw some equivalence between the two. As is, the only equivalences you can draw are false ones.

And besides - this is an irrelevant tangent. The parler messages mentioned in the Amazon lawsuit were not something that would have been tolerated on Twitter, or YouTube, regardless of whether they had been posted by BLM protestors, or anyone else. People get banned from Twitter for posting things like that. People do not get banned from Parler for posting things like that. That's why Parler got booted off.

dc2k08|5 years ago

Twitter didn't ban a former prime minister of Malaysia for stating "Muslims have the right to be angry and kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past" in the wake of a school teacher being beheaded by a Muslim parent, angered that pupils were being taught freedom of speech includes freedom to offend.